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Show Us Your Mechanical Clocks!
A nice little Birge & Peck 8 day with a strap brass movement- vitanola
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show Us Your Mechanical Clocks!
A rather nice Birge and Peck eight day with a strap brass movement- vitanola
- Post #34
- Forum: The Display Case
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My Vintage Radio Collection
A few of my most recent auction winnings:- vitanola
- Post #431
- Forum: The Display Case
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The Vintage Office
Please forgive me for reviving a thread which has laid quiet for sixteen years, but… This is my office at work. I share the space with my bookkeeper and an occasional helper during rent season. All of the equipment works and is used on a daily basis, including the radio, telephones, and...- vitanola
- Post #8
- Forum: The Display Case
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Show Us Your Mechanical Clocks!
Picked up a couple of interesting clocks lately. Note that these are the images from the seller, as i must pi k them up next week. First is a Self Winding Clock Co. No. 18: Then a Standard Electric master clock- vitanola
- Post #33
- Forum: The Display Case
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Greatest Songs of All Time
No, nor Hoagy Carmichel, nor Leslie Stuart, or Joe Howard, or Charles K Harris, Stephen Foster, or William Balfe.- vitanola
- Post #27
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Greatest Songs of All Time
Well, Rolling Stone magazine (for the first time since 2004) issued an updated list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". One would, of course, expect an immense amount of presentism in any list drawn up by a group of people so heavily steeped in current popular culture, but there is not...- vitanola
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?
Absolutely. Nuclear energy can be an important source of energy, and would be were it not for the human propensity to cut corners for personal gain. Just as Communism would bring the millennium were it not for that pesky propensity for people to become free riders if they can.- vitanola
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Electric cars: What will happen to all the dead batteries?
“Homes with 120 volt have to be retrofitted” Yes, there are a very few homes left in the country with 120 volt electric service, but their numbers are negligible. At the turn of the last century the standard residential electric service in the United States was a 30 Amp 120 volt service drop...- vitanola
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Heart of Cleveland shows modern electrified lifestyles coming soon in the 1930s
Here’s a 1915 General Electric film treating the same general subject with less imaginative narrative:- vitanola
- Post #4
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Heart of Cleveland shows modern electrified lifestyles coming soon in the 1930s
I know both houses on the film, which still stand. The Greek Revival farm house has been in the middle of a street of strip shopping since the early 1950s. The Lake Shore Station featured in the film closed in 2012 after a century in service and was demolished in 2016. I own what I believe is...- vitanola
- Post #3
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
That 1940 Frigidaire, with its hermetically sealed compressor, self lubricated, with integral motor and Freon-12 refrigerant is twenty times the machine as the Coldspot, which is belt driven, with an old-fashion reciprocating compressor, Methyl Formate refrigerant, and which requires monthly...- vitanola
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
My dear mother had a twenty year career as an executive secretary before she and my father married (and then came the children, rather late in life). By the age of 25 she was the secretary to the Vice President of Electrical of the American Steel and Wire Company. She knew her way around an...- vitanola
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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My Vintage Radio Collection
A battery powered jewel case Emerson for M’Lady’s dressing table:- vitanola
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- Forum: The Display Case
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My Vintage Radio Collection
A little Tiffany Tone miniature cathedral of 1932 vintage:- vitanola
- Post #351
- Forum: The Display Case
