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  1. HanauMan

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    What you say is true, of course. I used one at work many times and it worked well until the batteries went flat just as you needed it. It had a thousand different fonts and different colors for the letters and / or backgrounds but we only ever used one color / font combination to keep things...
  2. HanauMan

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm exactly the same. I work as a volunteer in a thrift store and deal with the book section there. While I'm not OCD (though I am very tidy, which I blame on living in Germany for seven years :)) I also have issues with folk coming in to look at books, pulling them out and leaving them all over...
  3. HanauMan

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I used to enjoy watching documentaries and history shows on TV but they all seem so dumbed down now. Instead of one presenter on the show it is full of different 'talking heads' or, even worse, full of docu - dramas. When I sit down to watch a show on, say, the Romans or WWII I am happy just...
  4. HanauMan

    Pocket Knife

    My old two blade CASE pocket knife and oilstone, both from the 1970s.
  5. HanauMan

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I've not lived in the States for many years now so have no idea what radio is like there now. Can't be any worse than British radio though, especially the BBC stations. I tend to keep my radio permanently tuned into a independent classical music station. Radio did play a big part in my youth...
  7. HanauMan

    Show us your photography

    Burghead beach, Sunday morning.
  8. HanauMan

    Show us your photography

    Some recent photos...... A forest track along the sandy shores of Burghead Bay. Path through the woods.
  9. HanauMan

    You know you are getting old when:

    Had one of those when I was taught typing in Junior High. Always managed to rub right through the paper with it. Oh my, the memories of typing endless repetitions of letter patterns to train all my fingers and thumbs.....and at the end of semester I still couldn't type worth a bean. Alas, I...
  10. HanauMan

    Barber shops

    That was my fate for a long time growing up as a army brat. Dad would take me to the base barber to get a short back & sides. That wasn't too bad, but one day when I was 13 or 14 a new army barber gave me a total buzz cut, the old 'whitewall' cut! Well, that was that and afterwards I frequented...
  11. HanauMan

    Barber shops

    That all takes me back. I really miss those old fashioned local barber shops. I remember fondly how as a child my grandfather would take me to his barber and we'd sit side by side getting our hair cut (me sitting on a board). Now I have a choice between a fancy and pricey 'Hairdressing Salon...
  13. HanauMan

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Well, some folk say that the Devil takes the form of a goat, or is it the other way round...?
  14. HanauMan

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Too true.... In twenty-five years working as a RN I never encountered a single shark victim but every single year we'd get several farmers, both men and women, with fractures and other injuries caused by cows, sheep and goats. And those were the ones who survived. And the worst thing, some of...
  15. HanauMan

    What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

    First airing of the season for my old Winfield Mfg. Co. M65 field jacket (dated 1976), complete with liner. This jacket was issued to my father in the 70s and has been in the family since, with me getting my hands on it in the mid 80s. For cold, dry weather you just can't beat a M65.
  16. HanauMan

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Hey, thanks a lot. Never thought to look on ebay! D'uh.... Always thought that the white print on red plastic was so classy (yeah, I'm a simple man). I used my last roll remnant, from the 80s, to print my name to stick on my house door.
  17. HanauMan

    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Still have an old 1970s label maker but can't source the red or blue plastic strips that were used with them. A pity as they were so much easier to use than the electronic label makers of today.
  19. HanauMan

    You know you are getting old when:

    Guess that it is just another sign that I'm getting older, I feel the cold (and heat) more than I did when I was younger. It has been around 40F here recently in the mornings and I wander around in my old lined M65 field jacket and knit cap (the tuna boat look) and there is a girl down the road...
  20. HanauMan

    You know you are getting old when:

    I'm the same, I need to cover my ears too. In fact, I have just taken out my watch cap / beanie today for the first time as it has gotten much colder recently. But, yes, I have also seen guys wearing them in the snow with their ears exposed, usually the same guys going around in T- shirts in...
  21. HanauMan

    You know you are getting old when:

    Yeah, I noticed that my hair on my crown is beginning to migrate south and settling around the nose and ears too! Why does everything on my body have to move south as I get older! At this rate I'll be living in a trailer park in deepest Arizona before long!
  22. HanauMan

    Pocket Knife

    I still have a pocket knife that my father purchased in 1969, still boxed and unused to this day. Even has the receipt with it; it cost a whole $9. My father died a few years back so it is of sentimental value. It is a Stockman model Buck.
  23. HanauMan

    You know you are getting old when:

    Another sign of getting older is when you get to that day, as I have the other day, of being fed up with having Isaac Asimov eyebrows and thus visit the drug store to buy a small pair of trimming scissors to keep said eyebrows under firmer control.

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