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  1. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    I took in the Denver Postcard and Paper Show this afternoon. It was an odd scene — a windowless hotel meeting room, maybe 2,000 square feet, with folding tables on which were boxes full of postcards and magazines and newspapers and posters and matchbooks et cetera. Most of it was overpriced, but...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I took a late lunch with a friend this afternoon, followed by a visit to a nearby “antique” mall. As with most such emporia, the largest part of the goods on offer there are not truly antique but “vintage,” meaning not of recent issue but not yet a century old. Had I not experienced such scenes...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    She was close to perfect as Martha, aka “L.A. Joan,” the groupie wannabe in “Nashville,” Robert Altman’s 1975 masterpiece. Her interactions with Keenan Wynn, playing her character’s uncle, are as clear an expose of immaturity and superficiality as I recall ever seeing on film. She’s come to...
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    Good Eats-Show Us Your Vintage Diners

    Zep Diner in Los Angeles. Among the menu offerings was the Hinden-Burger.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Bob Newhart
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ It appears you know what you need to know to do what you wish to do with digital communications technologies. My penmanship sucks, and that’s fine by me. It’s not that I wouldn’t wish prettier handwriting. (There is something special in a personal communication in one’s own hand.) But...
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    History of Industrial Design RISD

    If, like me, you have a more than passing interest in industrial design, I can hip you to a semester-long series of lectures on that topic from Matthew Bird, an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design. Bird made the videos in 2020, when the pandemic restrictions were at their most...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ WordPerfect, anyone? It’s among the reasons I am rarely among the early adopters. The line used to be that your new computer was outdated about 10 minutes after you took it out of the box it came in. It’s somewhat akin to the early age of the automobile, when it had to exist alongside...
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    Amazon delivery gone wrong

    Some time back the neighbors to the right got my Amazon packages and I got theirs. More recently my stuff was left at the porch of the neighbor to the left. Unlike your unfortunate situation, mine were easy fixes.
  11. tonyb

    Amazon delivery gone wrong

    The OP’s photos are the first I’ve seen in recent years an Amazon delivery made in something other than a vehicle in Amazon livery. (Not that it’s a large sample size.) Am I to take it that Amazon occasionally is left to provide contractors with vehicles from, in this case, Ryder?
  13. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … on accepting an invitation to an activity involving a walk of more than a quarter mile or so, you carefully consider what shoes to wear.
  14. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    All of the above.
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My question — the obvious question — when I read “will run” or “only needs a battery,“ is, “well, then, why don’t you spend a few bucks or expend a little effort yourself to make it run?” Adding, “you’d stand to sell it for a higher price that way.” Don’t expect an honest answer to such a...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Advertisements for thoroughly used motor vehicles with wording such as “ran fine when we parked it” or “all it needs is a battery.”
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A person might think that the hoses and such on a vacuum cleaner marketed as the “Pet Hair Eraser” wouldn’t so easily get clogged with pet hair. I paid something like 300 bucks for this thing — a canister type, so that I can vacuum under beds and other heavy furniture. I spent at least an hour...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    An acquaintance (hard to call her a friend) declawed her cats. This was a couple decades back. I looked into the practice and determined that it was, at best, all for the convenience of the humans in the house and, at worst, downright cruel. Our last cat (RIP) left lasting evidence of her...
  20. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Yesterday, upon seeing a neighbor’s well-used Honda Odyssey minivan up on jack stands with its wheels off on the street in front of his house, I was again reminded of how unusual a sight that is these days. Back half a century ago, when cars were simpler and municipalities hadn’t gotten around...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Yesterday And true vintage sacks of that type fetch real money these days. I was given a few burlap coffee sacks at a garage sale a few weeks back (I bought a couple-three other items and the sale was drawing down and the seller just wanted rid of them). I paid something like eight bucks for a...
  22. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^ I can’t recall ever seeing that stuff. But then, it’s not that I’ve had so many opportunities to, either.
  23. tonyb

    My new old furniture: how old?

    Further communications with Thonet have left me all the more impressed with the company. I haven’t put so much as a nickel in their accounts yet they take the time and trouble to help me identify this old chair. They ask that I not disclose the details of our communications, so I won’t.
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