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  1. tonyb

    Memorable picking grounds

    This seems as good a forum as any to tell of the more, um, interesting(?) people, places, and circumstances you’ve encountered in your searches for vintage stuff. A dozen or so years ago I arranged to meet a guy in Tacoma who had listed a bookcase for sale. I met him at his home, a craftsman...
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    Vintage things that have blessedly disappeared in your lifetime

    We have threads here devoted to vintage things that have disappeared in our lifetime, vintage things that haven’t disappeared in our lifetime, and vintage things that reappeared in our lifetime. But how about those everyday things we are happy to leave in the past? While taking the trash down...
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    Show us your FREE swag!

    We like vintage stuff. We play Show & Tell with it. We show the stuff we found online and the stuff we scored at thrift stores and garage sales, etc. It’s fun. We get a sort of vicarious thrill from it, seeing that that cool old stuff still exists and is now in the care of a person who...
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    “Vegan” felt?

    I’ve been seeing ads for hats built on “vegan felt” bodies. I’ll reserve judgement until I actually handle one of the things. But I don’t anticipate being favorably impressed. The advertised prices are low, though, comparable or even lower than wool felts. If they hold up as well or better...
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    No singing!

    These guys have obviously heard me sing.
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    California fur ban

    If this matter had already been covered here (a quick search came up empty), please steer me to it. Does the California law that came into effect today, banning the sale of new animal fur products, extend to fur felt hats?
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    Dan Hermann

    I have it on good authority that Dan Hermann shuffled off, suddenly and unexpectedly, while vacationing in England. We never met in the “real world,” but stayed in fairly regular contact online. I liked him quite well, as did many others. He’ll be missed.
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    “Golden Era” modernists

    It was brought to my attention that Piet Mondrian, he of the primary colors and block forms and rigid right angles, was born on this date, March 7, in 1872. He died in New York City in 1944. His early work was much more figurative — paintings depicting windmills in his native land, bucolic...
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    It’s a safe bet that I’m not the only one here with a weakness for old paper advertising and the like that has somehow survived far longer than it was expected to. I’m generally less concerned with subject matter than artistic merit. And I’m also not hung up on condition. Indeed, I often...
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    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    Just ask anyone working in any visual medium: lighting has a HUGE effect on the look of any scene, any piece of art, anything we gaze upon. Among the first tips any decorator deserving of the title will impart is to have multiple light sources — high, low, and in between. I’ve acquired several...
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    Hazel-Atlas

    Anyone here collect Hazel-Atlas glass tableware? I’m interested in the pastel colored dishes, but I hesitate to spend much without first chatting with a person or two who has actually used it on a fairly regular basis. How resistant to breakage? Dishwasher safe? Etc.
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    Deco/moderne bus stations

    Every settlement of more than a few thousand souls had a bus depot, way back when.
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    Woolworth’s, Bakersfield

    Anyone here been to the antique mall in what used to be a Woolworth’s store in Bakersfield? I haven’t, but I’ll make a point of it next time I get within a hundred miles. It boasts its original lunch counter, still in operation, and still much as it was back in the day. Some call it ’50s...
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    That old thrift store aroma

    What is that smell? And how would you describe it? Musty, of course, but it’s something not quite that. This comes to mind because another old Life magazine arrived in today’s mail. Its aroma, somehow acquired somewhere along its 59 years of life, transports me back to the old St. Vincent de...
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    Draft card

    Look what came in today’s mail. It’s my grandfather’s draft notice. The particulars, which I’d rather not share with the world, are on the reverse. My dear old ma has, in recent years, been sending me old family mementos — photos, mostly. She suspects, I think, that I am the likeliest among...
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    Larry McMurtry

    RIP
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    WWII Casket Flag dimensions

    Standard size for a U.S. flag to be draped over a casket is now 5’ by 9.5’, or 60” by 114”. Are WWII casket flags of the same size? And, is (or was) it that such flags had no grommets, seeing how they were meant to be properly folded and presented to the deceased’s nearest survivor? According...
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    Help ID’ing a car, please

    In today’s mail was an envelope containing three old photos, including this image of my grandfather, wearing his hat cocked atop his head, as was his habit. Anyone here able to ID the model of the car, going on what little of its interior features we see here? He was partial to FoMoCo products...
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    Zealotry

    Just yesterday I refreshed my memory of the Love Israel Family, a “cult” of some local fame/infamy in Seattle. The Family numbered roughly 300 (some estimates say as many as 500) at its height, in the early 1970s. Remnants of it exist still, mostly in the northeastern part of Washington state...
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    Knockoffs?

    I’m of two minds. A close copy of a “classic” or “iconic” (I wish I could come up with a better word) piece of furniture or item of attire or wristwatch or whatever *is* a sort of theft. But then, the price of the “authentic” or “licensed” item is often such that people of modest means plainly...

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