Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"

[alaskaleftybass]

There was a time when a paper was called a broadsheet for a reason. You could hide behind a newspaper and live in your own world. With cost cutting, pages got narrower, type got smaller. Technology allowed them to do what they couldn’t before. Just because they can doesn’t mean that they should. The number of pages decreased. They started putting links, read more about this store here. They gave us a reader’s digest synopsis in the paper in a tabloid format. The Monday paper got so thin that I could read it in five minutes. Eventually they started running on only six days, then five. Some went down to Saturday only. Others are completely online. Environmentalists decry the waste of newsprint. Who needs presses and their unions. Those grand buildings in the city are torn down or converted into hotels and condos.

If a paper is owned by a billionaire, why is profit so important. After all, their goal is to control, not to make money. Those people destroyed an era that dates back to the 16th century and the 1800’s when high volume newspaper presses were introduced.

Some of my fondest memories as a 20 something in school was to buy the Sunday paper and lay it out on my dormitory bed and slowly thumb through the entire Sunday Seattle Times. I read the entertainment magazine cover to cover. When Bass Player magazine got down to 1/4" thick I cancelled my subscription. In the early 2000's I used to subscribe to a mega computer magazine called "Computer Shopper." It was a huge magazine with maybe 1000 pages. Many many pages of computer companies now long gone. I think I learned a lot of my computer skills just reading through that magazine.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Another wonderful night at work. Three weeks now since my last day off. Bad weather caused a power outage here earlier today and the 25 year old computers that run our machines didn't like that one bit. Still dealing with issues including no network connection to the outside. Posting this with my phone. Gonna be a looooooong night.

It’s cold enough to get some snow/freezing rain. Rochester always seems to be hit with snow storms that nearby areas don’t.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Some of my fondest memories as a 20 something in school was to buy the Sunday paper and lay it out on my dormitory bed and slowly thumb through the entire Sunday Seattle Times. I read the entertainment magazine cover to cover. When Bass Player magazine got down to 1/4" thick I cancelled my subscription. In the early 2000's I used to subscribe to a mega computer magazine called "Computer Shopper." It was a huge magazine with maybe 1000 pages. Many many pages of computer companies now long gone. I think I learned a lot of my computer skills just reading through that magazine.

I know just what you mean about learning from thick catalogs/magazines. As a kid I loved to get the Lafayette catalog every year. It had a lot in it, electronic parts, amps and instruments, hi-fi, various hardware. It took me a year to get through it. A place to dream and I did learn a lot.

Today, one of the last big color hardware/parts catalogs is published by Aircraft Spruce. I regularly place orders there. It’s over 1100 pages. They have a pdf download as well.

2020 / 2021 AIRCRAFT SPRUCE FULL COLOR PRINT CATALOG | Aircraft Spruce

 

[GwenOnBass]

Here in the future, I click through from an email and browse their online catalog for a tunic. I close the tab, and within minutes receive an email asking if I forgot to buy the tunic I was considering. Grateful that paper catalogs don't do that.

Problem is, I like the tunic ... and yes I'm very happy with my shawl!

 

[beans-on-toast]

Here in the future, I click through from an email and browse their online catalog for a tunic. I close the tab, and within minutes receive an email asking if I forgot to buy the tunic I was considering. Grateful that paper catalogs don't do that.

Problem is, I like the tunic ... and yes I'm very happy with my shawl!

You shouldn’t say no to the tunic. Things that make you happy will help with your recovery and that’s justification enough.

Yesterday I visited a site and didn’t add anything to the basket. Later in the day, I got an email from them. Seems that I was added to their mailing list by simply visiting. Supplying my confidential information in a cookie is clearly gotten way out of hand.

 

[GwenOnBass]

A little New York black and white from an unknown photographer

 

[beans-on-toast]

Everyone wore a hat in the 1920’s. Millinery shops were plentiful. Like in Mrs. Miniver, people would throw money way on a new hat when they wanted to impress others.

There are still a few nearby. One establishment that dates way back sells men’s hats, apparently the Indiana Jones style has always been a best seller. The thing that I like about about the salesman there is that they can perfectly size up your head, down to a fraction of an inch, simply by looking at you. Like a good old school shoe salesperson, they fit you properly.

 

[StereoPlayer]

A little New York black and white from an unknown photographer

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[GonePlaid]

It’s cold enough to get some snow/freezing rain. Rochester always seems to be hit with snow storms that nearby areas don’t.

Why does it snow on Jack Benny's assistant?

 

[GwenOnBass]

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That's a lot of hat sales.

Why does it snow on Jack Benny's assistant?

Train leaving on track 5 for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cucamonga.

 

[2tonic]

Why does it snow on Jack Benny's assistant?

The earthshaking vibrations, emanating from that Stutz Bearcat engine, rattle the snow loose from the heavens!

 

[beans-on-toast]

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Interesting to note the sign for Fleischman Baths. It was a Turkish bath house. An opulent club and restaurant. The Fleischman Turkish Baths, at 42nd Street and Sixth Avenue, was opened on February 7, 1908. The New-York Tribune said “The most valuable feature of the baths, it is considered, is a solarium, or sun parlor. It covers a surface of 20,000 square feet, surrounded by glass, and is fitted up to represent a tropical forest. There are marble fountains and statuary in the baths.” Fleischmann told reporters that the water in the 60,000-gallon pool “is purer than the water New Yorkers use for drinking.”


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[GwenOnBass]

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[StereoPlayer]

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Great movie!

 

[beans-on-toast]

Why does it snow on Jack Benny's assistant?

I never knew that the character Rochester’s real name was Eddie Anderson.

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - Wikipedia

 

[Jeff Scott]

It’s cold enough to get some snow/freezing rain. Rochester always seems to be hit with snow storms that nearby areas don’t.

Not unlike the eastside of Cleveburgh.

Today, one of the last big color hardware/parts catalogs is published by Aircraft Spruce. I regularly place orders there. It’s over 1100 pages. They have a pdf download as well.

2020 / 2021 AIRCRAFT SPRUCE FULL COLOR PRINT CATALOG | Aircraft Spruce

What's the best spruce to make airplanes with? (I've been inside the Spruce Goose, if that matters. )

Here in the future, I click through from an email and browse their online catalog for a tunic. I close the tab, and within minutes receive an email asking if I forgot to buy the tunic I was considering. Grateful that paper catalogs don't do that.

Problem is, I like the tunic ... and yes I'm very happy with my shawl!

Next, you'l be getting in the mail, a turban and a fez.

A little New York black and white from an unknown photographer

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Early Strand, perhaps?

That's a lot of hat sales.



Train leaving on track 5 for Anaheim, Azusa, and Cucamonga.

Don't recall ever being to Cucamonga (the other, definitely).

I never knew that the character Rochester’s real name was Eddie Anderson.

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson - Wikipedia

Any relation to Ghoulardi Ernie Anderson?

 

[beans-on-toast]

Not unlike the eastside of Cleveburgh.

What's the best spruce to make airplanes with? (I've been inside the Spruce Goose, if that matters. )

The best Sitka spruce is used for airplanes and acoustic soundboards. It grows in the cold climate of Alaska.

Cool having been in the Spruce Goose. Sitka revolutionized the aviation industry in the early days.

 

[GwenOnBass]

I always take care to go ̶t̶o̶p̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ without a hat.

 

[beans-on-toast]

Any relation to Ghoulardi Ernie Anderson?

What they have in common is both are buried in Los Angeles, about 20 minutes apart.

 

[Jeff Scott]

The best Sitka spruce is used for airplanes and acoustic soundboards. It grows in the cold climate of Alaska.

Cool having been in the Spruce Goose. Sitka revolutionized the aviation industry in the early days.

IIRC, Adirondack spruce was used way back, too, maybe during WW II? The supply of Adi seemed to dry up a bit, and it couldn't have all been Martin's fault! My Martin has an Adi top and braces.

I always take care to go ̶t̶o̶p̶l̶e̶s̶s̶ without a hat.

Gotta show off the henna!