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  1. Brinybay

    What era does our kitchen sink hail from?

    Getting ready to do a kitchen remodel. I wanted to swap out for a stainless steel sink because the white porcelain sink is hard to keep clean because it's white. Only method that works well is using bleach a few times a week. My wife said unless it could be sold for enough to pay for the...
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    Help with identifying vintage women's clothing.

    Wife and I were going through some stuff in her attic and found these vintage women's clothing. I only recognize the black skirt as looking like it's from the 50s, the rest she only knows who they belonged too, a great-great aunt, which would date them to possibly the early 1900s since we're...
  3. Brinybay

    Does anybody dance the Charleston?

    Wasn't sure where to post this, so here it is. I recently acquired a stack of unwanted 78s from a collector who said they were just "junk". Just goes to show you, one man's junk is another man's treasure. Among them was a copy of Isham Jones Orchestra "The Original Charleston". I...
  4. Brinybay

    Lamp shades

    This isn't so much a display post but rather a question on a couple of lamp shades I have. The first one is a Goodwill find that I'm pretty sure is a reproduction, but I really like that style and would like to know what it's called so I'll know what to search for. Second one is also a...
  5. Brinybay

    Traveltalks - 1940 Modern New Orleans

    Traveltalks - 1940 Modern New Orleans
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    San Francisco 1906

    A then new technology, the motion picture. This was just a few days before the earthquake. http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=NINOxRxze9k
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    Mystery furniture

    Came across this vintage-looking piece of furniture in a St. Vinnies. Interesting looking, but I couldn't figure out what it's purpose was, and had no practical use for it. It seems to sit too low to be a desk, but it appears to be a work bench of some sort.
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    Trying to win a convert, need a favor.

    I have a relative who thinks he would not look good in a classic Fedora. I thought the same thing at first too, but I now wear one regularly. I'm asking if somebody with the graphics ability could "shop" a hat on his pic for me so I could show him. Somebody in FL did that with a picture of...
  10. Brinybay

    FL listed in "Best of" list in Art of Manliness

    I searched and didn't see this mentioned, so if somebody beat me to it, my apologies. FL made the list of "Best of" in an article on their website and newsletter titled A Guide to the Best Men’s Style, Grooming, And Etiquette Information on the Web.
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    The one that got away.

    I thought there was a thread in here somewhere on vintage items that we tried but failed to obtain, but darned if I can find it. Mods feel free to move the post. This was on Craigslist and I missed it by about a couple hours. It was on the high end of my price range, but I didn't care, it...
  13. Brinybay

    I love art deco, but...

    $500 smackers for a poster?!! What makes this thing worth that much?! It's a silk screen, so what?! Is it printed on currency?! FWIW, I saw this same poster in an antique mall in Seattle, framed, with a price tag of $900! That's how I found it online, I googled it thinking that it's just a...
  14. Brinybay

    "Fuzzy" fedora?

    Speaking of fuzzy hats, I was watching an old Star Trek episode "A Piece of the Action" (Season 2, episode 17) in which the Enterprise crew try to correct a "contamination" of a society that based itself on a book about 1920s Chicago gangsters. Anyway, I noticed that Kirk (Shatner) had a...
  15. Brinybay

    "Old School" grace and mannerisms?

    I've always been impressed with the "old school" style of "gentlemanly" manners. Three people come to mind as an example - Rod Taylor as he was in the 1960 movie "Time Machine", Vincent Price in just about everything, and Bela Legosi (the man, not the vampire). Granted, these are trained...
  16. Brinybay

    They drive me to drink...

    If you were around in 1919 (just before Prohibition) and came across this poster: Seriously now, would you quit drinking?
  17. Brinybay

    Any idea about this blazer?

    I saw this in a thrift store today. I'm not as astute as some of you folks on spotting vintage clothing, but it looked kinda vintage to me, but I could be wrong. It was too small for me so I didn't buy it. There was no label other than the laundering instructions. My apologies for the...
  19. Brinybay

    Happy New Year 1931 again!

    The days in the 2009 calendar will be the same as 1903, 1914, 1925, 1931, 1942, 1953, 1959, 1970, 1981, 1987, 1998. http://www.vpcalendar.net/3_Columns/Calendar_4.html But 2008 wasn't 1930, because of leap years. It was 1924. Golden Era years in 2010 will be 1926, 1937, and 1943. (Are the...
  20. Brinybay

    Making someone's day (or even life) the old-fashioned way.

    With good cheer and a smile. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the death of Mark McLaughlin, a bus driver in Seattle. I never knew Mark, this happened before I started working for Metro. But the following article always chokes me up and really puts my job in perspective, especially those...
  21. Brinybay

    Antique radio repair course?

    I'm wondering how difficult it would be to learn to repair my old radio myself. I'm finding that the more I ask around, the more cost prohibitive it becomes to have someone do it for me. I got a flat-out rejection from The Radio Nut who's not far from me. He said he uses the Majestics like...
  22. Brinybay

    The Elegant Male

    Stumbled across this while looking at something entirely different. I got a kick out of the British lady at the end. They mention male cosmetics in the video. I'm middle-aged and have dark circles under my eyes that make me look tired and haggard. When I was job-hunting, I actually thought...
  23. Brinybay

    Vintage sheet music?

    Anybody here collect it? I stopped by a second hand store near me and the sweet little ol' lady who works there had to show me a couple stacks of old sheet music they just put out. She was old enough to probably remember much of it when she was a young girl. I don't know much about sheet...

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