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  1. 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...
  2. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

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

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ 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...
  4. tonyb

    Experimenting on foods.

    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...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    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.
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

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

    Vintage neon signs

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

    Where has everyone gone to ?

    ^^^^^^^ 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...
  10. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    ^^^^^ 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.
  11. tonyb

    Where has everyone gone to ?

    ^^^^^^ 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...
  13. tonyb

    Where has everyone gone to ?

    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.
  14. tonyb

    Where has everyone gone to ?

    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...
  15. tonyb

    Where has everyone gone to ?

    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?
  16. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    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.
  17. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

  19. tonyb

    Ghost signs

    Millersburg, Iowa, according to the site I lifted this from.
  20. tonyb

    My 1932 House

    ^^^^^^ It sounds like the house found the right stewards this time. Sometimes it seems that for every house “put back right” there are a dozen that get the original character “improved” clean out of them.
  21. tonyb

    My 1932 House

    And … What sort of work have you done to the place? Interior? Exterior? Grounds? From that one photo it appears that the paint and roof are fresh and that the windows were replaced at some point.
  22. tonyb

    My 1932 House

    ^^^^^^ Nice place. And welcome aboard. It’s good to see that your initial post is in tune with the theme of this “community.”
  23. tonyb

    What seperates "golden era" from "midcentury"?

    Which I take to mean you have “interesting” furnishings with their own histories. Very little in this place was acquired new. I suppose somebody has to buy that new stuff for there to be used stuff for the rest of us, but so much of the stuff made in recent years just ain’t sturdy enough to...

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