I don't believe John Wayne was ever cancelled either, Pat. Sure, the younger generations don't have much interest in him but that's not cancelling him. They just don't care about stuff that old. The people born after the invention of cell phones and the internet seem to only focus on that timeframe. What came before it seems to be of no interest to them at all. Which is fine, their pop culture is obviously not going to be our pop culture. 

Over the weekend one of my nephews was here. He wanted to watch a movie one night and we watched the Christopher Reeves Superman film. There were jokes in the movie that we had to explain to him, he's 11. One of them was the moment where Clark Kent is going to change into his Superman suit and he goes up to a "phone booth" which was just one of those half booth ones rather than the full phone booth where you could close the door behind you. He had no clue that was a joke in the film because he has never seen a pay phone, never mind a phone booth. 

His father told him there are 4 phone booths left in New York city and at some point he would show him one. John Wayne and phone booths are like lost artifacts from some other time to many people now. That's just how it is.