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Old, cool, and interesting Stuff

Perhaps those Vikings would have been interested in this old rock when some of them settled in Ireland.

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Platform Eva - Huntington Beach est 1964
The 1st freestanding platform and second offshore oil production facility in California. Still producing after 60 years. Since the 80’s when we engineered the power water conversion, something like 85,000 bbl/day gross production with secondary seawater injection. Only 10-20% heavy, sour, tar like crude oil is recovered from all that seawater before it is re-injected. The lease holder bears the entire operating expense, takes all the risk, gets all the bad press. The lessor/silent partner, California, silently rakes 50 cents of every net dollar off all those early “State Lands” leases and leads the charge to vilify the oil biz. And the kicker is …
it’s still worth it.
 

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stereofanboy said:
I've always had a slightly voyeuristic and vicarious streak in me. It isn't that I can't enjoy things firsthand, but I find other people's actions and thoughts to be interesting.

I guess that is why I watch movies and read novels. It's like witnessing other people's lives and to an extent, experiencing them. History has the same draw for me, as does old stuff which is the point of this thread. When I use old stuff, it's like a window into the life of the person who owned it before.

I've been selling some of an old record collection on e-Bay and BarterTown lately, and I really enjoy going through these records. I play test every one and examine the cover before offering it. On many of them, I notice handwritten notes, often dates left by the original owner who also had a huge collection of home made tapes. I'm fairly certain that the dates are when he listened to or taped the album.

Today, I listened to a record that had my birth month written on the back of the jacket. It was a strange feeling when I considered that perhaps no one had listened to that record since the month I was born, over 45 years ago, and that that record had been waiting in it's jacket for the entirety of my life.

Does anyone else think about things like this when handling old records or gear or whatever?
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Yeah, I have a lot of tape in my library, most of it hadn’t seen a machine in decades before it met me.

My aunts lived fairly interesting lives, I have curios from various parts of Asia and Africa from mid century and much, much earlier.

You wonder what something 400 years old has seen before you came along.
 
titanstats said:
Yeah, I have a lot of tape in my library, most of it hadn’t seen a machine in decades before it met me.

My aunts lived fairly interesting lives, I have curios from various parts of Asia and Africa from mid century and much, much earlier.

You wonder what something 400 years old has seen before you came along.
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Your aunts lived to be 400?! :biggrin:
 
Caveman Carl said:
Your aunts lived to be 400?! :biggrin:
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Nah, but some of the things they brought back from working in Africa in the 1950s and 1960s sure were.

St. Haymanot used to guard our laundry, but now presides over the stairwell with an old door and a prayer scroll. This triptych depicting him was in an Ethiopian cathedral near Addis Ababa for a really long time. Lots of strange curios over here. :thumbsup:

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