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10 everyday products set to vanish from stores forever
MoneyWise via Yahoo Finance· 2 years agoRemember VCRs? Typewriters? Telephones with rotary dials instead of keypads? Landline phones? As...
313 Day: The past, present, future of Detroit's area code
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMarch 13, otherwise known as "313 Day" after Detroit's area code, has returned to the Motor City...
The history of the American phone book
WKRN articles via Yahoo News· 3 months agoOnce a mainstay of homes, businesses, and phone booths everywhere, the phone book has (mostly) gone the way of the dodo. Spokeo examined historical...
Telephone of the Wind comes to Boettcher Park
Lake County Leader, Polson, Mont. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJun. 1—It's mostly big old trees, grass, and the swish and murmur of Flathead Lake in the background at the eastern end of Boettcher Park. That's why Suz Rittenhouse chose to put a Telephone ...
OPINION: Potpourri: Where have all the phone booths gone?
Abilene Reflector-Chronicle, Kan. via Yahoo News· 9 months agoSep. 14—As a child I was fascinated by telephones. If there was one around I had to play with it. I loved the sound the rotary dial made as a call was placed. The process involved lifting the ...
A look back at Action Line, the Detroit Free Press' famous tipline
Detroit Free Press via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEditor's note: As viewers see the Free Press' masthead this week in a fictional Hallmark Mystery...
Even in a digital world, the Bible remains unchanging
The Abilene Reporter-News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoI am a digital immigrant. I was born into a world of rotary dial telephones and slide rules, cash registers that resembled slot machines, schools without air conditioning, encyclopedias that ...
Kewanee history from the Star Courier archives
Star-Courier via Yahoo News· 2 years ago15 years agoFriday, Oct. 12, 2007 Smokey, the female Dalmatian who was the Kewanee Fire Department’s mascot for the past 14 years, died Thursday, Fire...
Will the Stuart Heritage Museum stay on the downtown waterfront? Voters decide in August
TCPalm | Treasure Coast Newspapers via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSTUART — Voters will decide in August whether pieces of the city's history stay put for another...
PlantTel Museum exhibit to open at Georgia Museum of Agriculture
The Albany Herald, Ga. via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMar. 18—TIFTON — A unique collection of more than 538 artifacts, including antique telephones of every variety imaginable, forms the heart of a new exhibit at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College's ...