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Ryan Plaisted, 25, runs the Ioka, a 91 year old movie and performing arts theater in Exeter, NH where the projectors, the popcorn maker, and most everything else is over 50 years old. When they break he fixes them. He resides in Epping, NH.
Saturday, February 23, 2008 Product durability, do consumers care?
Constantly updating the things we own, and being a throw away and buy new society has caused manufactures to forget about product durability and serviceability entirely, and the economy does nothing but encourage that. To coin a phrase, they don't make things like they used to.