Heinously Uncool Things Only Supercentenarians Think Are Still Cool

Iron lungs Playing piano at the nickelodeon

I love you OP!

Tight-lacing

Pantalettes

Consommé

Spats!

Puttin' on the Ritz

Horseless Carriages.

Data Lounge

Daguerrotypes.

Heinously uncool ASPIC!

Running for President despite losing twice (and never visiting Wisconsin).

Captain Billy's Whiz Bang

Knickerbockers re-buckled below the knee

the fox trot

the lindy hop

Lady Baltimore Cake

Winifred Holtby

Dear Lord in Heaven!

Bootleg hootch!

Lydia Pinkham's Female Compound

Leeches

Pancakes Barbara

Flickers

The Great Caruso

Pluto Water

Irene Castle

Theda Bara

Rudy Vallee

Olive Higgins Prouty

The Treaty of Versailles

Hatpins

Buttonhooks

Root cellars

Iodine

Charlotte Russe

Frivolous lawsuits?

Even lip rouge, r1?

Beebe's bathysphere

Mastodons.

Cave paintings.

Patent medicine

Tinctures

Laudanum

Poultices

Cholera

Democracy, apparently

[R24]

You leave my tinctures of Iodine alone!!!!

Carter's Little Liver Pills

Doan's Kidney Pills

Midol

Dodd's Kidney Pills were my dad's medicine of choice. He was born in 1919 so just short of being a supercentenarian.

Titanic

Arsenic in face powder

Fireproof asbestos

Coal lung

Porridge

Ice boxes

Maids for middle class families

Fainting couches

Wooden teeth

Sal volatile:

Horseless carriage

Absinthe:

Rum punch

Mulled wine, heavy on the cinnamon, easy on the cloves

Nightshirts

Night caps (the actual ones worn on the head, not the drinks)

Biplanes

Thimbles

Rest cures

Dropsy

Lard

Pince nez

WWI face prosthetics

Francis X. Bushman

Strumpets

Slatterns

Hoydens

Trousseaus

Lorgnettes

Ivory-billed woodpeckers

Tinned food

Tribades

Inverts

Sodomites

Shirtwaists

Cordials

Mezzotints

Female Complaint

The Vapors

Derbies

Waistcoats

Threshing

Lye Soap

Bathing once a week

Dueling

William Jennings Bryan

Phlogiston

Telegraphs ("The Wireless")

Reporting fraudulent GoFundMe accounts purporting to raise money for Lusitania survivors

Harmoniums

Clavichords

Pleurisy

Animal magnetism

Criminal conversation

Blancmange

Ague

Chilblains

The epizootic

Liniments

Salves

Unguents

The song After the Ball.

Hair ribbons.

A player piano in the parlor.

Green roller shades.

Alam Wernick

China closets

Cabinets of curiosities

Sanitary belts

Balsam Specific

Minstrel Shows

Bathtub Gin

Decorative Aesbestos Snow

Spiritualism

Sèances

Theosophical Society

G. I. Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way:

Silent Coupons.....

Physical Culture magazine

Douching with Lysol.....

Diphtheria

heebie-jeebies

Godey's Ladies Book

Wearing a hat anytime you're outdoors.

R18, I miss iodine! IIRC, it stung a little when you applied it to a wound, which felt good (in lieu of scratching, which you couldn’t do, of course.) My Dad used to put a little iodine in baby oil, then slather it on when he went in the sun. No skin cancer at all, lived to age 90.

You used to be able to buy meds over the counter that contained opium, too.

Herbert and J. Edgar Hoover

Bread lines

Beebe's Bathysphere

Ish Kabibble

Saving your grease......

Bovril

Cocaine cola

Cocaine cigars

Cocaine cough syrup

Cocaine tooth ache tincture

Cocaine eye drops

Bay Rum After Shave

Tincture of Mercurochrome

Headache powders

Foundation garments

Bile Beans....

Lead-based cosmetics

Davenports

The Humpty Dumpty Circus

Home funerals

Modest swimwear for men.

Taking the air with Edward Everett Horton.

Odd-shaped Christmas trees with taper candles and delicate blown-glass ornaments from the German town of Lauscha.

Gentian violet

Paregoric Mercurochrome

Poultices Sleeping porches

[R73] Cocaine cola

Cocaine cigars

Cocaine cough syrup

Cocaine tooth ache tincture

Cocaine eye drops

—Anonymous

Why are these not popular now?

Have the young people given up drugs?

French postcards!

Those Katzenjammer Kids!

Carter's Little Liver Pills

Piano babies

Whirling spray

Extract of beef

Zam Buk cooling foot balm

Cher's farewell tour!

Prohibition

Snake oil

Eugenics

Johnny Horton

"North To Alaska"

Orgone accumulators

Getting into the circus free in exchange for washing the elephants.

Competing as to who walked the farthest to school through the snow.

Mamma can make eight cents worth of beans into the best soup you ever ate that lasts all week.

One room school houses.

Squatting in an abandoned mansion until you're kicked out.

Running away from home at 14 and living at the YMCA.

And coolest of all, giant tarantulas escaping from banana boxes while you are unloading boats from South America.

Outhouses

[quote]Outhouses

A story my family tells is that my grandfather was in an outhouse on a very windy day and it blew over onto the door. He had to crawl out through the toilet seat.

The unladylike feud between Lillian Russell and Gabrielle Carteris

Pass me the ash receiver.

The Seven percent Solution:

Tangee.....

R84 And no tattoos !

Still president of their local chapter of the Olivia deHavilland Fan Club.

Jimmy jangles

Hobgoblins in the attic

Henry Ford and his locomobiles

The hoochie coochie mama with the bass drum beat

Brenda

This is a great, fun thread and reminds me of the days when we'd do lots of let's-pretend here on the DL. It really brought out the wit and humour of our posters.

The Swedish Nightingale

General Tom Thumb

The Egress

You crazy kids light up my life

KIng Tut

Swooning with grief at Rudolf Valentino's funeral

Tuning in the Blue Network on the wireless to hear Jack Benny

Gibson Girls! Lobster Thermidor at Delmonico's!

Letter writing. With a quill pen. By candlelight.

Eva Tanguay!

Airships

Gravity washers

Lavender weddings

Dressing like an exotic for Hallowe’en

Warming up the "set" (Radio or TV) 5 minutes before your program starts. This allows time for the tubes to fire up and then to adjust the vertical hold knob (TV) and the antenna too, depending on where the broadcast tower is located. When color TVs were introduced, you needed to decide between a purple hue or green hue. (I only know this because my parents told me. I'm too young to have first-hand experience. Ha!)

[quote]Tippecanoe AND Tyler too

Fuck you, OP!

Blind pigs.

The Race to The Pole.

Arrow collars.

The Kaiser, under whom things were better.

The Charleston

Polio

And the jitterbug. I think this is the jitterbug. Actually, partner dancing of any kind. And, yeah, it’s a blast.

Oh, I’ll add Brendan Fraser as well.

Pestilence

Boils

[quote] And the jitterbug. I think this is the jitterbug. Actually, partner dancing of any kind. And, yeah, it’s a blast.

It’s all fun and games until somebody breaks a hip.

Prepaying for cremation services 40 years before you actually need it.

Olive Fremstad as Salome. Such a scandal.

Tincture of anything - my favourite being tincture of laudanum - it helps me to sleep.

Losing children to smallpox, yellow fever, polio, or the ever-popular flu pandemic.

Ogling the Florodora girls.

Vetiver is also good for treating insomnia and it also repels insects.

Miss Julia Marlowe.....

In the smoking room, when the ladies have retired, showing your gentlemen friends risqué French postcards with photographs of shameless, fallen hussies in various stages of undress. Some have even doffed their bloomers! Hubba-hubba! I love my wife but OH YOU KID!

Evelyn Nesbit.

Having an affair with Evelyn Nesbit which involves a red velvet swing.

Getting killed by the insane, insanely wealthy husband of Evelyn Nesbit for having an affair with her which involves a red velvet swing.

Evelyn was a beauty, even by contemporary standards.

Barney Google with the Goo-Goo-Googly Eyes.

Fox trots in general.

Gibson Girls. (See also: Evelyn Nesbit.)

Emily Post

Contracting lockjaw from being hit by a rusty rake

Moppets, rapscallions, and scallywags

Mrs. Beulah Lorraine’s centennial cakewalk

White people in turbans

Sarsaparilla

Horehound candy

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Swanee River

Goober Peas

Hair jewelry

Tatting lace

Odes

TIN CANS OF JOHN BARLEYCORN YOU HAD TO OPEN WITH A CHURCH KEY

WHIMSICALLY PRETENDING TO PLAY THE PLAYER PIANI (TO THE DELIGHT OF THE STRAPPING YOUNG LADS AT THE HAMILTON ELK’S LODGE)

THE GENTS WHO SMOKE CIGARILLOS WHILST DOING DEEP KNEE BENDS IN FRONT OF THE CABANA AT THE MEN’S BEACH

MY SWEET JELLY ROLL (YOU CAN’T HAVE IT, SISTER)

R136

We didn't think moppets, rapscallions, and scallywags were cool even before the advent of talkies.

Especially moppets. Even at the turn of the century, they looked like Cousin Oliver.

A hint of ankle

Mentoring hotsy-totsy, barely legal caddies

The ORIGINAL Mrs. Patrick Campbell

The only kind of porn that gets you off

Groping

Reminiscing about where you were when you heard the news that Archduke Ferdinand had been shot.

Archduke Ferdinand was shot, r147?!

When did Ferdinand become Archduke? I remember telling him to get off my lawn.

Colored Prostitutes

Catsup.

Dialing your telegraph with a quill.

Sal Hepatica

Bayer Heroin

The Consumption

Cheryl's pussy when it wasn't rancid.

Tom Mix was a bossy bottom.

Pearl White

DL Icon Peg Entwistle

The Iceman Cometh!

Having my own personal cow.

Tussy Confirmed bachelor Stopette

Miss Tanguay and her Baby Darlings

Backyard graveyards

Ambition pills

Frolics

Remember the Maine!

Remember Marjorie Main!

Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup. Nothing comforts Baby's teething pains like morphine, laudanum and heroin.

The Floradora Girls.....

THE THEATRE magazine

Mata Hari

Opium dens

Almanzo Wilder

GAYS WORSHIPPING JOAN CRAWFORD

THE BACKROOM AT THE TURKISH BATHS

SMEGMA CHEESE

BARRY MANILOW ON THE VICTROLA

FRED AND MARY TRUMP CANCELLING THEIR APPOINTMENT WITH THE HAT PIN LADY.

Doing the Lambeth Walk, Oy!

R126 - you forgot Diphtheria

The Dionne Quintuplets

Catherine Zeta Jones (b 1886, still alive....)

A bicycle built for two

beach hut

chain gang

organ grinder monkey

vaudeville

rowboat as recreation

medicine ball

gloves

detachable collars

pocket handkerchiefs

cufflnks

stays

brilliantine

combs in blue disinfectant

bowler hats

winding the crank on the car to start it

horses

Speakeasies.

Bootleg gin.

Negro musicians playing dangerous, forbidden "jazz" music.

Dancing with your beau to "After the Ball."

Spats.

R170 [R126] - you forgot Diphtheria

—Anonymous

Hey, leave my Grandmother out of this.

Decorative iron doorstops shaped like purebred dogs

Thrill rides such as the Ferris Wheel

Underwear for underwear

Child labor

Connie Francis

Tertiary Syphilis

The Burlesque

Grandpa Otto

VD on VJ Day!

R181

I'm afraid to look.

Is it Vera Day or the OTHER VD?

Cecil Beaton and the Duke of Windsor.

Trader Joe’s

R181 -“Don’t come home from France with the enemy in your pants!”

Artificial limbs. Also, the beginning of advertising.

This ad was for my peg leg Grandpa. He served with the 1st Pennsylvania Riflemen in Cambridge, MA under Washington, [italic] at age eleven! [/Italic].

R186, I always knew that if any internet board were to have posters who were actual grandchildren of soldiers in the Revolutionary War, it would be Datalounge.

"Interesting condition" Calling "Information" Dialing O for "Operator" Antimacassars

R187, you’re funny.

Yep, I knew Mr. Brontosaurus 🦕 when he was a young lad!

John L. Sullivan fandom.

Electrical shocks to the balls to treat impotence

The manly physique of Eugen Sandow

I tip my hat to R167 and R168!

Log driving

Orville and Wilbur

Al Jolson

Eddie Cantor

Sophie Tucker

Mailing Nancy Grace and Jane Velez Mitchell weekly letters begging them to cover the kidnapped Lindbergh tot as soon as they're back from vacation and only putting an inverted stamp on Nancy's.

Slavery

Injun killing on the plains.

Discriminating against Asians (or anybody not white actually)

My neuralgia pills, the ones I could order from the back pages of Appleton's Magazine.

The Golden Girls.

Nosegays

Doilies

Pantaloons

Walkers (the human kind)

Philately

Numismatics

Any mention of Arlene Francis, Kitty Carlisle or Dorothy Parker.

Encephalitis Lethargica, the forgotten world pandemic.

Obsessing over how the hairstyles are ALL wrong in historical films such as “A Christmas Story” and “The Way We Were.”

Collier's, Look, and the Saturday Evening Post