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  1. tonyb

    What's on your keychain?

    As Yogi might have had it, I hesitate to make predictions, especially about the future. Still, it’s not hard to envision a day when keys as we‘ve known them will be mostly obsolete, especially those keys we now use regularly, such as the ones for our personal modes of transport and our...
  2. tonyb

    Vintage roadside

    The Pepsi sign at the bottom of the door suggests this photo dates from no earlier than 1969. (Unlike Coca-Cola, Pepsi has made numerous major changes to its logo over its history.) Was that sign meant to be a kick plate? Is that a screen door? If so, it would open outward, so it wouldn’t...
  3. tonyb

    What's on your keychain?

    I haven’t seen one of those in — golly — decades.
  4. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I’m on so many prescription meds that I take a U-Haul to the pharmacy. If not for the pill sorter thing (my lovely missus bought me a nice handcrafted wooden one) I would all but certainly not take the right meds at the right time. Attribute that in part to the numbers of pills I take, and in...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ In my earlier life the checklist before leaving the motel with my traveling companions was “spectacles, testicles, wallet, watch.” These days you’d add “smartphone“ and drop “watch,” in most cases.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^ Knowing what a PITA losing one’s keys and/or wallet (debit cards, insurance cards, driver’s license, etc.) can be, I find myself checking the whereabouts of those items before turning in for the night.
  8. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Uh-huh. We’ll have to get you a sturdy stick, with which you can beat back all those wanton hussies throwing themselves at you.
  9. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I had the misfortune of encountering a person who wrote “Nostalgia is fear of the future.” I saw no point in arguing.
  10. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    I can envision a scene with that sign figuring prominently. Several scenes, really — a casual tavern, a boho coffeehouse, a spacious loft, etc.
  11. tonyb

    Vintage neon signs

    Do you know what became of it? I sure hope it got saved somehow, and not scrapped.
  13. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Ask any woman who was ever involved for any length of time with me or either of my brothers and she’ll tell you how icy my mother could be. My wife just came out and asked her, going on 30 years ago, “Why don’t you like me?” Mom was befuddled by that. I believe she was just oblivious to how she...
  14. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Have these people been unkind to you?
  15. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    And yes, it’s more than a little ironic that line-dried bedding is, for most of us, something of a luxury these days.
  16. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    ^^^^^ I believe it was the same legislation that banned HOA bans on rooftop solar. There’s a LOT of houses around here sporting photovoltaic panels, what with the reliably sunny days (rare are two cloudy days in a row; the Chamber of Commerce types tout “300 sunny days per year”) and the...
  17. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    I’ve always found him to be a decent enough fellow. English isn’t his first language and I’ve witnessed a couple of incidents of his notions getting misunderstood on account of that. And I can see how he finds this “community” (there’s a better characterization, I’m sure, but I can’t come up...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    They’re sometimes called that.
  20. tonyb

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Solar-powered garment dehydrators. I happen to have a retractable model myself, and I see neighbors using theirs on sunny days. Some of the “covenant protected” housing developments (George Orwell couldn’t have come up with a more whitewashed characterization) around here had banned their use...
  21. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^ I like him, too, even if he has made that difficult this day.
  22. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    Pure nonsense. You’re just grasping at straws at this point.
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^ Things change, and people who lived during the “Golden Era” are fewer and fewer with each passing day. We’ve discussed in other threads how the swing revival and the Indiana Jones films going back 30 years or so ago fueled, along with other factors, interest in the culture of the...

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