Open Thread Wednesday

By on June 27, 2023 10:55 pm in open thread

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  • Karl Junkersfeld

    Arch, you are so right. My father’s stamp collection, passed on from the generations, has lost much of its value. I thought it would be worth millions when I retired. Who would have guessed.

  • Andrew Porter

    This is my go-to place for buying/selling “O” Gauge trains (which includes Lionels):

    https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/forum/for-sale-or-trade

    People buy/sell trains to run them, though the average age of collectors is getting up there.

    This is a hobby which is eventually going away, like so many others, sigh.

  • Andrew Porter

    Okay, place your bets! How many people will crowd onto the Promenade Tuesday night to see the fireworks, then be bitterly disappointed when—despite all the warnings—you can’t see them from here?

    I see this every year, and it’s so maddening!

  • T.K. Small
  • Effective Presenter

    After all these years, over 20 years of NO fireworks at the Promenade still the crowds arrive.

  • Effective Presenter

    After all these years the crowd still arrives

  • Andrew Porter

    The subhead reads, “An eighth grader was asked to leave Saint Ann’s, a prestigious private school in Brooklyn. Three months later, he ended his life. Now his parents are suing the school.”

    Gonna share the link with others.

  • T.K. Small

    I was accepted there in 1972 and they made it ridiculously expensive for me to attend. They wanted my parents to hire an additional person to chaperone me from class to class, and consequently I went to a different school. The way kids with disabilities are treated in both public and private schools is atrocious…

  • Fireworks By Gucci

    There were fireworks at the Promenade in 2014 and 2019

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