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    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    Absurdité!
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    Vintage trains

    There's something very Rube Goldberg-ish about those locomotives. Most of my uncles and a few other relatives on my mother's side worked for the railroad and none of them ever suggested they say anything romantic about any aspect of it. For many of those years and those are the years I...
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    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    Remember that much of what you saw in movies was filmed in a studio or studio backlot. It isn't fantasy by any means and backlots (that is, outdoor sets) are still being built. They are representative of what you might see in a town somewhere, though, and as such, usually have a mish-mash of...
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    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    No offense but "humble but incredibly Golden Era with a lot of Art Deco details" doesn't make sense to me, although I understand what you're trying to say, I think. The main street in my hometown that I frequently refer to, all of four or five blocks long, had some nicely constructed buildings...
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    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    Fair enough but they're nice when it's raining or freezing. Downtown Minneapolis has many of the buildings connected by enclosed walkways at the second story level, making a sort of mall. Don't know what shape it's in now.
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    Things that will disappear

    There have been threads about things that have disappeared and threads about things that won't disappear. Surely there are things that you are pretty sure are going to disappear. Be warned, however, predicting the future is risky, especially if you dabble in the stock market. Sometimes things...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    T'aint't funny, McGee.
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    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    I think it's a bad sign when people don't like dealing with other humans. But I'm afraid I can't go from there to state any kind of hypothesis. It's just not a good thing when people cut themselves off from society, if that's what is happening. Participation in a forum such as this is not...
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    Vintage roadside

    I think there was usually an element in the rough frontier towns, the river towns, the logging camps, smoky factory towns, cow towns and mining camps that craved a certain amount of sophistication and which produced (relatively) elegant opera houses, contemporary and decidedly permanent churches...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Blazing Saddles was a parody of old Westerns, or at least of the later adult westerns, but I still enjoyed it, up to the point when the actors ran out of the studio. I think it could be made today but probably wouldn't--it's been done. I also remember that John Wayne was asked to be in the...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I don't know if the term has disappeared but the original meaning is no more: whistle stop tour. You could really only do a whistle stop tour if you took the train. A similar term was "one night stand," meaning performing at a theater for just one show, although it may have other meanings. Once...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    While death is certain, I wouldn't call it predictable. Pretty much the same with taxes. I had been joking for years that when my boss left, so would I. Well, people were taking me at his word. I had to make it clear that I was not necessarily going to retire at the same time. My boss actually...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Like grass through a goose."
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    If human nature is what it is now, disposable garments will be worn until they are rags, then thrown away, having been washed several times. Animal skins in the form of leather and fur are in fact already used, as you know. But they tend to be expensive and fur has it's limitations. Predicting...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    My usual answer when someone calls on the phone for an opinion survey is that I've learned to keep my opinions to myself.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Some malls are thriving. It's hard to second guess beforehand. A year or two after the last store has closed everybody knows why, or imagines they do. It is true as someone else said, running a successful business is difficult. The difference between success and failure is sometimes slim. There...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    That is essentially correct, the natural history of all businesses. But it goes without saying that many new companies don't get as far as Amazon. I don't know how they'll do in the grocery business but the owner apparently has a lot of money to play around with. It is well to stop and think...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I can think of a very similar expression of uselessness but I wouldn't dare be that crude.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Basically what killed Sears and other larger retailers was a string of bad management decisions. This is not to say I make good decisions by any means but I don't run a chain of department stores. But I imagine it's hard to let go of a business model, to use an expression, that worked so well...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    The National Guard was still using M1s and BARs in the 1970s.

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