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You know you are getting old when:
… you discover the wonders of Voltaren.- tonyb
- Post #7,795
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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.- tonyb
- Post #25
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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.- tonyb
- Post #7
- Forum: The Display Case
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Why vintage?
Nothing lasts forever. That can be read two ways.- tonyb
- Post #22
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- tonyb
- Post #18
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- tonyb
- Post #16
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- tonyb
- Post #13
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- tonyb
- Post #12
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- tonyb
- Post #8
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- tonyb
- Post #7
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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.- tonyb
- Post #7,790
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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.- tonyb
- Post #5,589
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
I use mostly thrift store plates and platters as saucers under potted plants. No good reason not to.- tonyb
- Post #5,586
- Forum: The Display Case
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
As to changing definitions … “Hook up” used to have a somewhat more expansive definition. It meant a meeting of pretty much any sort — social, business, whatever. Now I see and hear it used exclusively in reference to sexual encounters. So I no longer ask friends if they wish to hook up over...- tonyb
- Post #15,414
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Ghost signs
More Lynne McCowin-restored signs in Ellensburg, Washington …- tonyb
- Post #531
- Forum: The Golden Era
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
I’m left supposing you have neither voicemail nor caller ID. I get so many phone solicitations that I rarely answer calls if I don’t recognize the caller’s name and/or number. My voicemail “greeting” tells the caller exactly that, along with my assurance that if they have business with me and...- tonyb
- Post #15,412
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Old gas stations
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- Post #4,634
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Old gas stations
This famous image was created by Ed Ruscha in 1966. He made it in an edition of 50 and has produced other variations on it since. Three years ago I posted in this thread one of those variations, which my source indicated was from 1963, but other, apparently more reliable, sources say that was in...- tonyb
- Post #4,632
- Forum: The Golden Era
