r/OldMediaWorld

I found several boxes of original color slides from the 1970s in an abandoned dumpster. This one shows Klaipėda (Memel back then) — Lithuania‘s only seaport.

What makes this place interesting is that after WWII, the city lost its entire pre-war population and was resettled almost from scratch . Most of the old churches were demolished during the Soviet era — today you won‘t find a single church in the Old Town . The historical perimeter of where St. John’s Church once stood is now just an empty lawn marked by bushes.

Klaipėda‘s Old Town is the only one in Lithuania without a single church — all were demolished during the Soviet era .

The city lost 100% of its pre-war population and was resettled from scratch .

For 501 years (1422–1923), the border near Memel was one of the longest unchanged borders in Europe .

Klaipėda is unique in the former USSR for developing its own architectural style — now called 'Klaipėdic' — using red clay bricks

Part 1

Some DVD collections still have titles from the late ‘90s or early 2000s that somehow survived every room cleanup, media upgrade, and streaming era purge. Could be a scratched blockbuster, a concert disc, an anime box set, or that movie played a hundred times growing up.

What’s the oldest DVD still owned — and how is it being preserved today??