Recent content by tonyb

^^^^^^ 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.

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

^^^^^^ 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.

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.

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

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...