What jobs or businesses that you grew up with no longer exist? Which ones from today you don't see making it in the future?

I remember every place you have listed here!  Caldor and A&P are others to add to the list.  More recent ones (still old) Circuit City & The Wiz.

I was trying to think of Caldor - I remember the store where I shopped, but couldn't recall the name. 

The Wiz???

Sorry.  We called it The Wiz.  It's technical name was Nobody Beats The Wiz.  It was an electronics chain store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wiz_(store)

No need to apologise, I was just trying to be funny.

Woolworth's and Newberry's had the best lunch counters.

They sure did.  I remember it was a real special treat to go and have lunch with my mom at one.

Remember how good their burgers were?

Heck yes!  So were the milkshakes and the fountain soda.

Burgers?
At Woolworths?

Yes and they were great. They were handmade. None of this frozen patty stuff just thrown on the grill.

Yeah, I wonder when that shift happened, and what made it change, you know?
More papers maybe?

One of two things or a little of both I assume.

If I'm not mistaken there started to be a child labor issue being made in the 90's and early 2000's.   Which I always thought was silly.

The other thing I would guess that really drove the nail into it.   Less and less people read the paper daily and less and less got daily delivery.   So the size of the routes had to be expanded where it's too big to do on a bike before and after school. Take the old route me and my sister split.   We would take turns  and had about hundred papers to do in a few blocks.  Quite a few more on Sunday who only got Sunday delivery.  Nowadays the same few blocks might be 5-10 papers during the week and maybe 20 on Sunday. 

Just guesses.

That makes a lot of sense, I wonder how long before there won't be any printed news at all.  . .

I certainly hope that doesn't happen.  I get the Daily News delivered every day and on weekends and the NY Times on Sunday.  I love turning the pages of the paper.  I don't want to sit in front of the TV or my computer for EVERYTHING.

Our daily went down to three days a week and the Sunday paper isn't worth getting anymore.  I really miss my Sunday paper!

I'd be very unhappy if that happened, but I don't think it will where I live.  I love the Sunday papers - so much to read and I love the advertising inserts. :)

The Sunday here is now little more than a regular daily used to be.  

I'm with you, but I just don't see it surviving, we now want things fast, easy to read, easy to carry and with lots of cat videos in between.
I showed this picture to a 13 year old kid the other day, and he didn't know what it was.
I think eventually it will be the same with books.
Did you know there are already bookless libraries??

Hopefully, it will die after I do. :)  Funny that a kid didn't know what that was.  I remember my telling my nephew that when I was a kid, not everyone had a TV and he asked me what I played my VCR on. 

He didn't. He thought it was a music record of some sort.
I was watching a video on YouTube on a bunch of.kids that didn't know what to do with an old rotary phone.
And talking about TV, how bout the remote control attached to it go by a super long cable. We had one of those. At least THAT remote never got lost you know?
This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at March 13, 2017 9:15 AM MDT

That's funny you say that. 
Couple of days ago I went looking for a piece of furniture and 
right across the furniture  guy was a booth with an older gentleman there who  sharpens  things. I looked around and I wondered, who takes things somewhere to get sharpened? A lumberjack? 
Hence the question.