[OKDXA] HOME DECOR

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> Nelson..................................
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> I've often wondered if your accommodations are furnished in Early or Art  
> Deco Goodwill  ????????????
>   

Until about three years ago I never set foot in a thrift shop. swapmeets 
and hamfests, yes, thrift shops, no. Why should I? Nothing but other 
people's junk, and since I already have a house full of junk, why bother?

Then I discovered much of the junk at Goodwill was way better that my 
junk. Cheap, too.

So I started a junk upgrade program. Still have plenty of the 
pre-Goodwill junk to move to the curb for weekly pickup, but the 
progress is becoming noticeable. To answer your question, the electronic 
decor used to be semi-bad 60's, now it's moving towards semi-cool 60's 
and early 70's. Sure, I still long for the reassuring glow of a quad of 
6BQ5A's in a stereo amplifier, but now that we're in the 90's it's time 
to move up to more efficient sand-state devices.

Sure, you're thinking it's 2008, but time is a relative concept. Like 
gravity.

BTW: About a year ago I scored a stack of Laser Disks. Remember the 12" 
optical video disks that never exactly caught on? Included in the movie 
titles were 'The Love Bug' and Disney's 'Fantasia'. Whoa... The Love Bug 
was shot in 1968 and is like a cultural time capsule, Fantasia was from 
1940 and if anyone needs proof that recreational drugs were invented 
before 1964, that would be it........... The animators were definitely 
on the pipe.

I still have a trio of late 30's / early 40's console radios in the 
garage that need to be refurb'd and in terms of easy to listen to BCB AM 
it doesn't get much better than that. Damn shame there's so little Big 
Band and Motown being played on AM stations, but Saturday mornings on 
KRVT in Claremore still swing and music does sound better when it's 
detected through a 6H6.