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What items do you recall that were once....but are no more?

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YakkoWarner said:
The 1900 is 50 per side but all solid state - I beleive it still has the output transformers though but I wouldn't testify to that in a courtroom without verifying it.

The MC30s are 30 each and are a matched pair, purchased together in Radio City, New York in 1957 according to the receipts. The wattage doesn't add up to 80 per side though because when using the 1900 as a preamp the onboard poweramp is idle, since the MC30s use a line level input not a speaker level input. I generaly switch between using the internal power amp of the receiver in the summer, and the tube amps in the winter when the extra warmth is welcome. They do make good space heaters as well as sounding amazing. I have them normally feeding a set of Wharfdale E50 speakers with the 3/4 inch compression driver tweeters, but right now I am using a different speaker pair because one the E50s needs a recone on the woofer (age not abuse).
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That makes sense.
 
Basil said:
How many remember, “ See the USA in your Chevrolet!”

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I just played that video for my wife about two weeks ago when I heard the latest version of that commercial.
I sure do remember it (y)
 
Gliderman8 said:
I just played that video for my wife about two weeks ago when I heard the latest version of that commercial.
I sure do remember it (y)
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I was 6 YO at the time but when I got older I watched the Dinah Shore variety show with my family.
Basil said:
How many remember, “ See the USA in your Chevrolet!”

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How about, glass Ketchup, or Catsup, bottles. When was the last time you had to or saw someone smacking the bottom to get it flowing?? Plastic bottles you just squeeze and that seems to be all that's sold anymore.

And in fact other glass bottles that used to be sold but have been replaced with plastic.
 
mikephillips said:
How about, glass Ketchup, or Catsup, bottles. When was the last time you had to or saw someone smacking the bottom to get it flowing?? Plastic bottles you just squeeze and that seems to be all that's sold anymore.

And in fact other glass bottles that used to be sold but have been replaced with plastic.
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Don't use Ketchup any more so not an issue.
I do my best to avoid plastic products where I can.
My preserves still come in glass jars but the peanut butter is plastic.
 
Elevators with actual live operators instead of DIY buttons.
 
equiprx said:
Don't use Ketchup any more so not an issue.
I do my best to avoid plastic products where I can.
My preserves still come in glass jars but the peanut butter is plastic.
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True ketchup aficionados know you don't smack the bottom of the bottle....you tap the side where the little 57 is. :smile: Iykyk If you've never done it, try it next time. And it does have to be a glass bottle
 
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Here's one I'm glad is gone, smoking in large offices, planes and so on. When I started out of college the beginning of the 80s, they were still smoking in the cubes at the office, had a haze hanging in the air all day. And the guy next to me had a tendency to flick his butts into the trashcan and set it to smoldering. Would have to tell him he was starting a fire, again... Did have a woman set the mulched area right outside the door on fire one day, fire department had to come put it out as we all stood on the other side of the parking lot.
 
And to reach a human being, you didn't have six layers of menu choices, leading to 15 minutes of AI suggestions, leading to voice recognition failing to understand what you say, leading to a human being who simply reads a script beginning with "I certainly understand how frustrating that can be ... have you tried our website? It's w w w PainInThePatootie dot com. That's w w w PainInThePatootie dot com." followed by the line disconnecting.

yeesh
 
BobHaskell said:
made tennis ball cannons out of three steel soda cans; used lighter fluid. I guess potato cannons are the current equivalent. Remember cap guns and cap rockets? I see they're available on ebay.
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I used 5 cans but those things were great. Couldn't use todays aluminum cans.
 
When I started in the grocery business over 50 years ago we had maybe three kinds of milk,
& maybe 10 flavors of yogurt.
 
AngliaGT said:
When I started in the grocery business over 50 years ago we had maybe three kinds of milk,
& maybe 10 flavors of yogurt.
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Reminds me of the joke; God is looking at earth, half laughing and half crying. “I gave humankind six different animals that give milk. And the silly folks are squeezing almonds!!
 
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