...once in a great while...gems like this
show up to remind us....
there was a technology and intellectuality....
after the turn of the century
where design and functionality were paramount and the
idea of obsolescence is not taken into consideration as
a marketing idea to squeeze profits from the unwary consumer...
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| 1929 Ford model A at SF Stonestown Mall |
sitting right next to each other....
the old Ford and the new Mercedes
.... the latter
pales in comparison...
though there is a great tendency to romanticize
something beautiful from almost a century
ago....
one wonders what in tarnation
happened in between ....
then and now
to society's thinking....
we know it can be done....
to create something that will survive the test
of time by way of function...
but greed and whatever
spoils the fun...
and so we see around us
fast foods and
merchandises whose
life span is brief and
intentionally outmoded
for profits.
and that is that!
that's all folks!
jt
