Things you love that have gone (or are going) extinct.

[CowboyBob]

Bookstores, videostores and record shops. Barnes & Noble are winding down, Borders, Waldenbooks and B Dalton are gone. No more Suncoast Video stores. Whenever I would visit another town one of the first things I would look for are their bookstores and record shops. They're almost all gone. LP record albums are a niche collectible now.

Dayton's department stores. An incredible store bought out by Marshall Fields who in turn were bought out my Macy's. I bought a lot at Dayton's but Macy's can't cut it.

Pontiac Grand Prix and Bonneville. Dan and I would buy a new Pontiac every few years but the brand is defunct. I bought one of the last Grand Prix's available, a new 2008.

King Leo's hamburger chain and Henry's hamburger chain. Cheap gut bombs from my youth.

 

[xbuzzerx]

Bookstores, videostores and record shops. Barnes & Noble are winding down, Borders, Waldenbooks and B Dalton are gone. No more Suncoast Video stores. Whenever I would visit another town one of the first things I would look for are their bookstores and record shops. They're almost all gone. LP record albums are a niche collectible now.

Dayton's department stores. An incredible store bought out by Marshall Fields who in turn were bought out my Macy's. I bought a lot at Dayton's but Macy's can't cut it.

Pontiac Grand Prix and Bonneville. Dan and I would buy a new Pontiac every few years but the brand is defunct. I bought one of the last Grand Prix's available, a new 2008.

King Leo's hamburger chain and Henry's hamburger chain. Cheap gut bombs from my youth.

Come visit Bob, there's still a Suncoast video near me that's been there since the 80's. The rest though, yeah. I still miss B Dalton.

 

[mikey3000]

Common sense. Common courtesy. Dignity. Civility. Respect. Face to face conversation over the dinner table with other people. Hand written letters.

 

[BillyT]

Use to love this ice cream.



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Jordan Marsh Dept. Stores

 

[guyfromNY]

Sara Lee double chocolate layer cake. I haven't seen it in a store in 20 years and I really do miss it.

 

[purina]

"Top Hat", the slider joint. "Amy Joy" donut cafes. Sears..and Kmart - like they used to be.

 

[BillyT]

Drive In Theaters



Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants



Ronnies Restaurant

 

[Falcon16]

Common sense. Common courtesy. Dignity. Civility. Respect. Face to face conversation over the dinner table with other people. Hand written letters.

Bingo.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Freakies Cereal. I was addicted to it like crack when I was a kid.

I miss customer service. Chinese food delivery. TV shows like Bewitched. Gas stations that cleaned Windows and checked air pressure. Star Trek. Grandma's cooking. Grape Mt. Dew. Summer vacation. Sleeping in. Wing Windows on cars. Floor high beam buttons.

...and most of all... my cat.

 

[Kulindahr]

Being able to camp along the rivers here and enjoy the swimming holes, rapids, fishing, etc. The forest service and the BPA gated almost all of them off for "ecological" reasons.

 

[refujiunderground]

 

[Daximus]

Chili cheese burritos from Taco Bell.

 

[MJEH89]

So past or present, name a good or service you particularly liked/loved, that has unfortunately gone the way of the dodo.

The Just Us Boys website.

 

[jft245]

Waleco candy bars, they were a coconut bar similar to a Mounds but with a better (or so I remember) tasting chocolate.

I also agree with Ronboy, Hydrox cookies, far better then Oreos.

I also miss a burger that McDonalds used to sell for a short time once a year, a Cheddar Melt. It was a burger with grilled onions, an almost liquid cheddar sauce served on a rye burger bun.

 

[Yooper]

Dayton's department stores. An incredible store bought out by Marshall Fields who in turn were bought out my Macy's. I bought a lot at Dayton's but Macy's can't cut it.

Just a friendly correction: Dayton-Hudson bought Marshall Field's; were subsequently bought out by May Department Stores (D-H kept Target and changed their name); May merged with Federated and then changed the corporate name to Macy's.

Just a correction; the 90's and 00's were turbulent years for the Department Store biz.

 

[Yooper]

Ronboy, I can help you with a few things!

I miss tons of things that used to define life in Rochester, NY...
Perkins Steak and Cake Restaurants
--Perkins is still out there except in Western New York (they emerged from bankruptcy a smaller company)
Arthur Treacher's Original Fish and Chips
--There are a few locations left, mostly co-branded with Nathan's Famous
http://nathansfamous.com/index.php/restauran-menu/arthur-treacher-s
Hydrox Cookies
--Sunshine Brands is now owned by Kellogg's, they brought back Hydrox for a while a few years back, there's an online thing out there trying to convince Kellogg's to bring it back again
Sunshine Krispy Crackers
--Still available (you can order them from Amazon!), I guess they are available in some eastern grocery stores

 

[Benvolio]

Large size Kleenex. Most people would have like them, but they never noticed them and the company stopped making them.

 

[eastofeden]

I forgot about Howard Johnsons...they had fried clams and it was the only place in the Bay Area that had them...there is no place now where they make good fried clams anymore...

 

[QueenxElsa]

Dinosaurs!

 

[ronboy]

I forgot about Howard Johnsons...they had fried clams and it was the only place in the Bay Area that had them...there is no place now where they make good fried clams anymore...

OMFG...HoJos! There was a Howard Johnson's literally around the corner from my house as a child. That was the first "sit down " restaurant (not fast food) that my parents took me to! I loved it right up to when it closed in the early 1980s. Then a Greek family bought it, painted the orange roof brown, but did little else, and opened a diner there. It's still operating. It's fun to eat there because it is a nearly pristine example of Howard Johnsons, right down to the original booths, and lunch counter.

And I loved Howard Johnson's clams too! Friendly's has a clam boat, but for some reason, it just isn't the same.....

And HoJo's had always boasted 28 flavors of ice cream at any given time!