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  1. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I fear I’d be embarrassed for myself for attending a Rolling Stones show these days. An old girlfriend and I were in the audience during the Seattle stop on the Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin tour (but Martin bowed out mid-tour and was replaced by Liza Minnelli) back in, like, 1988(?)...
  2. tonyb

    Don't Call me. And for Heaven's Sake, Don't Knock: 21st Century Taboos.

    Telephone and door-to-door soliciting are disrespectful of the receivers’ time. They are demanding of our attention, which, you know, is kinda rude, seeing how they take us away from what we’d rather be doing. I let calls from numbers I don’t recognize go to voicemail. Most auto-dialed...
  3. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I did some looking into the etymology of “nostalgia” and learned that it originally meant something akin to “homesickness” and was literally considered an illness by physicians treating soldiers who found themselves far from home and all that was familiar. (Fearing for one’s own life might have...
  4. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ That really sucks. My condolences.
  5. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Same stuff, a cursory search indicates. It went from prescription only to over-the-counter here in God’s Country in 2020. I’ve found it much more effective for relief of joint pain than oral NSAIDs. I’m guessing it’s safer, too, but I’ll go over that with the physician when I see him next week.
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … you detect gravity getting stronger with each passing year.
  8. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    Does she have a sister?
  9. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … you discover the wonders of Voltaren.
  10. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    How is it that clothes seem to shrink over time? I swear, the rags that once fit me well have gotten smaller over the years.
  11. tonyb

    drivers license

    I got my first driver’s license by sending in four box tops from my Post Toasties and a self-addressed stamped envelope.
  13. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    Nothing lasts forever. That can be read two ways.
  14. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I wish I had found this before I opened this thread. It’s a brief, entirely readable examination of nostalgia — what it is, the role in plays in our lives, what the research says is going on in our brains when we are experiencing it. It rang true to me. If there are any neuroscientists in the...
  15. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I definitely know the difference, “boss.” An 80-year-old hat that survives in a good condition (or pretty much any old item of attire) wouldn’t be in such a condition if it saw hard use over even a small sliver of that time. The old hats were of a higher quality than most of what’s been made...
  16. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I have a dresser and a writing desk left behind by a tenant in a relative’s rental property. It was old when I grabbed it, going on 50 years ago. Both pieces were factory made for the mass market and kinda dinged up, so not of much monetary value. But odds are excellent that I’ll be using both...
  17. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    That’s often but not always true. Much as I love old cars, for instance, later models are superior in most measurable ways. (They sure are expensive, though.) But in the case of most household goods the old stuff will likely still be in use long after the stuff bought at IKEA and the like will...
  19. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    The market for vintage stuff is a study in itself. It’s driven by emotion, largely. Some items fetching big money now weren’t going for much at all a few years ago, and that stuff may again be worth zip a few years hence. Or not. Some of it is predictable. Cars, for instance (with the exception...
  20. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    In most ways they are, the better ones anyway. And this coming from a guy who makes custom hats. I have many nice vintage lids, which I rarely wear, because I wish them to remain in a good condition. And I can always replicate a hat I made for myself. And only a hat aficionado would know it...
  21. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    We’ve touched on this in numerous other threads, but I see none centered on just what it is within ourselves that draws us to old stuff. I have my theories. I’ve done some cursory reading of the psychological research on the matter, much of which (but not all) I take with a largish grain of...
  22. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Indeed, we are being asked (told, really) to accept what we know to be absurdities. Authoritarianism comes at us from all directions.
  23. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    ^^^^^^ I got lots of thrift store saucers and salad plates, but dinner plates are mostly used restaurant ware, old melamine, and a stack of a dozen or so I call Fauxesta, because it kinda resembles Homer-Laughlin Fiesta but was only a buck apiece at the dollar store.

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