It's 2025. What things do you miss now that we used to have?

[Aragorn]

The thing is, as much as they say network television is dying, it's still the most money actors can get for TV work if it's a long season. I was shocked how small everyone's episode paychecks were for Strange New Worlds (small being a relative term). Network TV, you know when work starts and ends every season, you get raises the longer the show goes, and then there's the syndication money. Streaming show, you're contractually obligated for the next season that might not even happen or takes years to get going and you have to pass on other work in the meantime.

 

[fireproof78]

FlufferNutters!

(I think they might still survive on the East Coast???)

Isn't that just Marshmallow Cream and peanut butter? I see that on the west coast, at least in the States.

Oh, I know. I currently drive a 5-speed. I guess I just meant they're just harder to come by now. I bought mine back in 2009 and I had difficulty finding it even then.

DItto on rolling down the windows.

Client of mine got a 2025 Toyota with a manual transmission.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

You can still get manual transmissions. I miss non-power roll down windows, and the high-low beam headlight switch on the floor.

Oh, I know. I currently drive a 5-speed. I guess I just meant they're just harder to come by now. I bought mine back in 2009 and I had difficulty finding it even then.

DItto on rolling down the windows.

I can attest that there are still cars being made with manual transmissions.
Our store gets at least one a week.
Ditto cars with roll down windows.
The most basic Chevy and Ford pickup trucks and cargo vans come with roll up windows.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

Anyone who grew up in the Puget Sound will remember the department store Fredrick 'n Nelson and their Frango Mints.

 

[Victoria]

Secondhand bookshops...indeed, bookshops in general.

They had a smell all of their own. You could spend hours in them and never know what you going to find. The pleasure of coming across a much-wanted book...


Those bland, bloated, boring and impossible-to-browse online booksellers are never going to match the real thing.

 

[fireproof78]

Grateful to still have bookshops nearby, including second hand.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

There is a new/used bookstore in Lake Forest Park called Third Place Books that has a food court inside it; so you can browse/buy books and have a meal at the same time.
There's a Half Price Books at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue with a similar set up.

 

[Kor]

I used to love browsing the shelves of books, movies and music at Borders until closing time at 10 pm, or 11 pm on Saturday. Nobody stays open that late anymore.

Kor

 

[Owain Taggart]

@Timewalker my empathy to you on the train service issue. Every time the conversation about HSR service comes up here in Ottawa-Gatineau...well, I have thoughts of my own about VIA Rail service restoration.

Yes, this map project is incomplete, and something I want to revisit. Soon.

VIA Rail Dream Map 2045 v.1.0 by Dwight Williams, on Flickr

Oh man, you've got me thinking about trains. Canada's status with trains is a sad one. Doesn't help that passenger trains are not a priority, hence the many delays one might get due to freight trains having the priority at all times. I live in what used to be a big transportation hub, and while it still is for freight, passengers have been reduced to a stop at an unceremonious junction in the middle of nowhere. It's quite embarrassing.

The reality is that the Canadian is considered a tourist train, and most Canadians likely can't afford it for regular travel. Thankfully, the government has decided to bring back the Northlander after having been decommission for more than 15 years, so we're saved! Except no, because it doesn't even go through here or stop here on its way to Toronto. I swear, if the destinations are either Toronto or Ottawa, we're simply not in the picture as part of their destinations and it's quite frustrating. Doesn't help that in the 15 years since the Northlander was decommissioned, Canada lost its Greyhound service as well.

*Sigh* yes, I have quite a lot of nostalgia for train travel