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  1. St. Louis

    Sears might be going belly up

    A few random unconnected thoughts referring to posts above: Undertow, your lady friend might check the Naitonal online catalog for unmentionables. Puzzled: why was Sears' radio station called WLS? If it broadcast from Chicago, wouldn't it have to be KWLS? We have an old Sears tower in my...
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    New to the Vintage lifestyle, first meet up turned into a disaster

    Not only is it not common, it sounds utterly bizarre. I can't believe you and your friend had to bear this kind of treatment. On behalf of those neanderthals (and this is an insult to all neanderthals) I apologize. No, I cannot imagine that such a horrendous event would ever overtake you again...
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    Sewing failures

    Have you ever had a sewing failure? I don't mean the kind where you make a goofy mistake you don't feel able to correct. I mean, specifically, where you make the garment correctly, but the fabric, pattern, or style look so awful and frumpy that you know you'll never wear it. I make plenty of...
  4. St. Louis

    Ghost signs

    Going up a few posts above ^^ I think I know exactly where that Fire Proof Storage Warehouse is (or was.) It's on Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, right? There's something particularly wonderful about that ghost sign: if you stand in precisely the right place, the other building blocks out...
  5. St. Louis

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    Oh, sure, dear, though I can't claim any originality here. I'm more or less paraphrasing some bumper stickers.
  7. St. Louis

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    Some further thoughts on windows: I believe the older style window and door treatments went a long way toward conserving heat. For example, wooden blinds and double layers of curtains would have existed even in modest homes. I've studied the woodwork around my windows and have come to the...
  8. St. Louis

    Correct Telephone Habits

    This is the only reason I kept the caller-ID feature and one of my modern cordless phones. It's hidden in a cabinet. The rest of the phones throughout my house are all 1930s "Monophones" (with a new sub-unit attached) and a 1940s "Lucy" phone. I do try to retrofit everything, but this is one of...
  9. St. Louis

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    I live in a tiny 1929 bungalow, which has all the original architectural features, not counting kitchen and bathroom fixtures. I'm slowly bringing those back to original styles, piece by piece, as I can save up & afford it. It breaks my heart to think that the 1940s tin cabinets were still in...
  10. St. Louis

    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    If I punched in and out every day I'd earn about twelve cents an hour.
  11. St. Louis

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    I wanted to revive this thread because I had a nice experience yesterday that reminded me why I dress in the 30s-40s style. Sometimes I think it's more than just a hobby or a personal preference. There are moments when I feel I'm striking a blow for civilization, or as Miss Teeuwisse says...
  13. St. Louis

    102 year old dancer sees herself on film

    Sorry, I'm not able to play that clip, and I can't figure out how to make it work. Anyone have any ideas? It sounds really intriguing.
  14. St. Louis

    Ladies, what are you doing this evening?

    Picturing the shoes in the tub = funny. I can't function at all on a root canal -- have to pull the covers over my head and have a good cry. I admire your fortitude. I'm turning in early tonight -- probably read a few pages of "The Paying Guests," probably the first modern novel set in the...
  15. St. Louis

    Lost art of proper relaxation

    Right, that's exactly what I meant by "proper" in the thread title. There was a right way to do things, even relaxing in the evening. I think in my grandparents' case, they were too tired from the day's work to stay up that long anyway. I don't know this for a fact (because I had an earlier...
  16. St. Louis

    Lost art of proper relaxation

    Thinking about my own maternal grandparents, who ran a small subsistence farm and a vineyard, I think they must have had very old-fashioned attitudes about all that. I simply can't picture either of them relaxing on a couch, ever. They sat in the kitchen talking, reading a newspaper, listening...
  17. St. Louis

    Random strange

    When I'm out and about, I like to pick up little weird bottles and objects for my house. I call those things "random strange." They end up all over my house. For example, here's a bottle of Revivo (smelling salts), Buck Lure (I dunno, I guess for deer hunters), Shine-ola, and a tiny jar full of...
  19. St. Louis

    Favorite Era Photograph

    I love that photograph. They look so confident and committed. Here's one of my all-time favorites: Italian resistance fighters during WWII. I haven't been able to find out too much about these people. It's a stock photo, and everywhere it carries the same caption: "A group of Italian...
  20. St. Louis

    Lost art of proper relaxation

    I think this counts as a "skill" or a "smart." Didn't people in the golden era relax with more grace and propriety? Or maybe they just never photographed each other sacked out on the couch in tatty socks and worn-out bathrobes? Whenever I've seen any images of folks taking it easy, they always...
  21. St. Louis

    Time travel shopping trip

    Oh, hmmm. Rules. Let's assume that we can bring back anything we buy there, but that anything that happens to us there, or anything we do, will not affect the events of history. Once we return to the present it'll be as though we had never visited the past. I definitely feel that we should do...
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    Time travel shopping trip

    This question was inspired by a visit to Retro 101, my favorite vintage clothing store in St. Louis. This is an impressive shop, and it's set up to look exactly like a neighborhood 1940s store. I'm thinking specifically of some department stores I used to visit in the Polish neighborhood when I...
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    Vintageville: a weekly web comic

    Really enjoying this series -- thanks! I hope you'll post updates here as well. I take it some of this may possibly be autobiographical??

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