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  1. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    FWIW, I live on a suburban side street which is not the most direct route to anywhere but this street. So most of the motor vehicle traffic is traveling to and from houses on this street. But several times a day every day but Sunday I see FedEx and UPS and, increasingly, Amazon trucks going up...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ In my final couple-three years of smoking I lived maybe 10 miles from an Indian reservation that boasted, besides the obligatory casino, a cigarette factory and a store that sold its own tobacco products as well as other cigarette brands, and fire water, and junk food, all at prices...
  3. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    ^^^^ Still lotsa suburban sprawl here in greater Denver, where the very concept of growth management is a foreign one. And it never was that urban gentrification spelled the end of the McMansion. There are more and more people all the time, who have differing housing preferences and differing...
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The fellow next door, whom I get along with just fine, occasionally smokes on his deck. When the wind is coming from that direction I can smell the cigarette smoke, which I don’t find objectionable at all. Cigarette smoke residue is another matter altogether. I was oblivious to it back when I...
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ In my case it wasn’t anything I’d call heroic in dropping my two-pack-a-day habit of some 35 years duration. The cardiologist told me he and his fellows would continue treating me if I continued smoking, but that I would just be undoing everything they were trying to do for me. Like your...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Of course it’s different. Still, I submit that it is indeed “a matter of either you have or have not quit.” I’ve scoffed at people “trying to quit” smoking and/or drinking while they light up another Camel and crack open a Bud. Some have gotten angry with me. I suspect that’s mostly because...
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ Another either-you-do-or-you-don’t ... “Trying to quit” smoking.
  9. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

  10. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    The gentrification of Seattle, where I lived for 40-some years, was well under way 40 years ago. As was the diversification of its suburbs. There was an effort going back nearly that far to make the downtown retail core more pedestrian oriented, which in practice made it less automobile...
  11. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Pretty sure I got the oral polio vaccine as well. (No scar on my arm.) My recollection of it is so distant and amorphous that I wouldn’t bet on its reliability. Still, though, I have a dim memory of an event in Sun Prairie, Wisc. where I got the dose. I think.
  13. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    ^^^^ Out West there was a chain called Sprouse-Reitz, which at its peak numbered some 400-plus stores. Among the last of them was in the little tourist town where my dear old ma and baby sister reside. It folded up in the early 1990s, if memory serves. It was something of an anachronism then...
  14. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    True, that. Generally, anyway. Yet the big-box “home improvement” stores, that stock everything from tulip bulbs to toaster ovens, appear to be doing well. Used to be that we’d go to the hardware store as much for advice as the merchandise itself. (Hardware stores that still offer that are rare...
  15. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    Sounds like what we used to call a “variety” store. They’ve pretty much gone the way of the dodo, too.
  16. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    As I’ve noted before, when I was a youngster I lived practically downtown, because that was where the (relatively) low-cost housing was. Now I live in the suburbs, because that’s where the (relatively) low-cost housing is. The trend — the gentrification (and whiteification) of inner-city...
  17. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    I can see mall properties in many places becoming warehouses and distribution centers. Suburban shopping malls are usually located near limited access highways (easy freeway access!), which is a huge plus in the logistics biz.
  19. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    The mall nearest our house is a good place to get a milkshake or a burger, and, maybe, witness some gun play. Youngsters go there to hang out and get into fights, which occasionally turn deadly. The mall happens to share a parking lot with that multiplex cinema where several people got shot...
  20. tonyb

    Classic department store?

    The pandemic has just poured a little more fuel on the fire consuming so much of “traditional” retailing. It’s going (gone) online to an increasing degree. There is a romance to being in a downtown retail district on a crisp December evening when the stores are all bedecked in their holiday...
  21. tonyb

    Your First Car....

    My former state of residence and my current one have an interstate compact — they honor each other’s driver’s licenses. I just handed them my old (unexpired) one, they punched holes in it and handed it back to me, made me read the lowest line I could on the let’s-make-sure-you’re-not-blind...
  22. tonyb

    Dentist Woes!

    No matter how you loathe dental care, it still beats the hell out of losing teeth. I now have a partial denture, which fills the gaps left by three lost teeth on the upper right rear and one on the upper left. Had I availed myself of more frequent dental care over the decades I wouldn’t have...
  23. tonyb

    Your First Car....

    What year was that?

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