For some reason my table always decided to get up and pile into the nearest restroom for a moon shot.
For some reason, huh? 
Disposable film cameras are still around. Since most people generally carry a camera around all the time anyway, there’s very little call for them, but you can still get them at a Wal-Mart or CVS or wherever. Saw them the last time I went out for passport photos and hadn’t realized you could actually still get film developed outside a specialty shop.
About an hour northwest of where I live, there’s a mall, bounded by Constitution and Independence Avenues on the north and south, and by the Capitol and the Lincoln Memorial at the east and west ends. And it’s been called The Mall longer than I’ve been alive. And while it contains some individual buildings where one can be indoors, it’s largely an outdoor space.
You give a pretty concise definition for “indoor mall” though.
Depends on the airline. We fly almost exclusively on Alaska Air. Their 737s do not have seat back screens. Lots of entertainment options over their wifi if you want it, though.
It may depend on the airline. My wife and I fly almost entirely on Southwest (though we’ll see if that survives their recent changes), and I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen a seatback entertainment screen on any of their planes. If you want to see an inflight movie on a Southwest flight, you do so through your laptop, phone, iPad, or other device.
ETA: Beaten to the punch by Procrustus!
Same here in my part of Maryland, where it seems to be a county-by-county thing. If I shop in PG or Anne Arundel counties, I can either pay for the store’s paper bags, or I can bring my own bags. But here in Calvert County, plastic bags are still in general use in groceries, drug stores, Walmart, etc., and are still free of charge.
Except Aldi, though. At the Aldi in Prince Frederick (the only Aldi in the county), you either pay for their paper bags or provide your own.
I think that is a corporate thing with Aldi. In the dozen or so Aldi’s in which I’ve shopped, none of them provide free bags.
It does depend on the airline, and in some cases the plane. IIRC the two airlines mentioned in this thread, Southwest and Alaska, never had seatback screens in the first place (correct me if I’m wrong; I don’t fly either airline very often). On the other hand, I believe Delta has them on the majority of their planes; I’m pretty sure the 717s are the only planes that don’t. United’s kind of hit or miss; the couple of 737MAXs I’ve flown on had them, the older 737NGs and A320s did not. American does not have them, at least on the majority of their domestic fleet. They want you to connect to their WiFi and stream video to your own device.
But speaking of in-flight entertainment, what used to be pretty ubiquitous on planes and is now gone are ceiling mounted video screens for the entire cabin, either big CRT screens mounted above the aisle, or LCD screens that would drop down from the overhead panel. Remember when in-flight entertainment meant one movie for the entire plane? Those ceiling mounted screens all went away in the 2010s when airlines started adopting the seatback screens.
I don’t fly much but I never saw that. Closest was a radio telephone handset in the back of the center seat only.
Come to think of it…
Wikipedia says they peaked in 1980, so I’ll say it counts as during my lifetime.
Fotomats and similar drive through photo development stores used to be in lots of shopping center parking lots, and other than a few that have been converted to selling coffee, are completely gone.
This is just yet another item in the trend of anything related to film photography transitioning from ubiquitous to gone or nearly gone during our lifetimes.
Has anybody said Jelly shoes? I skimmed through but didn’t see it.
Doubleknit polyester. It was the fashion fabric of the 70’s.
Does it count if it disappeared then sort of came back? Saccharin - an artificial sweetener that was in absolutely everything through the 1970’s. Every woman had packets of it in her purse. Then we were told it caused cancer in rats so it disappeared. Then it was proven that the effect was specific to the ph in rat kidneys, so it was re-labeled safe for humans again. So technically it is allowed in food again. Though I think most GenX’ers would not want to eat it. But it is used now commercially in the USA.
It makes sense to have them converted to selling coffee although I haven’t seen one of them myself. One of the places that looks like it used to be a Fotomat around here has been converted to water vending.
Cigarette vending machines? They are banned in many countries now. I remember one machine in Germany right by the railroad tracks which dispensed packs of smokes, condoms, and sterile syringes and needles.
And while I can’t remember when planes started having them, I definitely remember a time before that. So yeah, they came and went in our lifetimes.
I don’t remember a time when they weren’t ubiquitous. Before they went away, that is.
Unless the West Edmonton Mall folks are lying to us, I suspect some hanky-panky going on in how these spaces are being measured, as the WEM folks claim it’s “the largest shopping mall in North America”.
Maybe they’re going by the number of stores, rather than space occupied by non-shopping things like water parks, theme parks, aquariums, etc. Wikipedia says Mall of America has over 500 stores and 50 restaurants; West Edmonton Mall has 800 stores and 100 restaurants. Mall of America probably wins in terms of total square footage because of the 7-acre Nickelodeon Universe theme park.
During the regulated era I only took short flights and so I only got to experience a common in-flight movie once or twice, probably in the early 2000s but I could be mistaken.
(I also expected that multi-tiered airplanes would be much more common than they actually are, due to the seemingly fantastic setup being featured matter-of-factly in a Richard Scarry book, with the passenger just walking up to the next level of the plane like it happened every day. To this day I don’t think I’ve flown in a multi level airplane, despite taking 3 round trip cross-Atlantic flights as well as a couple of cross-country flights. Some of them were, however, large enough that they had a middle set of seats, which up until that point I had experienced only on movies and TV shows and which I halfway suspected was a contrivance to sit a lot of people together.)
Speaking of which, the Concorde airliner started and stopped in my lifetime. Unlike the previous examples, I never doubted its existence. But it doesn’t seem like it was ubiquitous per se. But it did seem like it would eventually become ubiquitous rather than peter out. I suspect that we won’t get another like it in our lifetimes, since not only is there less need for urgent executive travel these days, if you really are a time pressed executive, you can work from your plane in first class or private jet so the hours in the air will not be wasted.
I doubted that it would become ubiquitous. It’s generally acknowledged to have been a sort of vanity project on the part of both France and Britain – “we’re doing this to show that we can”, rather than “we’re doing it because the world needs it”. The prohibition of flying supersonic over land, and the extremely high operational costs, signalled the death-knell of the Concorde. The fatal crash of the Air France flight that finally finished it off would not have been such a big deal if the plane was not already doomed for all those other reasons.
I’ve occasionally seen them in casinos here in WA, though they’re the modern kind of vending machines like you’d buy candy or chips out of, not the squat lever-pull ones that I used to see in bowling alleys when I was a kid. A few years back I went to a tavern on east Fremont st. in Vegas that still had one of the old-style ones.
Heh. I went to Point Loma High School! Never would’ve guessed that the beachside suburb populated by a mix of beach bums, aging hippies, and New Money tech industry gentrifiers where I grew up was the birthplace of 1-hour photo. Come to think of it, I think I remember my family using what must have been one of the first few locations pretty often when I was little.