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

^^^Yeah...nothing like HoJos...I worked at one for a couple years when I was going to college. I worked the morning and sometimes lunch shift...then went to school...then bartended at night. It was located right between Apple and Hewlett Packard so we were always busy as hell...

I had a clam roll for lunch almost every day...I was addicted to their clams. I wish someone else would make them...sometimes I feel like opening a restaurant just to fill that void:mrgreen:
 
Dejavudoo said:
I miss dime stores. They resembled dollar stores in the same way Frank Sinatra resembles a rapper.
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We still had a dime store until a few months ago. Okay, it was a "Bargain Store" with two long "Dime Aisles", but it was amazing what could be found in those two aisles! The new Goodwill store is glad they closed; they don't have people telling them that the candles they sell for $2.99 were only a dime downtown, or that the tea cup they sell for $1.29 each were the same. A couple of years ago I was going camping with some friends, and we bought a dozen plain brown poorly-glazed coffee mugs for a dollar -- stuff we wouldn't care if any got lost or broken (a similar set at Goodwill now would run me almost thirty dollars).

But even dollar stores are disappearing. One of my favorites closed a bit over a year ago. I used to get 20-pound bags of sort-of-lousy garden soil/mulch for 99 cents a bag! When they closed, they still had a whole pallet of decomposing "Rocky Mountain Bark Soil Cover" in the back (nice, fine black stuff turning to soil in the middle of most the bags), and I bought the whole thing, almost fifty bags, for ten bucks. The one here closed before the "Bargain Store" did, so I can't get two-gallon heavy-duty plastic buckets for 99 cents any more, either.
 
xbuzzerx said:
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.
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I thought all the Suncoast stores were gone. They've all disappeared around here. Nice to know there are some around.
 
What a nice thread to stumble upon. Some very interesting thoughts I read as I made my way through the thread. Kudos to the OP.

Anyway, re: Hydrox. I always knew which were cheaper, Hydrox or Oreo, when my Mom came back from the Commissary with the cookies after payday shopping. I always preferred Oreo because I thought Hydrox skimped on the filling. Maybe if they come back as double or triple stuffed they'd be more popular?

Re: Pontiac. I had an '04 Bonneville GXP that was simply a blast to drive. I had an '03 Olds Aurora too. I miss both brands. Since I fit the demographic, I drive a '13 Buick LaCrosse. I hope my ownership doesn't lead to them going away too. :)

Foodwise, I miss Marriott's Hot Shoppes restaurants. I remember when I began working in downtown D.C. in the early '70s, and ate regularly at one every day for three years! I miss the steak and cheese and those awesome onion rings.
 
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I miss:
Great leaders
American cars
Barney Fife
and... McDonald's, when it was my kind of place.
 
Billy T you hit the nail on the head . I use to buy two pints at a time. ;-)
 
Cassettes. Have a huge collection (traded bootlegs) and have digitized most of it, but it doesn't sound as good :(

Looks like my DVDs are going that route, as well, with streaming now the preferred way.

I've noticed with the younger generation, they specifically say that they "don't watch movies before the mid-2000s." Don't even try a black and white classic. Tried to have a younger friend who had never watched ALIEN see it with me, and he saw it was 1979 and refused (*S*)
 
T-Rexx said:
Not sure I understand the "extinction" of Frisch's Big Boy restaurants.

There are probably a dozen of them withing 10 miles of my home.
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Here in Florida they disappeared about 20 years ago.
 
My youth! Never again will I experience that excitement when going out cruising and seeing a guy as interested in me as I am in him.

Plus with the passing years I would presume that any chance of falling in love is long gone. Those moments when your heart beats faster when you know you are going to see him again; that choked up feeling when you watch him sleeping knowing that he is the most important person in your life; those moments when you both collapse laughing over some silly insignificant thing; those moments of blissful calm just holding him in your arms.

One can easily replace all those tangible things now obsolete or disappeared with other things just as short lived, but human warmth once it is gone can never be truly replaced.
 
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