Many of the customers looked like they'd been regulars for decades – raffish gents of a certain vintage, retired ad men perhaps, who should have been wearing bumper stickers proclaiming 'my other restaurant is Mr Chow'.
Bradley's, one of London's best dive bars, remains: a timeless throwback that's been adored by regulars for decades, who keep the seats warm before passing it on to a new generation.
As the first purpose-built cinema to be transformed into a bingo hall in Britain in 1961, the art deco building has been drawing in regulars for decades.
Old double-deckers that have been out of regular service for decades are being converted into open-air buses.
Devotees also started holding Star Trek conventions; Majel Roddenberry attended her first convention in 1972, and continued to be a regular attender for decades.
It's a question that has haunted the minds of high-flying financiers, self-help authors and regular Americans for decades: what's the best way to make money investing?
Along with its predecessors, it ran a regular route for decades from the river town of Iquitos, Peru, to Houston, delivering millions of board feet of stolen timber from the Amazon to unwitting American consumers.
Yet the millions who have successfully quit are proof that a smoke-free life is achievable, even by those who have been regular, even heavy, smokers for decades.
He said he had been regular duck hunter for decades and owned seven shotguns.
He has been making regular trips there for decades.
