View Full Version : Top 25 Things Vanishing From America
horsephotographer
07-25-2008, 09:36 AM
Ok this will be a fun thread to whittle the time while awaiting Stagecoach 2009...
I saw this article and was amazed at all of the everyday conveniences we take for granted are Vanishing...
Like the 8 track and many others we tell are kids about.
What do you think they are?
Movie Rental Stores
While Netflix is looking up at the moment, Blockbuster keeps closing store locations by the hundreds. It still has about 6,000 left across the world, but those keep dwindling and the stock is down considerably in 2008, especially since the company gave up a quest of Circuit City. Movie Gallery, which owned the Hollywood Video brand, closed up shop earlier this year. Countless small video chains and mom-and-pop stores have given up the ghost already.
horsephotographer
07-25-2008, 09:40 AM
Cameras That Use Film.....:eek:
No say it is not so....
It doesn't require a statistician to prove the rapid disappearance of the film camera in America. Just look to companies like Nikon, the professionals choice for quality camera equipment. In 2006, it announced that it would stop making film cameras, pointing to the shrinking market -- only 3% of its sales in 2005, compared to 75% of sales from digital cameras and equipment.
I would have guessed LP records but I would be wrong. When I was in Memphis I went on a "music tour" and part of that was getting to go to the largest record production facility in the U.S. today. They were just cranking them out like no tomorrow.
We are starting to use our fax machine less everyday and turning more toward scanning and e-mailing documents.
Funny but I actually used a telex machine which is what the fax machine replaced.
scarr
07-25-2008, 02:34 PM
Funny but I actually used a telex machine which is what the fax machine replaced.
When I was young we had to transmit document with morse code! :eek:
scarr
07-25-2008, 02:37 PM
Cameras That Use Film.....:eek:
No say it is not so....
Pretty soon we won't need photographers at all. Every square inch of the earth will be monitored by 24/7 surveillance cameras and we can watch and screen-scrape anything we want :cool:
scarr
07-25-2008, 02:39 PM
I still have my 8 track recorder so I never have to worry about them going away! :D
Kymery
07-25-2008, 04:45 PM
We are starting to use our fax machine less everyday and turning more toward scanning and e-mailing documents.
Funny but I actually used a telex machine which is what the fax machine replaced.
I agree, I dont even fax anymore, I EFAX!! I have a personal one for $19 a qtr!!
horsephotographer
07-28-2008, 08:21 AM
VCRs
For the better part of three decades, the VCR was a best-seller and staple in every American household until being completely decimated by the DVD, and now the Digital Video Recorder (DVR). In fact, the only remnants of the VHS age at your local Wal-Mart or Radio Shack are blank VHS tapes these days. Pre-recorded VHS tapes are largely gone and VHS decks are practically nowhere to be found...:eek: