Mr Aghai was an old timer, and he drove uncomplainingly even with a blinding sun in his face.
"There's not a hostility amongst these groups, but, being an old timer, I don't see that warmth and neighborliness kicking in yet because folks are still strangers," said John Flateau, 62, a Crown Heights native and chairman of the department of public administration at Medgar Evers College.
Our escort was an old timer who had been a Correction Officer for over 26 years.
Edgewater Technology is an old-timer in the online world, having been formed in 1992 to help companies do business over the pre-World-Wide-Web Internet.
(The 107 is an old-timer. If you would like background and information on some of its other recent uses, read my series of posts for At War on "Mao's Rockets").
Here and there, a line can still be seen leading from a pulley high on a pole to another pulley attached to the back wall of a house, but almost invariably the person using the line is an old-timer hanging on in a gentrifying neighborhood.
Was he crazy?" "Well, he was an old-timer.
"I thought maybe because I'm an old-timer," he said.
"Unless you were an old-timer, you didn't really know about it," he said.
