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  1. tonyb

    Your favorite movie quotes

    “Can’t you see it, Everett? Them sireens did this to Pete. They loved him up and turned him into a horny toad!”
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    Ghost signs

    Salida, Colorado
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    That sounds downright hazardous to the health of more than the truck’s springs.
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ There’s something to be said for that, although it’s a far easier sell for someone like me, who is well past the age of conscription. It might go a long way toward getting us out of our respective “silos.” It might be where stereotypes go to die, or at least get weakened.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    During my high school years the family across the street had a wood- and coal-burning furnace. In later years (but none recently) my since-deceased brother heated his 1908-built house primarily with a wood- and coal-burning Godin stove. But the soft, fast-burning coal out that way left a...
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    Vintage things that have blessedly disappeared in your lifetime

    ^^^^^^^ You’d want a steel can for such purposes. And for oily rags. Friends and relatives worked as garbage men going back 50 years and more ago, when we were all still young and capable of doing what garbage men had to do back then, before the wheeled plastic bin became the standard, which...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Another symptom of advancing years, eh? If it happened more than a few years ago it may as well be 30.
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    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    ^^^^^^ I heard pretty much the same thing said about “dirty hippies” 50-plus years ago.
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    Vintage things that have blessedly disappeared in your lifetime

    I have a few pieces of vintage luggage — a couple of trunks, suitcases, a skate case, etc. They look cool and they serve practical functions — as a console table behind a couch, a coffee table, a TV stand, and storage of bedding and periodicals and whatnot. But for actual use while on the road...
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    Vintage things that have blessedly disappeared in your lifetime

    My mom found a cut-rate dentist in some small town a half hour drive or more away from our home in Madison. (Dental insurance? Never heard of such a thing.) A sign on the wall in the waiting room read “Painless Dentist Upstairs,” with a hand with the index finger pointing upwards. It was a...
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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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    You know you are getting old when:

    I’ve had a couple of ablations. The procedure ain’t exactly a walk in the park, but it’s not all that bad, either, and kind of interesting in its way. It’s certainly uncomfortable, but not worse than most dental procedures. Such is my experience, anyway. I’ve established a rapport with my...
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    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    A fellow I knew going back 30 years or so was happily predicting a time when technology would give us virtual sex partners indistinguishable from actual living, breathing humans. It would hardly be love-making, I offered, but rather just a more technologically sophisticated form of pornography...
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    I don't understand it??? Is this "Temu" Outfit being run by (gasp) Aliens?

    It seemed dodgy to me from the git. Reviews are, um, mixed. At best. I don’t know much about the workings of online commerce but my self-preservation instincts keep me from clicking on Temu.
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    Vintage neon signs

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    Vintage neon signs

    I can’t possibly be the only one thinking what I’m thinking about this sign. That it’s beckoning patrons to a bathhouse makes it all the richer.
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    Show off your Ebay finds and purchases

    Another addition to my collection of old license plates. I just learned that the 6 by 12 inch plate didn’t become the nationwide standard here in God’s Country until 1956. The plate below, dating to 1955, measures about 5-1/4 by 13-1/2 inches. I have a 1928 Kansas plate measuring 5-1/4 by 14-1/2.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    ^^^^^^ I just looked it up on YouTube. “If you’re not Dennis Day, how do you know I’m Jack Benny?” ”Who else would buy one gallon of gas?”
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Not really trivial … Blocking intersections. It not only impedes traffic flow, it can also delay emergency response. And on that note … Lights and sirens? Get the eff outta the way! Seconds count.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    This one, maybe?

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