Thrift Is Your Friend!!

The whole point of advertising is to make people unhappy with what they have.

Give it up entirely. Throw out your tv, turn the radio station to NPR when they play commercials. Turn a blind eye to ads on the street. Acquire banner blindness while surfing the net.

Fashion to the properly initiated is NOT what's in, it's what looks good on you!
(Muffin tops look terrible on everyone!)

If you have an hourglass figure, think 1950's A line classics or Sophia Loren knockoffs from the 1960's.

There are plenty of rich suckers who are more than happy to pass along their "latest" investments from last years look.

Better to spend $20 and have some left over for shoes & jewelry, then to spend $500 for something you'll never wear again. Especially because it's too expensive to take out of the closet!

View of Hotel, Rt 128/95

More Roof Shots, Old Homestead, Marivista

Backyard, Old Homestead, Trees' Eye View

Lyman Estate, Waltham

Little Orange Lighthouse

Rising over "Tuck it away" Storage, near Yankee Stadium is this little gem. Possibly a poor relation of the Little Red one. No storybook. No glory.

Advertising.

But still, better than the scrap heap. Or being locked in storage INSIDE the building!!

Single window fire-escape

Amsterdam & 141st.

I wonder if it meets fire code? And if so, why there aren't more?

Or must the fire escape provide access to 2 different windows, or 2 different rooms?

And why don't they make fire escapes more useful, and provide a larger balcony area (like in theaters, just make sure to keep the aisle clear)

What are the rules/ laws?

Something about prewar buildings, 6 stories in height or shorter.

And for tall buildings, just more stairways??

(This was seen on a Go Bus to Boston, leaving from 31st & 8th, headed up 9th then Amsterdam, until heading east at 155th)