[TheForge] Re: Oh my GOD...

[Andrew Vida]

"Naturally" distressed work I have no problem with.  There's just 
something not right about some yuppie dilletante swinging a hammer at a 
perfectly good piece of furniture that gives me the willies.

Washington, Aubrey O. wrote:
> I hope whoever did get the handrail appreciated what he/she got!
> 
> Aubrey
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer [mspencer at tallships.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 4:47 PM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [TheForge] Re: Oh my GOD...
> 
> 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
>