Quote Originally Posted by jockeys View Post
A lot of my friends seem to think I'm obsessed with old-tyme stuff, but the truth is I'm just obsessed with having BETTER stuff.
Quote Originally Posted by fpessanha View Post
... I feel that a Retro lifestyle is a lot more than using old stuff. It's using old stuff if it's better than new stuff. ...

I'm Retro, as I said before... but only if it's worth it. ... But one needs to react to a consumerism dominated society, right?
Very good points; this tends to be my attitude as well.

Quote Originally Posted by Sunbane View Post
Firstly, I really like the esthetics from the beginning of the 20th century - the art Noveau movement in particular. ...
Yup, that's a factor too. For me Art Nouveau and the designs (related, I think) of William Morris, Craftsman and Mission furniture, and Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters have a particular appeal. And I like the way a lot of old machines seemed to combine beautiful design with a kind of clarity about their machine-ness, as it were. An old Royal or Underwood typewriter, for example, or a Model T Ford or a 60-year-old farm tractor: they have elegant proportions and lines and at the same time don't try to hide the fact that they are machines; you can open them up and see what they are about.

Quote Originally Posted by Sunbane View Post
... and then there's the whole development in the political and intellectual areas. But it's kind of funny how I (who is not a political conservative by any stretch) can be very conservative about items and crafts!
I hear ya! And even thinking of our members who are politically and socially conservative as well as retro, I don't expect (if I may presume to say) that any of them want, any more than I do, to revive such things as the religious and racial prejudices that were taken for granted a couple of generations ago.

Quote Originally Posted by timberrr59 View Post
Being retired now, I am working on making my second million dollars. I never made the first million!
Now that gives me an idea ... since I'm not retired yet, I'd better get started on my third million. Something sure happened to the first two--I haven't seen them anywhere!

~Rich