Things that are no more
Phone booths. They used to be everywhere. Can't remember the last time I saw one, but there have to be a couple of them somewhere.
shareRotary dial telephone.
share
MovieChat Forums > General Discussion > Things that are no more
[deleted]
Omg I was thinking of that just the other day!
shareYes! Also book clubs. Same deal, but with books.
shareI always had a hard time even choosing 10 I wanted! :)
share😄 Yes. You could find 5 or 6, but with 10 you had to order too many you didn't want.
shareNot me ! One thing I liked about them was they had somewhat obscure titles for really cheap. I could get a cassette by Andy Summers and Robert Fripp. I wouldn't go to a store and buy it, but if it was $2.99 it was worth a stab at it.
shareSmoking on planes, trains and buses, Cinemas too. I remember when they all had ashtrays in the seats for the smoker.
shareI'm surprised how many people still smoke, especially people a lot younger than me. I have a ton of friends who smoke and I love them, but when I see people I don't know smoking, I feel like yelling at them. "Real Effing Cool. How much do those smokes cost you? Gonna toss that butt on the sidewalk?"
I hate the smoking of tobacco. Biggest con in the history of humanity.
[deleted]
Yes!
We control the vertical. We control the horizontal.
And having to go to the TV to change the channels.
People need to get up and move around more. That we have drive through fast food joints is a joke, at least to me. Just plain lazy.
shareIt got to the point where I didn't think new TVs had any knobs on them at all, but they sort of hide them in the back or side.
shareI have a newer TV that has no knobs or buttons. If I'd have realized it before I bought it, I'd have chosen something else. There is no backup if you can't find the remote. 😠
shareI'm sure you must have examined the TV pretty closely. Like I said, I have two TVs which at a glance you might not think there were any manual controls at all, but they are disguised on the side and back.
shareHow could I forget?
IMDb forums.
The Pledge of Allegiance in public schools
shareAlong with this great, seemingly indestructible playground feature that used to help " build strong bodies 12 ways." https://www.care2.com/causes/where-have-all-the-monkey-bars-gone.html
shareI busted my ass on the playground jungle gyms repeatedly...we are too soft on kids😂
shareBlockbuster/Movie Gallery/Hollywood Video
Border's/Waldenbooks
Flip Phones
Beavis & Butt-Head
Good Simpsons Episodes
Good Music
Politicians that I actually want to vote for.
There was a guy in town who made Red phone booths that looked like they belonged in Britain. There may be a couple still standing, but I don't think they have phones in them.
Sort of a funny story: When I was a kid, around 14 years old, my best friend called me and asked if he could come over. Of course I said, Sure ! He lived at least a mile or more away, but he was on the doorstep within five minutes.
He called from a phone booth about three blocks away. Hahaha.
Ha ha, they could be like the cell phones of the day!
There was an old drug store not far from where I grew up that had a lunch counter in the back, and a bank of those old oak phone booths. They were beautiful.
It also had those odd little juke boxes attached to the counter every few seats, where you could pop in a coin and play whatever songs they had that you wanted to hear. I remember there being a switch you could use to play radio, but don't know if that worked or not.
It was a great old drug store, and became a popular hangout for kids. Then they "modernised" it, and gone were the phone booths, the wee juke boxes, the lunch counter, and all its charm :(