I get this feeling all the time
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getting to go into lots of old buildings increases the likelihood. Often the feeling comes from a smell than from something visual. Watchings movies made in the late 60s to early 70s, I like to really watch the material life behind the characters. We, collectively, forget
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don't forget the grey linoleum tiles with specs of brown-orange, gray-blue, and gray-white. Often pulling back just 1/32" of an inch here and there and exposing a thin crevice of dark brown industrial glue and dirt
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A version of that stuff is still installed in some places. I used to hate it, but now I find it sort of comforting. (also, because the places it's used in are better suited: small, specific use, not that whole building).
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There was a certain 'institutional look' that used to pervade all public buildings that is not quite there anymore. My wife remembers shade-of-green everything in Russian hospitals that we used to have (and many Russian hospitals still have).
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I don't always think change is good just for change, but I think besides drops in material costs, our collective craftmanship for such places has just gotten better.
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concur I think we had 1930: price: 10, value: 10 1950-1970: price: 3, value: 3 current year: price: 4, value: 7-8
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