Things that are archaic
 

phone booths

I was watching a movie it had phone booths in it in Manhattan. There are no phone booths there that I recall....

I asked a friend's sixteen year old daughter if she had ever used a 'pay phone'. I had to explain what a pay phone was.


Archaic also rans:

rotary dial phone
film camera
"little black book"

knobs (like on a TV or radio, nothing has knobs anymore)

Also archaic, the phrase: "Don't touch that dial..."

"I'm a small black woman in a big silver box ..."

It's even rare to see payphones anymore. Where does Superman go to change these days?

We're a bit short on honest-to-goodness video arcades (not just a corner of the movie theater or a theme restaurant).

There are quasi phone booths in GCT, I think they only take cards or can make collect calls. I'll ask Mrs. Foot, she told me about them.

It just occurred to me that we may have lost phone booths because Americans have become too fat to comfortably fit in them?

Heck, you can hardly find a pay phone of any sort around here, let alone one in a phone booth. I blame the ubiquitous cell phone. Also, is this just my small town or are those big mail drop boxes disappearing elsewhere, too?

Night watchmen.

It's all done with video and cameras now.

elevator operator.

Why are sound effects people still using the vinyl record player scratch?

There are payphones at the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. My kids had never seen them before. I called them on my cell phone so they could use one.

Dot matrix printer paper. My wife was volunteering at the elementary school the other day, and the librarian had her separating the sheets of old dot matrix paper so kids could draw on them.

I live in a small village and we still have the call box that was around when I was a kid. It used to be that the teenagers hung around scaring away the old folk who wanted to use it but now thanks to mobiles the coffin-dodgers get free run.

Don't they have the laugh-track people who made Dick van Dyke more amusing since we weren't sure where the funny parts in the show were laughing at jokes on current sitcoms? Those sound effects guys hold on to stuff forever.

Cassettes and cassette players; records and record players

Does anyone still use dial-up internet?

guilty pleasure song for me.

I LIKE it.... so fuck you. I slip from shadow to shaaaa ha dooow