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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    This arrived in today’s mail. Seven years to pay for furniture that might not last that long? I’ve heard it said that if people were looking for the answer as to why they’re always barely scraping by, they might look in the driveway and/or the garage, where they keep two late-model cars they...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ A friend had a Samurai. I kinda liked it. In the years since they were last sold in the U.S. market they’ve attracted something of a cult following. I have no idea how capable they are as off-road vehicles, but they sure do look the part. Those microcars make up a big part of the Japanese...
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Looked it up. It’s a Suzuki Cappuccino, made for the domestic Japanese market and to meet “Kei” car standards for sub-sub-compacts. Produced 1991 thru ’98 model years. A 657 cc three-cylinder DOHC 12-valve turbocharged engine. Puts out 65 hp. That’s plenty for a car that weighs 1500 lbs...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Red-blooded American male of his time as I am, I’ve often lusted after sexy automobiles, and had on a few occasions indulged the urge, back in my earlier years, when my impulse control was still underdeveloped. Maybe it was because I did live the single young man’s lifestyle when I was a...
  5. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    It’s now in a bedroom, over an almost-antique brass bed. If it weren’t over such an obstacle (such as a dining table, as it was designed to be), a person taller than 6’3” or so might bang his or her head on it. And that’s at its present extension. It can be lowered. As best I can tell, this...
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    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    What with the “industrial” interior design trend we’ve witnessed in recent years, I can easily envision salvaged warehouse lighting and the like fetching big money.
  8. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    Was the razing of the building much of a loss? Never been to IND myself, so I couldn’t say. But if those fixtures are an indication, it likely had something to recommend it. Good to see that at least that much of it survives. I’ve mentioned before how I was part of a crew c.1980 that cleared...
  9. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    As long as I’m in a circa-1960 groove … This basic style was popular for just a few years in the late-’50s/early-’60s. I wish there was a generally agreed name for it. I’ve heard “rocket lamp” once or twice, but that’s about it.
  10. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    This one is something of a frankenfixture. It started life as one of those pull-down dining room fixtures circa 1960(?). The original glass shade and pull-down handle were missing when it was acquired by the guy I bought it from. He fitted it with its current shade and attendant hardware, etc.
  11. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    I’m working on it.
  13. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    ^^^^^ In my world it was … “And if George Washington hadn’t died he’d still be alive today.”
  14. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    ^^^^^ Quite nice. I’m trying to figure out how the glass fits into the metal ceiling fixture. In the “before” it appears that the top of the glass protrudes well beyond what we’re seeing in the “after.” Does it extend into the metal? Or was it cut down? Or what appears in the “before” photos to...
  15. tonyb

    Cast iron

    Just picked up these ’60s(?)-vintage Copco enameled iron pots and pans. Very heavy, which is kinda the point.
  16. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    It’s an impressive display all around, decojoe67. It’s people like you who keep this place vital and steer it back to its “Golden Era” focus.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

  19. tonyb

    Bridge Collapse in Frick Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

    ^^^^^ A minor miracle, that.
  20. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    “Sunday driver” The phrase was frequently heard in my early years in the Upper Midwest, when it was still common to take leisurely journeys by motorcar through the countryside, mostly for its own recreational value, often with no particular destination in mind, and with no urgency to get...
  21. tonyb

    Missing Members

    However, wasn’t it relatively recently that the ”like” feature was added, and that most of that person’s posts predated it?
  22. tonyb

    Missing Members

    I’m probably as guilty as anyone of stretching the “era” beyond the 1940s. But in defense of that I note that so much of what is commonly thought postwar modernism predates the war, by a couple decades in some cases. The Bauhaus, the “crucible of modernism,” opened in 1919. Almost all the...
  23. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

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