VanishingInAmerica
Each year, little pieces of our American life disappear, and each year WalletPop notes their passing. In past years we've commemorated the decline of professional typists, neighborhood kids who would do odd jobs, stick-shift cars, shade-tree mechanics, land lines, blue crab, personal checks and...
25+1 things vanishing in America: polite customers
4:00PM 4/13/2009
For our recent series Vanishing in America, I wrote a post bemoaning the disappearance of customer service in the U.S. retail industry. Many readers rightly took me to task for appearing to place all the blame on waiters, clerks and call center reps. They pointed out that it takes two to tango, and...
25 things vanishing in America, part 2: The daily newspaper
3:00PM 4/13/2009
Ah, the joys of reading the paper over your cup of coffee in the morning. The pleasure of spending half a Sunday poring over the thick Sunday edition, the kids hunched over the comics on the living room floor. The domestic satisfaction of hearing the *thwap* of the morning edition landing on your...
Heritage Community Bank, Glenwood, Illinois.Silver Falls Bank, Silverton, Oregon.Sherman County Bank, Loup City, Nebraska.Columbia Community Bank, Hillsboro, Oregon.The names of small community banks either closed by the FDIC, or struggling, reads on like a somber trip down the memories of a...
I'm supposed to write about the disappearing 10 p.m. drama, but quickly, first, a Jay Leno anecdote. Back in the early 1990s, shortly before he took over the reigns of The Tonight Show, I actually met the legendary comedian in person. He was performing at Indiana University where I was a student,...
I understand that we have a lot of problems that the government needs to focus on in order to improve our economy, but I wonder if instead of focusing on building roads, perhaps we should be building more sidewalks.I spent a lot of my childhood in Middletown, Ohio, which was then and still is a...
Buh-bye, Dora the Explorer and your fairy princess castle. So long, Skarloey the train. Catch you later, phthalates in baby bottles. There's a new sheriff in town. Make that the CPSIA-riff.As retail stores and toy manufacturers everywhere pick up their XRF guns and get to work testing for lead in...
My family eats a huge amount of maple syrup, and lately, I've had to carefully budget our purchases. I have a whopping $50 per month set aside for sweeteners, and between the disappearance of bees and the rising prices of maple syrup, it doesn't go as far as you'd think.Lately, maple syrup prices...
As the housing bubble inflated, you saw hundreds of programs about how to buy a house with 0% down. Don't expect to find that strategy will work for you today. While you may still find some foreclosure deals that allow 0% down if the bank wants to cut you a deal to get rid of its inventory, you...
One of my favorite scenes from the movie Ferris Bueler's Day Off is when his friend Cameron is imitating the Three Stooges-like hand gestures of the traders on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade. These types of trading pits are still around, surprisingly, given that financial experts were...
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