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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

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Water motor/turbine. Before widespread use of electricity, these were hooked up to a water tap to power kitchen appliances.

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Optical telegraph

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Wood gas powered car

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roccobass said:
Being grossly non PC wasn’t just one their issues. Terrible quality. Even an after the fact name change wasn’t gonna save them.( to Four Seasons Restaurant). Good bye!

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It's always tough trying to impact opinions from a different eras.

Yesterday I was watching some clips from "Whose Line is it Anyway". I'm guessing about 2000. The number of homosexual and female references, I n a prime time show, considered family comedy, is a great example.
 
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buldog5151bass said:
It's always tough trying to impact opinions from a different eras.

Yesterday I was watching some clips from "Whose Line is it Anyway". I'm guessing about 2000. The number of homosexual and female references, I n a prime time show, considered family comedy, is a great example.
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Yep. Another show action packed with innuendo back in the day was “Hollywood Squares”
 
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