Reply #50: Payphones that accept incoming calls...

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Mass-produced vinyl records...

Analogue ringers in the POTSystem, so you could actually tell when a call was connected, and how many times it was actually ringing on the other end.

Affordable stereo systems with real knobs, especially for radio tuning.

Enough AM stations for me to practice my hobby of hunting for the elusive "skip."

UHF broadcast TV, so I could use it to tell when a tornado is coming.

Wishing Well pop.

*Real* Vernor's ginger ale, not the wimpy stuff they try to pass off as Vernor's these days.

The huge market of commercial short-fiction-publishing venues that used to exist, like Amazing Stories, Galaxy, Fantasy Book, Fantastic, and otherwise, a viable mid-list in book publishing.