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Post by pegasuswarrior on Dec 8, 2016 22:44:45 GMT -5
You all need to say movie theaters in general then. If the basis is how many there are versus how many there were.
There are five drive-ins within driving distance from me, so is it a situation where there is a drive-in in every city? No. But you can't say it's not a thing. Unless you define the phrase as in drastic decline or a faint shadow of its former glory. In which case, fine. This could be a 100-page thread in that case. The topic says "died out" or "nearly died out." Unless you plan on vandalizing the five within proximity here, I doubt the full lot every weekend is any danger of dying out.
There is only one dominant wrestling company in the US. And a bunch of niche organizations. So by the same quantifiers, wrestling isn't a thing anymore.
No issue with however you define it, but I'm seeing door to door crammed in a field on the reg, and it's a head-scratcher for someone just to say, "Nope, it's not happening. You're wrong." I'm just going off of what I thought the thread was supposed to be. And in three drive in locations nearby you can't even get through that section of street/highway during the 30 minutes to an hour before the drive-ins open because they're lined up bumper to bumper waiting to get their tickets and get in.
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Post by ToyfareMark on Dec 9, 2016 4:37:02 GMT -5
Do I really have to be the first to say it? Lawn darts.
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Post by Father Dougal McGuire on Dec 9, 2016 6:25:16 GMT -5
You all need to say movie theaters in general then. If the basis is how many there are versus how many there were. There are five drive-ins within driving distance from me, so is it a situation where there is a drive-in in every city? No. But you can't say it's not a thing. Unless you define the phrase as in drastic decline or a faint shadow of its former glory. In which case, fine. This could be a 100-page thread in that case. The topic says "died out" or "nearly died out." Unless you plan on vandalizing the five within proximity here, I doubt the full lot every weekend is any danger of dying out. There is only one dominant wrestling company in the US. And a bunch of niche organizations. So by the same quantifiers, wrestling isn't a thing anymore. No issue with however you define it, but I'm seeing door to door crammed in a field on the reg, and it's a head-scratcher for someone just to say, "Nope, it's not happening. You're wrong." I'm just going off of what I thought the thread was supposed to be. And in three drive in locations nearby you can't even get through that section of street/highway during the 30 minutes to an hour before the drive-ins open because they're lined up bumper to bumper waiting to get their tickets and get in. I get what you are saying, but it does seem like a regional thing. Down here in south TX we had one open to replace one that got vandalized and is now one of those picnic movie theaters. I went to check it out, and it turned out to be the day a car club had a meet up. It was weird for my car to be parked between a DeSoto and a 50s Fury with a record player installed , but I digress. Drive ins are just like an Indy Fed, Just like another theater we have down here, Alamo Drafthouse which serves reasonable priced movies with beer.
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Post by Shai on Dec 9, 2016 11:53:43 GMT -5
Westerns- From the advent of motion pictures up until the early 60's at any given time there were dozens if not sometimes hundreds of Westerns every year. Hell the first 2 decades of tv there were always numerous westerns being airred. As a genre it was commonplace as romantic comedy or horror film. In fact several of biggest stars in the first 60 years of the 20th century were basically only known for doing Westerns the way someone might think of Stallone or Jackie Chan as action movie actors. The last 30 years there might be at most 1-2 Westerns a year either as Historical or Oscar Bait pieices. It's actually quite fascinating to see something be a fabric of American pop culture to now essentially a historical footnote. I grew up watching Westerns with my Grandfather... I know people who've never heard of John Wayne..which is odd as hell to me.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Dec 9, 2016 14:19:39 GMT -5
One of my favorite things to do. In 2016. Try again. It's still a popular thing, just not in downtown Manhattan or wherever. Vaudeville is joke answer. But it's the kind of answer I interpret from the original post that fits. Board games are still a thing. Drive-ins are still a thing. Ventriloquism is still a thing. I live within like an hour's drive of some 4 or so drive ins. Absolutely LOVE them. Nothing like it. You all need to say movie theaters in general then. If the basis is how many there are versus how many there were. There are five drive-ins within driving distance from me You from Northeast Ohio, too?!
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Post by thegame415 on Dec 9, 2016 14:28:34 GMT -5
In terms of arcades, there are a few in the Chicago area. Most are "barcades" or "beercades", which are basically arcades that serve alcohol. Also, there's galloping ghost, which is amazing.
An idea I have is music videos on tv. There are some specific channels, like Nick Music (formerly MTV hits) and BET jams, but MTV and VH1 having music video blocks not at 4 am. I used to put on MTV at night sometimes cause I knew there'd be more than infomercials.
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Dec 9, 2016 14:50:38 GMT -5
You all need to say movie theaters in general then. If the basis is how many there are versus how many there were. There are five drive-ins within driving distance from me You from Northeast Ohio, too?! That's Awesome! But no. Not Ohio here. It just goes to show our point though about how it's still a piece of Americana to people.
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Post by SAJ Forth on Dec 9, 2016 14:51:01 GMT -5
Nationally speaking, video stores. Though in smaller areas, they do still thrive.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2016 17:39:18 GMT -5
Westerns- From the advent of motion pictures up until the early 60's at any given time there were dozens if not sometimes hundreds of Westerns every year. Hell the first 2 decades of tv there were always numerous westerns being airred. As a genre it was commonplace as romantic comedy or horror film. In fact several of biggest stars in the first 60 years of the 20th century were basically only known for doing Westerns the way someone might think of Stallone or Jackie Chan as action movie actors. The last 30 years there might be at most 1-2 Westerns a year either as Historical or Oscar Bait pieices. It's actually quite fascinating to see something be a fabric of American pop culture to now essentially a historical footnote. And the majority of Westerns they do film now are "updates" on old classics or historical ones when they receive new information. Good one. Video stores is another good answer stated above. Every grocery store had one at their peak. (Now it's either extra space or they put in a bank.) Most of the video stores here turned into fireworks stores.
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Post by DoubleDare on Dec 11, 2016 8:26:25 GMT -5
Rollerderby huge on tv in the 60s, tried coming back, of course in 99 with Rotherjam, still exists on the local/amatuer level. Slide shows- people used to have people apparently come over to their house and show pictures projected on a screen. Haha yeah I don't think the slide show thing died out until the 1990s. At least one episode of The Simpsons references it. That's exactly what made me think of the slide shows when patty and selma are showing theirs lol.
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Post by BJ Sturgeon on Dec 11, 2016 9:50:23 GMT -5
Friedberg and Seltzer killed off the art of entertaining parody movies.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 11, 2016 18:14:32 GMT -5
Street organ grinders, complete with monkeys collecting the donations.
Burlesque was pretty much completely dead by the 1940s. The current burlesque (or neo-burlesque as traditionalists call it) revival only came about in the last 20 years.
Kinetoscopes and other "peep show" machines - the predecessor to film and theaters and rendered obsolete by the same.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Dec 11, 2016 18:17:28 GMT -5
Flag pole sitting has a had a bad 100 years or so.
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Dec 11, 2016 19:11:56 GMT -5
There are only 15 drive ins across all of Australia and maybe only half of them are professionally run.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 11, 2016 20:28:41 GMT -5
Flag pole sitting has a had a bad 100 years or so. Those type of goof fads never last long. Phone booth stuffing, planking, owling, etc.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 11, 2016 20:37:02 GMT -5
You all need to say movie theaters in general then. If the basis is how many there are versus how many there were. The big problem with that analogy is that while there are less theaters, those theaters have evolved into multiplexes and megaplexes, and there are actually more theater screens showing movies in the US right now than ever before.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Dec 11, 2016 20:52:41 GMT -5
Skin magazines - Playboy did away with nudes in print, and Hustler is pretty much the last one left. And not many people would admit to buying it.
Fighting games - After the big boom in the 90's, we get a new King of Fighters every year or so, the occasional Mortal Kombat, and that's it.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 11, 2016 21:12:27 GMT -5
You all need to say movie theaters in general then. If the basis is how many there are versus how many there were. The big problem with that analogy is that while there are less theaters, those theaters have evolved into multiplexes and megaplexes, and there are actually more theater screens showing movies in the US right now than ever before. There are also more movie screens this year than there were last year. There are something like 340 drive in screens in the United States, that works out to like 7 per state... IF they all only have 1 screen each... if they mostly have 2 it's 3 per state. It is absolutely a dying art and to argue otherwise is just ignoring empirical facts. Part of it is due to things like the move to digital projection, another is just a space issue. The only Drive-in within like 30 miles of me closed down years ago, it had 4 screens. Now it was replaced with a regular theater that holds 12 screens and a massive parking lo and a BJ Wholesaler Club and a small shopping center and a Bank. I guarantee they are making way more money this way than they ever did as a drive in.
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Post by wildojinx on Dec 12, 2016 0:43:54 GMT -5
G-Rated movies. I cant remember the last G-Rated movie out there, even Disney's newest animated ones are all PG AFAIK.
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Dec 12, 2016 20:40:58 GMT -5
I read this thread and think that a lot of these things are still relevant in England/Europe. Travelling Circuses, "Choose your theme" on Ice, Ballroom dancing, Board Games (are having a huge renaisaance) etc .. Skin magazines - Playboy did away with nudes in print, and Hustler is pretty much the last one left. And not many people would admit to buying it. Fighting games - After the big boom in the 90's, we get a new King of Fighters every year or so, the occasional Mortal Kombat, and that's it. You clearly missed the resurgence with Street Fighter 4 & 5, Killer instinct, Mortal Kombat X, SkullGirls, Marvel vs Capcom 3 (with 4 out next year), Injustice, Guilty Gear/BlazBlue and the fact the last major tournament EVO 2016 was put on ESPN2 live this year. ----- Before No Man's Sky showed up I'd have said Space Ship Shooter Video Games had died out.
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