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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

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Saturday Reprise

When radio ruled and music hits were everything, Wolfman Jack blanketed the US from the west coast, both from two high power radio stations located in Mexico, and through syndication. After appearing in American Graffiti and people connected the voice with a face, his fame skyrocketed. He was lost at age 57.

Based in LA, he was very influential in promoting musical artists. In appreciation, they immortalized him in song.

https://www.wolfmanjackradio.com/biography


Burton Cummings and The Guess Who


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GwenOnBass said:
The doctor's pen is A Thing Doctor's Pens
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It must have been a thing of pride for a doctor to own a matching set. Perhaps it was given to them as a gift. Pen collectors obtain antique pens wondering how they may have been used. Even using them.

The matching thermometers, I imagine, not so much. Relegated to the back of the drawer where they belong.
 
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In the heyday of the fountain pen, the top end pieces were likely intended to be given as gifts, same as today. The only possible difference I might see are the number of speculators who buy from intentionally limited runs. The speculation seldom pans out, from what I can tell.

My own considerably more down-market 1936 Sheaffer is a pen that saw daily use. A good guess, based on what is in front of me, is it could have been the property of a bank employee.

It was manufactured at the height of the depression (or at least close enough to see it from there). Steel nib, nickel plating. Formal but not too formal appearance. Sober appearance. Nothing like the huge red and yellow Parker flat tops of the 20s, this Sheaffer is a steamline. The implication being it's a smart, modern pen! Also undersize, so perhaps the property of a lady.

It's too nice for a teller and not nice enough for an officer. Would have been someone who signed a lot of papers.

That's my reasoning.

And a photo of the 36 isn't readily available, which brings me to these two, a 49(?) Sheaffer Tuckaway in green, and the sterling 70-72 Sheaffer Imperial. The Tucky was definitely marketed as a ladies' pen through to the introduction of a new ladies' line in the 50s. The Imperial is pretty awesome, and might do me well to switch out my pink Lamy Safari for the Imperial in these winter months.

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GwenOnBass said:
In the heyday of the fountain pen, the top end pieces were likely intended to be given as gifts, same as today. The only possible difference I might see are the number of speculators who buy from intentionally limited runs. The speculation seldom pans out, from what I can tell.

My own considerably more down-market 1936 Sheaffer is a pen that saw daily use. A good guess, based on what is in front of me, is it could have been the property of a bank employee.

It was manufactured at the height of the depression (or at least close enough to see it from there). Steel nib, nickel plating. Formal but not too formal appearance. Sober appearance. Nothing like the huge red and yellow Parker flat tops of the 20s, this Sheaffer is a steamline. The implication being it's a smart, modern pen! Also undersize, so perhaps the property of a lady.

It's too nice for a teller and not nice enough for an officer. Would have been someone who signed a lot of papers.

That's my reasoning.

And a photo of the 36 isn't readily available, which brings me to these two, a 49(?) Sheaffer Tuckaway in green, and the sterling 70-72 Sheaffer Imperial. The Tucky was definitely marketed as a ladies' pen through to the introduction of a new ladies' line in the 50s. The Imperial is pretty awesome, and might do me well to switch out my pink Lamy Safari for the Imperial in these winter months.

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Today, ladies phones are often white. In the past, pens that I've seen were often black. I have seen ivory. Sometimes there was fancy metal hardware.

High end pens can be made at home by skilled hobbyists. Stores such as Lee Valley Tools sell pen lathes, wood blanks for turning, and hardware.

 
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Don't forget bespoke publishing. Manufacturing to order. Bespoke is the future. Especially when they invent the home replicator. No manufacturing, no restaurants, no pharmacies, no retailers....

The first step is the 3D printer and synthetic food, cloths, even cars and buildings. We are there now on a small scale.
 
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Yet all boots and shoes should fit and wear like bespoke pairs. Better for your feet, better for your posture, better for your entire body. With a good cobbler, a pair like that should last years and years.

Instead we get Shoe Goo at the big box store to repair the cheap shoes from the same big box store. The same shoes that never exactly fit very well and begin to fall apart in weeks. Yet someone / multiple someones are making enough coin off selling us cheap shoes to travel to Budapest for bespoke boots.
 
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