You forgot about how marbles race from one side of the room to another, and the lack of modern overhead lighting.  I mean, I remember back in the 80s when overhead lighting was seen as a significant feature of new construction.  I'll never forget when my grandmother had a ceiling fan installed in her living room around 1984 and people came over to see it.  The fan didn't even have lights, it was just the fan.  I recall a lengthy discussion regarding how the fan could be made to reverse directions in the winter.  Was the fan rotating in the correct direction since it was summertime?  Eventually it was agreed upon that it was.       

 

8 minutes ago, GCrites80s said:

And how did so many Appalachian males key into the Phil Anselmo look that quickly in 1993? 

 

Yeah that guy might have single-handedly really shifted the rural white male aesthetic away from 80s metalhead toward something that is more or less still around. 

 

 

 

 

I still have this segment about ceiling fans sitting on VHS somewhere mere feet from me:

 

 

For some reason a lot of people in the '80s feel that they were storing compelling content by taping the Weather Channel, myself included. Anyway, I can't help but feel that running fans is about the worst thing you can do to  promote the spread of COVID-19.

^That's the fan. 

 

I am shocked to see that Dan's Fan City still has retail outlets:

https://www.dansfancity.com/AllShops

 

Dan's Fan City was big in Cincinnati in the 80s.  I still remember going to categories of retail that don't exist anymore because they were all swallowed up by Wal-Mart and the chain hardware stores.  Mattress stores are about the only thing of that kind that still exists.  Lumber yards were completely separate from hardware stores which were completely separate from landscaping/nurseries.  It sounds comical to say that there used to be ceiling fan-specific stores but that what America was like when it was Great. 

Look at that robust home stereo that mild-mannered woman is sporting.  When I tell young people that most people used to have one of those and they'd crank it so they could hear it while cooking or cleaning the house or working outside they think I'm making things up.  People used to crank their home stereos for 1-3 hours on Saturday afternoons.  You know how Mexicans still turn it up?  White people used to do that.  When I was a kid every street had at least one dad who worked on an old car in his garage until 11-12pm on the weekends and that stereo would be going the whole time. 

 

 

Far more space was dedicated to the stereo than the TV. I still have one of those big stereos with components ranging from 1984 to 2007. The CD player is from 1984 and it sounds incredible.

...a meteor could hit the earth and @jmecklenborgand @GCrites80s would be discussing Guns N’ Roses two hours later

Edited April 12, 20205 yr by thebillshark

“Real” Rent Index Growth Accelerates in March as Core CPI Declines

 

The real rent index grew significantly in March, in part because of the decline in “core” CPI (which excludes food and energy from its calculations). Core CPI declined by 0.1 percent in March, the first monthly decline in the index since 2010. The decline is almost certainly related to the negative impact of the coronavirus on consumer demand. Although rents grew faster than core CPI in March, the impact of the coronavirus will likely put downward pressure on rent growth going forward.

 

http://eyeonhousing.org/2020/04/real-rent-index-growth-accelerates-in-march-as-core-cpi-declines/

 

1 hour ago, Cleburger said:

 

IMO the next crisis will come this fall in the form of a commercial real estate implosion.   No retailers or restaurants are paying their rents now.  If there are any bundled securities, this is where it will start....

 

Some are paying. Some aren't. For example, Stark Enterprises is making its tenants pay. Most of Stark's nearly 40 properties/developments are retail-based.

 

If a retail center has a grocery store or some other essential retailer, they are more likely able to make ends meet. 

 

On 5/4/2020 at 10:43 AM, KJP said:

 

Some are paying. Some aren't. For example, Stark Enterprises is making its tenants pay. Most of Stark's nearly 40 properties/developments are retail-based.

 

Didn't Stark fairly recently (last year or two) take the plunge into Brooklyn, NY.  My daughter-in-law is in commercial realty in Manhattan and says based on the default of the Whale Building, a shared working space loft arrangement in Brooklyn, it looks like 2019 sales are perhaps 30 to 50% over present market prices. The vulture buyers are swarming.  

I don't think Cleveland prices ever got that out of hand, but it doesn't seem like a good time to get into cash-flow problems.