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  1. tonyb

    Why vintage?

  2. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ^^^^^^^ Yesterday I attended an event billed as “Time Travelers Vintage Expo,” mostly because friends had a booth there, selling costume jewelry, mostly, and some items of attire. There was very little there predating the 1960s, and even fewer people of an earlier vintage. It occurs to me now...
  3. tonyb

    Huckleberry

    Huck determining that if doing right by Jim was a terrible sin, seeing how Jim was Miss Watson’s property and not returning Jim to her amounted to stealing and stealing is a sin and Huck’s willing complicity in that sin means he’ll be going to Hell, well, he’ll just have to go to Hell, then...
  4. tonyb

    Huckleberry

    We’ve touched on TAOHF before. Some of us, me among them, argue that it’s not a children’s book, and not really for most “young adult” readers, either. I recall a now middle-aged nephew being assigned it in 8th(?) grade. He had difficulty enough deciphering Huck’s vernacular narrative, let alone...
  5. tonyb

    Autumnal Thoughts........

    What’s the name of your town/village?
  7. tonyb

    Autumnal Thoughts........

    It’s been hotter’n a three-dollar hooker here for much of the summer and we’ve had more poor air quality days than good ones. It’s nice at night, though — typically just comfortably warm and the wind that picks up when the sun goes down blows out the funk. And the late-summer bug noises comfort...
  8. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I can’t remember what I paid for my CD changer, seeing how I bought it at a thrift store several years ago for an inconsequential sum. Must’ve been something like 20 bucks.
  9. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I’ve found CD’s to be overall the best of the “hard” media. I have a console stereo with a phonograph and plugged into it and another tuner/amp a cassette deck and a 5-disc CD changer. I’m no audiophile, but I appreciate the cleanliness of CD’s and that playing them does nothing to degrade them...
  10. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Injector razors. I was reminded of this while watching video clips of TV ads from the 1960s. I have dim memories of using such a setup in my early shaving days, but I have no recollection of seeing one in at least 50 years. A little reading up on the matter indicates that Col. Jacob Schick was...
  11. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    Yeah, that’s nuts. Makes me all the happier not to be a part of that world.
  13. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    ^^^^^^ I dunno. I know a woman who could play Rosie the Riveter in her everyday attire. It looks good on her.
  14. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    ^^^^^^ Or the rockabilly look adopted by people a couple generations (at least) younger than the people who first adopted that style. It was generally exaggerated by the later people, often to an extreme degree.
  15. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    Yesterday a friend mentioned that “bohemian,” sometimes abbreviated “boho,” styles are once again fashionable, as they were in the “hippie” era. Yes, they are, I said, but with a twist, as all retro styles are. Fifty-plus years ago, when I was shaggy and dressed in patched-up Levi’s and flannel...
  16. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    I’ve owned cars with a quarter million miles on the clock and driven others with a half million and more, on their original engines and transmissions. There comes a point with all cars where keeping them going is throwing good money after bad, but that point can be far more distant than most...
  17. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    Seems close enough to yesterday to me, but then, I was already middle-aged by then, and I looked it. I can’t count the number of times I’ve read or heard of domestic kitchens either built or last remodeled in the 1990s referred to as “dated.” So, I dunno. I wouldn’t be tearing out a...
  19. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    We sure did adopt that stuff, though, in part because we kinda had to, provided we wished to more fully participate in the economy.
  20. tonyb

    Why vintage?

    ^^^^^^ I think you’re right, not that romanticism and escapism are necessarily bad. There’s a lot to be said for both, provided we recognize them for what they are.
  21. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    You and I are among the millions who could make that very observation. I may have heard a Taylor Swift recording, but I couldn’t say where or when or what it was.
  22. tonyb

    Ringling Brothers Circus is Closing.

    Just watched part of a lengthy YouTube video showing old circus posters and what was involved in restoring them. As a fan of old paper I of course was captivated by the segments showing how the work was done. But much of the subject matter, and the manner in which it was presented, looked kinda...
  23. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    That’s a great shot.

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