Relics From The Past

Saturday mail delivery is already on the way out. My local post office employees stopped working years ago, but they still expect money and benefits.

Some podiatrists still make house calls. With all due respect, podiatrists are not M.D.s. I can't remember the last time I heard of M.D.s making house calls.

I read a newspaper (those are on the way out) article a few years ago that milk delivery was making somewhat of a comeback. And the dairies that deliver milk frequently deliver other staples like orange juice, butter and bread.

I heard that diaper delivery was making a comeback. The Brady kids were much too old for that. If any of those kids needed diapers they had a serious problem.

My family also drank soda in returnable bottles in the '70s. Did the Brady's use returnable soda bottles? Did they call it soda or pop?

Please forgive me if I previously mentioned some of these things.

I didn't know so many things went out, damn!! What do ppl do now days? lol

Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.

People still install built-in double wall ovens.

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There are some where I live and they're fab!
I guess I'm an odd bird. I wear dresses as often as possible including on a plane, have a Brady kitchen complete with orange counter tops, listen to my vinyl on one of my two vintage stereos, have a landline (that my mother insisted I keep. To bad they couldn't leave the rotary in the kitchen...I was bummed about that!), have a typewriter, a set of old encyclopedias on a shelf in my living room, no kids that make deliveries but there's a high school boy who comes to mow my lawn every week, have a transistor radio in the bathroom, I still use one of 'those big hooded hair dryers', and have metal ice trays. And I wasn't born until well after this show left the air! I prefer to think I'm 'edgy' instead of a relic!



The bee hunts in pairs....and other fruits

Gotta add that most of those still exist...


Most mentioned, trading stamps, pom pom girls, slumber parties (WITH familiar families's daughters),
drive in's (though half of 'em are swap meets-Southern California, here, HAS helped to introduce the appreciation of the swap meet), and others are still around in various places, and most that I list here in Southern Calif. I don't know if these were mentioned, but how about..

things that seem obsolete on The Brady Bunch but still are around..

Like these candies
Tootsie Rolls
Necco Wafers
Abba Zabba Candies

(All of them much more linked to that era but still sold in a lot of places.)

Babershops with striped poles. We still have those (alright, so I fudged. I live in Whittier, where we have old time CHristimas festivals this time of year...)

I wonder if inner city or big town families still experience a lot of this, as them's supposed to be the hip, progressive part....


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