....we bade farewell to what.....

,With all thanks to USA Today......

Here's a random thought list of things that were once in my life and now, are, well, kinda like me. Obsolete.

Some are in the USA Today 25, others not.

--The record player.
--The record player needle.
--The pennies used to weigh down the needle so it would correctly play the album or single. They (the pennies, that is) went on to other pastures, or piggy banks.
--The 45" single. Though I still have some of mine.
--Eight-Tracks. I recorded all my favorite songs on the radio in the early to mid 1980s on 8-Track because my stereo had one, and not a cassette deck. By decade's end, they were (teary-eyed) on their way to the county landfill.

The following businesses (at least they've left this area):

Food Fair
Giant Open Air Market
Big Star Food Store and/or Colonial Stores
Standard Drug
Thalhimers
Miller & Rhoads
The Home Shop
Sight n' Sound
Gary's
Woolco and Woolworth
Murphy's Mart/G.C. Murphy
Ames
Sinclair Gas
Esso (now Exxon, ah, ExxonMobil, whatever)
American (now Amoco, or BP-Amoco, whatever)
Richfood
Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs
Piedmont Airlines
Eastern Airlines
Braniff
American Motors
Plymouth
Oldsmobile
Chevrolet Vega (thank you, Lord)
Ford Pinto (Praise God from whom ALL blessings flow!)
AMC Matador (one of my elementary school teachers drove one)
Chevrolet Corvair, Citation, Chevette (MY FIRST CAR!!!)
Ford Grand Torino, LTD, Falcon.....
Cash & Carry Grocery, Beaverdam, VA
United Virginia Bank/Crestar.....
Bank of Virginia/Signet.....
Virginia National Bank/F&M Bank/Sovran Bank.....
Central National Bank/Central Fidelity Bank....
Dominion Bank....
Ginny, the Green Machine
Highs Ice Cream (boo!!!)
Sealtest Ice Cream and Milk

and I'll work on more in the morning. Gotta eat and zzzzzzzzzz...........you know, when 40 looms, you gotta get your eats and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz's!