You know you are getting old when:

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
I’ve met and become friendly with a few people in recent years, and I’m happy for that.

But I agree that there’s something irreplaceable in those relationships of several decades’ standing.

I’ve lost most of my closest relationships of such a long duration. Most of my favorite people are dead now. These people truly knew me and still wanted me around despite all that.

I’m reminded of Yogi’s observation that you gotta go to other people’s funerals or they won’t go to yours.

 

[tonyb]

I have vivid memories of those in-character cigarette ads -- Jed Clampett and Granny were also avid Winston smokers, and Granny, especially, really puffed on them hard. I thought of those commercials when the actress who played her died of lung cancer. "Star Trek" was sponsored for a while by, I believe, VIceroys, but Gene Roddenberry put his foot down and we were spared the image of Mr. Spock lighting up on the bridge of the Enterprise. …

I looked it up. Irene Ryan, who played Granny, died of brain cancer, a glioblastoma, specifically. Nancy Kulp, who played Miss Jane Hathaway, was also a smoker, and also appeared in some in-character ads for Winston cigarettes, and also died of cancer, but I’ve yet to uncover just what kind of cancer.

 

[Jon Crow]

We’ve discussed before just how silly that notion is. A favorite uncle, in his later years, was fond of saying that. It was apparent he knew that the grim reaper was coming for him in the not-distant future and his way of coping was to deny it.

The last time I talked with him, a matter of weeks before he died, when he was housed in a “care facility,” he said “it could be one year; it could be 50 years.” That was the clearest sign to me that his vascular dementia diagnosis was accurate. He had never had difficulty with arithmetic before. His daughter told me that he had been more or less successfully faking being “okay” for a couple years before his acting skills began failing.

The ravages of advancing years are all too real. It’s clearly not “just a number.”

Or Mick Jaggers saying, your only as old as the girl your feeling haha

 

[GHT]

Your eyesight begins to diminish in old age. There's a good reason for that.
It's your body's way of protecting you from the shock as you walk past a mirror.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Another thing came to my mind.

Is any red-haired girl called "Foxy" instead of "Ginger", these days? I think, this was still common in the 90s, am I remembering right?

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
I’m as responsible as anyone here for stretching the focus of this place to well beyond the “Golden Era” of the 1930s and ‘40s. But allusions to the 1950s and ’60s are one thing, and the 1990s another.

 

[rogueclimber]

Is any red-haired girl called "Foxy" instead of "Ginger", these days?

I've always thought of "foxy" applying to any hot chick, not just redheads

 

[Trenchfriend]

^^^^^^
I’m as responsible as anyone here for stretching the focus of this place to well beyond the “Golden Era” of the 1930s and ‘40s. But allusions to the 1950s and ’60s are one thing, and the 1990s another.

Come on, the 90s are now already vintage. Still had the Iowa Class in action. And rotary telephones, Telex machines, film SLR cameras, film cinema cameras, old-fashion womanizer Bill Clinton and so on...

 

[tonyb]

Come on, the 90s are now already vintage. Still had the Iowa Class in action. And rotary telephones, Telex machines, film SLR cameras, film cinema cameras, old-fashion womanizer Bill Clinton and so on...

And none of that was ever the focus of this forum. You’re overdoing it, and I suspect it’s among the things that have prompted some of our more interesting and knowledgeable members to cease participating.

 

[Trenchfriend]

And none of that was ever the focus of this forum. You’re overdoing it, and I suspect it’s among the things that have prompted some of our more interesting and knowledgeable members to cease participating.

Didn't you notice, that the vintage subculture bubble from the time before 2010 is nearly dead?? Do you still live in 2008?

 

[Trenchfriend]

@tonyb

But anyways, there will be not further responds to you, because over the years you always came in here to complain about this or that, instead of doing anything different.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
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 Depression/WWII eras. And we’ve discussed how people tend toward an interest in the world of their parents’ and grandparents’ early years. For many of us here, those a generation and two ahead of us are deceased — long deceased, in many cases.

But still, I fear that drifting so far from that original vision will leave the place with no focus at all. And, as I’ve already noted, it has alienated people who had brought significant knowledge and insight to the discussion. I miss them and their contributions.

I have little doubt that people of your age might have greater interest in the material culture of the 1990s. But that was never this place’s reason for being. Again, you are overdoing it.

 

[tonyb]

@tonyb

But anyways, there will be not further responds to you, because over the years you always came in here to complain about this or that, instead of doing anything different.

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

 

[steve u]

I lived in 1958 though...I like Trenchfriend, but I agree with tonyb.

 

[tonyb]

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