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  1. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    Found this in a since-defunct vintage shop at least 10 years ago. I had long known of Hardeman (the building that had been its manufacturing plant still stands), but prior to coming across this I hadn’t known of their retail stores.
  2. tonyb

    Newest Member of the Family!

    Love ’em while you still got ’em. Our Sandy had neurological, orthopedic, and renal problems and had been in declining health for well more than a year. Toward the end he was mostly blind, mostly deaf, and often confused. But he had little pain, and my take on it was that for as long as I...
  3. tonyb

    Newest Member of the Family!

    Ain’t nothing like a dog. We said goodbye to one of our mutts just last week. I’m not at all embarrassed to tell how I cry over the loss. He, like all our pets, was a “rescue” of entirely uncertain parentage. And the sweetest little guy ever.
  4. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    This one, a Calder design for Braniff, 1973, isn’t hard to procure online, if you feel up to dropping a couple hundred bucks, which I wasn’t when I bought this one a few years back, for something like $30, as I recall. On the back is a sticker identifying it as a prize at a Braniff employees’...
  5. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    I don’t know that this is the sole survivor, but it’s the only one I’ve ever seen. The paperback book accompanying the exhibit isn’t all that scarce (I happen to have a copy myself), but not so the poster. Pardon the reflection. EDIT: Just looked online. Found another example for the first...
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Six decades have passed, so it isn’t that the changes occurred overnight, but we of the papist persuasion clearly recall, perhaps more than most, when Kennedy’s Roman Catholicism was considered disqualifying by many. I was not as thoroughly steeped in it as our man Harp. I attended the public...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    As we say here in the low-rent district, no s**t. To be turned into a caricature is something some of us will rarely if ever experience. And while two wrongs have never made a right, there can be some educational and perhaps transformative value (it is hoped) in getting a dose of one’s own...
  9. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    Yeah, I can dig that. It would be almost heartbreaking to see one ceiling fixture in particular here ripped out and thrown away.
  10. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I remember being totally wrapped up in the sad event and its aftermath. I was a student at Centennial Elementary School in Lawrence, Kansas at the time. It seemed that my entire world, small as it was, was equally focused on it. It was about as close to a deification as I’ve ever witnessed.
  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    When I was an elementary school age kid, living in the Upper Midwest, our “ethnic” origins (I don’t recall it ever being called that, though) were referred to as “nationalities.” Most of us were of Northern European extraction, going back, in most cases, not much more than two or three...
  13. tonyb

    What Do You Wear In Really Cold Weather?

    ^^^^^ Didn’t y’all have previously unheard of high temps there this past summer, as did Seattle and environs? Like, 108F?
  14. tonyb

    What Do You Wear In Really Cold Weather?

    When it’s REALLY cold I wear my centrally heated house as much as I can. I was born in Wisconsin and spent most of my first dozen or so years there. It got RFC there in the winter. I’ve experienced superficial frostbite, not firsthand so much as firstear, and nose. It’s a burning sensation. I...
  15. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    By the way, I’d love to see your place. You’ve obviously put much thought into it. When was it built? How long have you been living there?
  16. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    That last one looks to be an M.G. Wheeler SightLight, a Leroy Doane design. I might be wrong. There’s nothing new about industrial designs “inspired” by others.
  17. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    In my teens I was in a youth organization sponsored in part by the Japanese American Citizens League. Many of the kids had parents and grandparents who were “relocated” during WWII from the West Coast to what amounted to concentration camps in the interior. No, it wasn’t at all akin to the...
  19. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Skosh, which is similar to smidge, although I’ve usually heard skosh used in reference to spatial measures and smidge to recipe amounts, but not exclusively.
  20. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Kibosh Not truly disappeared, but it’s becoming less common.
  21. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    “Adam’s off ox” I’m tempted to use the phrase myself, because it is kinda poetic, on account of its assonance, mostly, but I fear it would come across as affected coming from me, seeing how I’m not truly a Southerner (I can’t recall ever hearing anyone BUT a Southerner make the utterance), and...
  22. tonyb

    Cigar/pipe table?

    Good to know.
  23. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    ^^^^ Folk etymologies being what they are, it’s difficult to know for certain just how the phrase came into being. I’ve read that it was popular among black youngsters before gaining traction in the wider culture. For the benefit of the few among us who don’t already know, an L and a 7 placed...

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