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  1. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    A 1939 Wyoming road map …
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    To paraphrase Edward, if your life might be improved by such devices, they may as well be better rather than worse looking. I already own the cane I hope I won’t be needing anytime soon. It’s a simple wooden crook, which to my eye is far better looking than those aluminum things, and much more...
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    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    I’m on the email list for an outfit called Authentic Vintage Posters, but I’ve never bought a thing from them and the chances that I will are quite remote. It’s not that I have anything against them (I haven’t unsubscribed, after all), it’s just that they typically handle stuff priced well...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ When did I last hear “television set” in regular conversation? I have some vague recollection of hearing “radio set,” but by the time I came along the “set” part had mostly fallen out of use. But I suppose that television was still something of a novelty at that point. So “the neighbors...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It appears that no one has yet mentioned … Telephone chairs. They were a common sight in my early years. I looked online and saw old ones on offer on Etsy and eBay. But I see no indication that new ones are being made. They truly are obsolete, except as curiosities.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I found it. I had to soak it in water and use a pair of pliers to loosen the blades enough to free them.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    While I’m at it … “Money clip” New ones can still be had, but I can’t recall when I last saw one in use. I was bestowed with one about 30 years ago. It featured a facsimile of my business card and a small knife blade, as well as the clip for holding folding money. It may still be hiding in...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    “Billfold” It hasn’t disappeared entirely, and I doubt it will in what remains of my lifetime. But I don’t hear it nearly so often as I once did. And I suspect I’ll be hearing it less and less, more or less commensurate with the decline in the use of paper currency. My bank pretty much...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^ I’ve been trying, not entirely successfully, to unlearn the ways of an impulsive stepfather that rubbed off on me. I shudder at the memories. Seriously, he engaged in behaviors that could have resulted in death, and nearly did on one notable occasion. My brother was lucky to survive the...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Rubber stamps. A few months back I had a local outfit make three rubber stamps for my business — one with the street address, one asking to handle with care, and the other with my company logo. They were much less costly than stickers would have been, let alone proprietary packaging. And what...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ Had our parents known what my brother and friend and I, prepubescents all at that time, were doing with .22s when they were at work and we were at our after-school leisure, they would have skinned us alive. I strongly argue against what has come to be called “helicopter parenting.” Kids...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I don’t object to fur garments and trimmings. (Which is not to say that I’d approve of the killing of endangered or threatened species, unless one was contemplating me for his dinner.) But those fox head stoles always gave me the creeps. I can’t recall seeing one in recent decades, and I hope...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ There’s no discounting the role of luck. I’ve known more than a few people who had far healthier lifestyles than mine but died relatively young anyway.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Got a call last night from a fellow I hadn’t heard from in several months or a year or more. He is in my contact list, so my iPhone told me it was him when the call came in. I took a deep breath before answering. Just as I feared, he called to tell me that another old friend had died. Still...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^^^ I read constantly these days, but mostly in short spurts. Rarely do I devote more than a few minutes at a stretch to any particular reading. I might attribute it in part to living in this online age, this era of so much information being so readily accessible to curious people that we...
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    Furniture id

    I’d think that chairs like those beg for breathing room. They have lots of visual weight. Real statement makers. I dig ‘em, but I wouldn’t have room for them here. They would have been great in a place we moved out of a few years back. It had a larger living room.
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    Furniture id

    Can’t say I can ID it, but I can say I dig it. Is it yours? Or are you considering making it yours?
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ It’s another example of what is commonly called “snake oil” over here in God’s Country. Commercial television is awash in advertisements for concoctions that promise to boost your memory or your energy or your little captain.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I still get checks a couple-three times per month on average — some for business, some for personal matters. I deposit them with my iPhone, using the bank’s app. Takes maybe a minute, although sometimes it asks me to take the photos two or three times before it accepts them. Beats driving to the...

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