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I was bored, so started this thread, because I was outside and saw a vehicle that looked like my friend's second car. A 1997 Honda Accord. His first car was a Toyota Corolla. Both cars, from that era that seem to be neither collectible or really around anymore The flip up headlights were in! I had a Nissan Pulsar with T-tops!! Don't hold me to it, but if anyone ever sees a 1996 Nissan Pulsar on the road I'll give you a dollar and buy you a beer.

I remember how snazzy both were when my friends got various cars. Jesus, the fucking Geo Metro was one of my friend's graduation presents from his parents. You no longer see those jalopies unless maybe someone homeless has bought one and lives in it along with his/her posessions. The Galileo probe to Jupiter had just gone into orbit -- he called it Galileo. Old Ford Festivas, Ford Pintos. You name it.

Then, of course on to pay phones. The ones you see today you would touch just as readily as the water in a shit filled public toilet.

Perhaps,will cash itself be next? My parents used to make me always carry "at least two dimes" so I could page my dad on his pager when I was away from them -- you know, just in case. So I would page him and would wait for the pay phone to ring. If he was busy, he would take some time, but sometimes I ran out of dimes and would stand around waiting. Then the pay phones ceased accepting incoming calls. Then came ubiquitous cellphones with hefty roaming and long distance fees.

Then came hand sanitizer -- just alcohol marketed in a different way right along with cell phone ubiquity.

Just discuss and just throwing it out there as a possibly very interesting walk down memory lane and what members here recall from their lives thus far.

digital watches. Douglas Adams was right

You know that's what bothers me about this whole "mining asteroids" thing. And I guess it comes from basically Douglas Adams and that tourist planet or what it was about how the visitors would have to leave whatever weight they ingested or bought on the planet, as the planet was beginning to disappear and was losing gravity. It's like, you can't mine an asteroid and bring that shit down to earth wholesale. Effects would be negligible at first of course. But say humanity goes on another 1000 years and 500 years of that gets supplied with large scale space mining supposing it's possible.

Turtles crossing the road.

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Ashtrays.

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82_28 wrote:Toyota Corolla. Both cars, from that era that seem to be neither collectible or really around anymore

My girlfriend drives a '70s Corolla, she's kept that thing running for years! She knows way more about working on cars than I do. What a woman!




Since we're on cars: the Volvo 164.

I had a Chevette.

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What about, “Sounds you increasingly don’t hear anymore”?

Some of the sounds I actually remember.
Museum of Endangered Sounds.

Good listening!

Truly healthy food and water.

Affordable health care.

Decent housing.

Cheap energy.

hobby shops, particularly with dude related hobby stuff.

Those round, stone fountain/sinks with the foot pedal control.

kids walking outside and chatting to each other.

home made tree houses

Elvis wrote:

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Ashtrays.

I have a lovely heavy cranberry glass ashtray. It collects small shards of broken wineglasses and fingernail parings. And my remote controls.

Occasionally I burn incense and it momentarily remembers it's original purpose.

Summer nights spangled with lightning bugs. Driving thru a corn field full of bats. The sussurations of cicadas, crickets, grasshoppers and amphibians that once made up the summer night symphony. The long migratory trails of birds, thousands of birds long, going to winter shelter.

So much gone or growing dimmer in my lifetime.

unowned land

optimistic adolescents

landlords who are happy to show their faces (not to mention their names)

The William Tell story!

When I was a kid, there were William Tell based cartoons, commercials, stunts on TV, you could buy "Golden Books" children's storybooks that included the William Tell story.

Now, I doubt any kid under 10 even knows about it.

Probably has something to do with the whole "shooting an apple off your head" thing inspiring copycat behavior.

Cartoon characters who smoke! That's another one.

Commuter train platforms in rural, wooded or otherwise wild, unpopulated areas. One of my favorite ultraniche subjects ever.