Depending on where you live, this is still a thing. We get milk and yogurt delivered once a week from Smith Brothers, who serves the greater Seattle area.
No indeed. Early morning is prime infomercial time!
Air-raid drills.
We had them all through elementary school.
My bank (RBC) has a similar charge. So I ordered cheques online, for much less, and they work just fine. It was from ASAP cheques: I don’t know if they’re still around, as one chequebook lasts a long time these days.
It was until I was in the middle of GRAD SCHOOL (2013 or so) before I was told that “fax” was short for “facsimile” I knew the two words as separate entities, never knew one stood for the other.
My favorite so far has been Travel Agencies. I studied in London for a semester and hopped all around europe using nothing but travelocity and ryanair. Although I did get hooked up with a student travel company that did sponsored tours, I don’t know if that dounts.
Some regional airports still have you walk to the tarmac and board the plane that way, I know because I did it literally this morning.
There was a very brief period when you could purchase a ticket via the early web with your Mosaic browser but the ticket still had to be issued through a travel agent. So you’d make your purchase online then stop off at an agent to be handed the ticket. This may have lasted for less than a year for all I can know.
If there is one that low in my neighborhood you better call 911 because it’s fixing to crash.
(What was the “potential” use?)
Same here, but AFAIK it was because the druggies downtown were using the payphones for drug deals.
Same here. One time we were in the US at a restaurant and I was like “…what’s this thing?” It was an ashtray on the table.
Kids going to the arcade and spending quarters on video games. Everyone has a game console in their house now. I don’t think too many arcades even exist anymore - I can only remember seeing them inside theme parks or maybe a few video games in a hotel recreation room?
It has been mentioned, but a recent experience made me realize ho this has disappeared. My brother’s 6 year old PHILIPs 46" TV (flatscreen) failed-I took the back and found an fried resistor in the 28 volt power supply board. I took the board to a shop; they quoted me $2000 to fix (replacement board was out of stock). Cost of a new set-$375.00).Suppose you paid to have the board repaired-then you have a 6 year old set that might fail again. So, it really sometimes makes no sense to fix.
Not all of them, but many of those cake cutters had sharp points on their rods, and they had fair heft, so they could, in theory, be used as a weapon.
Similar story. My company has a travel desk which manages our travel, accommodation etc for official trip. In theory, they are also supposed to get us some insider-deals, but I have never seen this happen. They do pretty much the same thing that I could do online. The process is slower (because of the back-and-forth mails planning and confirming the trip), but it’s a bit convenient. I was also told by the agent that they have a few seats reserved for them, and that they are allowed to cancel and re-book seats without any cost for a day or so, in case I changed my mind. I never got to use this feature.
They still have them at casinos. Vegas and native casinos outside of Vegas. Gross…
Spittoons are rare though.
When was the last time y’all had to separate those rows of perforated paper on the sides of your printed document ? Then cursed loudly because you ripped half the page in the process ?
Bonus question, when was the last time you had to use a sheet of carbon paper ?
Lots of shops, in India at least, use carbon paper to make duplicates. What do I win?
Ok, if you want to split hairs, the shop keeper is the one that’s using carbon paper, not me. Lemme think a bit harder…
Got it! The laundry form in the hotel I stayed in last month used carbon paper to make duplicates; we give them one copy and keep the other as a personal copy. Curiously there was a disagreement between the hotel receptionists about whether I should keep the original or the duplicate copy. 
Anybody take their film to the drugstore to get developed recently?
wow–you just helped me revive a memory of “Fotomat” booths.
I’ve always wondered about spittoons. When they dissapeared from the scene, I assume it was gradual. Must have been troublesome for the habitual spitters. Eeeew.
They have just taken to using the infield grass.
Probably a year ago. Maybe two.
Needed it because we developed pictures from spring break on an old disposable camera that one of us found
This place is owned by a 50-ish couple, and charge $5 admission for unlimited play while early 1980s music plays nonstop. Their clientele is pretty much evenly divided between children, and middle-aged people who played those machines when they were new.
It’s in Springfield, Missouri.