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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, of course. “Taboo” words have always been. But this particular one has gone from a taboo broken under only the most special of special circumstances to one tossed about in casual, if not quite polite, conversation. Maybe there is a need for a new one. Something to do with buggery, maybe...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Damn straight!
  3. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I utter the word too often myself, as I am reminded when I hear it used too often by others.
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, it’s as if they forgot that part of “camping” is doing without all the conveniences of modern civilization. I avoid campgrounds in state and national parks. People get packed in cheek by jowl, and you end up knowing a lot more about your immediate fellow campers than you’d ever wish to.
  5. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    Yeah, I have a couple-three radios with original grille cloth that definite shows its age. But I’m in no hurry to replace it. It’s still intact, and for as long as it’s in my possession, it very likely will remain that way.
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    … you change the channel on the TV to watch the quilting show on PBS on Saturday morning, not because you have any particular interest in quilting, but because at least it isn’t manufactured outrage (cable news bloviators) or phony “reality” programming.
  8. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    And as to the white porcelain Texaco stations … I suspect it’s feasible to disassemble one and reassemble it on another site. Maybe not at an expense that would prompt a person to do it under anything other than extraordinary circumstances, but the things are kinda “modular,” ain’t they? The...
  9. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    ^^^^^ That would be Walter Dorwin Teague, then?
  10. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    On another online community I saw posted a 1939 Sparton 557 “sled” offered for sale at the bargain basement price of $3000. I almost spat out my coffee. But then I noodled around and I saw another listed for more than twice that. I doubt they’ll get it. (1stdibs is the bane of those of us left...
  11. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    Beautiful cabinet. Simple elegance.
  13. tonyb

    My Vintage Radio Collection

    What will they think of next?
  14. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Broadway Joe’s ears look like you could put a jet engine under each of them and fly him to Vegas.
  15. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Were Joe Namath’s ears that big back in ’69?
  16. tonyb

    Deco Deliveries

    Is it that streamlining the locomotives isn’t all that aerodynamically effective until that babe hits a certain rate of speed? I ask because the freight locomotives don’t appear to make anywhere near the nod to aerodynamics as those high-speed passenger train locomotives found in Europe and Asia.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Real enough for them. I stayed home all day. It’s not that I’m averse to cookouts and municipal fireworks shows and all. I’m even up for ice cream and a parade and a band concert in the park. That’s the stereotypical Fourth of July over here in God’s Country, even if most of us don’t pass...
  19. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    Looks like the structure might have started life as a McDonald’s. Or was heavily “inspired” by it.
  20. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ In the case of the displeased nephew, it’s a matter of being pressured to paint a house that doesn’t really need it. Touch up would be more than sufficient at this point. It’s enough to make a person suspect he’s being singled out. And that the powers in the HOA have a brother-in-law in...
  21. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Gotta suspect that had more than a little to do with the people then getting on in years looking back on their early lives. And their children’s and grandchildren’s curiosity about that not-so-distant past. After a year’s absence due to the pandemic, the Denver Modernism Show is scheduled for...
  22. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    You characterize this is as though it were a law of nature.
  23. tonyb

    Let's See Your Vintage Inspired Office!

    ^^^^^ I happen to have one pencil remaining from the box of the things a then-elderly (and long-since deceased) friend gave me about 30 years ago. It’s not a pencil so much anymore as a totem. When I’m gone it’ll get tossed out, I imagine. Sentimental value is rarely transferable.

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