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  1. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    I'm tempted to copy this photo into the "You know you are getting old when ... " thread, and adding " ... you have firsthand recollections of very similar scenes, right down to the automobile parked out front."
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    “That money is burning a hole in his pocket.”
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    No news about all those planes that didn’t crash today. Not so much as a word.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    We called ’em “rubbers,” too. We had the boot type, with metal buckles. I had two older brothers but I was bigger than both by age 8 or so. So getting the hand-me-down rubbers from them and cousins and such was borderline cruel and unusual, what with all the pulling and tugging I went through...
  5. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    I don’t answer surveys in general, and specifically not the ones asking about my recent visits to healthcare providers and facilities.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Twenty-five years ago or so I bought a collection of knives from a friend for five bucks each, three or four Swiss Army knives among them. The knives had belonged to the friend’s recently deceased father and the friend, a heroin addict, was unloading his dad’s meager possessions to get him...
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    We all got our anecdotes. Twice the fire department medics were called for a shirt-tail relative who had been living here, and twice they arrived in under five minutes.
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    I've been transported to hospitals via the good men women of the fire department on a couple of occasions in couple different jurisdictions and I never received a bill, never was asked for insurance info.
  10. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    The person I stole this image from says it’s from 1967.
  11. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    How many gas stations were there in, say, 1906?
  13. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    And really, most humans have capabilities that are never realized in their current occupations. Labor-saving technologies might just as well be called drudgery-saving technologies. (Not that white-collar workers don’t know drudgery.) Driving people around can be entertaining (the stories we...
  14. tonyb

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    In another life I was a taxicab driver (started at age 18), and then a dispatcher, and then a company manager. That was in the pencil-and-paper and two-way radio days. Dispatchers *had* to come off the street, *had* to have a mental image of where they were sending the drivers. Anyone who...
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    If satnav doesn’t do it in, the self-driving car surely will. I don’t know that I’ll live to see that day, but I have little doubt that day is coming. There are still people who have committed to memory the Bible and the Koran and other lengthy texts. There are people who can recite Pi out to...
  16. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    There are so many podcasts that it’s darn nigh impossible to accurately and fairly make blanket observations about them. A friend had one. Maybe he still does. A listen or two to his self-indulgence was more than enough for me. When the barriers to entry are so low you’re bound to get some...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^ That would be the old KPLU, then? The jazz station out of Tacoma? I hear they’ve changed the call letters, since Pacific Lutheran University sold the station or gave up on it or whatever it was that went down. I can’t imagine that it isn’t available online.
  19. tonyb

    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    This image looks familiar. I don’t know where or when this photo was taken, nor does the person who posted it on another online forum.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ The network that cried alert.
  21. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I suppose you’ve seen the SNL parody of an NPR food show (“The Delicious Dish”) from at least 20 years ago featuring Alec Baldwin playing a character named Pete Schweddy, whose company, Season’s Eatings, makes holiday treats — balls, mostly, Schweddy Balls. And doesn’t everyone do the NYT...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m holding out for the McScone.
  23. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^ We had one of those little FM transmitter gizmos, too. It worked, but not as seamlessly as Bluetooth. We also had a cassette which slid into the cassette player in our then car (cassettes, too, are all but obsolete) and was connected by wire to the iPod. I read that NPR’s listenership...

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