The prices I mentioned are what you would have to pay at a store doing just used records or a website doing just used records. You’d pay less at a thrift store, where they aren’t record experts. You’d pay even less at a flea market, which has people trying to clean out everything from a recently deceased relation’s house. You’d pay nothing at a Little Free Library or a similar place just giving away everything left there.
Our (large) park has a large artificial lake (concrete base and sides) - large and deep enough for rowboats and pedal boats.
Back in the 60s and 70s, there used to be model sailboats all over the lake - a few motor powered, but mostly wind in the sails. Some people would wade in the water to get their boat to the shore, while others would get a motorized boat to push theirs to the shore. No more sailboats these days.
Model engineering (includes railway engineering). When I go to a show, it’s all old guys like me.
I went to a model railroad shop in Jacksonville, AR a week ago, perhaps the only RR shop in all of central Arkansas, and though I’m fast approaching 50, I was the youngest person there. It won’t be long before I start going to restaurants at 4:00 PM to catch the early bird specials.
Pro tip: Instead go to bar/restaurants at 4pm. You can still get a light meal for cheap but you get to call it “happy hour” instead. 
And any drinking is strictly optional.
If it’s any consolation, out in the West, it’s not completely dead yet!
When I went to university in a small town in California about 15 years ago, there was still a very active square dance scene. It would happen once a month and draw out maybe a hundred people each night, from ages like 5 to 90, with dozens of college students and working-age people too. This video shows how it was during that era. After I graduated, the tradition seems to have continued, though they did change venues to the one in this other video from 6 years ago. I’m not sure how it’s been since Covid, though…
And just earlier this year or last, in a different town, my partner and I once again took up square dancing. I actually introduced her to it (which is a bit funny since she’s half Irish, while I grew up in Taiwan). But this was a tiny event with a dozen people, and everyone else was in their 60s-80s. Very different feel than the college town dances. This was more “gentle hopping plus light swaying”, not the hyper-energetic do-ci-dos of fifty couples all at once followed by the madness of everyone trying to swing-your-partner as fast as humanly possible… we probably would’ve outright broken those little old ladies if we tried to dance like that here 
As for the Charleston, several of my friends are part of the regional swing dance circuit, where they travel up and down Washington, Oregon, California, and sometimes Denver for swing events, often lindy-hop but sometimes Charleston too, I think. It’s a very lively circuit with participants from all across different states driving/flying in. These are women in their late 20s through mid 30s. I went with one of them to a Denver event, and most people there seemed even younger, like Gen Z. Apparently they had a Star Wars Charleston event a few years ago, set to the cantina song.
My high school son told me that they started line dancing in PE. I commiserated and told him it was better than the square dancing of my youth. Maybe coincidental that both have a “country” vibe but still feels odd. Also line dancing feels somewhat antiquated these days but then again, square dancing sure as hell wasn’t in style among the kids in 80’s Chicago suburbia.
Line dancing is very much alive here too, and not just for old folks or pickup truck drivers. I coincidentally met the local teacher while playing a board game at a bar. When I finally got around to trying out her class, I found it was mostly people from their 20s to 40s. Was a lot of fun! They just recently added a line dance night to another local place too, a brewpub that is also an organic garden and also an astronomical observatory and now also a line dance venue. How’s that for mixing demographics? We can go line dancing at the same place we go to science trivia and geology talks.
I was going to post a related one - race car driving. I would guess that the average amateur race car driver is around 50 and by 65, nearly everyone has given it up. There aren’t a lot of young people who can afford it. Younger people are less likely to even get driver’s licenses. The environmental waste is anathema to many. Few younger drivers know how to drive a manual transmission.
But the real demographic pressure is the absence of cheap used performance cars. Every new car buyers gets an SUV with an automatic transmission, so finding an affordable, dependable sporty car with a suitable transmission is almost impossible now. The ones people are racing are literally the same models they were racing 20 years ago and that’s unsustainable.
My hunch is that someday, electric cars will someday reinvigorate the sport but they don’t currently have the range for the endurance racing I prefer.
All you guys with your vintage vinyl…I have hundreds of background music records on a totally proprietary format. Yep. Background music.
And a couple of Seeburg 1000 machines to play them on.
Though a few years back I did make a custom Raspberry Pi jukebox that I planted in the guts of my nicest Seeburg 1000 machine so that it plays mp3s of the records rather than the records themselves. All day long, every day.
The records wear out and skip, so it’s much nicer to have the secret Rasp Pi doing the heavy lifting while the device still bears the old-school beauty of Background Music System.
Alive & well at wedding receptions, roller rinks & block parties.
Sliiiide to the leff.
Sliiiiide to the right.
Chacha real smooth.
I’ll admit I don’t hang out at many roller inks or block parties.
Weddings tend to have one line dance song (IME) but then they also have the Chicken Dance and I don’t assume that’s actually a current trend either.
That said, I’m willing to accept that I don’t have my fingers on the pulse of line dancing America.
Do they ever do the Time Warp at wedding receptions?:
Jump to the left and step to the right
Hands on hips, knees in tight, and then the pelvic thrust
When we got married, we gave the DJ a short list of songs that we specifically did not want him to play, even if requested. The Chicken Dance and the Hokey Pokey were two of them. That was in '92, and by that point, the Chicken Dance had already peaked, and devolved into a wedding-reception meme.
Maybe at the fun and cool ones. 
I haven’t seen it but I’m, like, certain it must have been done. I do all the silly dances and chants.
I was talking with someone who went to a wedding earlier this weekend and said they did YMCA, another goofy dance that would have me flapping my arms every time. A fun one I saw once at a wedding was loosely organized MJ Thriller dance. The dj went over a couple moves like Claws and Lurch, it a lot of fun.
Married in ‘93 and had a no chicken dance mandate. There are plenty of stories of drunk asshole guests trying to bribe the band to do it anyway.
Indeed; that’s why I told the DJ that his tip from us would be substantially less if he played any of the banned songs.
I would have considered it breach of contract and not paid them at all!
Seriously, word of mouth is the main way they get new business. Do that shit and you are ending your career.
Missed this earlier! This is actually contributing to the popularity of various fiber arts hobbies like knitting, crocheting, embroidery etc.: many people like to be doing something with their hands while they watch or listen to their media.
I think coin collecting will disappear. With so many coins being minted that are next to worthless to begin with, the odds of finding something old and valuable in your change are practically nil. By contrast, when I first became aware of the hobby in the mid 1960s, just after they stopped minting in silver and people started hoarding the older dimes and quarters. Despite this, you could still occasionally find silver in your change, and sometimes even older designs like Mercury dimes. As for nickels and pennies, you would occasionally get buffalo nickels and wheat pennies. Once we even came across a 1909 VDB penny (though not an “S”, unfortunately).
Speaking of the 1909 S VDB penny, that reminds me of a Mad Magazine joke from the late ‘60s. A couple has finished a restaurant meal and the man says the service was so bad he’ll leave a tip of one cent. The waiter picks it up and jumps for joy when he sees that it’s a 1909 S VDB. The point here is that this coin was famous enough to be used as the premise of a joke, in a magazine that had nothing to do with coin collecting specifically. We definitely wouldn’t see that today.