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What items do you recall that were once....but are no more?
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mikephillips
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And numbers like KR-2345 rather than a 7 digit local or 10 long distance.
And speaking of long distance, one good thing gone is the extra charges dialing out of your area code, or sometimes just the local place. Used to do with my brother a once a week call home from college, just so they knew were were still alive, since it was a little cheaper for us to trade the phone back and forth rather than make two collect calls. Yes collect, the college dorm phones wouldn't call outside the local area.
And speaking of long distance, one good thing gone is the extra charges dialing out of your area code, or sometimes just the local place. Used to do with my brother a once a week call home from college, just so they knew were were still alive, since it was a little cheaper for us to trade the phone back and forth rather than make two collect calls. Yes collect, the college dorm phones wouldn't call outside the local area.
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a long time ago our family would use collect calls to let folks know the person making the call had arrived home safely from a out of town trip. the caller would place to collect call to themselves which would be refused by the inserting party.
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I called collect to propose to Mrs JP
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I was in basic training on Vancouver Island, she was in Ontario. In pre cell phone days, there was a row of pay phones in front of the mess hall - and not a lot of choice.I called collect to propose to Mrs JP
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So she "accepted" twice.I called collect to propose to Mrs JP
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One of the best gifts I gave my kids when they were about 5. I was not sure what reaction it would get; I figured a globe is an important teaching tool and we should have one. Beyond my wildest expectations, it continues to be frequently used!
(Note to parents and grandparents… great birthday present!)
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And if you find older globes, great way to show how the world has changed in terns of countries as well as showing where they are/were.
And from something I just saw, how about those big old walkie-talkies before cell phones, used to have one when a kid, seemed then like the size of a load of bread...
And they may come back someday as fashion cycles, what about those giant collars on shirts and coats back in the 60s/70s, not to mention the wild colors.
And from something I just saw, how about those big old walkie-talkies before cell phones, used to have one when a kid, seemed then like the size of a load of bread...
And they may come back someday as fashion cycles, what about those giant collars on shirts and coats back in the 60s/70s, not to mention the wild colors.
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What? - You could have just texted her.I called collect to propose to Mrs JP
What was her reply?
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Honestly? 'Call me back in three days and I will let you know.' (the story is (was) a tad complicated) but, so far so good, coming to 42 years in November.
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I met my wife in a revolving door. We’ve been going around ever since.
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A few years ago I was teaching history in a school, and I found a set of roll down maps from the late 80s, I wound up hanging them in my classroom alongside the new ones to talk about the world during the Cold War. It was a fun teaching moment to show the kids the world, circa 1987. When I left that school I took the maps with me because the super had made the decision to get rid of any media that was more than twenty-five years old to free up storage space.
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I can understand that with some things, like perhaps local news items or entertainment where it doesn't reflect how the world was. But with things that can help explain to kids, and some adults, how the world has changed over the decades I'd try to find a way to keep things. For example if a kid seems a 1960s movies set around the cold war, crossing the iron curtain, things like that, to be able to show how things have changed since then is valuable. And the ability to bring up questions about why things were the way they were, how did the Soviet Union form for example. Same for things illustrating social change, civil rights, women's rights and on and on. to see where we started, where we are helps with understanding what may come next. And keeps minds open to all the possibilities.
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But where is the penny you put under it when it blew?
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Same drawer as the screw used for these
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Two that I recall were a 63 T-Bird with the tanou cover and an XKE that I modded up with aero like a C-Type.
I should have been ashamed of myself for the destruction of the E-Type.
Must have been others or I just graduated to rockets.