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 2014-02-27 11:50 AM |
Sensei  Sin City |  Subject: I Haven't Seen That in a While...This thread may not get legs, but worth a shot... I was driving to work this morning and saw a funeral procession (everyone with headlights on). Maybe it's regional, but I remember as a kid, seeing them quite often. Now? Twice in the last 12 years? Made me think, "haven't seen that in a while". You got anything? Flip phones or fax machines count? I still see them often enough. |
| 2014-02-27 12:28 PM in reply to: Kido |
Expert  994   Clio, MIchigan | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Pay phone. Was on my way up north and there was one in a rest area. Had a little chuckle. |
| 2014-02-27 3:59 PM in reply to: Shortyy |
Regular 866 Central Coast, CA | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by Shortyy Pay phone. Was on my way up north and there was one in a rest area. Had a little chuckle. The skeletal remains of pay phones are all too common. Either the empty booth or the bolt holes in the ground where it used to be mounted. |
| 2014-02-27 4:05 PM in reply to: Kido |
Master 2802 Minnetonka, Minnesota | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Drive-in theaters. They were never that many in Minnesota to begin with due to weather, but I think the very last one in the whole Twin Cities metro area closed shop last summer. |
| 2014-02-27 4:47 PM in reply to: ejshowers |
Regular 866 Central Coast, CA | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by ejshowers Drive-in theaters. They were never that many in Minnesota to begin with due to weather, but I think the very last one in the whole Twin Cities metro area closed shop last summer. We have one here! Granted the weather is great year-round. Adventurous kids sometimes watch movies from the graveyard near the theater. |
| 2014-02-27 5:32 PM in reply to: Kido |
Elite 7783 PEI, Canada | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by Kido This thread may not get legs, but worth a shot... I was driving to work this morning and saw a funeral procession (everyone with headlights on). Maybe it's regional, but I remember as a kid, seeing them quite often. Now? Twice in the last 12 years? Made me think, "haven't seen that in a while". You got anything? Flip phones or fax machines count? I still see them often enough. We have funeral processions here all the time. People pull over to the side of the road (both directions) while it passes. . We have an application at work that still relies on a floppy drive. It's a critical financial app too.... |
| 2014-02-27 9:01 PM in reply to: axteraa |
Master 2380 Beijing | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... |
| 2014-02-27 10:18 PM in reply to: moondawg14 |
Extreme Veteran 1001 Highlands Ranch, Colorado | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Out here in Colorado there are not any Full Service Gas Stations. I was surprised when I went to fill up my rental in NY last year and an attendant came out to pump gas. |
| 2014-02-27 11:14 PM in reply to: 0 |
Member 110 Sylvania, Ga | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... We have funeral processions here, people pull over on the side of the road too. The other day I was going through some old equipment at my shop and I found a 5.25 floppy disk drive with a box of random 5.25 disks. The cable to the pc was a parallel port. I need to find something with a parallel port so I can see if it works. Edited by LukeBoswell 2014-02-27 11:15 PM |
| 2014-02-28 2:03 AM in reply to: LukeBoswell |
Pro 6838 Tejas | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Fireflies and horny (horned) toads. |
| 2014-02-28 8:33 AM in reply to: mdg2003 |
Expert 1244 | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... everything on here I have seen recently and often hmm |
| 2014-02-28 11:07 AM in reply to: mdg2003 |
| Deep in the Heart of Texas | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by mdg2003 Fireflies and horny (horned) toads. I still see fireflies, but the last horny toad I saw in the wild was in about 1982. |
| 2014-02-28 1:24 PM in reply to: ejshowers |
Pro 5011 Twin Cities | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by ejshowersDrive-in theaters. They were never that many in Minnesota to begin with due to weather, but I think the very last one in the whole Twin Cities metro area closed shop last summer. Nope. Vali hi is still open, as is star lite in lichfield. |
| 2014-02-28 1:27 PM in reply to: mmrocker13 |
Pro 15655 | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... A 13-18 year old actually TALKING on a telephone. |
| 2014-02-28 3:11 PM in reply to: rick4657 |
Regular 866 Central Coast, CA | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by rick4657 Out here in Colorado there are not any Full Service Gas Stations. I was surprised when I went to fill up my rental in NY last year and an attendant came out to pump gas. When I visited Portland, Oregon for the first time I was surprised to find out that *all* of the gas stations are full service. The attendant nearly ran up when I got out of my rental car and walked up to the pump. Fortunately the gas station was near the airport so he was used to travelers not being used to it. |
| 2014-02-28 3:23 PM in reply to: MOlsen |
Sensei Sin City | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by MOlsen Yes, I recall that on OR, you couldn't pump your own gas. They had to do it for you. I wonder if other states have that law.Originally posted by rick4657 Out here in Colorado there are not any Full Service Gas Stations. I was surprised when I went to fill up my rental in NY last year and an attendant came out to pump gas. When I visited Portland, Oregon for the first time I was surprised to find out that *all* of the gas stations are full service. The attendant nearly ran up when I got out of my rental car and walked up to the pump. Fortunately the gas station was near the airport so he was used to travelers not being used to it. |
| 2014-02-28 5:39 PM in reply to: Kido |
Master 6834 Englewood, Florida | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by Kido Originally posted by MOlsen Yes, I recall that on OR, you couldn't pump your own gas. They had to do it for you. I wonder if other states have that law. Originally posted by rick4657 Out here in Colorado there are not any Full Service Gas Stations. I was surprised when I went to fill up my rental in NY last year and an attendant came out to pump gas. When I visited Portland, Oregon for the first time I was surprised to find out that *all* of the gas stations are full service. The attendant nearly ran up when I got out of my rental car and walked up to the pump. Fortunately the gas station was near the airport so he was used to travelers not being used to it. I'm not sure if it is still that way in New Jersey, but it was Full Service there a while back. |
| 2014-02-28 6:49 PM in reply to: cdban66 |
Champion 16151 Checkin' out the podium girls | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Carbon paper. I had a taxi run my credit card with multi form sheets and carbon copies. I guess he never heard of Square . |
| 2014-02-28 6:51 PM in reply to: Kido |
Elite 4344 | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... I just dumped a box of punch cards and fanfold computer paper from my master's thesis. I bet I have some rolls of punch paper tape around too. TW |
| 2014-02-28 10:02 PM in reply to: Kido |
Master 6834 Englewood, Florida | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Green Bar paper. We talk about it, but it has been quite some time since I've seen any. It used to come out of the dot matrix printer. How old do I feel now? |
| 2014-02-28 10:18 PM in reply to: cdban66 |
Elite 4344 | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by cdban66 Green Bar paper. We talk about it, but it has been quite some time since I've seen any. It used to come out of the dot matrix printer. How old do I feel now? I used to plot my simulation results as printer plots on fan fold green bar paper. I waited in line at the output desk for a stack a 1/2 inch thick. If it was more I screwed up. If it was one sheet, I screwed up. I got three boxes of paper once. Soooooo embarrassing. |
| 2014-03-01 2:15 PM in reply to: Kido |
| Oakville | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... This is more of a "how much longer", but we got a yellow pages delivered to the house a few weeks ago. I cannot remember the last time I had to flip through either a yellow pages or a phone book. |
| 2014-03-01 7:32 PM in reply to: 0 |
Expert 793 South Florida | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... I cleaned out our training room at work a few months ago, and threw away about 300 BETA tapes and the old player. It still worked. Edited by Turnin2 2014-03-01 7:33 PM |
| 2014-03-02 5:49 PM in reply to: Turnin2 |
Extreme Veteran 1001 Highlands Ranch, Colorado | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... Originally posted by Turnin2 I cleaned out our training room at work a few months ago, and threw away about 300 BETA tapes and the old player. It still worked. I packed up my old closet in my mother's house when she was moving out last October and threw out about fifty 8-Track Tapes. The only 8-Track player that I ever had was in my 1980 Firebird that I traded in 1984. I still remember the "CLICK" that happened when it changed tracks, sometimes right in the middle of a song. |
| 2014-03-03 12:33 PM in reply to: rick4657 |
Elite 3091 Spokane, WA | Subject: RE: I Haven't Seen That in a While... A black and white TV that is still in operation. |
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