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    Hitler's Car

    Patton's car has an interesting history, too. It used to be in the museum at Ft. Knox but it may have been moved since then. When we were there, there was also an exhibit on Elvis Presley's time in the army. I wonder where Pat Brady's jeep is now.
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    Vintage Motor Clothes

    Now I'm curious. What are shark nose toes? The Germany Army was still wearing so-called jackboots when I was there in the 1960s but I didn't notice anything peculiar about the. By the way, if you like pointy-toes cowboy or Western boots, you can also buy pointy-toed overshoes to match. Don't...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When was the last time anyone said "sound as a dollar?"
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    Weight loss

    Although I don't really have a weight problem--everyone here laughs when I mention my weight--I'm not so sure that weight is as important as other things. Of course, that's easy for me to say, but provided you aren't grossly overweight, which I cannot define, I think it's better to maintain a...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    You know you're getting old when you are constantly redefining "old." Old is when you can't do for yourself. Doesn't necessarily happen all at once but one day you wake up and you realize that you don't do much of anything anymore because you can't. I'm not that far along yet. You also know...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Well, two hours would be stretching it but my father-in-law would go to great lengths to avoid paying a toll. In his case, it was when going through Richmond. It was the principle of the thing.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Because the tolls are expensive.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Yes and I'm old enough to remember my father getting paid $75 a week after taxes and in cash.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The West Virginia Turnpike was opened when I was still in grade school (I think) and it was a big deal, given how travel through the mountains is not so easy. Even though it was a toll road, people who wanted to go where it happened to be going like the idea. It wasn't that long, though, going...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    What about "turnpike?" I don't think any new toll roads are being called turnpikes these days but then they aren't even being called toll roads, either. They're being referred to as "express lanes," for which you have an "E-Z pass." The best name for them is "Lexus lanes." There's one toll road...
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    Weight loss

    I'm starting to think that we inherit more than we think. I physically resemble my mother and her brothers, not my father's side of the family as far as general physical shape goes, all of whom were stockier. I like to say that I've always been tall but I don't know when I got to be a large. But...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Well, then, how about money that hasn't been folded yet?
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    Vintage trains

    It looks like paved roads were low on the list of priorities. In one of the W.C. Fields movies, "The Bank Dick," I think it was, Fields boasted at how many paved blocks the town had. The town was Lompoc, California, a real town where it was filmed. That's what you call civic pride.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    As always, that was a good summary. I especially appreciate you comment about extremely middle-class. There were lots of books, either adventure or mystery, aimed at adolescent boy or girls (one or the other but probably not both). The leading characters in them were always teenagers, although...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Okay, then, riddle me this: When did the term "teen" or "teenager" come into use? Inasmuch as it was common for people to get regular jobs when they were quite young, the "teenage years" had no meaning, as in, you weren't a child and you weren't an adult. That may have been something that was...
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    The Man Purse Aka. THE MURSE YES or NO ?

    No, none of them looked like what I was referring to. They looked like briefcases. That was fifty years ago, remember, when people were a lot more dressed up than today. Hats, even. At the time, if you were in the army overseas, you weren't allowed out of barracks without a coat and tie.
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    The Man Purse Aka. THE MURSE YES or NO ?

    When I was in Germany several decades ago, you would see men carrying a small satchel that looked like a briefcase. Same size, same shape. We called them "schnitzel bags."
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A book I received for my birthday is an autobiography of a man's father who went to Alaska as a mining engineer. The book includes many extracts from his father's diary, including when he was a student at the University of Arizona between around 1901 to 1906. He was a prankster and given to...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The last place I saw "negress" was, incredibly enough, in the Whole Earth Catalog.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I think "exotic" still has some meaning. To me, it evokes something or someone who is interesting, mostly unfamiliar and has a captivating charm. It definitely evokes far away places, some not so unfamiliar, like Hawaii, other places less well known, like Sumatra. It might be Africa, it can...

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