View Poll Results: Are you retro?
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Oh yeah! I'm retro and I even look the part!
29 26.36% -
Well, I collect vintage items, but I'm a modern person.
44 40.00% -
No, I'm just here because I shave with a razor.
34 30.91% -
Eh? What are you on gramps?!?
3 2.73%
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01-15-2009, 06:48 PM #16
Very good points; this tends to be my attitude as well.
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.
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.
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