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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Tone is important. Rather than saying “f*** off” to a customer, try saying “how might we help you f*** off?” That way the customer has AGENCY in the outcome.
  2. tonyb

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That expression may make a comeback, what with those “half baths” (little rooms with a toilet and a sink but no shower or tub) now being called “powder rooms” by real estate agents everywhere. In the 1970s and ’80s a person might have been forgiven for thinking the “powder” was a reference to...
  3. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    Hey decojoe67, how many radios you got? I always enjoy seeing your posts in this thread.
  4. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    These may be the sole surviving examples. For that reason alone they’re precious, if not in any monetary way.
  5. tonyb

    Cigar/pipe table?

    It’s a handsome piece of furniture. Had I come across it (at a reasonable price), I would have snapped it up, too.
  7. tonyb

    Cigar/pipe table?

    This one was left for the taking on East Colfax Avenue a few years back. It’s not valuable, really, being of fairly recent manufacture and all.
  8. tonyb

    Some of my old electric fans

    While I can’t recall accounts of anyone in my circles actually losing digits (or at least suffering serious injury) to the types of electric fans we had way back when, it’s not such a stretch to imagine it happening. As with all vintage electrical gizmos, the old wiring itself may present a...
  9. tonyb

    When Travel was Romantic

    Nice as the A380 is, it’s been something of a flop for Airbus. Production of the plane is coming to an end soon. Boeing opted (wisely, as it appears in retrospect) against developing a competing super-jumbo. Its much more successful 747, the “Queen of the Skies,” which has been in production...
  10. tonyb

    When Travel was Romantic

    ^^^^^ Most of us here are of sufficient seniority to remember when air travel was a BFD, the province of the well-heeled. The rest of us traveled by air only under extreme circumstances, and got duded-up for the occasion — coat and tie and shined-up shoes. “Airbus” is a fitting name for that...
  11. tonyb

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    Leave this lamp on for a few hours and the old Westclox “Spur” alarm clock on the shelf next to it will actually remember that it glows in the dark! (For a matter of seconds.)
  13. tonyb

    When Travel was Romantic

    Returned a few hours ago from a 3,200 mile, week-long journey by motorcar (in the parlance of the Era) from the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies to the sodden shores of Puget Sound and back again, to participate in a proper send-off to one of our own, who shuffled off a couple months back. A...
  14. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ I suppose it was the far stricter laws regarding sales of smokes to minors that pretty well ended cigarette vending machines.
  15. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Wasn’t so uncommon in my world, either. Hell, every kid who wanted to buy cigarettes could find some clerk willing to sell ’em, often as not suggesting to the kid that he was getting ’em for his dad, right?
  16. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    Early- to mid-’50s, is my guess, what with the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser and the style of the cars. This example is faded and has water damage. Better examples go for much more than I’d ever pay, unless through some miracle I came into a pile of money. I bought it, framed, a decade or more ago...
  17. tonyb

    Show us your lighters

    ^^^^^ I gave up tobacco altogether 15 years ago. Prior to that I had been a two-plus pack a day cigarette fiend for 30-plus years. I puffed on a pipe a few times way back when, and smoked maybe a dozen cigars. Such is the persistence of nicotine addiction that even now I occasionally get an...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Among the many reasons I don’t live in a “covenant protected” neighborhood. We have blessedly few neighborhood-improver types around here. “Live and let” is the overall spirit of our little nondescript working-class subdivision (even if most working-class people couldn’t afford to buy in these...
  20. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    ^^^^^ It appears the circus got its start in ’43, and survived on-again, off-again into the ’80s. I get the sense it was a low-budget operation when it had any budget at all. The age of the circus as we knew it here in America, with large exotic animals and all, is in the past.
  21. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    About when was that? I’m trying to nail down the year of this one. The day of the week and date narrow it down some. But a quick search into the history of the circus doesn’t provide much clarification.
  22. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    A cheaply produced advertising poster. I’ve seen other examples of it with different particulars as to date and location. It’s on very thin paper, so thin that it was a challenge to get it in the frame without tearing it more than it already is.
  23. tonyb

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    It’s a safe bet that I’m not the only one here with a weakness for old paper advertising and the like that has somehow survived far longer than it was expected to. I’m generally less concerned with subject matter than artistic merit. And I’m also not hung up on condition. Indeed, I often...

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