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  1. Brinybay

    Buried Treasure

    If you're up for some research and some (literal) digging, locate where the outhouses used to be. There's an entire nitch of hobbyists who go "privy digging" for old bottles in long-forgotten outhouses. General rule of thumb is that it needs to be around 100 years old for all the "crud" to...
  2. Brinybay

    Traveltalks - 1940 Modern New Orleans

    I also saw a lot of vintage autos, ships, trains, hats and other fashions, and the deco-ish opening screen that reminded me of late 60s hippie art, all in color. Can't see the forest for the trees?
  3. Brinybay

    Traveltalks - 1940 Modern New Orleans

    Traveltalks - 1940 Modern New Orleans
  4. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    That's actually a good suggestion. To be honest, short stories would be more practical for me. I have so many other projects that by the time I pick up a book I've been trying to read after putting it down for a week, I have to re-read several pages to refresh my memory on what's going on.
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    Vintage Phones

    Nice one!
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    I need ideas!

    I took several family photos down to Fritz Camera and had them scanned and printed in high resolution. Then I arranged them on the wall in a "collage" style display.
  8. Brinybay

    Vintage Phones

    Kinda-sorta, yes. I don't have any in-depth technical training in electronics, but 99% of the phones I've had problems with amounted to no more than moving or reconnecting a wire or two. First thing that comes to mind regarding your 500 is the ringer. Does everything else function, but just...
  9. Brinybay

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    "Rebecca" and "Taking Chance". I'm not a big fan of Hitchcock, but I did enjoy "Rebecca". With "Taking Chance", make sure you have a good supply of Kleenex on hand before you start the movie, and don't watch it anyplace where you don't want people to see you weep. This is one...
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    Vintage Phones

    That's the first thing I thought of too, check the line cord.
  11. Brinybay

    How to use real vintage phones on your cell phone line

    Thanks for the heads up. I was too lazy to find the USB cord for the unit to update it, so I never bothered. If it ain't broke, why fix it?
  13. Brinybay

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Changeling with Angelina Jolie. Somebody here may have mentioned it, I often add movies y'all mention to my Netflix que. Awesome! Visually stunning, well written and acted and there was at least some measure of justice. One fashion comment, I really like those style of hats she was...
  14. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    85 years, 5 months, 2 weeks, 6 days overdue? Went 78 hunting at a Goodwill Outlet store the other day. No records, but I came across this vintage edition of The Sea Wolf by Jack London. Last due date stamped was Feb. 18, 1925. Normally I'm not that interested in old books, but it just so...
  15. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Back to using Ivory soap. You caught me in plenty of time before I tried the alcohol, don't have any recent buys to clean. Ouch! What a shame!
  16. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    The only ring I would hear is my tinnitus. I have bad hearing, so that method wouldn't work for me. $3 a dozen is about what I sold my reject pile for not to long ago. I had over 300 of them. I don't grade my records. As long as they're still playable, and not cracked or broken, I'll...
  17. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Not sure what to tell you on that one, I only collect 78s, but my guess is that it's safe in the sleeve since vinyl LPs are far less fragile than 78s.
  19. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Not to worry, I don't buy 78s from dealers. I visited one dealer and he had the same kind of stuff I find in thrift stores for 1/10 the price he was wanting. They're not gold. Sounds nice, but I don't want to get to the point where I'm spending more on storage than I am for the records. I...
  20. Brinybay

    Vintage Phones

    Yes, like in "I Love Lucy". She was most often seen using a 302 in the show, hence the phone is nicknamed the "Lucy phone", although the phones in the show ran the gamut from a 202 to 500. I have another 302 with a rubber handset cord like you described.
  21. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    If you have a lot of them, one way is to get an old-fashioned metal file cabinet. I found a nice 4-drawer one at Value Village for $15. It holds the 10 inch records perfectly. The 12 inch records won't fit however, I had to leave them in the large milk crate, which is the other method if you...
  22. Brinybay

    How to use real vintage phones on your cell phone line

    Are you sure you got the right one? There are two types, BTTN for use with landlines, BTN for use w/o one.
  23. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Are the records in the "Welcome Stranger" set 78s? If so, take them out of the album. No matter how well made they are, those 78 albums put stress on the edge of the records and they get "stress breaks" like in the picture below. Plus a lot of times those old albums get moldy and the mold...

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