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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That's a little like saying you never have to worry about your heart. It'll last as long as you live.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Good as gold?"
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Well, actually, it's the other way around. Easter falls near Passover. Passover came first. And by the way, does anyone say "sound as the dollar" anymore?
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    What are you listening to?

    Sexy volksmusik:
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    Pants to go with my A-2

    Fliers did not stop wearing the classic outfit of leather flying jacket, wool dress pants and khaki shirt when the war ended. That continued to be the uniform even for a while after the USAF was created. During the transitional period, as might be expected, enlisted men wore air force blue and...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I mentioned the term "long hair music" because we saw a concert of the Vienna Boys Choir last Sunday. The conductor had longish hair and was very animated, sometimes hilariously so. For one of the numbers, a piece from "Sister Act," the boys were also very animated. The rest of the time they...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Speaking of music, remember what "long-hair music" used to mean?
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    Jodhpurs / Breeches

    There was one of our neighbors when I was little, in the 1950s, who wore breeches now and then. He was a linesman for the power company and he wore them with climber's boots of the sorts that were available then. He didn't ride horses. Breeches seemed to have been fairly popular for sportsmen...
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    Favorite Uniforms

    Yes and I once owned one with the shoulder stock when I lived overseas. Although in theory not a bad idea and in fact fairly popular for the first twenty years or so of the 20th century, the one I had was not a tight attachment, which detracted somewhat from the effectiveness of the combination.
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    Favorite Uniforms

    Well, that explains a lot of things. I came home on the bus.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    For those who have lived in Europe, the U.S. is not called the land of round doorknobs for nothing. And that was 40 years ago.
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    White RAF Roll Neck Sweaters

    I suspect that it was often a matter of association. During the war, soldiers, especially Commandos at first, would have been aboard ship and a certain amount of trading might have taken place. The use of unofficial clothing, that is, clothing not authorized for a particular individual, as well...
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    Movie locations

    Oh, so it was the Ten Commandants!
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    Movie locations

    I don't know about Intolerance. But I have read that the set for the first Ben Hur, I think it was (a silent), was destroyed and bulldozed over but was later dug up as an archeological dig--or maybe not. Many, if not most movies were filmed either on a studio backlot or a movie ranch. The ones...
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    Deco Deliveries

    But nothing like that, though.
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    Deco Deliveries

    I haven't heard anyone referred to as a peddler lately. When I was in college, I saw a few vehicles that had been heavily modified, body-wise, though not in an art deco style. In fact, I think there is still interest in remodeling older cars by lowering the roof lines, lowering the suspension...
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    Deco Deliveries

    I think there was more logic in having several makes within a large car maker's offerings when each make had fewer models. There was also LaSalle and Plymouth. As the different makes expanded the number of their models, the differences were less marked, although I think each GM division had...
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    Deco Deliveries

    I was sad when the De Soto was discontinued but I was heartbroken when Oldsmobiles were.
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    White RAF Roll Neck Sweaters

    Fit of any garment is a peculiar thing and is subject to the whims of fashion, even to include the military. Photos seem to suggest that jerseys were worn rather over-sized. They were certainly not dress garments. Leather flying jacket on the other hand, seemed to have been a relatively snug...
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    Things that make you smile

    One--and only one--of my neighbors dressed like that sometimes, complete with breeches and high top boots. He was a linesman for the power company. He was a rough looking man with thick glasses and his son looked just like him. Yet they weren't at all mean or rough but they sure looked it. They...

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