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  1. MrNewportCustom

    Who likes vintage tools?

    I have a few: Torches. Scythe and ice tongs. Gas can. Bubble levels. Whatever these are. The work they do most (and best) is collecting dust. Lee
  2. MrNewportCustom

    What sparked your fascination with the "Golden Era"?

    For me, I think it was a poster that I had on the wall when I was in junior high school. It showed a stately two-story mansion of brick with white columns and a lush garden, and parked outside the gate of the brick wall was a big, black, late 1920s limousine. Across the bottom, the poster...
  3. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    Wow! Thank you for introdicing me to a new favorite artist, Eyemo! Vettriano's work is beautiful! And thank you to Warbaby and Foofoo for the compliments. Thank you, Lee
  4. MrNewportCustom

    Underwood No.3

    Nice typewriter, FM! I also have an Underwood Standard, but I think it's from the '50s: Later than yours. Somehow, I don't have a picture of it. :eusa_doh: You can get new wire baskets at Staples; too Early American Modern. Why not add a little class to your vintage office with some wood...
  5. MrNewportCustom

    Remember these cash/receipt tubes in stores?

    I remember drive-up banking through tubes as recently as the '80s, and there's a bank I pass on my way to work that still uses them. That's right; people and pneumatic tubes, not electronic machines, processing your deposit. Lee
  7. MrNewportCustom

    1940 NY World's Fair uniform.

    Wow! That's a wonderful outfit! Perfect fit on Ashley, too! Such a great outfit! :eusa_clap
  8. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    Thank you, Miss Day. That is one of my very favorites out of the set. I shot it specifically for the way the light fell on the walls. Your new avatar is absolutely beautiful. :) Eyemo. Now there's a new sesquipedalian word for me. ;) And here are the last two. This is about all...
  9. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    Considering the work you do, Eyemo, I take that as an extreme compliment. Thank you. Lee
  10. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    Pasadena City Hall at Night. I left the home of Fedoragent and Magneto at 10:30, and on my way home took an impromtu stop at the Pasadena City Hall. Security allowed me to use my tripod, so I took advantage of the chance to shoot with very long exposures: Between thirteen and twenty seconds...
  11. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    I like that, Miss Day!! Beautiful!! :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
  13. MrNewportCustom

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Sounds like you have all the luck! ;) Perhaps that means I should have you two along when I go searching for a vintage suit! Lee
  14. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    Incredible, Lady Day! :eusa_clap I know you folks prefer embedded photos, but my trip to Sedona has produced many, many photos (216). So, here's a link to my Sedona gallery. I'd include the photos here, but the gallery has fifteen images, as of this writing, and promises to continue...
  15. MrNewportCustom

    Flash your Zippo lighter here

    I don't smoke, but I have a small collection of lighters: Three are Zippo lighters. One belonged to my father, who smoked while in the Army, but stopped when my mother told him she wouldn't marry him unless he quit. But he didn't use this one during his hitch in the Army; he got it from...
  16. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    Lady Day, you are one talented Lady. :eusa_clap
  17. MrNewportCustom

    I just ordered these books.

    Everyday Fashions of the Thirties and Everyday Fashions of the Forties. Both are subtitled, "As pictured in Sears Catalogs." There are many more similar books available, most costing between ten to twenty dollars. Lee
  19. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    A tractor I spotted in an outbuilding at Slide Rock, Arizona, last week. And in sepia. Lee
  20. MrNewportCustom

    Is Paris Hilton the modern day flapper?

    My sentiments exactly, Lilimor. It's a rare day when something said, done, worn or thought by any celebrity gives me reason to contemplate anything they represent. Lee
  21. MrNewportCustom

    So through with COOL!

    A buddy in high school introduced a new word of his own when he signed my yearbook. Lo, these many decades later, I still remember it: Zambreck. Lee For some reason, it didn't catch on. [huh]
  22. MrNewportCustom

    So through with COOL!

    Please remind me to never, ever buy a modern dictionary! Lee
  23. MrNewportCustom

    So through with COOL!

    After many years, I recently had a perfect storm of an opportunity to use outstanding in a manner I remember a high school algebra teacher once using it; I had to tell a certain annoying, otiose cockalorum (you can look those words up when you get home) that he was "about to be outstanding . . ...
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