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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Got a text message this morning from a real estate agent asking if I might entertain her offer on my house. I was sorely tempted to ask if she might entertain my offer on a half hour of her company, but I resisted. I just told her she was a pest and blocked her number.
  2. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ It occurs to me that I rarely see ashtrays in antique/vintage emporia anymore. Could it be that they just don’t sell? I have a tobacco cabinet someone left on the curb a few years ago. It’s an attractive, fairly well-made little piece of furniture. And unlike most ashtrays, it lends...
  3. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ I try not to lose sight of how fortunate I am to have what I have. It isn’t a charmed life, but it’s a helluva lot better than so many other peoples’. And I try not to downplay the role of sheer luck in these relatively happy circumstances. No one is entirely “self-made.” I sure ain’t.
  4. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ I’ve grown quite attached to people who were once in-laws, as well as members of their birth families. I have maintained regular contact with a few such shirttail relatives, one of whom resided in my ADU during his physical decline. (Brothers out-law, we called each other. He died three...
  5. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ Dang. I understand your reluctance to inquire, but I suppose just about everyone is curious as to what did people in, especially when the deceased are relatively young.
  7. tonyb

    Good Eats-Show Us Your Vintage Diners

  8. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ I found quitting easier than I had feared. In retrospect it seems that fears for my own survival pretty well tamped down the pulls of nicotine addiction.
  9. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    I quit in September of 2006, having received some sobering news from the physicians. I had about half a pack left and some Bugler (or was it Top?) rolling tobacco atop the fridge. (I just couldn’t rest if I didn’t have an emergency backup tobacco supply). I finished the 10 or so factory-mades...
  10. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    ^^^^^ I must have 20 pairs, some of which are literally falling apart, but I just don’t have the heart to send ‘em to the landfill. They’re still good for wearing while painting or doing whatever else might risk staining them all the more.
  11. tonyb

    Where has everyone gone to ?

    ^^^^^^ Sounds like you and I are contemporaries, more or less. My first car was a ‘58 Karmann Ghia, no reverse gear, 65 bucks, as I recall. A few months back I bought a second car, so as to spare the “good” one the rigors of the road as much as we reasonably can. It’s a 20-year-old Chevy...
  13. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    If it weren’t so unhealthful I’d have never quit. I loved it.
  14. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    ^^^^^ 20 Euro seems an awful lot for that. I have seen, but have yet to use, an automated machine that allows the purchaser to copy a key without the assistance of store personnel. Regular old home door locks are still the norm around here, but I wonder for how much longer, what with all these...
  15. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I’m a 10.5 in Converse sneakers and 11.5 in Vans. So a full size difference. That’s a lot.
  16. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    ^^^^^^ Do you mean regular old house door keys, such as the type to fit a Kwikset or a Schlage lock set? At the local Ace Hardware the key blanks run four bucks and they charge a couple bucks more to cut them to match.
  17. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Me neither. I’ve probably mentioned before that in looking into what might have become of an old friend/acquaintance/coworker/etc. I find that said person has either died or that our mutual acquaintances, who might cast some light on the matter, have died themselves. The generation ahead of me...
  19. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    ^^^^^^^ I ain’t seeing it, but I’d like to.
  20. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Might that be because we are given to looking at other girls?
  21. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    ^^^^^^ It don’t get much more early Space Age than that.
  22. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Which is another reminder that a person’s personal habits tell you nothing more than that about that person. Among my favorite characters are (or were) people with vices we might agree are harmful, at least to them, if not necessarily to the wider world. Tobacco use bumped off a few of them...
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    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...

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