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Old 01-12-2024, 12:18 PM
 
Location: Out there somewhere...a traveling man.
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We still cherish our landine phone.
We only use the IPhone when in the car or traveling.
Same here.
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Old 01-12-2024, 02:30 PM
 
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Hmmm, I guess my family room looks like a museum, b/c I have my receiver, turntable, tape deck, CD player, massive speakers, & all my vinyl, plus CDs, cassette & reel to reel. It looks normal to me.I play music every day when I’m home. I love the way those big ol’ woofers sound on the wood floors. My dogs run outside when I crank ‘em. I guess I’m in a time warp.


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Old 01-12-2024, 02:47 PM
 
Location: western NY
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Hmmm, I guess my family room looks like a museum, b/c I have my receiver, turntable, tape deck, CD player, massive speakers, & all my vinyl, plus CDs, cassette & reel to reel. It looks normal to me.I play music every day when I’m home. I love the way those big ol’ woofers sound on the wood floors. My dogs run outside when I crank ‘em. I guess I’m in a time warp.


https://youtube.com/watch?v=QdbLirsZ...UAQyF-hivgiBC5
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Old 01-12-2024, 02:57 PM
 
Location: Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA
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Hmmm, I guess my family room looks like a museum, b/c I have my receiver, turntable, tape deck, CD player, massive speakers, & all my vinyl, plus CDs, cassette & reel to reel. It looks normal to me.I play music every day when I’m home. I love the way those big ol’ woofers sound on the wood floors. My dogs run outside when I crank ‘em. I guess I’m in a time warp.
I'm sure the word "turntable" sounds to Gen Z like "Victrola" sounded to us, back in the 70's.
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Old 01-12-2024, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Shawnee-on-Delaware, PA
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We still cherish our landine phone.
We only use the IPhone when in the car or traveling.
My wife cherishes the land line. Me, not so much. These days you can switch to a cell line and keep your original number.

The Verizon guy has to come out to our house about once a year and fix the line. Last time he said we were the only ones who complained about the lines being down, because we're just about the only house in the area that still has a land line!
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Old 01-12-2024, 03:17 PM
 
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Yes, keeping the landline. It might be a life saver when the digital world breaks down/the net is overloaded because of a natural disaster. We already saw that happening in 2007 with one of the great, horrible fires in San Diego.
All the old photos, even if most of them have been digitized.
All our DVDs. See point 1 (why do young people think everything is always going to be available in the Cloud or somewhere?)
An old, small analog TV, an old VCR, and selected videotapes.
Two shelves of vinyl, and a turntable.
A boom box with a cassette player.

Clothes? LOL--I have a box of "nostalgia clothes" from the 1980s, and one from the 1990s. Two sizes too small. Thanks for the memories...
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Old 01-12-2024, 03:26 PM
 
Location: Texas Hill Country
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My wife cherishes the land line. Me, not so much. These days you can switch to a cell line and keep your original number.
.........
If you've got it.....but as I have often pointed out, cell phone service out at the ranch sucks and further, even if you have been without power for days, you can still use the land line to call.
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Old 01-12-2024, 03:30 PM
 
Location: NMB, SC
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Yes, keeping the landline. It might be a life saver when the digital world breaks down/the net is overloaded because of a natural disaster. We already saw that happening in 2007 with one of the great, horrible fires in San Diego.
All the old photos, even if most of them have been digitized.
All our DVDs. See point 1 (why do young people think everything is always going to be available in the Cloud or somewhere?)
An old, small analog TV, an old VCR, and selected videotapes.
Two shelves of vinyl, and a turntable.
A boom box with a cassette player.

Clothes? LOL--I have a box of "nostalgia clothes" from the 1980s, and one from the 1990s. Two sizes too small. Thanks for the memories...
But who would you call ?
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Old 01-12-2024, 03:38 PM
 
Location: Was Midvalley Oregon; Now Eastside Seattle area
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each other.
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Old 01-12-2024, 03:41 PM
 
Location: Arizona
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I forgot-I too have a landline.
I have a landline. Probably half the people I know have one.

We still get phone books where I live. They never remove people. Half the people in there are dead. It gets thicker every year.
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