I have three cold-blast lanterns (what people call Hurricane Lamps) - one is a Dietz Blizzard (7/8th inch wick), the other's a Blizzard Jr (1/2 inch I think) the other's a no-name clone of a Dietz Comet. Think of the Comet as a night-light.
They get used from time to time. Sometimes for legit power-out scenarios like hurricanes or other grid oopsies, and sometimes just for the ambiance of it. Because I love that light.
I love my lanterns, they're a reminder of childhood camping and of brown-outs and power-outs
I want a couple of Aladdins, they make beautiful light and are gorgeous on the own right. They do cost as much as a nice gun tho
I grew up in Puerto Rico in the 70's and 80's, and our power grid has always been the suck.. throw in political shenanigans, and you end up knowing how to wick, trim, fuel and run lamps by age 8. Coincidentally the same age I shot my first shots from a .38 Police Positive.
I run my lamps on walmart petroleum lamp fuel (not the parrafin stuff used for liquid candles. Don't ever use that.) I used to run straight kero but that's nasty indoors. The Walmart stuff burns almost odorless. This gets confusing because Brits call Kerosene "Parrafin" but what we call parrafin will burn yellow and dimmer than kero.
I also have a couple of 1/4 inch round wick lamps I use a lot as accent lights. These are lovely little lights.
I come from a time and place where kero light was sometimes your only light (up in the hills in PR, for example) so I have a special place in my heart for any kero light.. but not for coleman hisssssssssssssss pressure lamps.
You know what's a real good memory? Me, my uncle, a few friends, a table lit by kero lamps, the aroma of whisky, rum, cigar, pipe, kero, hoppe's bore cleaner all mixed together, everyone cleaning their guns from the day's plinking (that's what we called putting holes in road signs, trash cans and blowing up every beer bottle we saw).