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    "Crisis, what Crisis?"

    new and old auto industry When i read of abandoned auto plants, we just had toyota build a big plant here in our town even arnold wanted this auto plant but they built it in cow town, woodstock ontario, the dairy capital of ontario Canada. Cows to cars, the japanese wont allow a union, the...
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    the feel of the machine. Having driven a 59 studebaker as a summer car, second, now mostly weekend or evening pleasure car, I have come to the conclusion drive one, ie an old car enough, become almost second nature and you can almost compete with the modern world just stay off the major...
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    'Thin Man' picked for One Book, One Denver reading program

    saw the movie on tcm Saw the movie, old black and white from the thirties and was enthralled and the tcm played several more thin man mysteries that day. That was a charmer will have to look for a copy of that at my local carnagie library. MY eldest daughter babysat at a cousin home this summer...
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    What's in your Garage..

    i wish I had one. I HAVE a wet sad studebaker lark who doesnt have a home except a driveway, just took it over to my brothers garage so he can fix the dash by installing a new dash pad. MY daughter and i tried after 27 screws we gave up. 59Lark.:offtopic:
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    "Mad Men" on AMC (US) - (Spoilers Within)

    mad men with hormones. Having been in business for over 26 years, I wonder how these guys get any sleep, havent got that much time in a day or fool that much around. Even when i was single, i once borrowed a olds regency from a greek, took a woman for out for a business lunch, drank way too...
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    Outgoing Message for Voice Mail

    wow, phone violence I guess that this modern age, that if there is phone sex, then there can be phone violence. The one threat that i always was tempted to use on phone soliciters was getting a marine canned air horn and deafening the really bad phone solicitors but I always stopped myself from...
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    Outgoing Message for Voice Mail

    theme music for answering machines. Paisley; i have heard them all, boris karloff , tell them boris sent you, to mission impossible music, were out saving the world please call back, to we are beating the children right now please call back, the screaming and chains dropping in the back ground...
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    What are you listening to?

    Late night radio I am in the habit of walking the dog late at night for a hour sometimes and I have found on a radio station that plays oldies but at 10pm monday to thursday it has a special program called theater of the mind. This portion is broadcasts of original radio dramas. The first one...
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    would you live back in time?

    MY trade would still feed me even one years ago. How about 1914, there is a pioneer museum nearby and its set in that year and I go there about twice a year to fix their ancient treadle sewing machines and they agree that even sent back I would probably be able to feed myself because of my...
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    You know that summer really IS over when...

    really over thank heaven. you can findly wear a felt fedora without sweat running down your brow. You can start wearing a tye again , and bottom your top button without fear. You can take your cardigian sweaters out of the wardrobe to wear once more. You turn off the ac. you can put...
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    Really dont adapt well to this age.

    thank you for agreement of its power. Thank you to everyone that agrees with me that the sheer power of this force on earth is something else. The feeling was something else, and you know what really flipped was some tourist taking pictures climbing up on the fence, and not just in the spot...
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    Really dont adapt well to this age.

    The travelling 59 Lark went to Niagara falls, on friday followed a stout dutchman, who proceded to fly in his 12 passenger van, 401 , 403, alexander park way, and the queensway. What a wild ride with chest pains, and when we arrived at marine land , the comment was well you know I SLOWED DOWN...
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    Fascintated by black and white movies.

    My youngest saw a black and white movie on tcm the other day and was intrigued by it, and said daddy is that movie a hundred years old. The time between that and now seems a very wide gap with my being one of the left behind peoples. WE watched confidently connie, and it was a charmer with van...
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    Is it 2008 or 1958?? - Retro marriage, 21st century-style

    Dinosaur training. Frankly in my own age group and area , we are the only couple that I know of who wifes doesnt work. Now we got put into this situation by a back injury , my wife was a nurse and a week after we bought our house, she wrecked some discs. Now it took a year to see the specialist...
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    Old well known hatmaker needs help.

    this works both ways This works both ways , the person at the hat co didnt do their homework and then left me hanging when they obtained them somewhere else, so they aint anywhere perfect, they were willing to leave me hangiing and didnt look up the info when ordering. I politely to her to do...
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    Old well known hatmaker needs help.

    Biltmore hats has there needles. My thanks to all that helped and tried to help me help Biltmore hats. the truth is that these needles are still available but when ordering needles one needs a model no of the machine and a current system nos. When checking with a large dist. today he said...
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    Moving? maybe...

    I too apologize for overzealot comments. Dear fedora loungers; my apologies , it is true , my children tell their friends that father grew up amish and he cant help it, last generation for lanterns and wood stoves, horses and studebakers. Wood stoves, two furnaces, hauling wood from the bush...
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    Old well known hatmaker needs help.

    thanks so far from 59Lark Dear fedora loungers; thank you in advance and so far; we are working on getting some original needles , thanks for the go make one advice but we think that would cost more than they have too spend on this project. Even at this point , we dont have one to copy they...
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    Old well known hatmaker needs help.

    I specialize in fixing oldler sewing machines and A well known Canadian hat company has come to me to find some sewing machine needles, now these needles are very rare , they have a very old chainstitcher wilcox and gibbs, that they sew straw hats with, Now we have located five needles from...
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    Getting a tailor-made suit, part 2

    vancouver last custom tailor shop closes Watching your suit made for you in hong kong, gave me a mental flash back to a cbc news program on vancouver last custom tailor shop, modern tailors, in business over 90 years, they have made suits for sean connery and nat king cole, too bad you didnt...

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