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  1. tonyb

    Your favorite movie quotes

    “Step aside, Butch.”
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    The times they are a changing.

    ^^^^^^^ Outhouses were still in use among the country folks during my childhood years, as were chamber pots, presumably. During a trip back that way in autumn of last year we drove past my mother’s early childhood home, which had been beyond the city limits when it was built, around the turn of...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^^ And I’m all for it.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    You know those outrageous asking prices for vintage stuff we sometimes see? It occurred to me just today that what we’re witnessing in some cases may well be money laundering. Crooks could easily enough put up online listings for merchandise which may or may not exist and then “sell” it for...
  5. tonyb

    The times they are a changing.

    ^^^^^^^ Just this afternoon at an antique mall I saw a vintage diaper pail, an enamel on steel job, that had somehow survived the decades unused. It still had the manufacturer's paper labels. The person I was with, a fellow some 24 years my junior, didn’t know what it was.
  7. tonyb

    Ghost signs

    I’d bet on the “better” Coca-Cola memorabilia holding its value through the foreseeable. It isn’t just us oldsters who want the stuff. Indeed, it’s likelier a younger person would decorate her abode with a 70-plus-year-old Coca-Cola sign. Coca-Cola is still more than happy to slap its logo on...
  8. tonyb

    Pocket heaters

    We called those things “hand warmers” in the Wisconsin winters of my early years. I can’t remember when I last saw one.
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    Ghost signs

    I’d gladly pay a C for that sign.
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    Ghost signs

    ^^^^^^^^ As with pretty much all collectible stuff, the time-worn adage “it’s worth what someone will pay” definitely applies. What intrinsic value does it have, after all? Coca-Cola stuff has a relatively large audience because the product itself is popular (and has been for well over a...
  11. tonyb

    Ghost signs

    Perhaps it’s two-sided, then? I occasionally drop in to a Coca-Cola collectors’ online group, although I have more Pepsi than Coke stuff, and not a great deal of either. Large collections are fine and good and all, but there comes a point when it turns into a museum. Just recently a quite...
  13. tonyb

    Favorite 1930's-40's Christmas decoration

    Shiny Brite glass ornaments are being reproduced in a manner quite faithful to the vintage originals. Perhaps a person better versed in such things could distinguish the new ones from the old, but I can’t. Prices seem reasonable, too.
  14. tonyb

    100 years of RADIO

    I’ve read recently that radio listenership has largely recovered from its lows during pandemic restrictions. Over here, radio is most listened to in cars, and with a big chunk of the population staying home and not commuting to work via personal automobile, the audience for radio shrunk quite a...
  15. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ I’m trying to recall when I last owned a car with “wing” windows, or vent windows or whatever else they might have been called. It must’ve been that ’65 Ford Econoline I had until 2004 or so.
  17. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^^ As I’ve said before, the reason I might be positioned to buy a “toy” car is because I don’t buy things like toy cars. Way back in the mists of times I owned a string of fun cars — an MGB, a couple Triumphs, a Corvair, several “old skool” VWs, etc., etc., etc. But those were just used...
  19. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I’m reminded of that episode in “The Grapes of Wrath” wherein Tom Joad repairs a friend’s Hudson with a rod knock by fishing a rod and bearing out of a donor car in a wrecking yard and installing it in the friend’s engine by “feel.” You figure out how to compress the rings and gauge torque with...
  20. tonyb

    The times they are a changing.

    In my world, “push chair” is a manual wheelchair, as contrasted with “power chair,” which is a motorized wheelchair. But that’s entirely beside your point. Yes, people are so plugged into their mobile communications devices that they present hazards. Traffic fatalities over here in God’s...
  21. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I’d rather gaze upon any one of innumerable vintage automobiles (well older than 1990s models, by the way), but to drive on a regular basis? Give me the latest model available. Safer, smoother, more comfortable. The only real downside of new cars, besides the price, is that they’re difficult...
  22. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Tomorrow is our National Day of Gluttony. And football. Many make a four-day weekend of it. There’s usually lots of leftovers to consume and always football to take in over the entire stretch. I went to my regular supermarket during the 9 o’clock hour this morning to fetch the ingredients for...
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    In my case, memory lapses can be attributed in part to age but in larger part, I gotta believe, to being TOO plugged in to information streams. All information becomes trivialized, and therefore forgettable, when a person allows himself to be subsumed by it, to “go down the rabbit hole,” in the...

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