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Relics From The Past

posted 12 years ago by jefgg
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This subject was inspired by posts in another thread. What things from "The Brady Bunch" are now rare or extinct? Here are some.

S&H Green Stamps
typewriters
pay phones
TV with only antenna service
rotary dial telephones
record players/albums
cassette tape recorders
kids doing deliveries (newspaper, groceries, etc)
contests for most popular girl.
kids working after school jobs
local TV talent shows
transistor radios
cars with wood on the side
doctors making house calls

[–] BWRocks 12 years ago

phone units
pom pom girls
dressing up to go to kids' parties or to ride on a plane
banana seats
old home-movie camera and projector and screen
telegrams
wooden console TV
station wagons

[–] jefgg 12 years ago

kids riding bikes without helmets
drive-in movies

Do schools still use students as crossing guards?

[–] glennh69 12 years ago

- going to a butcher shop for meat
- neighborhood, privately owned businesses (i.e. non-chain toy ['Driscoll's'],
grocery, drug, and hardware stores, ice cream parlors, et al.)
- only land line phones
- office secretaries
- wearing a suit to the office (particularly rare in SoCal)
- recently built houses without at least one bathroom for each bedroom
- not being able to go online
- reading the newspaper
- family members going to work (or school) and focusing on work or school. No contact until they arrive home (vs. texting & calling each other with their every move throughout the day).

[–] boxerrebellion 10 years ago

Many smaller towns still have local businesses - and there is a push to support them.

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[–] JohnGrant (101) 4 years ago

Yes, they still use students as crossing guards.

[–] WhyVon 12 years ago

They don't have pom pom girls anymore?

[–] boxerrebellion 10 years ago

Not really, at least not in our area. Cheerleaders have some pom poms, but if they are six inches across, they're big... not like in the past.. and the cheerleaders in our area don't actually do cheers... what's up with THAT?!?

[–] billt-3 12 years ago

You mean kids don't work jobs anymore? WTF do they do all day? This country must be lazier than I thought.

[–] Patrick9648-919-794375 12 years ago

I still use my record player and land line phone. Some record stores have started selling vinyl records again.

[–] Catnip86 12 years ago

Some kids do still work after school jobs. But unfortunately, a lot of them are allowed to be lazy and mommy and daddy just give them everything that they want (usually because they are just "too busy" to spend any time with them).

[–] toking65000 12 years ago

No body does anythng but play on cellphones all day.

OMG you still BREATH!!!?? That is so outdated!!!

But seriously, there are no office secs anymore? Thats just stupid!

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

[–] tmaj48 12 years ago

There were some relics from the past that appeared on the show that were
even relics back then--for instance, that black-and-white Western film that
always seemed to be playing every time the kids turned on the TV (always with
the same Western piccolo music playing on the soundtrack). Why didn't they
just have them watch what a lot of other kids watched in that era--reruns of
Gilligan's Island? Surely Sherwood Schwartz could have gotten the rights
for his other big show to use on this one.

Then there was the episode in which Marcia falls in love with her dentist.
Jan gives her advice on dating older men that she acquired from reading her
latest issue of "Teentime Romance" magazine--rather unlikely, as the issue
she's reading looks like it dates to about 1940.

I'm not crying, you fool, I'm laughing!

Hewwo.

[–] GraceFromSoCal 12 years ago

Speaking and writing without mangling the English language.

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[–] MargeGunderson-Brainerd 12 years ago

wat u meen, by "mangling, the english" .

[–] jefgg 12 years ago

The Bradys occasionally wrote and received letters through the mail. Letter writing is a dying art.

[–] jefgg 12 years ago

I thought of another relic from the '70s. Citizens Band radios, of course. I don't think the Bradys ever used a CB radio. That fad did not start to take off until about 1973, late in the run of the show. Carol used a CB in "A Very Brady Sequel". Her handle was "Christmas Carol". Do truckers still use CBs?

[–] madman58 12 years ago

yes, c.b radios really took off in the mid 70s.just after the show ended.

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[–] jefgg 12 years ago

Marcia had a diary. I don't think they are still popular. I guess they have been replaced by online blogs.

[–] Catnip86 12 years ago

What about things that they did? Like "going for a soda" after school. Or a date to the ice cream parlor? "Going steady". The whole family sitting down to a full home-cooked dinner every night.

[–] jefgg 12 years ago

Are those things really relics? It has been a while since I have attended high school. And I am oblivious to many things.

I guess behaviors can be considered relics. Technology is not the only thing that changes with time. Culture also changes with time. And it has been over 40 years since "The Brady Bunch" began on TV.

I was just watching the 1979 movie "Over The Edge". It struck me as odd to see a teenager talking to a friend on a land line. That relic has already been mentioned on this thread. Everything is relative. My family was considered cutting edge by some in the '80s because we had two land lines and an extension in every bedroom. We also had an answering machine. AT&T had a brutal monopoly on phone services back in the day. Long distance really stunk. The quality was poor and it was expensive for that time.

[–] GraceFromSoCal 12 years ago

It struck me as odd to see a teenager talking to a friend on a land line.

I insist on having a REAL land line--not digital, not Vonage, but a real, old-fashioned land line--with at least one CORDED phone in my house. Why? Because before returning home to California I lived in states with hurricanes (Florida), and tornadoes and ice storms (Texas). I learned from that that when the electricity goes out, having a land line and a corded phone will keep you in touch!

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