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10-05-17, 03:21 PM
#727
smelling the roses
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It would have been my parents' 70th. My dad died a month short of his 68th, and my mom went this past June.
You're in good company, and I will always remember yours now.
Happy Anniversary!
You're in good company, and I will always remember yours now.
Happy Anniversary!
10-05-17, 03:23 PM
#729
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10-05-17, 03:24 PM
#731
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Did you score that fine Corinthian leather couch/davenport/Chesterfield?
10-05-17, 03:27 PM
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We you better get with it. It's the future. Are you riding discs yet? Through axles?
10-05-17, 03:32 PM
#734
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Having spent my entire BF career, up until a year ago, in classic and vintage, I was completely in the dark about anything more recent than the early 90s. It' eye opening over here, to say the least.
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10-05-17, 03:33 PM
#735
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10-05-17, 03:36 PM
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10-05-17, 03:43 PM
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So the bicycle sculpture has a long history. I will do my best to keep it brief. BTW it's about 5 feet wide.
So way back when I was a young boy, circa 1975, my father worked in NYC. He mentioned that he saw this bicycle sculpture in a gallery in NYC and he really liked it. At the time, my mother was taking a graduate class at NYU so she went to the gallery and secretly bought it for him as a present.
He was delighted with the gift and for many years it hung on the wall in our family room. Later, when they moved to their current home, he had it hanging on the wall in his office at home.
When I got my current job, 16+ years ago, my father was bursting with pride and told me he wanted me to have the bicycle sculpture to hang on my office wall. I initially refused, saying it had too much sentimental value to him. He was firm that it would be very meaningful for him to pass it on to me. So I graciously accepted it, and it has been hanging on my office wall ever since.
TL;DR it's a bicycle sculpture from NYC from 1975 and it is priceless to me
So way back when I was a young boy, circa 1975, my father worked in NYC. He mentioned that he saw this bicycle sculpture in a gallery in NYC and he really liked it. At the time, my mother was taking a graduate class at NYU so she went to the gallery and secretly bought it for him as a present.
He was delighted with the gift and for many years it hung on the wall in our family room. Later, when they moved to their current home, he had it hanging on the wall in his office at home.
When I got my current job, 16+ years ago, my father was bursting with pride and told me he wanted me to have the bicycle sculpture to hang on my office wall. I initially refused, saying it had too much sentimental value to him. He was firm that it would be very meaningful for him to pass it on to me. So I graciously accepted it, and it has been hanging on my office wall ever since.
TL;DR it's a bicycle sculpture from NYC from 1975 and it is priceless to me
10-05-17, 03:45 PM
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So the bicycle sculpture has a long history. I will do my best to keep it brief. BTW it's about 5 feet wide.
So way back when I was a young boy, circa 1975, my father worked in NYC. He mentioned that he saw this bicycle sculpture in a gallery in NYC and he really liked it. At the time, my mother was taking a graduate class at NYU so she went to the gallery and secretly bought it for him as a present.
He was delighted with the gift and for many years it hung on the wall in our family room. Later, when they moved to their current home, he had it hanging on the wall in his office at home.
When I got my current job, 16+ years ago, my father was bursting with pride and told me he wanted me to have the bicycle sculpture to hang on my office wall. I initially refused, saying it had too much sentimental value to him. He was firm that it would be very meaningful for him to pass it on to me. So I graciously accepted it, and it has been hanging on my office wall ever since.
TL;DR it's a bicycle sculpture from NYC from 1975 and it is priceless to me
So way back when I was a young boy, circa 1975, my father worked in NYC. He mentioned that he saw this bicycle sculpture in a gallery in NYC and he really liked it. At the time, my mother was taking a graduate class at NYU so she went to the gallery and secretly bought it for him as a present.
He was delighted with the gift and for many years it hung on the wall in our family room. Later, when they moved to their current home, he had it hanging on the wall in his office at home.
When I got my current job, 16+ years ago, my father was bursting with pride and told me he wanted me to have the bicycle sculpture to hang on my office wall. I initially refused, saying it had too much sentimental value to him. He was firm that it would be very meaningful for him to pass it on to me. So I graciously accepted it, and it has been hanging on my office wall ever since.
TL;DR it's a bicycle sculpture from NYC from 1975 and it is priceless to me
10-05-17, 03:45 PM
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10-05-17, 03:50 PM
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10-05-17, 03:52 PM
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10-05-17, 03:55 PM
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10-05-17, 03:55 PM
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10-05-17, 03:56 PM
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10-05-17, 03:57 PM
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10-05-17, 03:58 PM
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