Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[Dixie_Amazon]

Uniformed waiters in cafeterias. At the Golden Host in Little Rock they wore black trousers with red jacket with gold braid trim.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Uniformed waiters in cafeterias. At the Golden Host in Little Rock they wore black trousers with red jacket with gold braid trim.

Cafeterias.

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

Cafeterias.

We still have Piccadilly's here in Baton Rouge but we rarely go. They changed hands several years ago and the quality has gone down since. The Golden Host is long gone but Little Rock still has Franke's. They started out in 1919 as a doughnut shop that delivered! In they 1924 opened their first cafeteria. They are down to 3 locations.

 

[TomS]

Telephones that have a bell!

 

[MissMittens]

Payphones (endangered species)

 

[jamespowers]

Payphones (endangered species)

You actually SAW a payphone?

 

[Shangas]

There's a payphone outside the local supermarket. And people still use it. I wonder for how much longer, though...

I like the idea of old-style telephone-booths being repurposed as 'private booths' for people talking on their mobile-phones, though.

 

[jamespowers]

There's a payphone outside the local supermarket. And people still use it. I wonder for how much longer, though...

I like the idea of old-style telephone-booths being repurposed as 'private booths' for people talking on their mobile-phones, though.

They should be banned to the private phone booths.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

We still have two in the break room at the plant and people use them more than you would think.

You actually SAW a payphone?

 

[jamespowers]

We still have two in the break room at the plant and people use them more than you would think.

You need to tell them about this new thing called a cell phone.

 

[MissMittens]

There's a payphone outside the local supermarket. And people still use it. I wonder for how much longer, though...

I like the idea of old-style telephone-booths being repurposed as 'private booths' for people talking on their mobile-phones, though.

I have an old "Bell" porcelain enamel sign from an old booth they were tearing down to make a parking lot. I snagged it before the dozer took it. Free coffee for the workers does wonders, lol

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Now where will Superman change?

 

[Argee]

There's a bunch of working phonebooths (yes, booths) at Yellowstone national park. Both built in and freestanding outside. You can thank spotty cell service for that.

 

[jamespowers]

There's a bunch of working phonebooths (yes, booths) at Yellowstone national park. Both built in and freestanding outside. You can thank spotty cell service for that.

Now THAT makes sense.

 

[scottyrocks]

Now where will Superman change?

There's a scene like that in one of the Superman movies. He runs toward a phone booth, sees one of these in the photo, shows a slight look of exasperation, and then runs off to find another place to change.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

When I was a kid I used to wonder if Superman ever forgot where he stashed his Clark Kent clothes. I mean when you're saving runaway school buses from going off the cliff into a molten lava flow you tend to forget those things in all the excitement. And besides, if he had my luck, somebody would have probably nicked them while he was off doing his deeds of derring do.

lol

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Cool story!

I have an old "Bell" porcelain enamel sign from an old booth they were tearing down to make a parking lot. I snagged it before the dozer took it. Free coffee for the workers does wonders, lol

First shift has a lot of old-timers, top seniority guy's been working there since 1966. You try telling them they need that new-fangled technology. Even as a member of the modern generation (by age, not thinking) I didn't have a cell phone until I was 16, and didn't have anything better than a Nokia 'brick' Tracfone until I was 18 or 19.

You need to tell them about this new thing called a cell phone.

 

[jamespowers]

First shift has a lot of old-timers, top seniority guy's been working there since 1966. You try telling them they need that new-fangled technology. Even as a member of the modern generation (by age, not thinking) I didn't have a cell phone until I was 16, and didn't have anything better than a Nokia 'brick' Tracfone until I was 18 or 19.

I am older than you. I could shame him into it.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Cool story!



First shift has a lot of old-timers, top seniority guy's been working there since 1966. You try telling them they need that new-fangled technology. Even as a member of the modern generation (by age, not thinking) I didn't have a cell phone until I was 16, and didn't have anything better than a Nokia 'brick' Tracfone until I was 18 or 19.

Why you young Whippersnapper. I started working for GM in Jan '66. I've never had a cell phone. Don't want one. Nope..just won't do it..!

 

[jamespowers]

Why you young Whippersnapper. I started working for GM in Jan '66. I've never had a cell phone. Don't want one. Nope..just won't do it..!

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