Ms. Hulser said that when her 12-year-old daughter, Kira Baird, had a sleepover, she "tried to spin it as a quaint feature of the site".
They've become an icon of the island – considered a quaint, unmissable feature of Cuba's unique atmosphere.
On the edge of quaint plazas featuring statues of national heroes, I found gaudy strip clubs, and an adult toy store had opened smack in the middle of Pirin Street, just across from an antiques store selling World War II-era Leica cameras, complete with swastikas and Luftwaffe insignia.
Passing through the terminally hip zones of Silver Lake and Echo Park, the boulevard is crowded with thrift shops full of 1950's muumuus and quaint little boutiques featuring leather bustiers, nestled against auto body repair shops and open-front garages that install car alarms.
The company went to Mason instead and pointedly positioned its store at the end of the bridge; Pomeroy's intentionally quaint riverfront downtown now features a rundown laundromat, some bars, a liquor store, empty storefronts and a few improbably expensive shops.
Is the feature a quaint leftover from the days when women wore petticoats, and maneuvering themselves over the high bar would have been a challenge?
In any case, the exercise proved too arcane for the 21st-century general public, for whom double features were as quaint as quill pens.
One that he mentions, which will be as quaint as Pong some day, features the use of a slingshot to launch angry birds to destroy pigs and their fortresses.
When my wife and I bought our late-1800's row house in downtown here five years ago, one of the most striking features (besides the quaint 1940's black-and-white kitchen) was the cast-iron behemoth of a boiler in the utility room off the kitchen.
