25. Pit Toilets
By the 2000 Census, the number of Americans
who
lacked indoor plumbing was down to 0.6%. Even though
that's still an awful lot of Americans using an outhouse
or pit toilet -- 670,000 households or 1.3 million people
--
it's a huge improvement from 1950 when 27% of households
(and over half of rural households) didn't have complete
indoor plumbing.
24. Yellow Pages
This year will be pivotal for the global Yellow
Pages industry. Much like newspapers, print Yellow Pages
will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital
counterparts, from Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs), to local
search engines and combination search/listing services
like
ReachLocal and Yodle. Factors like an acceleration of
the
print "fade rate" and the looming recession
will
contribute to the onslaught. One research firm predicts
the
falloff in usage of newspapers and print Yellow Pages
could
even reach 10% this year -- much higher than the 2%-3%
fade
rate seen in past years.
23. Classified Ads
The Internet has made so many things obsolete
that newspaper classified ads might sound like just another
trivial item on a long list. But this is one of those
harbingers of the future that could signal the end of
civilization as we know it. The argument is that if
newspaper classifieds are replaced by free online listings
at sites like Craigslist.org and Goggle Base, then
newspapers are not far behind them.
22. Movie Rental Stores
While Netflix is looking up at the moment,
Blockbuster keeps closing store locations by the hundreds.
It still has about 6,000 left across the world, but those
keep dwindling and the stock is down considerably in
2008,
especially since the company gave up a quest of Circuit
City. Movie Gallery, which owned the Hollywood Video
brand,
closed up shop earlier this year. Countless small video
chains and mom-and-pop stores have given up the ghost
already.
21. Dial-up Internet Access
Dial-up connections have fallen from 40% in
2001 to 10% in 2008. The combination of an infrastructure
to
accommodate affordable high speed Internet connections
and
the disappearing home phone have all but pounded the
final
nail in the coffin of dial-up Internet access.
20. Phone Land lines
According to a survey from the National Center
for Health Statistics, at the end of 2007, nearly one
in six
homes was cell-only and, of those homes that had land
lines,
one in eight only received calls on their cells.
19. Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs
Maryland's icon, the blue crab, has been
fading away in Chesapeake Bay. Last year Maryland saw
the
lowest harvest (22 million pounds) since 1945. Just four
decades ago the bay produced 96 million pounds.The
population is down 70% since 1990, when they first did
a
formal count. There are only about 120 million crabs
in the
bay and they think they need 200 million for a sustainable
population. Over fishing, pollution, invasive species
and
global warming get the blame.
18. VCRs
For the better part of three decades, the VCR
was a best-seller and staple in every American household
until being completely decimated by the DVD, and now
the
Digital Video Recorder (DVR). In fact, the only remnants
of
the VHS age at your local Wal-Mart or Radio Shack are
blank
VHS tapes these days. Pre-recorded VHS tapes are largely
gone and VHS decks are practically nowhere to be found.
They
served us so well.
17. Ash Trees
In the late 1990's, a pretty, irridescent green
species of beetle, now known as the emerald ash borer,
hitched a ride to North America with ash wood products
imported from eastern Asia. In less than a decade, its
larvae have killed millions of trees in the Midwest,
and
continue to spread. They've killed more than 30 million
ash trees in southeastern Michigan alone, with tens of
millions more lost in Ohio and Indiana. More than 7.5
billion ash trees are currently at risk.
16. Ham Radio
Amateur radio operators enjoy personal (and
often worldwide) wireless communications with each other
and
are able to support their communities with emergency
and
disaster communications if necessary, while increasing
their
personal knowledge of electronics and radio theory. However,
proliferation of the Internet and its popularity among
youth
has caused the decline of amateur radio. In the past
five
years alone, the number of people holding active ham
radio
licenses has dropped by 50,000, even though Morse Code
is no
longer a requirement.
15. The Swimming Hole
Thanks to our litigious society, swimming holes
are becoming a thing of the past. '20/20' reports
that swimming hole owners, like Robert Every in High
Falls,
N. Y., are shutting them down out of worry that if someone
gets hurt they'll sue. And that's exactly what
happened in Seattle. The city of Bellingham was sued
by
Katie Hofstetter who was paralyzed in a fall at a popular
swimming hole in Whatcom Falls Park. As injuries occur
and
lawsuits follow, expect more swimming holes to post
"Keep out!" signs.
14. Answering Machines
The increasing disappearance of answering
machines is directly tied to No. 20 our list -- the decline
of land lines. According to USA Today, the number of
homes
that only use cell phones jumped 159% between 2004 and
2007.
It has been particularly bad in New York; since 2000,
land line usage has dropped 55%. It's logical that as
cell phones rise, many of them replacing traditional
land lines, that there will be fewer answering machines.
13. Cameras That Use Film
It doesn't require a statistician to prove
the rapid disappearance of the film camera in America.
Just
look to companies like Nikon, the professional's choice
for quality camera equipment. In 2006, it announced that
it
would stop making film cameras, pointing to the shrinking
market -- only 3% of its sales in 2005, compared to 75%
of
sales from digital cameras and equipment.
12. Incandescent Bulbs
Before a few years ago, the standard 60-watt
(or, yikes, 100-watt) bulb was the mainstay of every
U.S.
home. With the green movement and
all-things-sustainable-energy crowd, the Compact Fluorescent
Light bulb (CFL) is largely replacing the older, Edison-era
incandescent bulb. The EPA reports that 2007 sales for
Energy Star CFLs nearly doubled from 2006, and these
sales
accounted for approximately 20 percent of the U.S. light
bulb market. And according to USA Today, a new energy
bill
plans to phase out incandescent bulbs in the next four
to 12
years.
11. Stand-Alone Bowling Alleys
BowlingBalls.US claims there are still 60
million Americans who bowl at least once a year, but
many
are not bowling in stand-alone bowling alleys. Today
most
new bowling alleys are part of facilities for all types
or
recreation including laser tag, go-karts, bumper cars,
video
game arcades, climbing walls and glow miniature golf.
Bowling lanes also have been added to many non-traditional
venues such as adult communities, hotels and resorts,
and
gambling casinos.
10. The Milkman
According to the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, in 1950, over half of the milk delivered
was to
the home in quart bottles, by 1963, it was about a third
and
by 2001, it represented only 0.4% percent. Nowadays most
milk is sold through supermarkets in gallon jugs. The
steady
decline in home-delivered milk is blamed, of course,
on the
rise of the supermarket, better home refrigeration and
longer-lasting milk. Although some milkmen still make
the
rounds in pockets of the U.S., they are certainly a dying
breed.
9. Hand-Written Letters
In 2006, the Radicati Group estimated that,
worldwide, 183 billion e-mails were sent each day. Two
million each second. By November of 2007, an estimated
3.3
billion Earthlings owned cell phones, and 80% of the
world's population had access to cell phone coverage.
In
2004, half-a-trillion text messages were sent, and the
number has no doubt increased exponentially since then.
So
where amongst this gorge of gabble is there room for
the
elegant, polite hand-written letter?
8. Wild Horses
It is estimated that 100 years ago, as many
as
two million horses were roaming free within the United
States. In 2001, National Geographic News estimated that
the
wild horse population had decreased to about 50,000 head.
Currently, the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory
board
states that there are 32,000 free roaming horses in ten
Western states, with half of them residing in Nevada.
The
Bureau of Land Management is seeking to reduce the total
number of free range horses to 27,000, possibly by selective
euthanasia.
7. Personal Checks
According to an American Bankers Assoc. report,
a net 23% of consumers plan to decrease their use of
checks
over the next two years, while a net 14% plan to increase
their use of PIN debit. Bill payment remains the last
stronghold of paper-based payments -- for the time being.
Checks continue to be the most commonly used bill payment
method, with 71% of consumers paying at least one recurring
bill per month by writing a check. However, on a
bill-by-bill basis, checks account for only 49% of
consumers' recurring bill payments (down from 72% in
2001 and 60% in 2003).
6. Drive-in Theaters
During the peak in 1958, there were more than
4,000 drive-in theaters in this country, but in 2007
only
405 drive-ins were still operating. Exactly zero new
drive-ins have been built since 2005. Only one reopened
in
2005 and five reopened in 2006, so there isn't much of
a
movement toward reviving the closed ones.
5. Mumps & Measles
Despite what's been in the news lately, the
measles and mumps actually, truly are disappearing from
the
United States. In 1964, 212,000 cases of mumps were reported
in the U.S. By 1983, this figure had dropped to 3,000,
thanks to a vigorous vaccination program. Prior to the
introduction of the measles vaccine, approximately half
a
million cases of measles were reported in the U.S. annually,
resulting in 450 deaths. In 2005, only 66 cases were
recorded.
4. Honey Bees
Perhaps nothing on our list of disappearing
America is so dire; plummeting so enormously; and so
necessary to the survival of our food supply as the honey
bee. Very scary. 'Colony Collapse Disorder,' or CCD,
has spread throughout the U.S. and Europe over the past
few
years, wiping out 50% to 90% of the colonies of many
beekeepers -- and along with it, their livelihood.
3. News Magazines and TV News
While the TV evening newscasts haven't gone
anywhere over the last several decades, their audiences
have. In 1984, in a story about the diminishing returns
of
the evening news, the New York Times reported that all
three
network evening-news programs combined had only 40.9
million
viewers. Fast forward to 2008, and what they have today
is
half that.
2. Analog TV
According to the Consumer Electronics
Association, 85% of homes in the U.S. get their television
programming through cable or satellite providers. For
the
remaining 15% -- or 13 million individuals -- who are
using
rabbit ears or a large outdoor antenna to get their local
stations, change is in the air. If you are one of these
people you'll need to get a new TV or a converter box
in
order to get the new stations which will only be broadcast
in digital.
 1. The Family Farm
Since the 1930's, the number of family farms has
been declining rapidly. According to the USDA, 5.3 million
farms dotted the nation in 1950, but this number had
declined to 2.1 million by the 2003 farm census (data
from
the 2007 census hasn't yet been published). Ninety-one
percent of the U.S. farms are small family farms.
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