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| 28995 | Superior Retro Tech/Appliances | <font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">You would think I could give an easy yes/no to the replies in this thread. But as I see it, there's no clear cut blanket response to the idea that older consumer products are superior to their contemporaries.</span></font><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">I can tell you that older household gadgets cost a higher percentage of the average persons income, especially in the years prior to 1970. That price is reflected in the materials and labor to create those products. I wonder if the constraints of design of let's say a refrigerator from 1950 results in a product with a long operational life, almost as a by product rather than intentional reliability?</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">"Built-in obsolescence" could just be the demand to keep cost low.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><img width="600" height="300" src="https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/69/flashcards/3200069/png/untitled11-145D8149A0C3DA21D7E.png"><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Do you guys know the story of Electrolux? The Swedish appliance maker was famous around the world for building the best vacuum cleaner money could buy in the early 20th century. During the 1940's the US and Canadian branches of Electrolux offered financing so people could make time payments on a vacuum cleaners, especially as newer models became more expensive.<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Verdana; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></span></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">My grandparents owned the </span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">legendary Electrolux Model XXX from 1937 to 1954. This was the cool looking streamline design model. It had the baked enamel coating on the exterior housing with chromed aluminium trim that said, "ELECTROLUX" in raised relief block letters. I remember being freaked out by this vacuum cleaner because it had the unique "snake skin" woven fabric hose. It really looked like a snake whenever grandma used it when I was visiting. </span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">She used to leave the canister out for me when I was 4 years old. I used to play with it like a spaceship. It had those cool stainless steel runners instead of wheels and the unique "saloon door" exhaust opening for the attachments like a sprayer/atomizer.</span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Arial, Verdana"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">It was weird the way the filter end of the canister looked like a locomotive. Actually the whole vacuum cleaner looked strange but it's simple "pass through" design and durable motor made this vacuum cleaner almost indestructible. Many collectors find these vacuum cleaners in good operation condition even after all these decades. Broken units can be repaired with parts still widely available online.</span></font></div> <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Zt4wDkq5wY4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> | eddstarr | Feb 14, 2016 |  |
| 28994 | Random Pictures Thread | title card for a work in progress article i'm doing.<br><br><img style="width: 561px; height: 316px;" src="/images/postImages/1455433106pokemon20years.jpg"> | Benjanime | Feb 14, 2016 | |
| 28993 | Last Movie You Watched | Anyone see Deadpool yet? | echidna64 | Feb 14, 2016 | |
| 28992 | Last Movie You Watched | What's eating Gilbert Grape (1993)<div><br></div><div>Took a chance on Netflix with this one. As soon as I was able to suppress my Johnny Depp regurgitation reflex, I started to thoroughly enjoy this one. The iconic American small town was a treat to see and the everyday mundaneness (Had to make that one up) of it all was fun to see. </div><div><br></div><div>4/5</div> | vkimo | Feb 14, 2016 | |
| 28991 | What song are you listening to? | <span style="font-size: 10pt;">If I had my time machine in full working order I would take you guys back to 1979/1980, the beginning of that most wonderful decade of music, The 80's.</span><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;">And right from the start a band called "The Korgis" set the stage with a sound that defined the new decade. The Korgis caught everyone's attention in a way that's difficult to explain today. Their sound was influential to the point that I call The Korgis, "the band that punched above their weight class".</div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;">Their first hit, "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometimes", is a case in point. Lead singer James Warren's unaffected singing style lays the lyrics down in an unhurried, almost matter-of-fact pace that's distinctive. But it's the orchestration that raises this song to a new standard that other bands wanted to copy at the time. </div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;">Even today you can hear the song's ethereal quality, somewhat familiar yet strange at the same time. In my opinion "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime" is one of those songs that dances right up to the edge of the Realm of the Surreal, but does not cross in.</div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The Korgis - "Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime" - 1980</span></div> <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/foWmiV-__WU" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> | eddstarr | Feb 14, 2016 | |
| 28990 | Samurai Shodown is making a comeback | I didn't remember his name. I had that game for the Turbo Grafx-16. It was about the only game for that system that I played.<br> | Vaporman87 | Feb 14, 2016 | |
| 28989 | Samurai Shodown is making a comeback | <blockquote rel="Vaporman87"><b>Vaporman87 wrote :</b><br><i> I always liked using the giant fat guy with the sickle on the end of chains. He took up like a 1/4 of the screen.<br> </i><b>-end quote</b></blockquote>Earthquake? | Mr Magic | Feb 14, 2016 | |
| 28988 | Need help identifying a toy | Nicely done, BitRot.<br> | Vaporman87 | Feb 14, 2016 | |
| 28987 | Samurai Shodown is making a comeback | I always liked using the giant fat guy with the sickle on the end of chains. He took up like a 1/4 of the screen.<br> | Vaporman87 | Feb 14, 2016 | |
| 28986 | How was your day? | <blockquote rel="vkimo"><b>vkimo wrote :</b><br><i>Seems like a truck of that size and weight shouldn't be driving on dirt roads.</i><b><br>-end quote</b><br></blockquote>If only it were as easy as that. Unfortunately about 25% of the roads in West Virginia are not much better than that one. But yeah, that one was really bad. It was more like a logging road than a "dirt" road. <b><br></b><img src="http://retro-daze.org/images/smilies/MavLaughOutLoud.gif"> | Vaporman87 | Feb 14, 2016 | |
