[TheForge] Re: Oh my GOD...

[Mike Spencer]

Aubrey quoth:

> I like the distressed look that comes from 100 years of use, personally.

Me, too.  There was a wooden handrail along the stairs to the south
inbound exit from the Boston subway at Central Square that had been
there forever.  I noticed it when I lived in Boston in '65.  It was
still there when I stated spending time in Cambridge in the 80s.  It
was gnarled and checked with age but still serviceable.  Maybe white
oak or chestnut.  And from decades of people's hands sliding over it,
it had a polish that any Chippendale or Stradivarius would have given
an eye to duplicate.

Sometime around 1990, while I wasn't looking, they renovated the
station and replaced it with aluminum.  I should have fetched a
hacksaw, gotten a friend to act as lookout and stolen it.

- Mike

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