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  1. tonyb

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    I was acquainted with a fellow who lost the ring finger on his left hand when the top of a chain-link fence got between that finger and his wedding band as he was falling from a ladder. Just another hazard of matrimony. I know of a police agency that gives its uniformed officers the choice of...
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    Old gas stations

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    Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing

    A celebrity death other than a “natural” one occurring at an advanced age often goes a long way toward polishing that celebrity’s legacy. Tragedy or scandal, it gets attention. Wanna get a branch library or public arterial or elementary school or endowed chair or whatever named for you? Do...
  4. tonyb

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    ^^^^^ Seems plausible. I take off my wristwatch when I’m setting to a task with an elevated chance of damaging it. (There’s always at least a minimal risk of that, but still ... )
  5. tonyb

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    A long-ago co-worker of mine, a southpaw about a dozen years my senior, told of having the left-handedness beaten out of him. (The lesson didn’t take.) It scarred him, I’m sure, and impeded his development. The message the adults sent those kids was that they were defective, that there was...
  7. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    And then there’s that other Hopper ...
  8. tonyb

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    Besides the Mido I wear most days I also have a lower-end vintage curvex, which stopped working some months after I bought it. The Sikh fellow who runs the hole-in-the-wall jewelry store a couple miles from here tells me that unless it holds significant sentimental value it really isn’t worth...
  9. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    Photo by Dennis Hopper (yes, that Dennis Hopper). 1961, titled “Double Standard”
  10. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    Famous image by Ed Ruscha from 1963, titled “Standard Station, Amarillo. Texas”
  11. tonyb

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    I once had an office next door to a business called Horological Services, a one-man (since deceased) operation. George repaired super high-end watches. He said that his was a dying trade. The quartz-crystal movement in a $15 watch you could buy at the drugstore around the corner was the same one...
  13. tonyb

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    ^^^^^ In my smoking days I field stripped the butts and stuffed the filters in my left rear pocket (my wallet resides in the right pocket). Litter annoys me no end, and I suffered no illusions about cigarette butts being litter. But I’m sure I must’ve smelled like an ashtray, no matter how...
  14. tonyb

    When understanding a design brings a new appreciation

    Watch pockets on blue jeans. It’s curious that the manufacturers still include the watch picket, seeing how so few people use pocket watches anymore (if it’s as many as one person in a thousand I’d be surprised), and that including it comes at some expense. Have there ever been mass-produced...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Oh please, injured one. Your posts reek of sarcasm. And pedantry. And I hesitate to even get started on the tortured syntax. You’ve taken numerous digs at anything journalistic this side of Fox News. But, you know, none of that is “political.”
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Nah, nothing political in that.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Having been in drum and bugle corps in my early years, when there were thousands of drum and bugle corps and parades were more common and much better attended (these days there are typically more performers parading down the street than observers on the sidewalk), I saw many a drill team...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yes, but rarely on purpose.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I’ll always remember the Honda Dream motorcycles the local Shriners MC drill team used. Couldn’t give those bikes away when they were 10 years old. Not so these days, now that old farts like me are looking to recapture their youth by acquiring artifacts from those times. I dig fezes, by the...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That’s great. And yeah, I know how those “routine” visits can be anxiety inducing. But you get used to it.
  22. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    ^^^^^ As we have undoubtedly discussed in one thread or another, the going-out-to-the-movies experience still appeals to many. There’s just something special about taking in a picture show in a large darkened room with several other folks that you just don’t get at home, no matter the size and...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Hoping for your complete and speedy recovery.

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