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  1. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Portlanders in particular seem given to using the airport code as shorthand for their fair city.
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, ain’t that the truth. I don’t have to be told that it is a “gendered” observation (unlike so many these days, I do believe there’s a difference between boys and girls, and while we often make more of those differences than the science would warrant, it remains that we humans can’t...
  3. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    A Seattle landmark for decades. The land is now too valuable for such a use. The sign is now entrusted to the Museum of History and Industry on South Lake Union, maybe a mile away. It’s to be restored and put on display.
  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Of course. There’s nothing at all unusual to hear those who have received a traffic citation to complain of the unfairness they’ve suffered for such a “minor” thing, while rapes and murders and armed robberies are going unsolved. The traffic code saves lives. Violating the traffic code...
  5. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    Another lifted image ...
  7. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I spent part of the summer of 1968 in the same house as a man who was born in 1870. I was told he was pretty sharp and living independently up to a couple-three years before I knew him, but by then his bag of marbles was mostly empty. Too bad, really. I would have liked to have heard his...
  8. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^ Couldn’t have said it better myself.
  9. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^^^ I find myself frequently looking up what certain abbreviations are supposed to mean. So the writer’s convenience comes at the expense of mine. Communicating via text message is certainly a major contributing factor. I find myself abbreviating whole phrases by their initial letters only...
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The history of “religious” holidays is a study in marketing. Gotta get the masses to buy what you’re selling.
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    And those who most loudly assert that they have no need for external controls on their behavior are the very people who most need those controls. Freedumb!
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Kinda surprising such safety systems weren’t in place then.
  14. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Maybe there’s a better thread for this observation, but it really doesn’t merit a thread of its own, so ... The Atlanta Falcons’ jersey, with “ATL” across the front, is just another example of a trend toward referring to U.S. cities and their metropolitan areas by their three-letter airport...
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ As I’ve mentioned before, I witnessed a young woman lying on the pavement (she died shortly thereafter) who had done exactly that thing — attempted to cross four lanes of moving traffic. I like to believe that people will do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do, and...
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Yeah, that behavior oughta get penalized. A fine of several hundred dollars per infraction might go a long way toward curbing the practice, provided there is active enforcement. Penalties are meaningless if the scofflaws expect never to be cited.
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ In my earliest years I got the sense that “Xmas” was somehow anti-religious, but no one leaving me with that impression ever articulated the reason for that thinking. It just was, like all those other things the grownups didn’t wish to discuss, not so much for my benefit as their own. At...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    These things are a genuine PITA to be rid of. After several minutes of attempting to bag ’em up, with the miserable things clinging to me and the side of the box (and my shirt) and falling on the floor, I just made sure I had all the stuff the peanuts were protecting removed and put the little...
  20. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Dialing (yes, dialing) a phone number to get a recording telling the time o’ day. Maybe that service still exists, but I know of no one who uses it. Just about everybody carries a cell phone that displays the time.
  21. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ I’d welcome the doubling and tripling of the human lifespan, provided we all didn’t have to spend 120 years or more in a highly diminished condition. The lives of the elderly are still very much lives worth living, but should the ravages of age proceed unchecked for several decades beyond...
  22. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    Seattleites of long standing will remember this sign. If you didn’t notice it while driving northbound over the Aurora Bridge at night you really had no business driving.
  23. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    I part company with my greener friends and acquaintances when the subject is outdoor advertising — particularly illuminated outdoor advertising. I don’t love all of it, but I am fond of much of it, even the relatively inexpensive, ubiquitous, backlit plastic panels. When I lived near a suburban...

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