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    How about the WORST ads?

    would you like some cocaine cola. When i was reading all of this and seeing that deadly stuff used to be in everyday products it reminded me of cocaine in the early coke cola, we used to like so deadly stuff, times have changed thank God. 59Lark.
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    Hand-Crank Coffee Grinders

    manual coffee grinders looked it up. Fella fedora loungers well i went to the website of Lehmans non electric catalog and sure enough they sell a antique style coffee grinder $39.95. part no 1065135. . have a look. anyone for repro items, this outfit sells a lot of stuff , and lots of motion...
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    Hand-Crank Coffee Grinders

    non electric appliances. We run a shop and one of the things we sell is treadle sewing machines so we know a little about non electric devices, i have seen a kitchenaid mixer that has a crank, now there is a place in ohio that is called lehams,non electric catalog, now i may not have that...
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    looking for wilcox and gibbs chain stitcher needles for well known hat maker.

    I am a sewing machine mechanic who specializes in fixing really old machines and a well known hat maker has come to me, asking for wilcox and gibbs chain stitcher needles, this machine is the one that they sew straw hats with, and they have broken their last needles, its a rare needle and i have...
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    Moving? maybe...

    brave arent we. Call me a negativist but the last place that I would move is a large urban center sure go visit and enjoy. The mind that i have keep thinking that within the next ten years living in a large city, will not be a good idea. Now dont label me a zealot or a nut. Though I might be ok...
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    Weird and Forgotten Movies

    The aviator not the newer one. Since the other movie about howard hughes came out, this one has disappeared , want to know if anyone else has seen this one, superman , reeves guy as a world war one pilot after the war, flying airmail, also has one fo the cagney and lacey ladies as a love...
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    How about the WORST ads?

    heinz ad. We had to think for a few minutes, but heinz makes vinegar and pickles are made by pickling, you get it, now dont you. I HOPE SO .59Lark.:eek:
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    brakes a big issue Their has been a big discussion here with old brakes versus new brakes, it makes me tell you a story from two years ago. I was coming back from a cruise night with my eldest and two neighbours children, the train had just gone through, and the traffic started moving, i went...
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    Name That Tune

    here is a old line from a fifities song He had a hopasicle it took off like a gun, that fool was the terror of highway 101, or as a teenager, a old friend used to play this song on his tape deck, if you really want to go, i need gas money, cant remember the rest of that one. cowboy...
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    momma mia movie revue

    oops wrong james bond actor Thanks for the correction, am always posting these things either really early or really late and the punctation and the gramar and more suffer. The kids bought the sound track at the price club and all the way home from the big city we listened to the abba sounds of...
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    Cocktail parties: Country-Style

    could be worse you could have moved to amish country Having grown up with amish neighbours, my fondest memory is having a miller girl babysit my brother and I, about 1966, seeing this girl about 16 at the time eating potatoe chip and drinking gingerale and watching , i think it was the ed...
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    momma mia movie revue

    Last night, i took my entire family, six, 14, my wife and I and my 83 year old mother to see this new movie momma mia, actually a nice little movie considering what pulp comes out from hollywood. Now its not kane or the maltese falcon but hey that was the golden age and now its all fluff or pulp...
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    How did you start wearing hats?

    my first fedora My first fedora would be my fathers biltmore, sold my harold heath department store in tillsonburg, it was a famous 3 generation three story dept store in tillsonburg and it closed last year after 90 years. The town did not have the money since tobacco was declared non grata by...
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    why do you do live the way you do.?

    With all the different people that co exist in our world why does this diverse group live the way we do. The fedoras, why when the whole world wears baseball caps, or nothing do some of us insist on wearing a style of hat that has been out of style for thirty years. When society in general has...
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    Office chairs

    Krug office furniture I have several of those kind of solid oak office chairs , dated from the 1920s, krug is still in business in kitchner, if fact when the pentagon needed new office furniture after the attack, they bought the furniture from krug in kitchener ont Canada, solid wood furniture...
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    Let's Retire These Movie/TV Plots!

    nothing new in 30 years. really. Why is that you know what is going happen before it happens, suspensefull music, no that dopey plot, he is going to get it. The girl is going to be dragged under the mattress and murdered etc. I wish i had more time to watch pbs, there was a english horror movie...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    will try to post some pictures of the machines that i have. The machines that have in my basement, will ask my daughter to post some of the pictures of the grasshopper elna and the 301a slant needle machine. My 84 year old mother refinishes treadle cabinets in her basement , we overhaul old...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    my basement is fuller than that. Looks like some of the stuff, in my basement, white rotary most of them are friction drive with the pulley on motor and they run backwards, 319k most of them are two tone green here in Canada. The first singer zig zag was the 206k and it was based on a...
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    1961 Sewing Machine Singer 503A "Rocketeer"

    singer slant o matic 503 a Made in the early 1960s , was the second down from the top, the next one up was the 500a, it was automatic with built in stitches, had two levers and by combining them, such as b L, YOU obtained certain built in stitches, worm drive gear direct drive, The curvy shape...
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    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    having driven old cars for long time. The experiences, that i have had behind the wheel of old cars, for a long time I always bought old peoples cars, usually 25 to 30 years old, and now my older car is a 1959 studebaker and my new car is a 1989 buick century bought from a estate. I just havent...

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