Along the N79 long distance national road connecting Macon and Moulins, nostalgic restaurants and hotels can be found. L’autre fois important places for routiers to have a break, meal or comfortable bed, these places have lost their meaning nowadays. Highway low cost motels and snack bars replace the rest places of the 50 to 80s. Dust and demolitions reigns now and the future is less than uncertain. These places were often situated in the village centre which is now deserted only by local circulation as highways have been detoured around and not across town. Favouriting quietness, but also emptiness. The map below shows the national road in red, leaving the restaurant/hotel in la Garde pictured above aside on the older road (orange). The size of the buildings left are often surprising in a remote village and evokes non understanding. The size, abandoned state and placement near the road causes further difficulty to revive these places. ...

This vintage toaster from italian brand MilanoToast is the classic panini toaster. Easy but functional design.

This is a vintage style coffee grinder still seem frequently in French bars and cafés. Lyon based Santos continues to build this heavy but beautiful grinder. Quality is very good. A beautiful juicer is a sister product. Coffee consumption will be discussed in another story.

Is it still useful to have big events like a cirque, a fun faire etc. in the center of a town? Geneva paid a high price to have its centrally located place “plainpalais” renovated to continue to invite these events downtown. But the places are often very ugly, easily dirty and empty looking outside of the spectacles. So what is the deal? People can walk to the event if they live in the town. But traffic difficulties are already complicated and moving all these animals and gear to the innermost place of a city seems a little bit dusty… ...

This RPN calculator satisfies our standards for built quality, interface design and functionality. It even has a magnet card reader (on this picture with the game (!) moon rocket lander. For all my like reversed polnish notation was the only way to calculate. This is a brain - machine connection much more intuitive. Take your numbers first and then decide the action. Geotag: With me. Find situation: Heritage Price: no price Weight: a handful weight ...

Weekly Dust starts with communication. Here is a vintage (1970s) talkie walkie on cb frequencies. Few is known about the device on the Internet but beside its great look and timeless design the device has a very good built quality. So for imagination: In this time of overall availability by cell phones, this device is more “on purpose” use. You need to find a situation when it comes in usefull. This is a difference to todays smartphones where everything is “on air” all the time. No need for a status light or big switches showing you the operating mode. On contrast, once the purpose found, and I could imagine expeditions in far away mountains, shooting videos with a precise action script etc…, this device is always connected as in real analog worlds (versus unreal digital ones). What situation could you think of? ...