Recent content by tonyb

The cigarette pushers got heavily into motor sports (and sports in general) after the ban on television ads, because so many of those sporting events were televised and that got their brand names in front of billions of eyes. The ads were not only on the vehicles and the attire of the various...

… your wife suggests you see a gerentologist, and she isn’t joking.

^^^^^ Or a UHF signal or two, where you could take in whatever programming the station operators got on the cheap. I don’t predate television, but I clearly remember when a color TV was a BFD, and when such a magnificent thing would set a working man back at least a month’s pay. So they were...

A fellow (deceased nearly a decade ago) was a flawed character in many ways, but the mofo could cook. His basic take on beef was that the less costly cuts were generally tougher but more flavorful if cooked properly. That’s the one thing I most miss about him — picking his brain for cooking...

I laugh because it’s either that or cry. Among the reasons I have my current cell provider is their US-based, actual live human customer service. On the couple-three occasions I’ve availed myself of that service my “issues” were addressed quickly and satisfactorily.

^^^^^^ Yeah, that’s gotta be annoying.

Seattle. The sign, likely refurbished more than once if not outright duplicated, has been there forever.

^^^^^^^ My work doesn’t necessarily take me away from home (although it sometimes does), so I have fewer reasons to get properly turned out for public consumption. And I already have more vintage attire and furniture and housewares and whatnot than I have actual need for, so I’m not looking to...

^^^^^ That’s about $60K today, in inflation adjusted dollars. There’s nothing all that special about most $60,000 cars today, whereas a $5,600 car was quite a high-end ride in 1961.

^^^^^^ Sounds like a chore indeed. I suppose that in some cases the motives are financial — which is kinda sleazy but at least it’s understandable. But the older I get the more I have just come to accept that some people enjoy being ****s. It has been my ill fortune to have known such...

Interesting, that. What is it that keeps them from joining up? Please indulge this marginally (at best) tech-literate old man who has heard of bots and phony profiles and the like but doesn’t really understand much of that.

My experience says otherwise. Among my swag is quite an assortment of vintage tableware and cookware — think Homer Laughlin Fiesta and Cathrineholm enamel on steel pots and pans. The overwhelming majority of people in those online “communities” of aficionados are women, and many have pieces they...

Visions of a family gathered at a hospital cafeteria while their loved one is slipping away up on the seventh floor. Any mention of heroic lifesaving measures? Too late for that? No?

FWIW, I’ve been over Blewett Pass many times and I can attest that the Top-o’-the-Hill Tavern is long gone. The nearest commercial structure these days is several miles downhill from the summit.