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Comebacks we'd like to see: #6 -- Phone booths

9:00AM 5/25/2008

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. I guess I should have known the end of the phone booth was coming when I first saw the movie Superman in 1978. Christopher Reeve, as Clark Kent, races to a phone booth to change into his costume...

Comebacks we'd like to see: #11 -- 45 rpm vinyls

1:00PM 5/22/2008

By Geoff Williams

Family Money

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. I've always loved the year I was born -- 1970. To me, it was this perfect time when the world was modern and advanced, and yet still with one foot in this quaint and old-fashioned universe. What...

Comebacks we'd like to see: #12 -- Milkshakes made with milk

9:00AM 5/22/2008

By Sarah Gilbert

Food

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. My first real job outside of babysitting was for an odd local fast food chain in Portland, Ore. called "Arctic Circle." We were famous for three things: our fry sauce, our enormous taco salads,...

Comebacks we'd like to see: #21 -- Howard Johnson's

9:00AM 5/17/2008

By Geoff Williams

Food

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. If I had a time machine, the first place I'd go would be back into the 1970s, to visit a Howard Johnson's. OK, maybe, actually, it wouldn't be the first place I'd go. I'd enjoy seeing dinosaurs...

Comebacks we'd like to see: #22 -- Lard in pastry

1:00PM 5/16/2008

By Sarah Gilbert

Food

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Neither my husband nor my eldest son will eat pie crust. As I believe my talents in the pie department are at least an A-, it's my theory that the vast majority of today's pies have so...

Comebacks we'd like to see: #23 -- OMG! No need for vowels in textglish

9:00AM 5/16/2008

By Tom Barlow

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Ive 2 ADmre a gNR8N dat hs lrnD 2 liv w/o vowels. Textglish is so much more efficient, allowing the young to increase the speed of their communications while keeping anyone over 30 from...

Comebacks we'd like to see: #24 --House & Garden magazine

1:00PM 5/15/2008

By Sarah Gilbert

Family Money

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Before Martha Stewart was even born; when Mid-Century Modern was in the future; before anyone had come up with the moniker "shelter mag," House & Garden magazine had already hit its stride....