Helping my Mother-in-law move some thing around I came across some packets of carbon paper. She gave them to me.
It is helpful to remember that less than 30 years ago “carbon” was used more with “paper’ than with “footprint.” You can still buy some carbon paper on Amazon among other places. But it may not come with “Miracle Mylar”
and will definitely cost more than 29 cents.
What other products have vanished?
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45 and lp records, eight track and cassette tapes (almost) surveyors tape, sextants, slide rule, bias tires, carburetors are about gone on cars. My first job wasn’t a product but a service, I was a milk man at the age of 13, learned to drive a stick shift step van while standing up. We also had a bread man and dry cleaners make weekly stops to the house. circa 1950-65.
TV brodcast was not 24/7. I digress, gotta go get a bugy whip.
Good list. How about Panty Hose? Almost gone. Glass bottles and wooden step ladders.
Simon
Well, while cleaning out a long neglected spot I came acrcoss the “lovely” plastic arm covers to protect blouse sleeves from those carbon papers and mimographic machines (way before copiers). And, as a child, my milk was delivered daily by a horse drawn wagon – in a city, not the country.
Josie
I remember those sleeve cover things. And how I loved the alcohol smell of a fresh mimeograph.
About the milkman. Our children will write the same thing about newspaper delivery people and maybe the mailman.
Simon
Does anyone remember correct tape for the typewriter?
How about Phone Booths!