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  1. tonyb

    My new old furniture: how old?

    ^^^^^^^ I couldn’t tell you much about that piece except that I like it and would have likely snapped it up myself if the price was within reason.
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’m guessing the ads are effective, what with their appeal to what too many people feel self-conscious about, unrealistically and unreasonably, in most cases. (It may be likened to a flower, but it ain’t a rose, and no reasonable person expects it to be. And really, if one’s sniffer is getting...
  3. tonyb

    Let's see your mechanical watches

    I don’t think diddly about watches, but I liked this one enough to pay a C for it (as I recall) about five years ago. I had the same guy I bought it from replace the crystal a couple years later.
  4. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    The aroma around this place back in the early days often carried a whiff of that to which you alluded — that the culture itself was superior back when Grandpa was a young man and things have gone almost entirely downhill since. There seemed among some of the more regular contributors back then a...
  5. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    I’ve made a couple of hats for an English fellow who is part of a group that has recreated an American Wild West town. He also participates in a group that dresses in 1940s attire. He has sent photos. There appears to be a significant overlap in membership between the groups. The majority of...
  6. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    ^^^^^^^^ I can’t recall when I last saw them, either. It’s been quite a spell, though. They’re readily available online.
  7. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    I’d guess the photo to be from the 1960s, although the hot rods predate that. Looks like the club got together for a bit of motoring. Those strings of brightly colored plastic pennants were banned by municipal code in a city where I once resided. I still find that more amusing than troubling...
  8. tonyb

    Show us your FREE swag!

    ^^^^^ The charity thrift store business ain’t what it was. From this consumer’s perspective, the changes have been mostly for the worse. Their mission is to make money for their nonprofits, and the more the better. So stuff that might have sold for, say, 10 bucks on the floor is put online in...
  9. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    Re: those images two posts up … Realer than real, eh? I got nothing against it, provided it’s not being misrepresented. Indeed, there’s lots to like about it. Art is often idealized depictions, and always has been.
  10. tonyb

    Show us your FREE swag!

    Around here Arc (it’s just Arc now, no longer an acronym, seeing how “retarded” is come to be thought disrespectful) runs its own thrift stores. In the Seattle area Arc works with Value Village, a for-profit, which solicits donations in Arc’s name for the stuff that becomes their inventory, and...
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ I believe the world stopped turning.
  12. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    ^^^^^^^ It appears we all will be getting an education in such matters in the near future. Here’s hoping the damage we suffer while gaining that education isn’t too severe. Maybe I’m naive, but I’m less fearful of these technologies than many. There’s artifice in all our communications...
  13. tonyb

    Literature that transports you to the Golden Era

    Maybe so. Mencken was a man of his times. Characters even more prominent in his day (and ours, alas) held similarly bigoted views, and expressed them in far less cleverly cloaked terms. (Selections from his diary, which saw first light 25 years after his death, and personal letters are far more...
  14. tonyb

    Your favorite movie quotes

    “That’s my family, Kay; it’s not me.”
  15. tonyb

    Literature that transports you to the Golden Era

    ^^^^^^ I happen to have the abridged version, all in one heavy volume, published in 1963. Mencken was not a trained linguist; he had no post-secondary education at all. But he understood a thing or two about how language actually works, which isn’t how the prescriptivist prigs would have it...
  16. tonyb

    Literature that transports you to the Golden Era

    In scanning my groaning bookshelves it occurs to me that perhaps there’s something more — I dunno, immersive(?) — in reading old stories in editions dating from their period. Reading “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” in an edition from 1943 and “Archy and Mehitabel” in a 1945 printing is much the same...
  17. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    Among the more visually interesting homes I’ve ever visited were ones occupied by people of modest means. Sure, it would be nice to have crazy money to spend on stuff from DWR and RH and West Elm and all those places with new Range Rovers in the parking lots, but to my eye that stuff often...
  18. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    ^^^^^^^ I get ”design” stuff from Australia in my daily email. I realize it’s representative of only a smallish slice of Australian architecture and such, but I get the sense that the coastal areas, where the overwhelming majority of y’all live, are a lot like California. On the infrequent...
  19. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    ^^^^^^^ The King Tut exhibit that toured the U.S. in 1978 made a stop in Seattle. My sister-in-law (RIP) somehow finagled tickets to what was billed a “private showing” and saw to it one of those tickets made its way to me. The event was well-attended but not so crowded that a person couldn’t...
  20. tonyb

    Is it me or has it become harder to sell things on Classifieds or anywhere else?

    I just read a piece online about a 1958-vintage, A. Quincy Jones-designed, Eichler-built house in Concord, California. For MCM enthusiasts, that’s like invoking the names of God the Father and God the Son, while eagerly awaiting the arrival of the Holy Spirit. The homeowner, a young fellow of...

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