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Another vote for "I" over "II". I used to visit NY in the early to mid-70's and the feel of "I" caught the crime-ridden, rundown nature of the place exactly. It was exciting just to set foot in the city... Watching Gene Hackman as "Popeye" Doyle is worth the time, regardless of the plot. If...

If a group of front-line GI's ran into a Red Cross girl who looked like that, they would have gladly accepted a Dodger-lineup answer as follows: In the outfield: Larry, Curly, and Moe Other team members: Bashful, Grumpy, Sneezy, Donner, Blitzen, and Dopey GI's: "WOW! She got them all right1"...

WWII coat and uniform sizes are a mysterious and difficult topic. The Army changed patterns and dimensions as the war progressed and they got feedback from the troops. An early-war field jacket won't be exactly the same size and shape as a later-war coat of theoretically the same type. They also...

That has some great university and anti-university ideas in it. The faculty meeting where Groucho sings a song "Whatever it is, I'm against it!" fits some faculty perfe That has some great pro-university and anti-university ideas in it. The faculty meeting where Groucho sings a song...

Is there a "reverse-Mandela" effect? That's when you don't remember something that really happened and you know you experienced it. I don't means forgetting something due to senility or amnesia... Or where are my car keys? My two examples are: 1) the first moon landing I know when it was...

Since I'm from Nashville, I have met several of the classic country-music stars over the years - Minnie Pearl, Marty Robbins, Bill Monroe, etc. It's part of the semi-official Nashville social order to not make a big deal of it, while talking to them. Beyond that, I had a good couple of hours of...

"Of course, he IS an old man now, and sometimes gets confused. I saw him yesterday listening to his car engine with a stethoscope!" Maybe he's just a good mechanic... You can learn a lot by listening to the engine's internal sounds.

As one who was there, this is nearly 100% dead-on... (and that means "correct"...) Car-brand loyalty was much closer to sports-team loyalty - San Francisco vs. Kansas City, etc. - No hostile "gangs" in the urban reality or movie sense... "...i loved blowing the doors off the Mustangs" - that...

WWI PTSD: "The Public Enemy" (1931), with James Cagney (Tom Powers). Cagney's brother, Mike Powers, enlists in the Army during WWI with patriotism and enthusiasm. When he comes back, he is completely changed: depressed, listless, and irritable. They called it "shell shock" then, today it's PTSD.

I thought of a few more car-culture "facts" from the sixties, especially relating to the original question about brand rivalry: There was a strong brand rivalry in those days: Ford vs. Chevy (GM) vs. Chrysler (Plymouth and Dodge). However, there was also a recognized performance "pecking...

To get an excellent overview of the car-culture of the early-sixties to early seventies car culture you should watch "American Graffiti" multiple times. It was George Lucas' autobiographical story of car-culture in Northern California in the early-sixties. Why the line "Where were you in "62?"...

You are 100% right (at least)! I fit both categories, and being 20 in the 70's was like living in another world.

I have been watching the Karen Read murder trial from near Boston, and I have to do an internal tape-delay translation to get it. A witness will say "He pocked the cah." and after a few seconds I say to myself, "Oh, "He parked the car.""

I'm from the Mid-South (not Deep South) and I have some difficulty understanding those from far-off Yankee-land. I also have trouble with British accents in movies.

YES! ABSOLUTELY!! THE ONLY ONES OF THIS STRIP THAT I READ ARE THE ONES WITH KITTY IN THEM!