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Mr.Radar posted:Fran Blanche recently posted a video demonstrating a very rare numeric display tube that meets both of the criteria of the thread title: It’s interesting that Fran’s tube has burn‐in. I wonder where it was installed. NIMO displays were arguably the easiest to read at the time and it’s a shame the economics didn’t work out vs. segmented displays. But Nixies are far more beautiful.
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When's the last time any of you saw a coin box on a toilet stall in North America? I don't think I've seen one since the mid eighties. There might be modern versions, but I'm talking about the literal box with coin slot on a stall door.
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Oct 17, 2017 00:13
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Dick Trauma posted:When's the last time any of you saw a coin box on a toilet stall in North America? There was a very successful campaign against them, arguably not for the better. America didn’t become a free‐toilet utopia. Instead, public toilets just disappeared in many areas.
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Oct 17, 2017 00:18
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There was/is a building in Boston that had one of those on the main door to the bathroom, you had to get a token from one of the businesses in the building. I still have one of the tokens, it's smaller than a dime and a perfect kief sifter for my grinder!
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Oct 17, 2017 00:21
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Oct 17, 2017 00:34
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Dick Trauma posted:When's the last time any of you saw a coin box on a toilet stall in North America.
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Oct 17, 2017 01:46
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John Big Booty posted:Last week. They're all over the place in L.A. I've lived in Los Angeles since 1982 and haven't seen one since not long after that. A pay-to-pee mystery!
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Oct 17, 2017 01:50
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Dick Trauma posted:I've lived in Los Angeles since 1982 and haven't seen one since not long after that. A pay-to-pee mystery! According to the wikipedia article posted above, pay toilets in California were banned by '76. Of course, most business here only let customers use the bathrooms, and some don't even allow that, so it's not much of a difference.
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Oct 17, 2017 03:00
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Grand Prize Winner posted:According to the wikipedia article posted above, pay toilets in California were banned by '76. Of course, most business here only let customers use the bathrooms, and some don't even allow that, so it's not much of a difference. I was in downtown L.A. in early 2000 and there were tons of pay toilets. Not necessarily with that particular coin box, but they had coin slots, so either the ban didn't include L.A. or it wasn't enforced. It was the first time I'd ever seen one having grown up in Colorado. It was also the first place I'd ever seen a phone booth. In Colorado the payphones were all just out in the open or along an exterior wall of a building. Platystemon posted:There was a very successful campaign against them, arguably not for the better. I'm very curious about the bold part.
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Oct 17, 2017 03:22
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Kelp Me! posted:There was/is a building in Boston that had one of those on the main door to the bathroom, you had to get a token from one of the businesses in the building. I still have one of the tokens, it's smaller than a dime and a perfect kief sifter for my grinder! Always be vapin' fossilized baby boomer poo.
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Oct 17, 2017 03:34
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GutBomb posted:I'm very curious about the bold part. Ever worked a job where your responsibilities involved public restrooms at a location that gets lots of traffic?
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GutBomb posted:I'm very curious about the bold part. That an argument can be made that it made things worse from the standpoint there are far fewer places the general public can find public restrooms now. I'm not saying a it's a good argument, but there really isn't a lot a places where someone can just walk in and use the facilities.
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Oct 17, 2017 03:51
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Proteus Jones posted:That an argument can be made that it made things worse from the standpoint there are far fewer places the general public can find public restrooms now. We'd truly be more neighborly as a nation if we had to smell each other's poo poo more often.
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Oct 17, 2017 03:55
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The Nomad was portable and could play full sized Sega Genesis cartridges. Battery life sucked but the car ac adapter made it perfect for long trips, especially with games that saved progress and you could continue from where you left off at home. It even hooked up to a TV and you could connect a second controller. It was pretty legit.
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And somehow had a better battery life than the Game Gear.
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The first and last time I saw one was somewhere near Bakersfield, after driving from San Francisco and eating lots of questionable food and way too much alcohol. I almost poo poo my pants, running back to the van and back to the to the door. Then I let it shut accidentally on my drummer and he did the same almost-poo poo dance, then HE did the same to the guitarist.
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Oct 17, 2017 04:11
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There used to be a few outside pay toilets around Boston. I think one was near Government Center, another was in the North End, and maybe one was near BPL?
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There is one in an outdoor sonic in corona CA, it takes dime sized tokens you can only get from buying something
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Pokey Araya posted:The first and last time I saw one was somewhere near Bakersfield, after driving from San Francisco and eating lots of questionable food and way too much alcohol. I almost poo poo my pants, running back to the van and back to the to the door. Then I let it shut accidentally on my drummer and he did the same almost-poo poo dance, then HE did the same to the guitarist. It’s just a Sega Nomad, you guys need to relax.
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Oct 17, 2017 06:06
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Dick Trauma posted:I've lived in Los Angeles since 1982 and haven't seen one since not long after that. A pay-to-pee mystery! There are also pay toilets near some metro stops which are basically really fancy self-cleaning port-a-potties. But some things just don't wash out.
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Oct 17, 2017 10:12
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Seems wasteful to use fancy coin-taking mechanisms, in Eastern Europe we have shitter crones to take care of that, and to yell at you when you take too long or otherwise anger the crone.
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Oct 17, 2017 10:24
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Neito posted:There used to be a few outside pay toilets around Boston. I think one was near Government Center, another was in the North End, and maybe one was near BPL? Yeah and one right outside the aquarium too, forgot about those Those are the crazy new ones where the whole bathroom gets disinfected after each use or whatever. They look like lunar lander modules or something from the outside.
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Oct 17, 2017 13:11
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Dick Trauma posted:When's the last time any of you saw a coin box on a toilet stall in North America? There is a door like that at the local porn shop.
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Oct 17, 2017 15:25
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I can't say I've ever been to a porn store with jerkoff booths. Was that ever really a thing, or was I just born too late?
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Oct 17, 2017 15:52
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Neito posted:I can't say I've ever been to a porn store with jerkoff booths. Was that ever really a thing, or was I just born too late? You probably have been to a porn store with jerkoff booths, they just don't advertise them. I think it's like the Starbucks 'secret menu'--If that's what you're there for, you know to ask.
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Oct 17, 2017 16:01
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Porn stores have traditionally had 'viewing rooms' where they played adult films, yes. Like most things porn related, the internet really hurt that facet of the business, not that the old jizz moppers minded.
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Kwyndig posted:Porn stores have traditionally had 'viewing rooms' where they played adult films, yes. Like most things porn related, the internet really hurt that facet of the business, not that the old jizz moppers minded. drat it, the internet has been really hard on the Jizz Moppers Local 714.
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Sinestro posted:drat it, the internet has been really hard on the Jizz Moppers Local 714. Things being hard on them is just an occupational hazard.
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Trabant posted:Things being hard on them is just an occupational hazard.  It's actually weird; I guess the new trend in porn magazines is to bundle up a bunch of old ones and sell them for cheap? It's fugging weird walking into a porn store (as opposed to a "novelty" store) now-a-days. They're mostly head shops now, especially in MA.
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Hogo Fogo posted:Seems wasteful to use fancy coin-taking mechanisms, in Eastern Europe we have shitter crones to take care of that, and to yell at you when you take too long or otherwise anger the crone. The first time I met one the these toilet hags (W.C. witches? bathroom baba yaga? lavatory viragos?), I assumed she was like the attendant in a nightclub, to provide aftershave and mints and such in exchange for a small gratuity. I was quite taken aback when she started having a go and chasing me around because I ignored her on the way in.
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Hogo Fogo posted:Seems wasteful to use fancy coin-taking mechanisms, in Eastern Europe we have shitter crones to take care of that, and to yell at you when you take too long or otherwise anger the crone. My family lived in Europe in the 1970s. I can remember driving across the border into West Germany and my father, brother and I went into the border control station to pee. There was no crone, just a dish with coins in it on a table outside the bathroom, and three guards playing cards in a room across the corridor. My father hated having to pay to use the bathroom and when we were all done with our business he simply picked a few coins up from the dish and loudly dropped them back in. Then he smiled and waved at the guards who did the same and off we went. I thought were were all going to be locked up in Stalag Piss.
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Dick Trauma posted:My family lived in Europe in the 1970s. I can remember driving across the border into West Germany and my father, brother and I went into the border control station to pee. There was no crone, just a dish with coins in it on a table outside the bathroom, and three guards playing cards in a room across the corridor. Back in the day, it appears my grandfather was a prolific pirate of Commadore 64 software, the collection of which we inherited when he got a "real" computer. When I found out about this and was informed of copyright law, I thought the cops were going to break down the loving windows. I was apparently near tears.
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Neito posted:I can't say I've ever been to a porn store with jerkoff booths. Was that ever really a thing, or was I just born too late? Don't actually . In the early aughts I worked at one of them and they are the grossest places on earth
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John Big Booty posted:Nope. They're still thing, at least here in L.A. And if you're so inclined, some of them have glory holes. You seem to be quite the aficionado of Los Angeles's small enclosed places that require pre-payment to enter... 
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Dick Trauma posted:You seem to be quite the aficionado of Los Angeles's small enclosed places that require pre-payment to enter... By the way, how’s your mother?
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Kwyndig posted:Porn stores have traditionally had 'viewing rooms' where they played adult films, yes. Like most things porn related, the internet really hurt that facet of the business, not that the old jizz moppers minded. Places like that were also where gays hooked up back when we were all considered diseased perverts. It's amazing how far the gay rights movement has come in the last 20 years.
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Neito posted:I can't say I've ever been to a porn store with jerkoff booths. I have (in Duke Nukem 3D) 
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Dick Trauma posted:You seem to be quite the aficionado of Los Angeles's small enclosed places that require pre-payment to enter... 
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Konstantin posted:Places like that were also where gays hooked up back when we were all considered diseased perverts. It's amazing how far the gay rights movement has come in the last 20 years. Still are in some places. A friend of mine when I was living in Atlanta was a manager of a (rather nice) sex toy shop with a mostly separate downstairs, with its own entrance around back, where people would pay to view movies but mostly would just have sex with other men. My friend said other locations would have different mixes of homo and heterosexual people who wanted to have sex with/in front of strangers. Oh, and a guy had a heart attack and died there once. My friend got a call at home that ended with "stop touching the body, call the police, I'm on my way". Best part? The place is open 24 hours so they couldn't just wait to see which car belonged to the dead guy. The cops had to have his wife, who didn't know he was gay or was having anonymous sex with strangers, come down to where he died to pick up his car.
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Cat Hatter posted:The cops had to have his wife, who didn't know he was gay or was having anonymous sex with strangers, come down to where he died to pick up his car. Poor beard.
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