thefridayfive | The Friday Five for 9 October 2020: This Old Thing

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1) What is the oldest thing you own?

2) What is the oldest home you've lived in?

3) What is the oldest book you've read?

4) What is the oldest electronic device that you still use?

5) What is the oldest work of art/architecture that you've seen?

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sparkythegeek

1) What is the oldest thing you own?
I think the old trunks I've inherited. They're definitely 19th century.

2) What is the oldest home you've lived in?
The one I'm in now, built in 1952.

3) What is the oldest book you've read?
The Bible wins, I suppose.

4) What is the oldest electronic device that you still use?
I don't know how old it is (older than me), but the small lamp in the living room wins.

5) What is the oldest work of art/architecture that you've seen?
The oldest building I can think of is the Cotswald Cottage that is from the 1600s. Henry Ford had it moved from England to his historic village. I don't know if this strictly counts as a "work of art," but Egyptian tombs on display in a museum would count as the oldest thing I've ever seen, and I'd found it deeply upsetting.

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ahunter3

> 1) What is the oldest thing you own?

I have a piece of petrified wood on my desk that was a live tree several hundreds of thousands of years ago, does that count?

> 2) What is the oldest home you've lived in?

This one: https://www.google.com/maps/@40.8559054,-73.1815065,3a,15y,11.08h,91.31t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sql3odr66KJ76MNsmVQwq3Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

It was a pre Civil-War house, later modernized sufficiently to have electricity and the old coal-burner boiler in the basement converted to run on oil.

> 3) What is the oldest book you've read?

Assuming you mean physical copy of book and not things like the Bible or the Tale of Genji... hmm, probably my hand-me-down copies of Nancy Drew mysteries, printed during wartime in the 40s.

> 4) What is the oldest electronic device that you still use?

My Macintosh SE is on the fritz, so I'll have to go with my Power Mac 7100. Vintage 1996.

> 5) What is the oldest work of art/architecture that you've seen?

Schloß Meersburg in Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meersburg_Castle