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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Oh yes, AAA still exists. My missus sees to it we are members, and it has come in handy on a couple of occasions. I doubt it has saved us what our membership has cost in the time we’ve had it, but c’est la vie, as we say in the trailer park. I haven’t used a paper roadmap in several years...- tonyb
- Post #7,108
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
I see it was mentioned back in 2010, so I figure it’s been long enough ago now to mention it again … Free roadmaps at the gas station. I have a couple-three of ‘em, among my collections of vintage paper ephemera. And I have one from 2020 in the same folding format, courtesy of the Arizona...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
Yeah, lots of people share your tastes in fish. My most successful fishing expeditions were going after lingcod, which isn’t really a cod but mentioning that aboard the boat will get a person nothing but rude looks. It’s a bottom fish, so catching ’em involves letting out the line until the...- tonyb
- Post #15,078
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
^^^^^^ We should all be so cursed. Salmon can be an acquired taste. I wasn’t so fond of it in my early years, but 46 years of living in Seattle and environs changed that. (I don’t discount the possibility my tastes matured at some point over that span.) We have it frequently these days, even...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
You could, if you were so inclined (as I’m not) rig up a little AM transmitter to play other audio media through it. I have a modest collection of four old radios myself, but truth be told they’re mostly just to look at.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
It appears to be AM only.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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You know you are getting old when:
I was being mildly sarcastic. I suppose I wasn’t making that clear enough. The inclination is to give the elderly doorway blockers and slow drivers in the left lane (or right lane over your way) and the like the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to obliviousness. I suppose that’s so in many...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
I’m rarely listening to radio these days. It wasn’t so long ago that I had it on almost constantly, as background noise if nothing else.- tonyb
- Post #7,093
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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You know you are getting old when:
I shall guard against becoming a cranky old person who resents what his world has become and how he doesn’t fit it anymore. That seems to be at the heart of those too willing to impart the wisdom to their years upon whichever unfortunates happen to be within earshot. And if they’re blocking the...- tonyb
- Post #7,493
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
^^^^^^ Happens to me all the time. If not for obligations getting in the way, I’d probably take a couple naps a day.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?
^^^^^ Isn’t it generally true that bedrooms in more recently built houses are larger? I can’t call myself a fan of much of the newer single-family housing I see around here. Families are on average smaller than they used to be, but you wouldn’t know that by seeing these new “communities.”...- tonyb
- Post #221
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?
Among the Old Man’s many failed ventures was a sales and auction business. It was a partnership of maybe a year’s duration. If I learned anything from that time, it was that a person needn’t pay much at all for home furnishings, provided he ain’t too picky. There’s tons (literally) of good stuff...- tonyb
- Post #218
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?
I’m looking forward to the book … “Tyme-Tested Parenting Tips from LostinTyme”- tonyb
- Post #216
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?
^^^^^ Did futons go away while I wasn’t looking? It must’ve been the 1980s when I first became aware of the things. I never objected to sleeping on one, but the folding frames were, in my experience, cheaply constructed and poorly engineered. I don’t discount the possibility that better...- tonyb
- Post #214
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?
^^^^^ Much of our stuff was hand-me-downs. This was typical among my people during my earliest years, when I still lived near extended family. Stuff just went from cousin to cousin, it seemed. When I was in my teens my mother acquired from a coworker a pretty nice coffee table and the matching...- tonyb
- Post #211
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?
^^^^^ Among the few ways in which my upbringing was fortunate was the lack of precious things in our home. I might’ve caught hell for maliciously tearing things up, but we had no “special” furnishings that I might fear using as they were intended to be used. And I doubt my parents gave a hoot...- tonyb
- Post #209
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?
It seemed “old people” style to me when I was a kid. And I’m now old people myself. Quilting, on the other hand, never went away, but I’ve been seeing more of it of late.- tonyb
- Post #207
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?
Prices on consumer electronics are a small fraction (in adjusted dollars) of what they were. Same with airfare. Housing, on the other hand … and automobiles. The days of the serviceable beater that could be had for less than a workingman’s week’s pay are long gone. As is the time when it was...- tonyb
- Post #200
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your FREE swag!
Finding good “Golden Era” stuff free or close to it isn’t an everyday kinda thing anymore. The war ended 78 years ago. (Any date denoting the end of “the Era” would be arbitrary, but the end of the war and the beginning of the “postwar” era seems as good a date as any.) But some of it is still...- tonyb
- Post #10
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your FREE swag!
And more dumpster treasures … This table I pulled from the dumpster behind the building that housed my office more than 20 years ago. It had belonged to the Starbucks on the ground floor of the building. I also grabbed two Starbucks sidewalk chairs, both of which have long since left my...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Display Case
