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re: Once powerful organizations that have lost their relevance (Not Political)
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:46 pm to sidewalkside
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:46 pm to sidewalkside
Shoney's Big Boy
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Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:49 pm to sidewalkside
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What about the Chamber of Commerce?
Or the Better Business Bureau?
I've yet to figure out what either of these orgs actually do.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:53 pm to 3deadtrolls
Money and influence laundering, particularly the local chambers of commerce. Y'all know there's a Latino chamber of commerce in New Orleans, etc.? Do you think they help the local pupusaria stay open? lol
Boy Scouts launched themselves out of a cannon into irrelevance. If anyone actually paid attention to Girl Scouts and what they do besides sell cookies (which is jack and shite) they would have joined them too.
Boy Scouts launched themselves out of a cannon into irrelevance. If anyone actually paid attention to Girl Scouts and what they do besides sell cookies (which is jack and shite) they would have joined them too.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 1:54 pm to soccerfüt
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Odd Fellows, Elks, Moose, Masons, and the female varieties
There are still a lot of old Southern towns and small cities you don't frick with the Junior League.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:43 pm to lsudave1
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Burger King. Used to be neck and neck or even ahead of McDonald's and is now a bottom tier fast food chain.
I still enjoy a good flame grilled Whopper occasionally.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:45 pm to sidewalkside
Harvard University and the other Ivy League Schools, and to a lesser extent most other colleges and universities.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:47 pm to sidewalkside
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(Not Political)
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Chamber of Commerce
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NRA?
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:52 pm to 3deadtrolls
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What about the Chamber of Commerce?
Or the Better Business Bureau?
I've yet to figure out what either of these orgs actually do.
Chambers of Commerce still exist in (I’d imagine) most areas with the goal of supporting local business. Where it gets murky is the national Chamber entity, you’ll see them show up on larger regional or national issues, not always on the “good guys” side, depending on your perspective.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:53 pm to lsufan1971
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Kodak was one of the most profitable companies in the US. They were involved with the manhattan project, NASA and the CIA. They developed some of the best commercial cameras of the 20th century. By the 1980’s their market share was cut by Fujifilm. They declared bankruptcy in 2009.
Digital photography was the final nail in the coffin for Kodak. Ironically, Kodak developed the first digital still camera in the mid 1970’s.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 2:59 pm to sidewalkside
Sears
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:04 pm to Jimbeaux
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Harvard University and the other Ivy League Schools, and to a lesser extent most other colleges and universities
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:07 pm to ATrillionaire
Can't fix them.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:11 pm to sidewalkside
Da Jaycees
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:17 pm to Havoc
I grin and bear it with my local chamber, because it's a successful marketing/network platform for me. Don't care for their (or most of the local memberships') politics, but I gotta work local.
The BBB is an extortionist outfit. I was building houses with my dad in 2004ish and sold to a guy who bought with a VA loan. Guy's toddler proceeds to demolish the new house and the guy keeps calling me over to look at "warranty" damage claims (all clearly toddler damage). I indulged him for a while and finally had to cut him off. He called the VA who sent an inspector out and conceded that none of the damage was covered.
Guy calls the BBB who reach out and inform me of a complaint against my company. I can use them to mediate the situation, but I'd have to pay a membership fee to participate. If I refused, they would note on my "public profile" that I refused to mediate complaints.
frick the BBB.
The BBB is an extortionist outfit. I was building houses with my dad in 2004ish and sold to a guy who bought with a VA loan. Guy's toddler proceeds to demolish the new house and the guy keeps calling me over to look at "warranty" damage claims (all clearly toddler damage). I indulged him for a while and finally had to cut him off. He called the VA who sent an inspector out and conceded that none of the damage was covered.
Guy calls the BBB who reach out and inform me of a complaint against my company. I can use them to mediate the situation, but I'd have to pay a membership fee to participate. If I refused, they would note on my "public profile" that I refused to mediate complaints.
frick the BBB.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:17 pm to sidewalkside
Woodmen’s of the World
Go into any old grave yard and you’ll see a bunch of their tree looking tombstones. They seemed to be real big in the past.
Go into any old grave yard and you’ll see a bunch of their tree looking tombstones. They seemed to be real big in the past.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:21 pm to sidewalkside
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Better Business Bureau?
Yelp for old people
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:21 pm to sidewalkside
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the AKC anymore?
the dog people?
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:24 pm to JEC119
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Woodmen’s of the World
Go into any old grave yard and you’ll see a bunch of their tree looking tombstones. They seemed to be real big in the past.
New Orleans has an Odd Fellow's Rest cemetery at the end of Canal Street.
It took me a long time to realize they were just an old quasi Masonic group.
I always just thought it was a kickass sounding place to be buried.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 3:24 pm to sidewalkside
The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
Posted on 7/8/25 at 4:07 pm to sidewalkside
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UN
I said not political homie
It’s ALL political homle.
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