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    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    What wonderful photos! I would just about die for a hat like your great-grandma's. I've been searching for one for lo these many years. What an elegant lady she was. Do you happen to know what those white stocking-like things were? Knitted woollen gaiters, maybe?
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    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    Wonderful! I've never seen those before, so thank you.
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    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    Lolly, thanks for posting the links. I find the hairstyles interesting. Neat & close to the head--very practical.
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    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    Back to the rotary lawn mower for a moment: I use one b/c my back yard is tiny, and there are steps from the (even tinier) garage up to the yard. There's no point in acquiring a gasoline or electric-powered motor. The problem with the rotary mower is that if you don't keep the grass fairly...
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    Healthy, delicious Golden Era recipes

    That's interesting, Lolly. My grandparents owned a vineyard and they did have a small glass of wine with supper occasionally, but the idea of drinking port at 11:00 a.m. is stunning. Do you have the date on that newspaper article? I looked up Australian wartime rationing regulations. It does...
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    Healthy, delicious Golden Era recipes

    I'd be interested in any sandwich recipes that look good or interesting!
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    Free Range Parenting?

    Today I watched a movie I found in the public library, titled Little Fugitive, directed in 1953 by Morris Engel. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who wants to see what Coney Island was like in the early fifties. It's a wonderfully charming picture. The point for this thread is that the little...
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    Healthy, delicious Golden Era recipes

    Now that I've been studying more summer-time recipes in magazines I'm finding more tomatoes. Anyway, today's dinner was an experiment. These unusual concoctions are supposed to be sandwiches, but because I wasn't sure whether they'd be great or a disaster, I only made them as open-faced small...
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    When did the pin-up look take over the vintage esthetic?

    I know exactly what you mean, Amy Jeanne! That's a nice way to put it. If there is such a thing as a memory from the past that transcends one's current existence (which my hard-headed common sense streak won't really allow me to believe) then that would account for it. I'm happy to accept that...
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    Healthy, delicious Golden Era recipes

    Lolly, that would be fantastic! Please do. Okay, so now this looks much more disgusting than it was in reality. I made a jellied tomato salad (though as you can see I didn't do such a great job of unmolding it). I've seen this recipe in several different magazines from the late 1930s through...
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    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    So this isn't too exciting, especially considering all the mechanical wizards who post on this thread. But I'm kind of pleased to be reviving an old drying rack, very similar to the one my grandmother had next to her coal stove. When my microwave bit the dust a couple of years ago I decided...
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    Would anyone be interested in a sew-along?

    Thanks, Bamaboots. Those flour sack fabrics are very collectible now -- your grandma would be surprised at the prices they're fetching! I've made a lot of things from ticking, including a purse and a pair of slippers. Tomorrow I'll take a little time & post some more photos. With all these kind...
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    Would anyone be interested in a sew-along?

    Thank you so much, Rodney! I've pretty much finished the challenge, but when no one responded, I thought the thread was dead in the water so I didn't bother posting the rest of the clothes. It's a time consuming task, putting the clothes on the dress form, making sure they're ironed, then...
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    Healthy, delicious Golden Era recipes

    Okay, so this is completely unhealthy, but might be delicious, or might be perfectly horrible. I found this in a 1944 June issue of the Ladies Home Journal: make a bacon and peanut butter sandwich, then dip the whole thing in beaten eggs, then deep fry.
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    When did the pin-up look take over the vintage esthetic?

    Thanks for that really wonderful and thoughtful response. I agree with you -- there's no need to criticize the modern "pin-up" look, and if the ladies feel attractive wearing those styles, then why not. I don't think it has much to do with a historic era , of course. I doubt that the people...
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    Independence day! 2015

    My British coworker, who happens to be back in his native land at the moment, emailed me yesterday: "Rest assured, we always have a major celebration for American independence here. It's one of the happiest days in our history." Meanwhile, I ran up the flag early yesterday morning and...
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    When did the pin-up look take over the vintage esthetic?

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    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    Sorry about the cat! Will you take her to the vet? A friend of mine from Georgia brought over a bowl of boiled peanuts. Never had those before--delicious! Still crocheting the slippers.
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    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    Well, that's unforgivable, but cheer up. Anyone who is that dumb will probably do himself irreparable harm by forgetting he's holding a rocket whose fuse he has just lit.
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    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    Nothing is worse than moving. You have my sympathy. I'm hoping to move back to the east coast some time soon and I'm dreading going through the stuff I've accumulated since I moved west of the Mississippi about 15 years ago. Tonight I'm crocheting a pair of sandals from a 1940s pattern while...

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