You are too old if you remember.......

[mgk920]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters and coin-op phone calls costing 10¢.

Mike

[kkt]

2nd run and repertory movie theatres.  It was fun seeing the films in an audience.  I suppose if VHS and disc sale or rental hadn't killed them off, the pandemic would have.

[tmoore952]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters and coin-op phone calls costing 10¢.

Mike

Jim Croce "Operator" 1972

"...and you can keep the dime"

[kkt]

"It's your dime, start talking!"

[formulanone]

2nd run and repertory movie theatres.  It was fun seeing the films in an audience.  I suppose if VHS and disc sale or rental hadn't killed them off, the pandemic would have.

Ironically, I passed by one showing 1980's movies in Hiawassee, Georgia in mid-2020...probably because nothing else new was being distributed at the time.

[kkt]

I'm surprised it was open at all in mid 2020.

[SSOWorld]

Dentists not wearing PPE.

[kkt]

Dental X-ray photos taken on film that had to be developed over a couple of days, instead of digital cameras and images available instantly.

[1995hoo]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters and coin-op phone calls costing 10¢.

Mike

When everyone was outraged about stamps going up to 15¢.

[wanderer2575]

Dentists not wearing PPE.

Rinse and spit!

[frankenroad]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters and coin-op phone calls costing 10¢.

Mike

When everyone was outraged about stamps going up to 15¢.

Ha, I remember when they went from 3 cents to 4 cents.  Probably around 1964.  My first "paid" job as a kid was to deliver mail for my parents (grocery bill, dentist bill, etc.) since we lived within walking distance.  My dad paid me what he would have spent on stamps.  That's probably the only time in my life I got a 33% raise!

[Rothman]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters and coin-op phone calls costing 10¢.

Mike

When everyone was outraged about stamps going up to 15¢.

Ha, I remember when they went from 3 cents to 4 cents.  Probably around 1964.  My first "paid" job as a kid was to deliver mail for my parents (grocery bill, dentist bill, etc.) since we lived within walking distance.  My dad paid me what he would have spent on stamps.  That's probably the only time in my life I got a 33% raise!

You are too old.

[GenExpwy]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters and coin-op phone calls costing 10¢.

Mike

When everyone was outraged about stamps going up to 15¢.

Ha, I remember when they went from 3 cents to 4 cents.  Probably around 1964.  My first "paid" job as a kid was to deliver mail for my parents (grocery bill, dentist bill, etc.) since we lived within walking distance.  My dad paid me what he would have spent on stamps.  That's probably the only time in my life I got a 33% raise!

3¢ → 4¢ August 1, 1958
4¢ → 5¢ January 7, 1963
5¢ → 6¢ January 7, 1968

[ran4sh]

I was watching a gaming live stream where the streamer is only 20 years old, and the streamer didn't know what Minesweeper is (the computer game)

[MikieTimT]

when either my brother or I would have to get up from the bunk bed or bean bags and turn the channel knob on our 11" black and white TV in our bedroom, then proceed to move the rabbit ears to reduce the snow and crackle of the reception it was capable of.

when turning 16 getting my first job in a supermarket that paid the minimum wage of $3.35/hr.  Thankfully, my work ethic got me a raise a few months later, but the money kept the car gassed and insured a lot better than the previous job of mowing lawns for family members did.

when a teenager was expected to have a job at all.

[Scott5114]

when a teenager was expected to have a job at all.

Teenagers had way less homework they were expected to do then. When I was a teenager in the 2000s I usually had about four hours' worth. I only managed to hold a job and get it done by resorting to...extraordinary measures.

[kphoger]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters

  Parking meters here in Wichita accept nickels, dimes, and quarters.

[J N Winkler]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters

  Parking meters here in Wichita accept nickels, dimes, and quarters.

For now, yes.  The city is working on a plan that will eventually require a smartphone app (or use of a pay-and-display machine) to pay for parking in metered spaces.  There was a controversy last year when a early phase in the plan resulted in the minimum charge going from ten cents to five dollars for the spaces that people park in for performances at Century II.

Personally, I have little confidence that this plan won't cause more problems than it solves.  Similar systems in Detroit and St. Louis have led me to parking in spaces that are either not metered at all or where metering is not in effect at the time I am parking, just to avoid hassling with payment.  Parking will also be more expensive overall since a large part of the cost consists of paying a private company to take our money.  However, this scheme has the support of influential movers and shakers who cite it as key to downtown revitalization efforts.

[Rothman]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters

  Parking meters here in Wichita accept nickels, dimes, and quarters.

For now, yes.  The city is working on a plan that will eventually require a smartphone app (or use of a pay-and-display machine) to pay for parking in metered spaces.  There was a controversy last year when a early phase in the plan resulted in the minimum charge going from ten cents to five dollars for the spaces that people park in for performances at Century II.

Personally, I have little confidence that this plan won't cause more problems than it solves.  Similar systems in Detroit and St. Louis have led me to parking in spaces that are either not metered at all or where metering is not in effect at the time I am parking, just to avoid hassling with payment.  Parking will also be more expensive overall since a large part of the cost consists of paying a private company to take our money.  However, this scheme has the support of influential movers and shakers who cite it as key to downtown revitalization efforts.

How dare Wichita adopt a system like those that have been implemented in hundreds of urban areas of all sizes, from Boston to Syracuse to San Francisco?

The apocalypse didn't occur there, so I wouldn't worry about doomsday scenarios just by installing a parking system that allow payment by app.

[kphoger]

require

allow

Those are not synonyms.

[Rothman]

require

allow

Those are not synonyms.

Pfft.  You're just arguing to argue, now.

See Winkler's post again, particulary the parenthetical part...

[mgk920]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters

  Parking meters here in Wichita accept nickels, dimes, and quarters.

For now, yes.  The city is working on a plan that will eventually require a smartphone app (or use of a pay-and-display machine) to pay for parking in metered spaces.  There was a controversy last year when a early phase in the plan resulted in the minimum charge going from ten cents to five dollars for the spaces that people park in for performances at Century II.

Personally, I have little confidence that this plan won't cause more problems than it solves.  Similar systems in Detroit and St. Louis have led me to parking in spaces that are either not metered at all or where metering is not in effect at the time I am parking, just to avoid hassling with payment.  Parking will also be more expensive overall since a large part of the cost consists of paying a private company to take our money.  However, this scheme has the support of influential movers and shakers who cite it as key to downtown revitalization efforts.

Appleton tried and has already gotten rid of a central paybox system in a few places, they were not popular and difficult for many to figure out.  Appleton also eliminated meters taking coins below quarters by the 1990s, They now take quarters and dollars, as well as using a city cell phone app.

Mike

[1995hoo]

The Parkmobile system used as an option in Washington, DC, allows—or, at least, used to allow—people who don't have smartphones to pay over the phone by calling a number to make payment. I don't know whether that option still exists because I've never used it—I have the Parkmobile app, but I haven't parked on a meter in DC in quite a few years, probably not since they eliminated the 12-hour meters back where Audi Field is now. I used to park back there to go to Nats games.

[frankenroad]

Parking meters that take coins smaller than quarters and coin-op phone calls costing 10¢.

Mike

When everyone was outraged about stamps going up to 15¢.

Ha, I remember when they went from 3 cents to 4 cents.  Probably around 1964.  My first "paid" job as a kid was to deliver mail for my parents (grocery bill, dentist bill, etc.) since we lived within walking distance.  My dad paid me what he would have spent on stamps.  That's probably the only time in my life I got a 33% raise!

3¢ → 4¢ August 1, 1958
4¢ → 5¢ January 7, 1963
5¢ → 6¢ January 7, 1968

If this is accurate (and I assume it is), I must be remembering the 4c to 5c jump as I was not even 2 in August of 58.  So I guess my raise was only 25%.

[JayhawkCO]

The earliest I remember is a $0.26 -> $0.29 jump.