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  1. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    ^^^^^ Where this?
  2. tonyb

    Vintage Cars

    ^^^^^ My GT6 had wire wheels when I bought it. I was happy to swap them out for stamped steel wheels. The bolts that held the splined hubs were an exact fit for the replacements, so it was an easy swap. I sold the wire wheels and splined hubs and knockoffs to a guy restoring his car.
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A new name for a phenomenon as old as the species itself. A fellow of some celebrity in circles I occasionally run in (our paths had crossed maybe half a dozen times) up and died here recently. The fond remembrances flowed freely for a few days, and rightly so, seeing how he was accomplished...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I fear we’ll all just have to get used to it, as I think it unlikely the behavior will change. The best we can hope for is that it becomes unacceptable in public indoor spaces. I’m holding out limited hope for that.
  5. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    ^^^^^^ I may at some point look into how birds might be attracted to it, then. A couple-three years ago a pair of robins built a nest atop that beam this thing is hanging from, but the squirrels had them moving on before the nest became active. So I suppose that in birdhouses as in human houses...
  7. tonyb

    Vintage Cars

    ^^^^^^ A higher-end marque, then, if this example is representative of the brand’s overall offerings?
  8. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    A better shot.
  9. tonyb

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    What is this? Birdhouses? Five bucks at a garage sale last Saturday. Hung it from an existing hook, where it’s unlikely anyone will walk into it.
  10. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    A ‘64 Lincoln Continental under the canopy of the faux gas station at the Motel Eldorado in the Czech Republic, where the theme is 1950s/‘60s Americana. If it were here in God’s Country I’d avoid it, seeing how it’s obviously not the Real Deal. But I’m glad it exists where it does. Judging from...
  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    It’s fortunate, then, for the more poetic memoirists living along the Utah/Arizona border that “five” rhymes with “wives.” One of the rules a visual artist learns and then learns to disregard is that arrangements in odd numbers are generally received more favorably than arrangements in even...
  13. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I fear that train left the station long ago. It was within our memory when lawyers considered such crass commercialism beneath the dignity of the profession. That seems almost quaint now. And now health care providers are getting into the act in a big way, maybe not the individual providers...
  14. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    There’s a slew of insurance companies over here in God’s Country aggressively marketing a type of life insurance that might more accurately be called funeral insurance. “Final expenses,” they call it, somewhat euphemistically, and surely you don’t wish to burden your survivors with that now, do...
  15. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … an advertisement here on the FL is for a local undertaker’s enterprise.
  16. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    There was a, I dunno, call it “intensity” in our early years, when everything was novel and needs and desires were more urgent. That’s at the heart of the nostalgic impulse, I gotta think. We like the reminders of our world as it was (or we imagined it was) when it was new to us.
  17. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    That’s it in a nutshell.
  19. tonyb

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

    ^^^^^ I was raised by heathens, so I wasn’t introduced to such social niceties until I was long out of the nest. The lovely missus sees to it we always have an assortment of general purpose cards (not event-specific, in other words), nice ones, to send as thank-you’s or condolences or...
  20. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    And the major manufacturers, who buy sweatbands by the tens of thousands, can get the same high quality product for a whole lot less than that, but still they go with the reconstituted “leather.” I have a stack of partially completed hats purchased by another hat maker a decade or more ago at...
  21. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    Many hats of recent manufacture have sweatbands made from such “leather.” I suppose it saves the manufacturers a couple bucks per unit. Thing is, though, true roan leather sweatbands aren’t all that costly when purchased in bulk, but still the major players in the industry too often go the cheap...
  22. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    My Dear Old Ma rarely utters “taboo” words, but she does use the PG-13 versions — “heck,” “darn it,” etc. The Old Man, on the other hand, seemed pathologically incapable of getting more than a sentence or two into one of his boneheaded monologues (an absence of subject matter knowledge was no...
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Yeah, me too. It’s mostly used as an intensifier, but I find that it usually weakens an argument.. On the other hand, the next time I hear someone offer trite commentary along the lines of “If he had something of value to offer he wouldn’t resort to swearing” I’ll just say, “yeah, yeah, yeah...

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