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    The Man Purse Aka. THE MURSE YES or NO ?

    Upon reflection, the pants in the photo in post #181 look just like the way pants were worn when I was in high school: fairly narrow with a relatively short hem (high water pants), the better to show your white socks. But nobody wore suede shoes, blue or otherwise. On the few occasions you wore...
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    Democracy

    To be quite honest about it, it does not follow that freedom and democracy are going to be civil and quiet. Historically, it has been messy, rude, and rough and tumble. The ones that got our system going (on the second attempt) had just gone through a war and were unlikely to be kind and gentle...
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    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    To some extent, I think the Germans went into the war handicapped by their own propaganda. That is, the myths made to excuse their defeat in WWI. Ludendorff claimed that the German army was not defeated in the field but rather that it was stabbed in the back at home. It may be human nature to...
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    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    If I can throw out a couple of comments to an interesting thread more than a year after the last post: The rumor that there were bunkers somewhere in Germany, usually in Bavaria, were still very much alive when I was stationed there (Augsburg) in the mid-1960s. Both my son and my son-in-law...
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    The DINER.

    Is the 4th photo in Front Royal, by any chance?
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    The Man Purse Aka. THE MURSE YES or NO ?

    I don't see anything wrong with their bags but they sure are dressed funny.
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    I'm not so sure an abandoned factory building has a soul. It may never have. But I have a story about resurrection. For about 20 years I worked in photofinishing, an industry that has all but evaporated. For almost 15 of those years (seemed longer), I worked in the same place. The place was...
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    Show us your Guns!

    I just have to point out here that a freshman girl from WVU won the first gold medal in shooting and the first gold medal awarded. Not only that, she graduated from the same high school our two kids attended. Facts that I am unjustifiably proud of.
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    It's scary to think of large tracts of abandoned landed but it is a large country.
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    It's funny but the way I remember my hometown in the 1950s was as a busy place in the daytime with people out and about at lunchtime, which included school students, but with the sidewalks rolled up at night. No place ever stays the same as it was and even when restored like Williamsburg, it...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Although I avoid using words like sincere and authentic, I hadn't thought that much about the people who literally got left behind when a place is bypassed on the way to the future. I can understand people clinging to the place where they were born and grew up but every town in this country was...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    I meant to mention that, ironically, none of my neighbors or relatives were born in Princeton. My father was from Carroll County, Virginia, making me the first one in my line not born in Carroll or Grayson county since before 1800. Most, though, were born not far away. My mother and her family...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    I didn't know anyone else from Princeton frequented these pages. My understanding is that Bluefield is in just as bad a shape as Princeton. Princeton has a thriving hospitality business, though. I also notice that the big box stores and new hotels are there, out near the turnpike, and a couple...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    I made no mention of corporate farming, which has been going on for decades, or the family owned farm, because it makes no difference. The object in both cases is to create wealth for the owners, be they individuals or corporations. It should not be expected that either would have the best...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    You've just made a good argument for government involvement in agriculture. It already is, of course, but not without controversy. All government should do, though, is to follow policies that are designed, over the long run, to help keep prices stable, help keep farm and ranch ownership stable...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Make no mistake; there are some things about the past in certain places that I miss and miss very much. Frankly, however, it probably doesn't make as much difference to me as it does to others because I live someplace else now. I'm referring to the economic disaster that is the small town where...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    I don't see nostalgia quite the same way. The longing we have or may have could in fact be for a past we lived through, because we were young and carefree, or it may be a longing for a past that we just didn't experience when someone else was. But as you say, it can easily be a longing for a...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    I've traveled (by car) in both France, Belgium, Germany as well as the U.K. and I didn't mean to imply that there were caravan parks or tourist cottages along the motorways, autobahns and the like. Such places would be near the sea. We were in Normandy and the villages along the coast were so...
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    The Mummy clothes

    Oh, I meant to mention something about scarves or neckerchiefs. Older camping manuals, like Kephart's, invariably mention large silk neckerchiefs as essential for the well turned-out outdoorsman but it seems to have disappeared from even the longest list of essentials, at least as something to...
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    The Mummy clothes

    Interesting thread. Old, though. I sort of live in the 1930s and 1940s in some ways and I'm very much influenced by what I see in movies from those decades. I've always enjoyed jungle movies and similar adventure movies. Post-war movies are in some ways more interesting and still set in exotic...

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