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  1. tonyb

    Show off your Ebay finds and purchases

    I feel almost but not quite guilty for having purchased these pins for a total of five U.S. dollars — that’s five bucks for the entire lot of 20, not five bucks each. I’ve paid considerably more than that for a single button. As you can see, some date as early as the First World War.
  2. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    And how “vintage” is that artifact?
  3. tonyb

    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    I’m looking forward to your review. Even a person as well-versed on the subject as you might learn something new, or at minimum see that long-known information in a novel context. The images it conjures in my mind, the memories it stirs, keep me turning the pages.
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    I’ve been reading Chester H. Liebs’s “Main Street to Miracle Mile, American Roadside Architecture.” On first hearing mention of this book, maybe two weeks ago, I ordered a secondhand copy. It was first published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1985 and reprinted in 1995. I have the later...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ I’ve been seeing more and more motorcycles wearing old British brand names, and bearing a strong stylistic resemblance to their vintage namesakes. If it weren’t that I am no longer bulletproof, as I was on my younger days, I’d consider buying one myself. I hear those bikes’ Britishness is...
  7. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    You could probably pick up a used copy cheap, as I did. The only color is on the cover, but there are several hundred b&w photos, and much of the text would be of interest to nuts like us.
  8. tonyb

    Summertime then and now ...

    ^^^^^ I often had the Sunday afternoon blues for much the same reason. It was the reminders (“you better get ready for school tomorrow”) and the generally subdued atmosphere the grownups imposed upon us that had it feeling like a punishment. I still harbor unpleasant memories of Mutual of...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    I was romantically involved with an “HR professional” for a couple years in the early 1990s. We met shortly after she returned from a sabbatical at an ashram in India. How she managed to walk in both worlds will always be a mystery to me. A factor in our parting ways was my laughing at her...
  10. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^^ I’m hearing echoes of an old friend who bemoaned that over the course of his reporting career he had seen the “hiring hall” become the “personnel office” become the “department of human resources.” He was a old crank, but the best kind of old crank. He had seen the collars in his town...
  11. tonyb

    “Smart” phones

    I recently acquired an Apple Watch. I can’t say I like its look, and it didn’t come cheap, but its health monitoring features (oximeter, heart rate monitor, rudimentary EKG) warranted the expenditure and its appearance isn’t all that objectionable. It’s in many ways an extension of the iPhone...
  13. tonyb

    “Smart” phones

    ^^^^^^ I at times find myself unable to recall where I read or saw or heard some piece of information just a day or two (or was it three days?) prior. Even more frustrating (and troubling) is when I remember where I picked up that information but I can’t recall what the information was. Am I...
  14. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    ^^^^^ As you mentioned a few days ago, by the time a person is diagnosed there might well have been signs of the condition for quite a while. My wife’s dad, who I knew for 25 years, had for all that time spoken of his spiritual beliefs in ways that were wasted on me. It wasn’t just my skeptical...
  15. tonyb

    Summertime then and now ...

    I’ve seen some “back to school”-themed ad campaigns in recent days, but it seems they aren’t as ubiquitous as they were in the past, when kids were away from school long enough to get used to it. Now they’re going back to a place they never really left.
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    Summertime then and now ...

    ^^^^^ Your points, all of them, are very well taken. A built environment dedicated to personal automobiles and commercial enterprise is by design unwelcoming to kids who don’t drive and have little if any money. Some longer-term residents in this nondescript suburban neighborhood (you’ve been...
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ I once heard on my voicemail a piece of a conversation I had in a restaurant the night before. That was just amusing. Less amusing was when my then-girlfriend called my office, left a message on the only voicemail we had there, and then failed to hang up the call before she told a person...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In a similar vein … It doesn’t tick me off but my curiosity is piqued by women (and it seems to be only young women who do this) carrying their smartphones in a hip pants pocket. Is this just a local phenomenon? Or is this seen elsewhere as well?
  20. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I should have noted the past tense. How long had you been married?
  21. tonyb

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    You got a lot on your plate, man. You have my respect for doing what you can for her.
  22. tonyb

    What's the worst coffee worldwide?

    They’re good enough for most purposes. Burr grinders allow for greater control, which matters for espresso machines. Too coarse a grind and the pressurized water flows through too quickly, resulting in a thin, watery shot; too fine and the water might not flow through at all, or at least too...
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Hmmm. The ad for the jeans I get, but the vaporizer or whatever that gizmo is? I was a bit taken aback when the pot device ad popped up while on this forum. I have about as little interest as I have knowledge in how these things happen. I’m left to assume that the people paying for these...

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