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Since I’m both old enough, and grew up OOT. The Hertz Chumash was used in most ‘Orthodox’ US synagogues from the 1950s on. It had an English translation before many were available. Synagogues purchased sufficient quantity to supply the ‘three day a year’ members, so they remained usable for decades.

In the 1990s when I was President of an old time OOT Orthodox synagogue they were still using Machzorim for the Yomin Noraain that were printed in 1932 (they are still in use). They owned about 1000 copies and the shul had dwindled to 300 members as people moved to the suburbs.

When Chumashim and Siddurim are owned in quantity and are in good physical condition, replacement is one of the last things a synagogue’s Board of Directors will spend money on.