a daily bus, to/from the city daily. I could send my wife flowers from my ship, and the bus stopped to drop them off. You could send parcels without being a passenger.
3 Free (with more adverts than YouTube) Over The Air #OTA TV channels, I had a roof antenna, you'd turn the pole to get a different channel, two English channels, one French.
payphones (before iPhones) we're every 8 miles, in a community with a gas station and store. You could walk to a phone if broken down