🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2018-06-30, Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>
> Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> writes:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Jun 2018, Mike Spencer wrote:
>> 
>> [big snip]
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>> the property) until he dies and it's a goldmine of old stuff.  So in the 
>> antique radio hobby, people find places like that and come home loaded 
>> when the stuff is finally cleared out.  Or someoen finds a stock of old 
>> toys because they were left in the back of some old store now being 
>> cleared out.
>
> I happened on such a 2- or 3-generations family hardware store of that
> sort having a close-out sale nearly 50 years ago.  Bought stuff I
> reckoned I'd never see again, even if I would never need it.  Some
> things I'm using about now for the first time.  Broom maker's needle.  
> Or have always been the only person I know that has some. Special
> files for sharpening brace bits.
>
> Sic transit gloria mundi.
>

What is happening here (.ie) is that a lot of the small stores just closed
and could nt be viably reopened during the Crash. People are renting them 
now shortterm, run them for a while, see if it could pay. _There_ is nothing
as depressing as sitting in a car in a town center, with everything boarded 
up. All gone to the Malls, which will will decompose as Amazon taakes over. 

For myself, I love Amazon, being partly disabled. I can still get all
sorts of books, wirelessly.



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