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You got it Pete - I think it's all plastic. Pretty much the schmaltziest thing ever! I can't understand how that look ever caught on. But it sounds great, and I'm a sucker for anything that has a hide-way aspect. Rest assured this thing is not going in the living room. It fits in nicely in the...

Perhaps I misspoke. One of the girls actually looks like an Russian mail order bride this month, what with that hair and all... ;-) The other one (the one in the picture with the hi-fi) is still looking summery and vacuous. (she always looks vacuous, come to think of it) But I couldn't get a...

And the clincher was the sales slip from the Late, Great Frederick & Nelson (A division of Marshall Fields!) from December of 1978. Somebody must have had a very merry Christmas, because they paid a cool $508 bucks cash for this unit

Not only is it a Hi-Fi (with optional eight-track, no less) it also comes with a whole slew of paperwork!

But then you open the doors, and WHAT a SURPRISE!!! It's a Hi-Fi!!!

Ok, to look at it, you probably think I've gone off the deep end due to all this election stuff, and have started to take an interest in overwrought 70's Mediterranean furniture (as well as mannequins, but to be fair, I've had them for years).

Yes Mark, by all means hang in there, because you are so persecuted! After all, what would conservatism (or fundamentalism, for that matter) stand for if it weren't for the opportunity to be a victim? There's certainly no rational reason for it, so wallow in that self-pity!!! Remember...

speaking of showers..... Nothing stinks more than flop sweat, Mark. As for your real estate problems, Caveat Emptor.

I love both the UP and SP liveries. When you fly into Omaha, if the plane comes in from the south, you fly right over the yard where UP stores their heritage equipment, and it is a sight to see. By the way, the National Association of Rail Passengers has an entry on their blog about the...

Alan, there's still a train like that. It's called "The Cardinal" and goes from NYC to CHI via DC, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. It's a pretty ride, but a strange way to go between the towns. But since the LD trains aren't really intended for people to go from endpoint to endpoint, it's more...

The trouble with Amtrak and timeliness is that they are at the mercy of the roads they travel on. The SW Chief and Empire Builder travel the BNSF and are usually on-time, or even early. The Zephyr, Starlight, Texas Eagle and Sunset run on UP and are usually late. The NE corridor trains (that...

You can still buy remarkably cheap liquor to bring on the train at the downtown Caltrain station. :-) (We would never, ever, ever think of allowing that here in the NW. We're far too uptight when it comes to booze. But that's another story.) Back east, Metro North (and maybe LIRR?) were...

Allen, John's mother's name was Jackie Kukec. Maybe you did meet her. By all accounts, she was quite a gal.

Considering the fact that the woman is 82 (or thereabouts) I think she's amazing. And her campy humor is great.

My late Aunt Eleanor and Uncle Barney had an all-electric double-wide that they purchased after years in a grim farmhouse. Eleanor spared no expense when it came to decorating: She went to Montgomery Wards in Omaha, and bought big foufy drapes, tapestry printed furniture, overwrought...

John's mother was a group travel planner for Amtrak, who got hired away from Holiday Inn in the very early days of Amtrak. She worked out of the Santa Fe building in the beginning, and then out of another building in downtown Chicago later on. She also handled private car movements, so she knew...

So much for the myth of the free market.... Socialism for the rich. The rest of us are out of luck.

Terry, the appliances are pretty traditional in their musical taste. About the only stuff they wanted to listen to was the "Music for TV Dinners" disc. http://www.amazon.com/Music-TV-Dinners-Various-Artists/dp/B000000IAW

Ready for her close up.... and in her evening make-up. Truly the star of the party! Everyone was sucking up to her (but she knew what time it was)

It was standing room only tonight as the Sunbeam Automatic Control Panel made its debut in the kitchen! The crowd, while consisting largely of members of the Sunbeam family, also boasted members of such exotic clans as Saladmaster, General Electric, Oster and West Bend. Even the lovely but...