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Terms Which Have Disappeared
You guys mock how people should just know that the characters in "Friends" couldn't afford to live there, but the previous post is right in that in the future, people won't have a clue. Just like people today think all women in the 20s were flappers or most young people were hippies in the 60s...- p51
- Post #1,655
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Got to sit in Howard Hughes' seat... ON THE SPRUCE GOOSE
I went to the Evergreen Aviation museum in McMinnville, Oregon yesterday. I'd been there twice before but not since 2005. They have expanded the place a great deal ad is the only museum I know which has a B-17 and hardly anyone notices. It's dwarfed by their primary display= The Hughes H-4...- p51
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
The threat of military school would have been met with laughs when i was a kid. I didn't know anyone growing up who's parents had the means to send them anywhere but public school. A guy I went to elementary school with was one of those kids who never understood boundries and when yo keep his...- p51
- Post #1,617
- Forum: The Golden Era
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WWII aviation artist - favourite picture?
Yep, I have a special model proof print, signed by Jim in his living room (after I tracked in some mud onto his carpet, I still feel horrible about that and I apologized an awful lot)... -
WWII aviation artist - favourite picture?
Another big fan of Jim Deitz. I'm in a few of his paintings, and I've posed in his personal studio which is in his garage. For example, I'm the guy yukking it up with the medic to the far right, holding a FG-42 rifle... -
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15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...
Hadn't thought of it in years, but I just recalled that my Uncle's house had a built in ironing board. The house was probably from the 50s as the land had been a German POW camp in WW2 (wish I could go back to that back yard in that same timeframe with a good metal detector). You have to wonder...- p51
- Post #34
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Election signs from the 40s?
I am from the south originally and knew the storng influence the Democrats had even longer than into the 60s. There was a heated senatorial election in Tennessee in 1942, so any elections in '43 would have been county-based, if any. It wouldn't be correct for my timeframe anyhow, but I was...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Election signs from the 40s?
I'm building a model RR layout that'll take place in rural Eastern Tennessee in 1943 and I started wondering about elections signs the other day. I don't think this was a big election year there so there wouldn't be any signs, but how common were, "Vote for _____" signs during the war?- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What could be more fun than a vintage P-51??
Lucky enough to score a Mustang ride in formation with a B-17 and a B-24 once. We even intercepted them over water (the Gulf o Mexico). Best 90 minutes of my life! As for the working guns, I can't see the FAA allowing you to shoot them in flight as the brass kicks out the bottom of the wings... -
Fury
I saw it Friday night. It’s not as well written as Saving Private Ryan, but it’s still a very powerful movie which was done to an amazing degree of authenticity. I can see why some people wouldn’t love it, as there’s more than a few seriously uncomfortable scenes within it. You almost have to be... -
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What is wrong with people?
There has always been an element which knows no sense of decency or any lines that cannot be crossed. Frankly, there's a chance whoever took this has no idea what it represents. Yeah, I can hear it later; someone swipes something and another says it needs to be returned. The first person will... -
WWII Reenacting Discussion Thread
I've seen a lot of re-enacting things in my life, but I've never done a 'block off downtown' event. I live in WA state, where you can't bring automatic weapons due to state laws. Re-enacting groups in neighboring states (all of which allow legal machine guns) will say that it's a coincidence... -
What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?
I would say I wish social media had never been invented, but I guess it was only a matter of time before people used the internet to make themselves think everyone is famous...- p51
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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WWII Reenacting Discussion Thread
http://www.liberationofnewoxford.com/photos.html Man, I can't imagine an entire town blocking itself off for an event like this, I wish I lived anywhere nearby... -
BOARDWALK EMPIRE (HBO) - Everything you wanted to bootleg about the Show!
I missed the start of the episode, didn't even know it was on last night until about 6 minutes in. I had no idea those were flashbacks from Nucky's youth until this very moment, I assumed that was a relative of Nucky's or something... When True Blood was done, I felt like it was time. Same thing...- p51
- Post #1,176
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Two Lancaster bomber planes fly together for first time in 50 years
Yeah, could you imagine the horror of hearing hundreds of them coming (at night, no less) from miles away, knowing that there's nowhere to run? -
Two Lancaster bomber planes fly together for first time in 50 years
There's at least one taxi-able Lanc in the UK, I wonder if there's any plans for the flying two to pass over one with all four turning, too? -
Show us your vehicles
I've posted about my Jeep before, but it was delivered the Army on this day in 1944. 70 years! I felt it was wrong somehow not to fire up my Jeep on it's 70th birthday, today. So, I did and drove it onto the back 40 for a portrait. My wife thinks I'm nuts for doing that, of course... The local...- p51
- Post #1,930
- Forum: The Display Case
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The Bevin Boys ~ The Forgotten Conscripts
You ever work in a mine, especially in conditions like that? I had uncles who worked mines in the US and when they were called for WW1, when they came back they said it was hell, but still better than mine work. -
(KNIVES) Let's see some sharp pointy objects
Some of my WW2 theater-made knives (the bottom one is a very rare Stone-made cast set of knuckes):- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
