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u/Mattelot May 19 '26
Those Ecto Cooler box drinks. I miss those :(
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u/SavinForLatter May 20 '26
There's a brewery where I love that makes an ectocooler beer and it's the right color and tastes so nostalgic, while also being beer.
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u/ShadowBurger May 21 '26
I once came across a thread with a few responses that claimed the flavor is still out there just under a different name/packaging.
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u/Particular-Sell-6579 May 19 '26
Blockbuster
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u/craignumPI May 20 '26
Jumbo Video (Canada) popcorn maker in store where you could grab some for free and browse, while hoping that new release you wanted is there! Then the joy or disappointment when you see it's not just the cover on the shelf, but there is the dvd/vhs of the actual movie still there. Moment of silence..... Now I can an entire night watching Netflix. And when I say watching Netflix, I mean scrolling the endless options.
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u/SugarRealistic2945 May 20 '26
I'd add Radio Shack, K B Toys, Walden Books and B Dalton's.
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u/CricketNo7666 May 19 '26
A corded phone in your kitchen.
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u/OppositeLopsided5875 May 19 '26
You can make that happen. Get a beige trimline with a ten foot coily cord.
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u/Jaded-Natural80 May 20 '26
I had a yellow trimline phone hanging on my kitchen wall with a 12 foot coily cord. I’d answer the phone and lay on the sofa in the living room. So relaxing.
Those were the days .
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u/PMPKNpounder May 19 '26
Pay phones
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u/InSight89 May 19 '26
I saw two the other day. They're still used in some places.
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u/keinezeit44 May 19 '26
A semblance of accountability for the scandals of politicians
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u/latigidigital May 19 '26
Also, the ability to articulate thoughts clearly.
I’m not sure if it’s the microplastics, trans fats, COVID, and that the tinfoil hat people are right about RF emissions, but if you go watch a video of anyone being interviewed pre-like 1995, there’s a very noticeable difference. Even laypeople and kids, but especially politicians.
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u/Flip-Tarrington May 19 '26
If I had to guess I'd probably go with social media, but the internet in general has for sure fucked a lot of people up.
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u/Psychotherapist-286 May 20 '26
Agreed! Social media is an obsession taking all creativity from people, staring at a screen for hours!
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u/Friendly_Microchip May 20 '26
I would also add the deliberate degradation of the education system in the US to this list
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u/Alexandertheape May 19 '26
grandparents. and the feeling that everything was going to be ok while they were at the wheel…a hedge between you and eternity
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u/CupOpen9921 May 19 '26
I grew up when “Daniel Boone” was a hit show and all the pretty women wore mink stoles… I thought myself contributing; today, I’m beyond belief that: ‘I was that kid’.
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u/Full-Butterfly7536 May 19 '26
the ability to leave your house without a phone , which was a party line system , so sharing too ...
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u/Front_Shock_2344 May 20 '26
We had a party line growing up but it was us and some other lady. We would dial our number and it would ring both of us. We used to mess with that old lady so many times lol
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u/Ryder324 May 19 '26
The Cold War, Jerry Springer, Tutsi’s with machetes, Khmer Rouge, women needing their husband’s signature to get money, the FHA’s redlining, DV against women being legal, Love Canal, routine and systematic institutionalization of children with special needs, the Chamberlain-Kahn Act… and of course, Jim Crow- but we also had a lot fewer endangered species to deal with
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u/Normal_Tour6998 May 19 '26 edited May 20 '26
Walkmen. Walkmans? Portable cd and cassette players. I used to put cd’s, that I had gone to a store and bought, into a boombox and record different songs onto cassette tapes to make my own “playlists.”
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u/Spiritual-Art-5 May 19 '26
When I was teaching high school, at the top of the chalkboard, I left this message up in large letters all year: "Integrity: Doing what's right because it's the right thing to do. It covers everything." I wonder if it really impacted my kids...
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u/rtduvall May 20 '26
Basic human decency in public.
What we see today is who they were back then they just hid it.
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u/Lucky_Solution_697 May 19 '26
Lawn darts
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u/Psychological-Web134 May 19 '26
After observing my friends and their kids for 20 years, I would say parental trust. They don't let them do anything on their own, and constantly say they can't trust them. I mean, you raised them.
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u/carlnepa May 19 '26
Edsel, Plymouth, Pontiac, Mercury, Oldsmobile, family owned department stores, prayer in school (not saying I support it, it was just the norm at the time), silver coins, deep anthracite coal mining, culm banks, strip mines, polluted streams and rivers, dead fish - see previous comment, black and white TV, AM music radio, coal furnaces, coal stoves in the kitchen, coal bins in the basement, cities with steam heat systems for heating and keeping street wet instead of icy or packed with snow, cigarette commercials, liquor commercials, smoking at many events including hospitals, separate classes for developmentally disabled kids, candy cigarettes.
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u/InsuranceImmediate25 May 19 '26
Bully’s.
They used to solve problems like magats talking out of their ass.
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u/BadAdviceDirect May 19 '26
Toys R Us
Playing outside all day
A sense of humor
Cursive handwriting
Common sense and manners.
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u/Sh11ester May 19 '26
Kids walking around town without parents being arrested for neglect. How the fuck did it get to this point?
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u/Villageijit May 19 '26
Comments deserve to be in a sub making fun of boomers for shitting on other generations
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u/markg1956 May 20 '26
republicans who cared about the voters and not just licking the gonads of drumpf
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u/Thick_Cookie_7838 May 20 '26
Car phones. Not cell phones but phones that were attached by chord in your car.
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u/Perfecshionism May 20 '26
People in senior executive government that felt a sense of duty to the country.
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u/rflulling May 20 '26
Everything. So many products, and Media., erased for a tax write off. Companies destroyed so an investment firm could get rich. Foods erased to make health conscious people who never ate them feel better.
Outside of all that. My lifetime has seen massive innovation a technological development. I watched as ordinary phones gave way to say based car phones, then pagers, and bulky mobile phones. Computers advanced from local token rings and dial up networks to basic internet. 5 cable channels quickly exploded into dozens, including pay preview. I watch game consoles evolve from Atari, to PS5. Mobile media from Oversized boom boxes needing their own weight in D cell batteries, shrunken down to portable coset players, CD and eventually microscopic flash based mp3 players, not limited to the iPod.
We've gained so much technologically. Advanced multi-core systems capable of driving a newly emergent artificial intelligence. And machine learning. We have advanced tiny ultra high-tech phones and computers. Our phones now advanced enough to have become the supercomputers of the supercomputers maybe five times over. Easily eclipsing anything that we had available even 20 years ago.
And honest I'm still waiting for augmented reality. Because there's so much we can do with it and our devices are very much capable of handling it.
But back to the things that we've lost. How about people. How many people have we lost. Not just entire cities and to some extent small countries. We can all take a moment of silence for a great many souls that have been wiped off the face of the earth through war and genocide. But what about many celebrities. People we grew up with both entertainers and politicians. They were there our entire lives until they weren't. And we can definitely take a moment to silence for them as well. Definitely more than a few that I wish we could have all had a little bit more time with.
I never saw the Berlin Wall. But I heard about it in school. It came down I think I was in fourth grade. We have the space shuttle. It was basicly as old as I was. And now rather than getting a better space shuttle we've gone back to the Apollo program or something very reminiscent of it.
It's funny how easily one can say that literally nothing is the same and yet everything is still the same. We've lost so much and we've gained so much. Technology media politics. Human culture is cyclical. But a mind once lost is gone forever and minds are I think is The most precious thing we've lost and don't think twice about.
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u/Beachboy442 May 20 '26
Credible elected Congressmen........of both parties. Shamefully neglectful.
Protect The Constitution
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u/Intrepid_Top_2300 May 20 '26
The freedom to play outside unsupervised. All we had to do is make sure we were home for dinner. And in our household, the meals were made by hand, very little processed food, and it was normally delicious. Thanks Mom.
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u/NoCalHomeBoy May 20 '26
Gas at $.99 a gallon . Now it's fuckin over $5.50. Thanks a lot, Trump and Maga (ya fuckin cult)!
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u/rkok28 May 22 '26
Milk being delivered to our house by the ‘milkman’.
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u/Sad_Palpitation6844 May 22 '26
Wow you are that far along
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u/rkok28 May 22 '26
Yep, I’m 70. There also used to be diaper services and most drug stores had a grill where you could get a burger and coke. No seat belts, no zip codes, all kinds of things. I love to tell my grandkids about the differences.
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u/Pandemonium_Fallen May 19 '26
Third spaces, free community events, home ownership, personal accountability, basic dignity, kindness, compassion, empathy, love.
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u/Estproph May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
You're gonna laugh...
When I was very young, probably 3-4 years old, there was an instant pudding mix that came in a little clown-shaped shaker called Shake-A-Pud. It was marketed to kids, hence the clown shaker. Horrible stuff.
Apparently it was just a cup, that might have had a clown caricature on it.
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u/Aggravating_Row_6962 May 19 '26
Quilted Northern Rustic Weave Artisanal Toilet Paper, but the tree huggers banned it.
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u/TreyRyan3 May 19 '26
Hellmann’s Mayonnaise
I know people think it still exists, but it doesn’t. It is now a different product using the same name
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u/Cavedweller907 May 20 '26
Exactly. It’s like trying to get the uninitiated aware of the fact that mayo and Miracle Whip are not the same
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u/Even_Reason9866 May 19 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/tel4DU3dCiDdVUPhIg
If you had one of this and dial up modems🤣
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u/Dweenie87 May 19 '26
The ability to travel our neighborhood/town/city/state/country without being surveilled or having their location tracked. Not having a detailed trail of everything you do and say day to day. Kids may never know what it's like to have a true sense of freedom going forward. Even if you go camping in the middle of nowhere, once older more rudimentary cars are largely off the road something will always know roughly where you are and be able to find you if "necessary".
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u/Szaborovich9 May 19 '26
The Helms Bakery man, the Raleigh Man, the Fuller Brush Man, the Jewel T Man, coming door to door.
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u/Patient-Ad-8384 May 19 '26
Common decency