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What gives you that vintage feeling?

ghettoguy

New in Town
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9
Location
usa
Anything that has been influenced more by human design,desires and craftsmanship than by lawyers and computers:)
 

St. Louis

Practically Family
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618
Location
St. Louis, MO
My neighbor just poked her head out her back door and observed that my yard needed a good raking. Sigh.

Anyway, it was good for a vintage-feeling-moment ...
 

2jakes

I'll Lock Up
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9,680
Location
Alamo Heights ☀️ Texas
My neighbor just poked her head out her back door and observed that my yard needed a good raking. Sigh.

Anyway, it was good for a vintage-feeling-moment ...

My son-in-law lives in east St. Louis. Said that it was 10º last week.
Is it snowing ? And if so...how can your neighbor know that the yard needs raking ?
 

CONELRAD

One of the Regulars
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263
Location
The Metroplex
Nothing gives me the vintage feeling quite as much as listening to my old 78 records, especially "The Glow Worm", "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!", and my fairly worn copy of "Sentimental Journey", but any of them will do the trick just as well.
 

Duke of Buckingham

New in Town
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14
Location
Vancouver, BC
Starting the day by shaving with a vintage razor (not a straight, but either a Gem or an open comb Gillette). It never fails to amaze me that something designed a hundred years ago or so perfectly fits the hand, whereas computer designed modern equipment is just a bunch of straight lines.

Then putting on a jacket and a tie. I know, not necessarily golden era, but I live in Vancouver, BC, the worst dressed city in North America. People see me in a tie and ask, without a hint of sarcasm, when the job interview is. And that's wearing but thrift store vintage!

Drop a Parker 51 into the inside pocket, reach for the trench coat, and I'm running for the bus.

I actually work in the former terminal of the BC Electric Railway Company, which was built as a trolley hub in 1912. There is a great deal of period detail remaining even though, sadly, the street cars are long gone.



Gillette NEW 1939 sailings by Matthew Wild, on Flickr
 

2jakes

I'll Lock Up
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9,680
Location
Alamo Heights ☀️ Texas
The crackling ,hissing, humming,lighted dials &
smell of the radio tubes...

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