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Show us your FREE swag!
Oh yes! Thanks for the reminder. My lovely missus and I lived for a spell at an apartment complex immediately adjacent to a state college. At the conclusion of each academic term the dumpsters were as you described. I still have a plant stand I pulled from a dumpster there all those years ago.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your FREE swag!
That table and these chairs I got free fairly recently from a restaurant operator who determined they were just in his way. He had his online ad up for a while, reducing the asking price in steps, eventually dropping it down to zero. This is commercial-duty stuff. I’m happy to have it, and a...- tonyb
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Show us your FREE swag!
^^^^^^ In our late teen years my since-deceased brother and I had a junk-hauling enterprise. We placed an ad in our local community newspaper and picked up a few bucks clearing out the stuff people wanted out of their lives. We had a couple of old Ford trucks — a 1950 F1 and a ‘52 (I think)...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your FREE swag!
Some people just want stuff out of their lives, for whatever reason. (Divorce, death in the family, it no longer suits their style, they never liked it in the first place, etc.) And whatever money they might get for it isn’t worth haggling over, not for them, anyway. I’ve been there myself...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your FREE swag!
We like vintage stuff. We play Show & Tell with it. We show the stuff we found online and the stuff we scored at thrift stores and garage sales, etc. It’s fun. We get a sort of vicarious thrill from it, seeing that that cool old stuff still exists and is now in the care of a person who...- tonyb
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
I’ve let lapse subscriptions to print publications because the writing, mostly by staff, is just so poor. One magazine in particular was sold by its founders to a group that publishes several special interest magazines. It appears they keep costs down by not paying good writers who know their...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
This is among the reasons I don’t much object to ChatGPT. It’s not just advertising, either. (If only it were.) So much of what I read online and in print is so poorly written that anything AI produces could hardly be worse.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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You know you are getting old when:
^^^^^ I learned,, way back in my bearded days, to use heavy equipment on that heavy timber. Scissors and electric razors just wouldn’t do. Electric clippers made much shorter work of it. It’s been a few decades since I let it grow out. Where once it was various shades of reds and browns now it...- tonyb
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Summertime then and now ...
Around here the kids are in school through almost the end of June and are back by the middle of August. They get longer breaks throughout the school year than what was the norm generations back. Still, I wouldn’t trade what we had for today’s schedule.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Summertime then and now ...
I saw a TV commercial a few minutes ago advertising “back to school” swag from Walmart. It’s July 11. Let me repeat that. It’s July 11.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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You know you are getting old when:
I attribute this phenomenon not entirely to creeping decrepitude. Too easy an access to information can trivialize information in general. It can become just so much clutter, such that a more important matter gets lost in the pile, if you let it.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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You know you are getting old when:
Ringo Starr turned 83 today. Doc Severinsen turned 96.- tonyb
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The shed got a new roof
I still climb ladders, but whenever I do I remain mindful of the hazards. I generally take it one rung at a time, in both directions. I’ve increasingly hired out tasks I might once have tackled myself. And, truth be told, I should have gotten into that habit earlier. There are things to know...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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My Vintage Radio Collection
And worth preserving for that reason alone. “Interesting historical sets” indeed.- tonyb
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- Forum: The Display Case
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My Vintage Radio Collection
^^^^^ As I’ve mentioned before, only two of my four old radios actually work, and I don’t use those because they haven’t been “gone through.” But they don’t take up much space and they’re nice eye candy and they are being preserved. As to cabinet restoration … Yeah, that’s a separate set of...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Display Case
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My Vintage Radio Collection
I’m impressed. It’s great to see these things restored and preserved.- tonyb
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You know you are getting old when:
Sorry we missed your birthday. Happy belated!- tonyb
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage posters and other paper ephemera
This is the only image of the bus in Commander Cody livery I could find. Blurry, but it’s there. I’ve read that the late George Frayne, aka Commander Cody, bought the bus from Willie Nelson, but I found but one source for that, which itself appears anything but unimpeachable, so take it with a...- tonyb
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- Forum: The Display Case
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
I too often find myself dealing with challenging characters who assume my outward appearance indicates I share their perspectives on social and political matters. It’s not that there isn’t some overlap (which is true of pretty every person you’ll likely ever get to know on a level beyond the...- tonyb
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