Posted on 04/22/2009 4:41:16 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Charcoal, sidewalks and newspapers are just three of the endangered icons on this list.
Oh, the times, they are et cetera.
As you Twitter an update to your Tumblr account before hopping the subway and watching The Dark Knight on your iPhone, spare a thought for the It Items of eras past, the ancestors to these must-haves, the consumer goods, cultural icons and traditions whose existence you may have taken for granted (we certainly did) but whose days, thanks to progress and just plain changing attitudes, are most certainly numbered.
Butcher shops, stick shifts, and maple syrup are on Walletpop’s second ranking of the Top 25 Things Vanishing From America -– so are sidewalks, trading pits at the stock exchange, and the old reliable daily newspaper with its paper and its ink.
Go check out the full pantheon before lists become obsolete.
Freedom
Common sense, love for America, knowledge of science and math, knowledge of history, critical thinking...
Decorum, Courtesy, Civility, Being Polite, Discretion
Rock music that’s any good.
Just to be a little less dismal, here are some he won’t have.
Growing up as a kid in Baltimore, we had $25 bushels of Chesapeake Bay blue crabs. Regularly.
And even more surprising for the 1960’s, as regular visitors to the back alley we had the fruit man with watermelons and apples in his WAGON, the knife-sharpening man with his cart, and the rag man who also had a horse-drawn wagon.
Are horse drawn wagons used anywhere in America these days aside from Amish Pennsylvania?
Budweiser commercials.
Budweiser commercials.
Respect for one another not to mention self respect and personal responsibility.
sidewalks?
They come and go, depending on a city’s budget. Generally around here they get put in place when a street is being completely redone. Making it more cost effective.
America was a better place when they allowed Cigarette commercials, and banned lawyer commercials.
Buggy whips, anyone?
WHY are these things becoming obsolete?
If it does not serve a purpose, it first becomes an antique, then a curiosity, then finally, something that nobody has any idea of what it was ever used for.
When was the last time you saw anybody use a boot jack?
Carriage rides still go on, but tend to be seasonal.
I just got back this past weekend from my country relatives. One uncle has a Model T that runs! LOL!. Not to mention other 1930-40s vehicles. Of course those type of vehicles are easy to get running, since there is no computer to screw with. Several of them make most of their money from buying beat up run down vehicles, boats and other things and fix them. Its amazing, like a bizarro world.
Believe it or not, Chesapeake Bay blue crabs show up in the list. :-)
What is a boot jack?
I think the soft shell crab was local, though.
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