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Discussion on things that have gone out of style

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At least in my area or own little world!!! So here is a short list hope you can add to it 1. pocket watch 2. cb and hamm radio 3. 3 wheeled atv 4. appliance, radiator, starter electrical type repair. 5. Hunting with hounds and trapping.
 
Use of a CB radio out on the roads has dwindled, but it's by no means dead. A fair sized number of the cattle and grain haulers around the prairies still use them, same with heavy haulers. When I switched to hauling grain a couple years ago, I very quickly had to put a CB into my truck. Several of the places we load grain or potash at require a CB, or at least it makes things a great deal easier.
 
(quoted from post at 09:57:45 12/04/16) At least in my area or own little world!!! So here is a short list hope you can add to it 1. pocket watch 2. cb and hamm radio 3. 3 wheeled atv 4. appliance, radiator, starter electrical type repair. 5. Hunting with hounds and trapping.
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Boy are you behind the times. Watches in general have gone out of style! Ask someone the time the first thing you get is the "look" then they glance at their cell phone. 2: land line phones. 3: seems hunting and fishing, trapping are all dying 4: people doing any type of work on their own cars/trucks 5: dry cleaners 6: mid sized cars. here at least. Seems everything is a tiny economy car or an suv/crossover.

Rick
 
Boy are you behind the times: I will let that slide!!! Yes on landline somewhat on dry clean and laundry mat.
 
I still keep a CB in my daily driver, whatever it happens to be. If you're sailing down the Interstate and all at once traffic slows down, it's handy to be able to pick up a mike and ask what's going on. Or just start an argument if you get bored. Or check road conditions, etc.

Can't do that with a cell phone. Problem is, in modern vehicles it's almost impossible to find a place to mount a CB.
 
I still have my Dad's old pocket watch.
Its hard to see, but there is a Locomotive engraved on the back side.
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I saw on the news that phonographs are coming back big time! Anyone still have their old records? Maybe that will bring back some good music along with it?
 
Dick2 said, "I saw on the news that phonographs are coming back big time! Anyone still have their old records? Maybe that will bring back some good music along with it?"
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Yup, I still have many hundreds of 45s and LP albums. Before I retired and had to disassemble everything when I left my office, I was set up to transfer plastic records onto tape, CD or computer file via computer magic. I made many CDs to avoid wearing out my plastic albums. I should reassemble the setup.
 
I have an eight row cultivator that I have been trying to sell and don't know anybody in the state that still cultivates corn and soybeans. I guess that one can safely say that it has gone out of style.
 
Hard work , honesty, saying thank you and please , opening doors for women, respect for elders, taking your cap off when a funeral passes by and least of all going to church on sunday.
 
Full service gas stations....which also done away with that cord or hose you ran over when you drove up which rang the bell inside to warn the attendant that you were there.
 
I was thinking more like, tractor mounted equipment. Corn pickers. Lister. Curler. or like Out House. Barn with Haymow. Ear corn crib. Or then could be most of my work shirts. Long collars and wide ties. Sport coats. ???
 
still on land line here , wife still needs a corded connection to talk to her sister ( also 60 plus years old ) every day
sister still on land line as well will add wife talks to our kids every day on that land line , although they are on cell service & have given up way of the dinosaur long ago myself, don't care, happy wife, happy life sort of , I guess LOL
 
Two comments:

1. Re phonographs: I don't think it's phonographs so much as it is component stereos with turntables. Vinyl LP's, especially originals, are HUGE with audiophiles. With quality equipment, sound reproduction is noticeably better than CD's or MP3's.

2. Texting: I resisted the whole "smart phone" thing until a couple of months ago. They suspended service for my old 2G flip phone and I finally bit the bullet and bought a (relatively) inexpensive smart phone. I had always dumped on the whole texting thing as stupid, but I'm finding it darned handy for a couple of reasons:

a. I'm more than a little hard of hearing but I can still read, so less information is lost and I don't spend so much time saying "Huh?"

b. Much of the time it's more convenient. I can text my daughter or grandson and they answer when they see it. If we're texting back and forth and I need to stop to look something up or deal with something else, we can just pick up where we left off.

c. Email is slowly going the way of the landline, and I can look something up on the web and text a link directly to them, eliminating the middleman. Been very handy with my grandson ordering parts for the winter overhaul of his motorcycle. I look them up to make sure he's getting the right part, but it runs through HIS bank account "8^)

d. Google Maps/GPS - wicked handy for my random exploration rides on the motorcycle.
 
I must be getting really old because to me almost every has gone out of style. It would take me all day to list every thing.
 
(quoted from post at 13:51:49 12/04/16) I saw on the news that phonographs are coming back big time! Anyone still have their old records? Maybe that will bring back some good music along with it?
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Yes, people finally have accepted that digital cannot match the reproductive sound quality of well-made vinyl. We are giving three record players for Christmas this year, all to young folks who already have everything digital, but want better sound.
 
(quoted from post at 09:57:45 12/04/16) At least in my area or own little world!!! So here is a short list hope you can add to it 1. pocket watch 2. cb and hamm radio 3. 3 wheeled atv 4. appliance, radiator, starter electrical type repair. 5. Hunting with hounds and trapping.
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Does anyone pay long distance charges on their phone anymore? What about roaming charges on a cell phone?

Cassette tapes, road maps, typewriters,
 
I guess is still live in the old days. I still carry a pocket watch. We have an excellent appliance repair person in our area, 2 good radiator shops, a guy that can fix any starter,generator or alternator that I have ever taken to him. The truckers still run CB's. One of my neighbors has Coon dogs and one has Bear dogs, but we don't see too many 3 wheelers. We don't have a traffic light or a fast food restaurant in the whole county. Some folks say our county is still 30 years behind the times, maybe that's not all bad.
 
Station wagons

Pith helmets

Wheels with a center that keeps spinning after the car stops. (at least around here)

Gun racks in pickups
 
Being 30 years behind is not all bad. As a matter of fact, I would like to come and live in a place like that. Are there any hobby farms for sale?!?!
 
New Jersey laws against self service note fire hazard, spill hazard for 'untrained' gas pumpers. legislative history has some incidents of self serve accidents, self pumpers that didn't know shut down pump handle or emergency stop buttons and resulting damage- especially with smokers- so just make a law against it. Drive offs were another problem noted. Oregon may have similar legislative history- or maybe job security for the station workers. RN.
 
Young people like myself that don't mind hard 12 hour days in a factory and coming home and working more on my tractors. It's a real shame how lazy people are, it makes us hard working(what's left) generation a bad name at it makes me disgusted. Can't go 1 hour without a cell phone or technology,I look few times a day for parts and more tractors to add to my collection.
 
Kids doing chores before breakfast and after school. Mine all did. They are all productive and gainfully employed. None living in my basement after college either. And dont ask who Roy Rogers, Lone Ranger, or Hopalong Cassidy is..........
 
How about the old Hay Car, And the hired man with a little sack of Bull Durham with the little white tag and a pack of Tops papers in the pocket of his bib overalls ?
 
What state does welding man live in. It is hard to beleive no traffic lights and no fast food.Thanks Amo from florida
 
(quoted from post at 18:57:55 12/04/16) What state does welding man live in. It is hard to beleive no traffic lights and no fast food.Thanks Amo from florida
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That is 90% of SD, ND, WY, MT, ID and NV
 
people with old fashioned smarts seems like some people don't any anymore sense than our 3 month puppy
 
Horse drawn plows and implements, except for my Amish neighbors, but some of them have some pretty big tractors these days, including articulated.

TV's, tower or lap top computers are going away. People are watching TV and doing it all on iPhones and tablets. Also going away are books, magazines, and newspapers. Blockbuster Video? One of my nieces just started college and the college provides the internet, and for $12 a month she and her friends have memberships to all they can watch online movies, so cable and satellite have to be taking a hit too.

Mark
 
Coon skin hats,practical living,common sense,taking a bath only on Saturday night,women that know how to cook(dying breed),Beta max,4 track tapes,good Honky Tonks
 
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