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  1. Benzadmiral

    Old gas stations

    Might be a Ford Anglia? In the Fifties Ford and the other big American makes were not interested in smallish cars like this. It wasn't until the advent and success of the Falcon in about 1960 that small cars started to catch on.
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    Captain Woodrow F Call

    I've never seen the original miniseries all the way through, but I've read the novel numerous times. What strikes me the most is that people who know the characters almost always refer to "Gus," but they refer to his long-time Ranger partner as "Call" or "Captain Call"; I do it myself...
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    Above The Tie Stainless Steel Razors ?

    I do both: first a skin lotion (not expensive), then Pinaud Clubman aftershave. If I'm not in a rush, i.e., am going to have breakfast right after my shave, I dab some Clubman talc on my cheeks and throat, the parts I've shaved. After I eat I rinse that off, and use a little cologne.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The recent Oscar contender, Darkest Hour, with Gary Oldman unrecognizable and yet shining as Winston Churchill. There's an old joke that states, "All babies look like Winston Churchill," and Oldman's WC here actually says, when a young woman on the Underground tells him that her child looks...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "Somebody to Remember," a late Season One entry on The Fugitive. Kimble is working in a warehouse for a Greek named Gus Priamos (Gilbert Roland), who has only 6 months to live (presumably lung cancer). He is fond of Kimble, who reminds him of his long-dead younger brother. Thanks to the true...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    A 1960 episode of Peter Gunn. Howard "Floyd the Mayberry barber" McNear plays a fussy bachelor bank teller, "Horatio Smeddler," who robs his employer of a large sum of money; but it's not so he can run off to Tahiti. He wants private detective Gunn to protect him as he meets with the bank's...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Silence deserved its Best Picture Oscar, and Thomas Harris's novel is (dare I say it? Yes!) of literary quality. Rereading it and Red Dragon, you realize the tremendous writing skill behind them. Harris knows the "rules," but he knows when to break them. Several times in both novels he...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I like Manhunter; it's a very good adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel (Red Dragon, which the later filmmakers restored for the Anthony Hopkins/Edward Norton version -- which, full disclosure, I have not seen). It's colorful and vivid, with great performances from Cox (even if his Lecter...
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    Lost Horizon (1937)

    "There are those who have accused me of preferring human women over Vulcan. Their objections are not logical. Any intelligent male being who looks at Amanda will understand." -- Sarek, Ambassador, Vulcan
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    The OTHER Ways, Advertising and ephemera of the Golden Era from other than Stetson

    Then I guess Champ's ad agency selected a model who resembled him quite a bit.
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    The OTHER Ways, Advertising and ephemera of the Golden Era from other than Stetson

    Model looks like George Montgomery!
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    I recall that TV and movies had a brief fling with the Thirties nostalgia, before "The Fifties" became entrenched with the advent of Happy Days and the like. Robert Forster starred in a Thirties L.A. private-eye series, Banyon; and a film, The Grissom Gang, with Kim Darby, was another...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    The show in fact picked up enormously when Charles came in. As good as Larry Linville was, Major Burns was a thankless role. Frank was providing most of the conflict in the show before he left, and when he did I thought, "That's it, M*A*S*H is going to die slowly." Nope. Stiers' Winchester...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    A rather famous (at least to Star Trek devotees) and early episode of Have Gun - Will Travel. "Helen of Abajinian" is the Gene Roddenberry script that won him a Writers' Guild award in 1957 or '58. It's fun, but not much happens in the way of Western-style action -- which might be why the...
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    What Are You Reading

    I picked up JiF (odd how that acronym comes out!) in my high school years, and I think I've re-read it at least once since then. Very enjoyable read, though it did not turn me into an instant Ambler fan. It's the classic example of the spy novel before Ian Fleming changed the genre: an...
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    Old gas stations

    Now that Chevy looks like mid- to late Sixties, but the hair on the 3 white kids -- sideburns on the one at the hood, the long hair on the one with the letterman jacket, and the long sweep of the blond kid's hair -- make them look like the kids I went to high school with, and graduated with in...
  20. Benzadmiral

    Old gas stations

    The 1956 Chevy, which I've always thought was the best-looking of the famous Tri-Fives (the '55, 56, and '57).
  21. Benzadmiral

    Old gas stations

    Sometime after the fall of 1960. Parked to the far left is one of the first generation Lincoln Continentals, which first appeared in late 1960 as a 1961 model. And the Falcon near it, and the Chevies, all seem to be from the same time period.
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    Old gas stations

    The gas station just down the road from the Bates Motel, I presume. And this would be the gas station that Duke Mantee held up before holing up at the desert diner? (No, I guess not, if it's a "Texas" diner.)
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    Above The Tie Stainless Steel Razors ?

    Sonero, I've been DE shaving for about 4 years. I started with a Merkur 23C: The vendor advised me that a long handle would probably be more comfortable for me, as I was coming from the long-handled cartridge razors. Then I branched into vintage, and have 2 1950s Gillettes and one from 1962...

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