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The Era -- Day By Day
I have the sneaking suspicion that this semester's tuition at "the school of hard knocks of the university of life" is gonna be a real slam to our hapless friend Harold. Getting into Yale and being tagged by Skull and Bones might be less costly. When I got engaged to my now wife, a friend...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
"What Are You Wearing Today?" I wonder what a grand in cash at a fine men's clothing store would have really bought Harold back in 1940. A cashmere overcoat at Brooks Brothers (online, and it really does look like a decent one) will set you back at about $1,700. today. A decent suit can be had...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
(What about the kid who sneaks into the vestry before the service and helps herself to as many of the little glasses of grape juice as she can drink? Oh wait, that was me.) Good Methodist lass, you. We Catholic school kids always went for the brass ring of sacramental wine... if the padre...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What advice would you give to your younger selves?
"Don't worry about the girls who won't go out with you because they don't think that you're 'cool enough' for them. In thirty years, they'll be calling you at home asking for referrals for good divorce attorneys because Mr. Right didn't turn out to be so 'right' after all."- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord
The diesel hydraulic system. Been employed by the German rail systems for decades. Krauss Maffei locomotives were imported to the US in the 1960's by both the Southern Pacific and Denver & Rio Grande railroads, but the longer distances, higher mountain altitudes, and heavier load demands played...- ChiTownScion
- Post #105
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Golden Era Anathema
The Stooges mainly appeared in short subjects for Columbia so it's understandable that character development was thin. There was one feature film before they left Healy, but, like roller coasters, you either love or hate the Stooges. They were forbidden fruit for so many of my fellow males as a...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Those Trib editorial cartoons by McCutcheon, Orr, and Parrish are always fun to view.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What advice would you give to your younger selves?
"Never run after a woman, or a bus. Another one will be right along shortly."- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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1940s New York photos
One reason for their demise was the fact that the greater proportion of their rolling stock was wood and many of them were trailers. Steel cars were a lot safer in collisions and everyone knew it, but many of the elevated structures couldn't support the additional weight of a fleet that would...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
He should hook up with Jiggs. Burgers are fine, but corned beef & cabbage tops 'em.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Dined there once. The big deal at Igler's was the singing waiters. I remember the cuisine as being only nominally German: the Golden Ox (North & Clybourne) or Zum Deutschen Eck (Lincoln and Southport) were a better bet for decent beef rouladen or saurbraten mit spaetzle. All gone now: seems like...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Never had any desire to visit NYC until, (figuratively) kicking and screaming, my wife dragged me there so that I could explore it while she attended a medical conference. Sometimes it's great to be proven wrong: I was really impressed by the four track express and local subway main in Manhattan...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Now that you mention it... I recall my dad telling me that my mom and he had (after he was discharged in 1945) attended one of those performances: he said that McCormick appeared before them wearing what looked like a smoking jacket, pajamas and slippers, and rambled on for a few minutes in the...- ChiTownScion
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The Era -- Day By Day
I can already see this getting a lot darker than the usual Harold escapade.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Era -- Day By Day
Clark & Diversey. High rent area, these days.- ChiTownScion
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The Era -- Day By Day
Astute beyond her years, that girl.- ChiTownScion
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The Era -- Day By Day
He looks like he was drawn by Robert Crumb.- ChiTownScion
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Golden Era Anathema
Never believed that she was "the queen of comedy." In my book that title goes to Tracy Ullman. If I had to be stranded on an island with one woman other than my wife, it'd have to be Tracy Ullman. (Fer cryin' out loud, if I'm stuck on a damned island I don't want starry eyed romance: I need to...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.
But hasn't this really existed since before than you and I were born? Top high school scholars and athletes were always courted by universities, each trying to outdo the other with subtle- and not so subtle- sales pitches. It's gotten amped up over the decades, and now we have universities built...- ChiTownScion
- Post #11,379
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Golden Era songs with off-color subjects.
Search engines in the hands of the idle curious are the devil's playthings. What I came up with were lyrics that indicate that similar words were part of the second verse of this: Put on your old grey bustle, and get out and hustle 'Cause the rent is coming due; In a field of clover, he will...- ChiTownScion
- Post #92
- Forum: Radio
