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  1. tonyb

    Your First Car....

    ^^^^^ I’m insured five ways to Tuesday. Back when we were teenagers my brother Mike had ’55 Coupe deVille, yellow with a black hardtop. We called it the Bananalac.
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    Your First Car....

    I’ve been a renter and I’ve been a rental-property owner (“landlord” grates, as I’ve never thought myself a “lord” of any kind). Good renters are a blessing. You hope they’ll stay forever, but they likely won’t. They’re renters either because, 1.) they’re in town temporarily, for school or a...
  3. tonyb

    Your First Car....

    In a way he made things easier for you by letting you know upfront what sort of character he was.
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    'Vintage' things you wouldn't bring back, but wish you'd seen?

    ^^^^ Yeah, massive as those haboobs can be — 60 miles wide and a half mile or more high — I’ve read they’re as pikers compared to the 1930s dust storms that eroded the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles and adjacent areas in bordering states. The clouds of dust reached as far as the East Coast...
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    'Vintage' things you wouldn't bring back, but wish you'd seen?

    How 'bout a "duster," one of those massive-almost-beyond-belief clouds of dust that carried away so much of the topsoil in the Depression Era Dust Bowl? We -- the dewy-eyed bride and I -- drove through the worst-affected parts of it a few years back. Our route took us well off the Interstates...
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    'Vintage' things you wouldn't bring back, but wish you'd seen?

    You would be familiar with the 1957 on-field incident that shortened the playing career of 1955 AL Rookie of the Year Herb Score. I knew nothing of it until one summer night in 1990-something, when I found on the barstool next to mine at Vito's (a nice little dago joint, in the words of Al...
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    School trips (by bus)

    For some reason I generally remember the bus rides more than the destinations, especially the field trips in my elementary school years. Took a couple-three field trips to art museums in high school. Those introductions had me returning on my own time and my own terms in later years.
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Gawd, that’s just awful! Whatever one’s view of the Ford Motor Company, it’s hard not to like the logo that has served it so well all these years. If it ain’t broke ...
  10. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    That particular slur has become less gender-specific in recent years. Some of my favorite people wear it proudly.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Sounds like Leo found the right time to be Leo.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    A fellow I've known for something like 45 years, a fellow who has had a couple-three serious brain events over the past dozen years or so, a fellow with whom the fates have put me in close contact in recent months, passes most of his day watching a cable channel called COZI, which, as I've...
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I angered many a neighborhood improver type by editorializing that when you got right down to it, they didn’t really care what became of our scruffier brothers and sisters, so long as they went away. Diversity? Oh yeah, the newly arrived gentrifiers treasure the diversity of the district...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Yeah, I, too, hesitate to make villains of people reduced to digging through recycling bins for maybe a few pennies per. If that. A couple of Hefty bags filled with aluminum cans sells for — what? — five bucks? Ten?
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    Clean Jokes

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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Years ago it was the case in my fair burg that aluminum was the only recyclable household material that sold for more than it cost to process. Still, it would cost to send to the landfill all that plastic and paper and steel that might have been recycled, so the economic consideration was which...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Last time we went house shopping we walked through a perhaps 70-year-old house that had been similarly gutted, stripped of whatever style and character it might have had in favor of “builder grade” everything — doors, floors, counters and cabinets, every damn thing. Vinyl windows, etc. It almost...
  20. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I cringe when I see post-War post-and-beam MCM houses with tongue-and-groove vaulted ceilings painted white. Sure, it makes for an “airier” feel, but dang, it’s already an open-plan with lotsa windows, floor-to-ceiling walls of windows, in many cases. My dear old ma’s humble little mid-century...
  21. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Open kitchen shelving, which has been a craze for a few years now, is kinda stupid. Anyone who keeps infrequently used small appliances out on counters or large platters and such atop kitchen cabinets or the fridge knows how grimy and greasy they get between uses. You gotta wash ’em *before*...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    A body-and-fender guy of my acquaintance was fond of saying “you can hide an elephant under white paint.” The darker colors show dirt and imperfections (wavy panels, for instance) much more than the lighter colors, white especially. Shortly after we bought this 1977-built house I painted the...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Some things really are left in the past. My folks acquired c. 1970 a matching set of end tables and a coffee table with plastic face panels made to mimic the look of carved wood. Bumping into those tables with the vacuum cleaner, say, or a shin, might have those popped-on panels popping off...

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