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    Lounger getting lost in american graffitti

    a refuge in a crazy world yes. I am leaning towards agreeing with a lot of what has been said, I have a wife and two girls and two dogs and two cats and two goldfish. I always wanted a second wife to round out things but the first one wont let me. I GUESS this probably is a midlife crisis but...
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    Lounger getting lost in american graffitti

    graffitti just a place to hide. I have been thinking on this and wondering if its just my soul needs a place to hide, dealing with dark and stark realities. I find my world has gotten a lot smaller the last couple of years. The harsh reality is, we are all scared and i dont mean to go the store...
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    Lounger getting lost in american graffitti

    3 more movies also want to see. also hotrod 1979. a willys potato digger coupe and a studebaker truck in this one, also the california kid 1974. and more american graffitti. I need to get these movies am really losing it severly. any fellow loungers getting this feeling also 59Lark which is a...
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    Lounger getting lost in american graffitti

    I must be losing it, recently was given a copy of amercian graffitti, now i have the album for twenty plus years and have seen the movie. But maybe it because my store has had the worst year in 25 years and we and the family are just barely getting by and actually we are probably slipping. I...
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    All things Sewing Machines!

    zig zagger attachments There was at least three kinds of zig zaggers, from the basic to the middle to the deluxe and the deluxe took leads cams and didnt different designs. But the basic defect of the zig zagger was that it worked on the same principle of the buttonholer of its moving the...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    WHITE CLEVELAND OHIO AND SINGER 99K THE WHITE ROTARY was a very strong machine and the unusual factor is that is spins backwards the flywheel runs counter clock wise, i just restored a 1918 version with pretty guildwork decals and back then it also took special needles ''fr needles which i...
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    All things Sewing Machines!

    201 heavy duty singer if you want to sew leather look for a 201 k its one for sewing leather , canvas etc can not stress again how strong durable these machines will walk over a 99k anyday. I have sewed moose hide with one of those with a size18 nadel. The machine is the finest straight stitch...
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    Out for drive in my studebaker for fathersday

    PROBLEMS WITH KEYS ON COMPUTER That letter was cut short due to big fingers on the small buttons on the keyboards. NOW i was able to convince my family to endure the seats and non ac and we drove 40 miles to norwich and have a ice cream cone at the same stand that 40 years ago my late dad took...
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    Out for drive in my studebaker for fathersday

    MY Fatherdays gift was a card or a present or a drink, it was the opportunity to fire up the 59LARK, STUDEBAKER AND go for a long drive, blue smoke trailing, my wife and i and children . NO
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    No Mail on Saturdays

    post office still the best game in town. The consus seems to be, most people want to be able to go sat and yell ans scream, calling the postmaster from my office seems to do more. If you cant get satifaction go higher. but also getting everything ready taking blank forms home to due them there...
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    No Mail on Saturdays

    living in the past. I must be living in the past, I recieve mail monday to friday in my rural size mail box, large percentage of junk but still some important mail. The local post office is run by two people over the age of fifty, al and marcie. The queen of englands portait which hung in the...
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    The 'loose' look.

    what look are you trying to achieve. IF its a goofy look, go ahead, i went from seven and five eights to a seven and three quarter due to my head getting fattter. Fat head jokes aside, I also find my hats quite often get wet and shrink and a little bigger is safer but again they have to fit so...
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    Miss, Mrs. or Madam? The demise of Ms?

    WORST TITLES HEY YOU GUYS. I RUN a small retail and repair shop, and call most customers, mam, madam, miss or mostly can i help you mam, may i help you, good afternoon. miss. may i be of service. I simply gag when some young employess of a restraunt says to my wife and says can i help you guys...
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    All things Sewing Machines!

    66 class drop in bobbin singer in a cabinet THAT picture illustrates a singer 66 class which was a full size version of the 99k , full size 66 feature drop in bobbin and oscilating hook, it was the middle priced machine not the top and not the bottom and therefore was a pretty seller...
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    All things Sewing Machines!

    end of metal The year 1968 is when singer stopped using all steel gears,and introduced nylon gears, if you get a stylist 447 its steel gears, if you buy a stylist 457 it has one plastic gear that goes but its still available and worth fixing. But by 1972 the stylist 513 had 4 plastic gears that...
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    Black Hats on Bad Days?

    mood no but occasion yes.` I have never chose a hat for a mood, but occasion yes, i have a black biltmore that i wear for funerals and wedding similar occasions for some . I Never wear a flashy hat for working with amish, something plain and without feathers. I wear a black milano straw...
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    "The authenticity hoax"

    would not want to put under microscope. Do any of us, live authentic lives, I believe if i got into some trouble and a social worker was too put my life under a scope, he or she would say, his fashionation with the past is too due with his fathers suicide. His longing for old things and music...
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    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    gardening again after a two year hiatus. Dear Loungers; after a two year absence I returned to the garden, my brother and I bought a rototiller together. I instisted on getting a better one, rear twine, and self propelled, now he got one for seventy five each, troy built and all but the motor...
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    Toyota Retro Commercials

    software glitch. I live in a city where the newest toyota factory in north america was built not counting the moth balled one, where we are hoping that plant would pull out of the recession in this county. Then this happens, from what i have read, its got nothing to do with floor mats, your...
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    All things Sewing Machines!

    201 similar but stronger IF IT was up to me go for a 201 it looks just about like the 66 but instead of oscilating hook its a full rotary and much stronger and smoother but takes same bobbins etc. has full steel gears makes it stronger able to sew much heavier projects than the 66 or its 3/4...

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