25 things that have disappeared in the past 25 years. Some are obvious -- indoor smoking, typewriters, phone booths. Some, like New Coke and Betamax, were barely here in the first place. Some are not lamented -- good riddance to carbon paper. If I may say so, No. 22 is premature, if only slightly:
22 The afternoon newspaper
Remember the kid on the bike who never quite reached the porch with your afternoon daily? He moved on, as did lifestyles and the media world. City afternoons became lonelier for newspaper readers.
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In Philly, we lost the Evening Bulletin decades ago. The Daily News is still going strong, but they changed their format to more of a "tabloid".
Yeah....afternoons aren't quite the same
Then again, what is?
B.G.
Hey!!! I always threw the News-Sentinel hard enough to land it on your porch! (sometimes too hard) Course I rode my bike through your lawn to do it, but hey! You always got your paper!
Oh, Tim, I'm getting close to THAT age now. Stay off my lawn!