[ARC5] R-45/ARR-7

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There ARE young people who are into old "retro" things but mostly everyday consumer-type items.  They like decorating apartments, for example, with your old lamps, bathroom fittings, tables, even old telephones.  A smaller number are still into the old radio & electronic technology things.  It's just hard to easily connect with them via our usual "rabbit runs."  You have to go hunting for them.

 

 Wayne
WB4OGM

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
To: arc5 <arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sun, Jun 17, 2018 6:05 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] R-45/ARR-7

I have encountered this with other stuff. My almost wife's 
family sold a house full of antiques in Cape Cod recently. It was 
hard to sell. Young people do not want old stuff. There was a 
certain market of people of our age (old) who have memories but 
there are getting to be fewer and fewer. I think there is also 
getting to be a lack of appreciation of workmanship. The idea now 
is to get something new that will do the job and toss it when it 
breaks. I suspect that in a century there will not be much left 
from our era. Technology has changed so fast that I suspect that 
a lot of people under about 25 simply have not even heard of 
things which were a part of life for decades for many of us. 
There is a series of short films on You Tube where kids of 
somewhere between 5 and 12 are introduced to work a day objects 
from the past. Things like dial telephones. They recognize its a 
phone but have no idea of how to use it.

On 6/17/2018 4:01 PM, Mike Morrow wrote:
> Market values are much lower today, and continue to plummet. 
>   Most of us are reluctant to appreciate how little real value or 
> interest our treasures have in 2018.  Soon our estates will be 
> paying someone big bucks to haul the junk...even uncommon NOS 
> pristine un-hammed unmodified junk...away.
> 
> One would be very lucky to sell an R-45/ARR-7 for even $100, 
> unless a gullible buyer can be found on ebay.
> 
> Mike / KK5F
> 
-- 
Richard Knoppow
1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com
WB6KBL
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