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WW2-era short hairstyles?
My wife shocked the heck out of me in December by getting a reproduction 1940s dress for my living history group's annual Christmas party. I didn't have time to go over hair and makeup and she told me about the day before the party itself (I'd assumed she was just going to wear a modern black... -
Railroad Operating Battalions
Diesels were actually pretty common in military service for narrow gauge and swtiching duties, especially in places where you couldn't count on potable water or good coal (the old steam era adage is correct in that if you can't drink the water, you shouldn't put it in a locomotive's boiler)... -
The future. Repro's sold as Originals?
Nothing new here. For example, so much reproduction Civil War stuff has been made for over 50 years now and much of it spot-on. After that much time, some of the earlier reproduction stuff that was made well could easily be passed off as original 1860s stuff now. I have an original cartidge cap...- p51
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Never on Sunday
I'm not shocked. I went through Kennesaw (in an ill-fated attempt to see "The General" in the Big Shanty museum, missed it closing by 20 minutes) on my trip to Huntsville from ATL in September and I swear the place hadn't changed at all since I was last there in the '80s...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Never on Sunday
I grew up in North Florida (really Deep South) and we had them well into the 1990s! I remember for sure in 1992 I encountered that. We were going to get some beers and someone pointed out the county we were in wouldn't allow it. I now live in Washington state and up until a year ago, you...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Railroad Operating Battalions
I'd also ask the guy is he recalls what kinds of equipment, gear, uniforms and weapons he used. I've always wondered how those guys were armed, if at all. Yeah, when I was active duty, I was posted twice at Aberdeen Proving Ground. I hardly spent any weekend on post, I was usually gone to some... -
Wartime road signs in Tennessee?
Only if he's well past his 60s. The place had been out of business for quite a while when I saw it that only time in 1982 (thankfully my parents would go looking for these spots for me, I'm so glad they did as many of them are gone forever now). Two of the RR's coaches became diners, and both...- p51
- Post #19
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Railroad Operating Battalions
Wow, i sure wish I still lived on the east coast for something like this! I've been slowing collecting RR unit stuff from WW2 over the years (I'm working on designing a O scale narrow gauge RR layout that will have a ROB operating part of it, just painted several 1/48 scale GI figures last... -
Wartime road signs in Tennessee?
Does anyone know if they only had the license plates on the backs of vehicles in the 40s? I know they have front and back plates now, but what about during WW2?- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Calling all cars!
All my 'dream' cars are usually open top, OD green and often have armored plating on them. A true 'dream car' I once saw was a WW2 scout car with all the armor and military hardware but it had a modern engine, drivetrain and running gear. But from the outside you couldn't tell. The guy built it...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Land Line Phone
Where we live, a land line is worth its weight in gold and I don't understand why anyone would solely rely on cells. We live just south of the Olympic Mountains in WA state. We get some pretty harsh windstorms every few years or so (In 1006, we had over a half dozen of them). And our specific...- p51
- Post #45
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Wartime road signs in Tennessee?
There weren't any Byurma shave signs in the area during WW2. I've confirmed that with both my parents and other family who lived in the area at the time. The area I'm modeling is a very rural place, up in the hills of of the Northeast corner of the state (Stoney Creek, outside of Elizabethton...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Wartime road signs in Tennessee?
Yeah, in 1/48 scale, that'd be about 0.03 inches wide. No way you'd be able to make anything that tiny, but you are right it'd be on a civilian car. The ration sticker alone is gonna be uber tiny but it is a detail many people know about. Thankfully there were next to no civilian cars running...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Wartime road signs in Tennessee?
As for the Rock City sign, this looks like a good representation and if I can’t find a photo from pre-1946, I’ll probably use this one (a barn near Louisville) as the typefaces were for sure in use during the 30s and 40s: http://www.roadfood.com/insider/photos/8574.jpg As for the road signs...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Wartime road signs in Tennessee?
I know all about the wargames, but they were much further West than where I'm modeling (the East Tennessee & Western North Carolina RR, running from Johnson City TN, to Cranberry, NC). The airborne forces for that wargame DID fly right over the area at the time, though. My folks lived in the...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Wartime road signs in Tennessee?
I'm slowly desinging and will soon be building a model train layout (O scale narrow gauge) that takes place in TN in 1943. One of things that has stumped me is what wartime road signs looked like in Tennessee. I have the license plates figured out, but I want to make scale authentic speed limit...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Yet More Aloofness
That says it all. Of course, I habve no idea what you and the other two gents looked like, but I'm willing to accept those who suggest you simply upstaged the organizers. If that'd been me, I'd have laughed at them (mostly because I've been in the hobby since the 1980s and my impressions are... -
Members in Uniforms Part 2
Taken at a private social event for my living history group this past weekend, we're standing in front of one of the "Tora Tora Tora" T-6 mockups... My wife shocked me a few days before by buying a reproduction 1940s dress (I never thought I'd be able to get her into 40s stuff!). We weren't able... -
'Everyone lied to me': Hitler's rant in bunker
I knew a guy years ago who hated Jehova's Witnesses only because one stole a girlfriend from him, and I supposed he has a deep-seated hatred of all of them to this day. Knowing that, would it be that big a stretch for a young Adolf Hitler having someone named Steinberg cut in front of him in a... -
'Everyone lied to me': Hitler's rant in bunker
True, but Britain thought (and rightly so) that they could be invaded in 1940. And Hitler almost tried making Operation Sea Lion happen. Germany didn't feel any serious threat of ground invasion until the fall of 44, when the Volkstrum was formed. I'm reading "The Forgotten Soldier" right now...
