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What businesses have you noted their entire life cycle IE: Video stores

Posted by zeitgeist Mar 27 '11, 19:24

as a kid I liked the slot car places, where you could race little electric motor cars, they were in a lot of strip malls and then gradually petered out.

Mini photo labs sprung up with the invention of the continous processor you could operate in the daylight. they were everywhere for awhile and then gradually disappeared.

quick printers, well technically your local kinkos is a copier/printer, not a photo mechanical traditional printer.

but the almost overnight prolitheration of video rental stores as mom and pop businesses, their gradual consolidation into regional, then national chains, now fading away is the most pronounced of them.

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movie theatres showing XXX...home video & internet has basicly made them extinct -- nm - peglegpete Mar 27, 19:41 1
- there's still a few stores around my county, I don't know how/why they are still in business -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 27, 20:13
Mega chain bookstores. Would you believe I can actually remember when B&N was one store in Boston? -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 19:37 7
- I can...but that's cuz your both old and still remember everything. - Will Hunting Mar 27, 19:51 1
  - my memory sucks, apparently, so all I got is old. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 20:35
- I didn't see the whole lifecycle but I remember Suncoast Video very vividly, I used to always go in there. -- nm - MDH Mar 27, 19:42
- B Dalton, Waldenbooks. *sob* -- nm - Jovian Mar 27, 19:39
- well, based on my quickie googling just now, apparently I didn't remember that it was in NY first. dang! but I do remember when it was just a few. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 19:39
- I still like bookstores and will not buy a nook etc. I like browsing :-) -- nm - MDH Mar 27, 19:38 1
  - the local bookstore where I grew up was great. still open. -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 19:39
do neighborhood ice cream trucks and daily dairy delivery's count? there are a few left, but both are almost extinct -- nm - peglegpete Mar 27, 19:36 2
- since home delivery has happened since at least victorian times, you must be pretty old to have seen the entire life cycle. :) -- nm - loosilu Mar 27, 20:20 1
  - And qwe have an ice cream truck in our neighborhood every day in the summer. -- nm - Spawn Mar 27, 20:22
Arcades -- nm - Beaker Mar 27, 19:29 2
- every Vegas casino has a huge one to get the kids $$$ -- nm - peglegpete Mar 27, 19:34
- Video arcades, Pinball arcades have been around since the 1930's -- nm - amoxy Mar 27, 19:32
HSX -- nm - peglegpete Mar 27, 19:29 1
- This is so win. I literally went from all about to nothing, there wasn't even a fade period, I just ended one day. -- nm - MDH Mar 27, 19:34
Are Pagers still around? - amoxy Mar 27, 19:29 3
- yeah...certain restaurant managers use them -- nm - Remlik Mar 27, 20:48
- some doctors still use them. -- nm - mafic Mar 27, 19:38
- good one, I remember early 'texting' as you used certain numbers for letters/codes, -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 27, 19:35
beeper stands -- nm - Remlik Mar 27, 19:28 1
- Do you know if the hotel is pager friendly? -- nm - Alan Mar 27, 19:30

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