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  1. Bugguy

    L.L.Bean scraps lifetime return policy

    Prom or special occasion dresses that are worn with the tags tucked inside and returned with sweat stains intact? My own favorite Craftsman tools. You break the blade of a screwdriver because you used it to pry a brick out... now days they trade for a non-Craftsman replacement. I do give Sears...
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    What Are Your Favorite Books To Reread? / How Many Times? / Why?

    Boss - Mike Royko Slats Grobnik and some other friends - Mike Royko Deathworld (Vol. 1) - Harry Harrison Snakes Alive: And How They Live - Clifford Pope If I took all the books I have left over to Half-Price Books, these would be the four I kept. 1st - There will only be one Boss, and not...
  3. Bugguy

    Show us your TIES

    I'm going to enjoy reviewing the article - lots of pictures! Thank you for taking the time to share it.
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    Vintage Appliances

    Small appliance: I'm perplexed.... with the intense interest in all things coffee by the 20-30 y.o.'s, I can't understand why I've had zero interest in this vintage coffee maker. Even as a decorator piece, no interest on Nashville Craigslist. It's not even as big as a fridge. What a...
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    Show us your TIES

    I've recently become interested in vintage ties. I found two of silk made in Italy that I had cleaned and wore this week and they looked sharp. I started working backwards from this posting and made it to 600 before I was saturated and out of energy. I get the hand painted ties - easy - and the...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I've had it with the airline gate agents who feel they need to scream into the mic to be heard over the PA system. Their boarding process is dysfunctional enough without them screaming for every group number and lost passengers who are probably still in the bar. Now, if it was sexy and sultry I...
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    who belongs to a Lodge

    Coming at this thread from a slightly different direction, as an ethnic Bohemian a.k.a. Czech growing up in Chicago, our families were active in Sokol. My lodge was Sokol Havlicek-Tyrs. If you're not familiar with one of the larger social organization in Czechoslovakia, think about where all...
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    What do you still have in your possession from your childhood?

    Extracted molars... don't ask me why my teeth never fell out. Worse yet, why I still have a couple in a jar my dentist gave me. I'll save the pictures for the weird stuff thread.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Soon to be extinct, the large, brown-paper bags used at the supermarket. Remember the transition... paper or plastic? Then only plastic. Seems like a trade-off between the perceived preservation of the environment, renewable pulp paper trees, recyclable paper, and cheap plastic that trashes...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I can't speak to the price differential. but given the cost of maintaining a static inventory, listing and fulfillment, I can understand why I'm only paid 50 cents for my used books. Garage sales are a much better outlet. I can count the number of on-line book orders I've bought in the last 20...
  13. Bugguy

    What are your "Stop and Drop" movies?

    Lawrence of Arabia Grease Hatari Alien - original Mash Catch-22 Any one of them will put the brakes on most trips.
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    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    You got me thinking about what has impressed me about Nashville. The community is incredibly supportive of it's independent retailers, artisans and crafts people. There are neighborhood retail sidewalk sales - not festivals - that are quite well attended. The citywide Small Business Saturdays...
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    The Real Reason Malls Are Closing

    I couldn't agree more. Back when, I could wander and window shop while my wife made the rounds. Ultimately, she'd find me in Walden Books or one of the others paging through magazines. Today I'd rather sit in the car with an audiobook. I have zero interest in anything left in malls unless...
  16. Bugguy

    Show us your Barometers

    Second one across the top - the ship wheel - is too familiar. My father had one. I don't recall seeing it when we moved everything; not sure where it went. I just sent a 3-piece set to Goodwill - thermometer, barometer and hygrometer. It didn't make the cut as a keeper as we downsize.
  17. Bugguy

    Vintage Phones

    1946 North Electric Galion Phone, mfg. Galion, Ohio Part of a nice collection I had before they all went to auction.
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    The Korean War's F86 Sabre is my all time favorite.
  20. Bugguy

    What is your favorite military vehicle of all time?

    I've always wanted a WWII Harley w/ sidecar:
  21. Bugguy

    Who got the oldest computer-contest! ;-)

    Closest I have to a computer are some of the IBM punch cards we used for inputing statistical data into an ancient DEC mainframe. We used either COBOL or Fortran to program. My son-in-law the software engineer never saw an IBM card like my daughter never saw a rotary telephone.
  22. Bugguy

    Cast iron

    Those are little further along in the evolutionary tree... the sad irons are pretty basic and I bought one, decided it was a good bookend, and bought another. I've seen the type you have and the next development was a metal sphere with water that sat on top an created steam. It was all charcoal...
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    Train or Air Travel - Items from the dining car / Dinner Service

    This might be a stretch, but it sort of fits and it is a utensil and it has a story... and it floated, at one time: I recovered this silver plate spoon about 2 miles east of Chicago's Navy Pier in 30 ft. of water in Lake Michigan. Now, before I get cross-wise with the Historic Preservation...

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