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Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually
Spent a number of years while I was working my way through school employed in an urban hospital, and I noticed that a lot of the mental health staff types (social workers, crisis workers, psychologists, etc.) would dress down (blue jeans, lumberjack shirts, etc.) in some half baked attempt to...- ChiTownScion
- Post #99
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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You know you are getting old when:
Bigelow used to make an Irish Breakfast Tea that really packed a caffeine punch: when I was a starving law student I'd steep 2-3 bags a cup while pulling an all nighter study session and had to be at work the following morning. It's been discontinued, and I moved on to coffee after I graduated...- ChiTownScion
- Post #3,431
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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A Day in the Life of the NY Times, 1942
Another exhibit to be entered into evidence in the prima facie case that I was born decades too late. Well into my early 20's I was notorious for wearing a dress shirt more than once. Part of it was that was instilled back in grade school. We wore uniform dress shirts and ties, and I only owned...- ChiTownScion
- Post #17
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread
- ChiTownScion
- Post #3,626
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Churchill. Released June 2. Saw it with some well read British friends who, over drinks after the film, filled us in regarding numerous facts regarding the lives of Sir Winston and other principal figures in the film. I have always regarded him as heroic but flawed, but had no idea that he was...- ChiTownScion
- Post #23,527
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Just when you thought you had seen it all . . . (Warning: Not for the fainthearted)
My honest impression?- ChiTownScion
- Post #132
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
You gave it to a two year old. What did you expect would happen? I was always chided by my wife about my inability to read little kids before I was a parent. Summer cookout at our house, and my little 4 year old nephew was constantly slamming the back storm door as he was going in & out. I...- ChiTownScion
- Post #4,697
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
How amazed many of those same "patriots" must have been when they discovered (if they ever did) that their beloved Pledge was originally written in 1892 by Francis Bellamy, a Socialist. (Large case "S?" Small case "s?") And we all know that as a nod to McCarthyism, that same Pledge was amended...- ChiTownScion
- Post #191
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
He's wearing the hussar's busby (that fur hat ). Hussars were originally 15th century Hungarians: lancer and light cav that quickly earned a reputation for daring attacks, and the fad spread to several nations. The death's head was more or less a standard emblem for them. Note that the...- ChiTownScion
- Post #171
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. “ Lucius Annaeus Seneca- ChiTownScion
- Post #157
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
And I'll always tip my hat in tribute to a John Prine reference.- ChiTownScion
- Post #143
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
Religion has a longer track record- and often the two are so intertwined that drawing a line of demarcation is impossible.- ChiTownScion
- Post #137
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
I do not understood the notion of "I'm proud to be an American*." Gratitude and appreciation of the sacrifices of others in the cause of liberty (whether on a bridge in Selma Alabama or on Omaha Beach), yes. Pride is reserved for our own accomplishments, on the other hand. Most who thump their...- ChiTownScion
- Post #136
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
It didn't happen overnight. There was an attitude toward German civilians facing starvation in '45-46 by Eisenhower and others of "Let 'em starve: that many fewer German soldiers we won't have to face in a generation. " And Morgenthau and others advocated an agrarian and de- industrialized...- ChiTownScion
- Post #111
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What's your favorite, most psychologial-impressive movie scene??
Barney Greenwald's speech in "The Caine Mutiny." Although, the text in the book is far more powerful. Lt. Greenwald is de- ethnicized in the film, and while the film scene still packs quite a punch, read the text in the book by Herman Wouk for a far more powerful rendition: They all...- ChiTownScion
- Post #7
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
And BTW... there was a real difference in attitudes toward Sen. McCarthy between World War I vets and World War II- particularly among the latter who had served in the ETO- even within the American Legion ( an organization whose checkered history has been discussed elsewhere). The former, in...- ChiTownScion
- Post #88
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
Agree in full!! And when it was his turn to serve and he was of able body and Selective Service material, Medved did everything that he could to avoid military service. Dodged Vietnam by student deferment and a deferment for working in a child day care center, as I recall reading. Aging boomers...- ChiTownScion
- Post #86
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
I can't see anyone in their right mind pining for those 1975- 1976 atrocities known as polyester blend leisure suits. At least I hope not. Three piece (with vest) wool suits that were popular at the end of the decade: that's another matter.- ChiTownScion
- Post #68
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Jackets in Perth western Australia
Welcome! I'm a neophyte as to leather jackets, but it definitely has become one of those things that generates a "must have" list.- ChiTownScion
- Post #15
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.
Lampoon was my first exposure to Gahan Wilson's animation. Really insane, off the wall stuff, some of it... but I always thought that "the kid" in "Nuts" nailed the essence of childhood as well as anyone.- ChiTownScion
- Post #65
- Forum: The Golden Era
