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    Deco Deliveries

    This makes me think Clark Griswold and George Jetson were related somehow.
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    Is ebay about to end selling vintage and unique items?

    If I were a seller I would have no interest in eBay' s ideas of categories. I search like Lizzie described, but if you click on their suggested categories that contain your search terms you will severely limit the number of items you see. If you ignore the categories and do a general search it...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My parents had a small B&W set in their bedroom to watch Johnny's monologue before going to sleep. My father would turn the TV on every morning when he raked his change off of the dresser to put in his pocket. I soon figured out how to change the channel by shaking a few coins in my hand, which...
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    Technical features, you can really do without?

    One of our boys recently moved into a different house . He bought a new ceiling fan for the living room and realized when he got home with it that the only way to control it was with the remote control. No switches or pull chains on either fan or light. If you turn off the wall switch you need...
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    Technical features, you can really do without?

    They allow snooping because it's how they get paid. Every cookie that isn't blocked makes a sound like a cash register. Amazon and others aren't really as much a company that sells products as much as they are a massive data collection operation. Store loyalty cards are another similar invasion...
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    Technical features, you can really do without?

    Alexa and her siblings are evil things. "Trust me" coming from Jeff Beelzebub et al. is not a place I'm willing to go. I got a new phone from work a few days ago. Google was begging me at every turn to activate the voice command system. I finally found the right setting to stop it, but why do...
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    Stars And Their Cars

    The Newman connection becomes a far more fragile determinate aspect of value given that in another generation very few people will more than superficially know who Paul Newman was.
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    Babylon Berlin

    ^^^ I have not seen that episode yet, but I know that chest compressions had been introduced by then, although I am not sure how well known they would have been. Mouth to mouth was quite a few years in the future at that point.
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    Stars And Their Cars

    This is America and people are free to spend their money on anything they wish to. Having said that, I'm having trouble deciding if I think 17,000,000 for a used wristwatch is foolish or obscene.
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    Stars And Their Cars

    Hmm. I would have thought Janis would have had something else. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends, So Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
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    Vintage neon signs

    This reminds me of a Maxwell House billboard I remember seeing in Chicago when I was a child. It wasn't quite as elaborate as this one, but the giant cup of coffee had steam rising from it! Pretty impressive for a 5 or 6 year old from a town of 1100 people.
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    Sixty five bucks a month

    Quentin Aanenson was a perfect example. Fighter ace to insurance salesman. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_C._Aanenson
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    Today in History

    I listened to the reports on the radio just last night. God bless those kids wherever they are.
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    Vintage neon signs

    From a time when there had to be a dollars worth of something valuable available to print a dollar. And like Forest Gump, that's all I have to say about that.
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Yes, we can tell you hate it. :D
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    Sixty five bucks a month

    Wouldn't have been for me, but I'm sure 65 semolians a month for a new house was attractive.
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    Vintage neon signs

    I suppose it is a sign of my advancing years that I actually remember seeing things like this a few times. I'm glad for the memory, but things like this remind me that I have more spins of the coil behind than ahead.
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    ^^^ You may see flair. I see a candidate for a horsewhipping.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Correct. There have never been lead water mains (at least in modern times). One theory of the fall of the Roman empire was dementia caused by lead poisoning from their water system. The lead pipe is the small service line for the home (usually 3/4" diameter) connected to the large water main in...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^^^ There will never be another. All of them since have been poor substitutes at best. I have gotten a lot more sleep in the last 25 years though, so there is that.

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