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To: Rambi who wrote (10520)	5/12/1998 3:38:00 AM
From: jhild	Read Replies (1) of 71178

Talking about spool tables reminds me of other pieces of my early adult furniture. When I was living back in Boston many years ago as a student, I would go to Chinatown and pick up boxes from the trash piles on collection day. These boxes had been used for shipping various fragile chinas or food stuffs that were unidentifiable by the lingering telltale odors or the stenciled ideograms. These boxes were startlingly well constructed with dovetailing though, some with metal bands. Stacked with the open faces forward they made perfectly serviceable and incredibly versatile bookshelves. The bonus was that whenever I moved, my books were already packed. Over the years these boxes fell into disuse as furniture, as they didn't quite pass matrimonial muster. Bachelors it seems can live in early industrial simplicity. But brides expect better. To this day though they still remain in the garage, darkened by age, but faithfully holding excess possessions and memories of a lifestyle gone by. But kitsch, really? And yes I had a spool table too. (Though it never made the westward trip.)

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