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Spunky

What has been discontinued that you would like to see come back?

Posted - April 11, 2023
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  • 844
    Mailboxes. They've not completely disappeared but they're few and far between.

    Since I pay all my bills by mail, this is pretty important to me. When my daughter takes me someplace and I notice a mailbox, I point it out to her so we can both make a mental note of it. 
      April 11, 2023 1:15 PM MDT
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  • 3819
    Post office czar DeJoy had a number of mailboxes removed.  The postal service is only slightly slower than the old Pony Express.  A Mother's Day card that I mailed to my niece in Arkansas a week before Mother's Day was received by her two weeks after Mother's Day.  I have been sending cards out ten days before the date so they get there before the occasion. This post was edited by Spunky at September 23, 2024 12:34 PM MDT
      April 11, 2023 2:13 PM MDT
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  • 844
    This is true. In our area, hiring sufficient personnel at the local post offices is a problem in some areas. It's occasionally a topic on our local Nextdoor. One postal carrier wrote that he and an assistant were the only personnel at that small town P.O. When he got Covid, the assistant had to do one route one day and the other route the next. He was writing to let the community know that he was holding an open house recruitment. Thankfully, things have improved in the last year.
      April 11, 2023 5:45 PM MDT
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  • 11086
    Full service gas stations. Corner grocery stores. 
      April 11, 2023 4:48 PM MDT
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  • 3819
    We still have a couple of full-service gas stations, but they're becoming fewer as time goes by.  
      April 12, 2023 8:58 AM MDT
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  • 844
    Woolworth's. They were just the right size and carried most of the simple items needed to run a household.
      April 11, 2023 5:47 PM MDT
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  • 53524


    In no particular order:

    1. Payphones 
    2. Telephone operators 
    3. Gas station attendants 
    4. Televisions that display on the front of them what channel they’re on
    5. Cars that you can do minor maintenance on yourself, such as change your own oil 
    6. Anything that is currently listed as there’s an app for that, I would like to revert back to when there was no app for that 
    7. The ability to express undying love (ok, lust) in Minneapolis without interference from the legal system 

     

     

    To be continued . . .

      April 11, 2023 6:09 PM MDT
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  • 44648
    The stymie in golf, where you putt your ball to block your opponents ball from the hole. Kinda like playing a safety in shooting pool.
      April 11, 2023 7:18 PM MDT
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  • 34429
    We called that dirty pool.   :)
      September 23, 2024 5:27 AM MDT
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  • 44648
    I did that in a game of pool once (It's called a safety.) and my opponent threatened me.
      September 23, 2024 7:43 AM MDT
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  • 34429
    Some people get upset....lol.
      September 23, 2024 12:39 PM MDT
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  • 16826
    Cooper's 62 Pilsener. It was my go-to drop.
      April 12, 2023 5:19 AM MDT
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  • 11149
    Candy cigarettes and those toy doctor kits that had a toy syringe in them. Actually I'm glad they discontinued them. But what I would like to see come back is TV Time Popcorn. It was a pack that had coconut oil and popping corn in it. And you popped it up in a pot on the stove. I guess when micro wave pop corn became popular they discontinued it. Cheers! 
      April 12, 2023 9:41 AM MDT
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  • 34429
    You can still get the popcorn at Walmart in US.   It is called Jiffy Pop.  ($2.50) 
      September 23, 2024 5:31 AM MDT
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  • 11149

    Is it TV Time popcorn that comes in a pouch with 2 sections – one section of coconut oil with a butter taste and a section of Yellow cluster poping corn? If so – look out America here I come to get all the TV Time popcorn that I can carry. Cheers!

      September 23, 2024 8:37 AM MDT
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  • 34429
    Sorry, I have never seen those.  But you might try Amazon: 
      September 23, 2024 12:54 PM MDT
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  • 11149
    Cool - noticed I can get it on Amozon so extra cool (thanks). Cheers!
      September 23, 2024 1:13 PM MDT
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  • 3819
    Is there anything we CAN'T get on Amazon?
      September 23, 2024 1:21 PM MDT
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  • 11149
    Pot and Hash - but they will probably sell it one of these days. Cheers!
      September 23, 2024 4:29 PM MDT
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  • 44648
    You can still get candy cigarettes.
      September 23, 2024 7:44 AM MDT
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  • 11149
    We have them here but they took the red colored tip off of them. So now they look like skinny sticks of chalk. Cheers!
      September 23, 2024 8:24 AM MDT
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  • 23637


    Clocks displayed on walls in public businesses and settings


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    I can count at least five places that have removed them. 


    I found it nice to be able to just glance and see the time. (Oh yeah -- I forgot- - everyone is carrying their holy smartphones now.)







    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at September 24, 2024 2:33 AM MDT
      April 20, 2023 8:57 PM MDT
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  • 34429
    I believe they removed them so people would not know exactly how far behind schedule they were running. This post was edited by my2cents at September 24, 2024 2:33 AM MDT
      September 23, 2024 5:33 AM MDT
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  • 23637
    :)


    And just so many big, outside public clocks are/were beautiful and cool as he** to me.
      September 23, 2024 3:39 PM MDT
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