How about the merchants and shops that have disappeared? I haven't seen a butcher shop in years, or a Five and Dime, there are shoe stores, but not the sort that have real shoe salesmen. My father and grandfather had all their suits made by a tailor (he was actually an in-law) but he was the last in our town, and retired while I was still in school, and I bought my first suit ready made, from a Men's Store, which are now vanishing as well.