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Lost art of proper relaxation
Everything is so individualized now. If you spent all your time holed up in your home and never interacted with anyone in the neighborhood, especially when the weather was great, your neighbors rightly considered you must be up to something. But now? That's a social norm. I grew up in the Deep...- p51
- Post #45
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
This is going to sound a bit racist, but I hear African-Americans very often say, "You know what I'm saying?" after almost every single sentence that comes out of their mouth. Haven't heard any other demographic doing that. Same thing as, "Know what I mean?" though. Both are equally annoying.- p51
- Post #1,957
- Forum: The Golden Era
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40 Vintage Life Hacks
Would that bottle trick actually work? Has anyone tried it?- p51
- Post #5
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Fury
I met a kamikaze pilot many years ago. He was indeed, "voluntold" for the duty. He said he got full flight training and actually went out several times but never found anything until his final mission. He said his last flight was the day before VJ day and the pilots knew that was coming very... -
Fury
As a kid, it never made sense to me how easily the Germans and Japanese submitted to allied control without a great fuss. Now that I know far more about the nature of totalitarian/dictatorship cultures, it's in a way more confusing why we didn't have an insurgency in Germany and Japan for a long... -
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Fury
The lone SS trooper letting that guy go? I didn't think that was odd. The guy could have easily been a conscript, as nobody was too discerning by that timeframe in the German military. Got a pulse and both feet and at least one hand? Here, grab a helmet, a smock and that rifle and come with me... -
Fury
A couple of years ago, I met a vet who had just showed up on the line (France, 1944) and was green as grass. His SGT supposedly ordered him to shoot a prisoner in a group they had just caught, from a machine gun team. He refused and it played out a lot like that scene in 'Fury' where he was... -
Patton leads German troops against USSR?
As opposed to the way German generals led their troops? Were it just a matter of finding German soldiers to follow Patton in a post-surrender world, I think many Germans would have followed Satan himself into a renewed fight against the Russians as they were hated that much by many. -
Patton leads German troops against USSR?
Then there's the economic argument, in that the Allies had pretty much expended their entire economies by the start of 1945. The 7th war loan saved the US government from total collapse of the economy, given how much the war was costing. Not a chance would any politician have even thought of... -
1940s Tennessee State Patrol car colors?
The reason I'm asking about all this is because I'd love to have an accurate model of a TN highway patrol car parked in the gas station I have on the layout. I have seen a commercial model made but I have no way to know how accurate it could be:- p51
- Post #5
- Forum: The Golden Era
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1940s Tennessee State Patrol car colors?
...anyone? the closest I could find shows a decent shot of a car that'd be about right but it doesn't mention colors at all. the one below it mentions yellow, but that's a city police car, not the highway patrol one: http://www.tennesseelawman.com/3-cars- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Shocking Stories About Your Golden Era Relatives
I don't know for sure, but I strongly suspect that my Grandfather shot a man off his front porch in the early 30s. The dead man was either taking a leak off the porch or was exposing himself to the house. Grandpa, a WW1 vet, apparently wasn't having any of it. The family moved to Oklahoma for a...- p51
- Post #145
- Forum: The Golden Era
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WWII US War Correspondent Collection / Impression
I haven't updated this in quite a while but I've gotten some more stuff since I posted last on this thread. The MVPA convention remains a very sore subject to me. A good friend of mine and myself set up a very large correspondent display for the convention and we got NO mention anywhere among... -
1940s Tennessee State Patrol car colors?
Does anyone here have any idea what color and markings would be on a Tennessee State Patrol car during the WW2 era? I've tried several internet searches, have emailed the TN state museum, the State Patrol and even some private website contacts for police collecting, but nobody seems to have a...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The bible for railroad locomotives, circa 1941...
Just got this yesterday in the mail from an eBay listing. It’s 1300 pages long and has pretty much anything you can imagine going on with steam and diesel locomotives in that year. Thousands of photos and technical drawings of part of and whole locomotives… Kalmbach reprinted this in 1971 and...- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Red Tails. Fact or Fiction?
I watched the DVD set recently, and someday I plan on buying it. I taped it on VHS when it first aired and would watch it often. The book is even betterm but they couldn't have filmed everything in the book as they mentioned airplanes which today there are no flying examples of. -
Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...
I'm pretty sure my Grandfather was among the bonus marchers and I doubt he had a lot of love for Dugout Doug, especially since he sent two sons to the Pacific to fight for him. Indeed, but the problem is that people like us DO know these things while the general public for the most part has no... -
Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...
So many things like this happened and the people who did these horrible crimes did not meet justice anywhere near the way they did in Nuremberg. The US Government actually signed away rights for US citizens to sue the Japanese government after the war as well, from what I've read. Many served no... -
Marsden Matting question... what did it look like new?
I model in On30 gauge: http://www.freewebs.com/willysmb44/modeltrains.htm No scenery yet, but that'll be started soon. I got a pre-made section of matting made for airplane dioramas, but I wanted to show some sheets out by themsevles. This will also include a 1/48 scale Nissen hut, which will... -
Marsden Matting question... what did it look like new?
I'm wondering what the original color was of sections of Marsden Matting or pierced (or perforated) steel planking (PSP) in WW2. I'm building a model RR layout that takes place in 1943 and I want to throw some sections of the stuff into the back of a truck. They're etched brass and it got me...
