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  1. tonyb

    Made In USA?

    I have nothing but anecdotes, so with that in mind … My everyday attire since my teen years (and that’s going back quite a ways now) includes blue jeans and what we used to call tennis shoes (you know, canvas tops, rubber soles). My preferred varieties of each are, in the first case, Levi’s...
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    Made In USA?

    Is it true that goods made (in whole or in part) in Guam and American Samoa and the Northern Marianas can carry the “Made in USA” label? In a box around here somewhere I have a semi-calado straw “golf” hat I acquired 20 or more years ago that was almost certainly woven somewhere other than the...
  3. tonyb

    Made In USA?

    ^^^^^ Final assembly plants might be here in God’s Country, but the components being assembled into a complete automobile or airplane or whatever come from hither and yon.
  4. tonyb

    Old gas stations

    Hanksville, Utah (Note the phone-less pay phone box.)
  5. tonyb

    My new old furniture: how old?

    And … Closer examination shows this piece to carry the mark of Jacob and Josef Kohn of Vienna, an established furniture manufacturer which, along with others, began making bent beechwood furniture after Michael Thonet’s patent expired in 1869. The three largest of the many bentwood furniture...
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    My new old furniture: how old?

    As it turns out, Thonet offers authentication services, free of charge, with the caveat that a response will not be instantly forthcoming. I emailed ‘em a bunch of photos yesterday evening. I’m into this thing all of $55 plus tax. I have no intention of selling it, but as with most of my old...
  8. tonyb

    My new old furniture: how old?

    This seems as good a thread as any for this … I hadn’t planned to buy anything today, but a friend convinced me to join him at an air-conditioned antique mall, where I found this chair, which I believe is a genuine Thonet. If it is the real deal, it still isn’t worth big money, seeing how...
  9. tonyb

    The Worth Of A Penny

    ^^^^^ In another thread was mention of the phrase “drop a dime,” which meant alert law enforcement to a person’s illegal behavior. To rat on someone, in other words. It was a reference to a time when local calls on pay phones cost 10 cents. If young people know the meaning of the phrase, which...
  10. tonyb

    The Worth Of A Penny

    Very good. Is it of recent, um, coinage?
  11. tonyb

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    ^^^^^^ Which is why I have few regrets over tossing out all those magazines 25 years ago. And why I don’t begrudge a person for charging whatever that person might get for selling them today. It’s a real PITA, I’d imagine.
  13. tonyb

    The Worth Of A Penny

    ^^^^^^ Your authorship?
  14. tonyb

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    ^^^^ And now, 50 years on, they’d bring some money.
  15. tonyb

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    ^^^^^^ Good that you donated those dress patterns rather than toss them out. Somebody (several somebodies, probably) will make good use of them. I’ve stopped subscribing to all but a couple of print publications, so my stacks of magazines aren’t growing much anymore. Twenty-five years ago I...
  16. tonyb

    Show us your FREE swag!

    This seems as good a thread as any for this … Wayfair and IKEA and AFW and their ilk sell this stuff by the shipload. It sells because it’s “on trend” and it presents well when new. I can be only so critical. I have a couple of IKEA drum shades (large ones) hanging over the dining tables...
  17. tonyb

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Graffiti on restroom walls. I can’t say the near death of it isn’t to the better on balance, seeing how most of it was unoriginal or just plain vulgar without any redeeming virtues, such as wit or artistic merit.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I can see how a person wanting just a little onion at a time would find utility in this. I use onion quite a bit and even I find myself tossing out largish sections of onions that went bad before I could use them.
  20. tonyb

    Vintage Cars

    “All vehicles required to bring a drip tray.” Among the many joys of vintage car ownership. Back when I was a pump jockey, checking oil was routine, because most cars of the era with more than a few miles under their bias plies burned and/or leaked oil. It wasn’t uncommon for an acceptably...
  21. tonyb

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    I’ve befriended some real oddballs, and I suppose I’m something of an oddity myself. But not since my adolescent years have I made a grand public display of it. Some project an image that says, “OK, you think I’m weird. So I’ll show you weird, m*****f***er. And I won’t wear it on just my sleeve...
  22. tonyb

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    I hadn’t known of Ms. Chrisman prior to your mention of her. So I looked her up and no, she is not of the couple featured in the This Old House episode, who (to their eternal credit, by my lights) did not go about in Victorian drag. The founders of Atomic Ranch, Jim Brown and Michelle...
  23. tonyb

    The End of the Collector Mindset

    On the TV this morning is a rebroadcast of a This Old House episode from 2001 featuring a visit to a late-19th Century Victorian in Portland, Oregon, meticulously restored by a then-youngish couple who found the house some years prior with pretty much all its fancy Victorian details stripped...

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