Things I finally began to notice that are gone or on their way out (a sure sign of a mid life crisis in full bloom):
- Phone booths
- Drive-up bank tellers with people behind the window
- Tiny packages of Life Savers (that the drive-up tellers used to give out)
- Boom boxes
- Photo booths that develop camera film
- Full service gas stations
- Postage stamps
- Hand-written letters (I know, that’s why I’m here)
- The Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature (paper version)
- Aprons that only cover from the waist down
- Instamatic cameras
- Flash bulbs
- Knee socks
- Rice pudding (wishful thinking)
- TV dinners with compartments for each kind of food
- Miracle Whip (more wishful thinking)
- Cassette players
- Swizzle sticks that look like swords
- Sanka
- Seven-digit phone numbers
- Jiffy Pop
- White shoes (they’ll be back)
- Ash trays
- Rotary phones
- Clip-on earrings
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