Milkmen/Milk delivery What year did milk delivery stop?
Snow/Star Spangled banner played on tv What year did they stop with the snow on tv after midnight? I heard that tv would go to snow at a certain point and come back on in the morning.
broadcast tv stations may run 24 hours now, lots of time with infomercials, though stations still go off the air daily. sign off may just be an ID without the long Star Spangled event.
if you are talking about high powered broadcast tv stations in the USA the answer would be this year ( a few stations last year maybe). with digital tv most receiver would go to a blue/black/logo screen. if you were watching a low power broadcast station that is still analog then you would still get snow when they went off the air.
The milkman stopped delivering in a horse and cart circa 1974 here in metropolitan Melbourne. I remember well, because my mum and our neighbour would have a race out to the street to collect the horse-shit to put onto their respective rose-gardens. Post-1974, they had to buy commercial fertilizer, which pissed them both off no-end. 
Snow on the telly would start around 10.30pm here back in the dark ages. No such thing as 24hr broadcasting then. But what year it *got with the program *(so to speak) I dunno…maybe late 70’s perhaps, but I’m taking a WAG.
Another thing long gone - a truck delivering weekly a cannister of Charles Chips to your house.
Ubiquitous, clean, working pay phones - cell phones killed’em.
Full service gas stations - they do linger somewhat in upscale areas - I pumped gas at one of these while in college - class of '82.
Corner mailboxes - getting harder and harder to find as the USPS contracts.
… and Oregon.
Bellbeefer sandwich at Taco Bell
PeeChee folders
And New Jersey.
We have a local dairy that still does home deliveries. Also, with more and more CSAs popping up, we have a few companies that will deliver fresh fruit & vegetables to your doorstep.
This milk delivery thing comes up a lot on here. It’s wierd, because in Colorado there are a choice of dairies that deliver and you see milk boxes on porches all over the place, at least in the metro areas.
Ain’t so. I got six in rotation right now. Still painfully white, not the folder, but the earnest athletes portrayed thereon. Lemme check… OK. One possibly black dude happily running on the front, in the lead of course, and one definitely black bro with a happenin’ ‘stache and 70s style gym shorts ridin’ high, jumping way over his hapless white opponent to drain the bucket.
PeeChee in the house!
Really. I read they discontinuedthose, and I was sad.
Most Thai stations are not 24 hours, and there’s still snow after they sign off in the wee hours.
I bought mine at school (community college).
The bookstore musta got them here.
Eh, we still get milk delivered. I dunno if it is peculiar to Ireland or specifically Dublin, but it is still common enough here.
Diaper services?
Are there such things as telegrams anymore?
Snow? I don’t ever remember snow being common. I remember TV stations showing “test patterns” between sign-off and sign-on. When I was growing up, in Chicago, WLS-TV (ABC affiliate) had the earliest sign-off, at 1:00 a.m., and I would watch it sometimes, just because. The last program ended at 1:00, then there was a “sermonette” of about five minutes, then the national anthem, and then a test pattern. I wasn’t enough of an early bird to watch stations sign on in the morning.
Sure, you can still pay somebody to print a message, deliver it to somebody’s door, and call it a telegram. It isn’t like an old-fashioned telegram, though, which was transmitted by an operator keying in dots and dashes over a dedicated telegraph wire.
diaper services definitely still exist – there are folks staunchly opposed to disposables and to Diaper Genies.
We recently had a thread about telegraph services – Western Union has gotten out of the business, but there apparently still are some small companies that will do it. That’s in addition to novelty “singing” telegrams and the like.
I bought one at the local drug store (a Bartells I think) because my GF had never heard of them and I was quite surprised. I was a little bothered to find them in multiple colors - I have only known and loved the yellow ones – but they are definitely still out there.
We still got our milk delivered as recently as a few months ago – and still would, except that we found out that the owner helped fund the anti-same-sex marriage effort in Illinois. We canceled our order.
Re “full service” gas stations…
Really? On my last trip to Oregon I had to check the oil, check the tires, and clean the windshield myself. Same on the previous trip. I wasn’t allowed to pump my own gas, but that seems a gallon or two short of “full service” to me.
For me, “full service” at gas stations died about 15 years ago, in Ohio, when I asked an attendant to check my tire pressure and he didn’t know how.