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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was a boy, and making undue fuss over a perceived injustice, my mother or father would remonstrate with, "Don't make a Federal case out of it!"
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Favorite Military Quotes

    Plans are nothing; planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dwight_d_eisenhower.html#20oJeiIRlP7LXElP.99
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Lyndon Johnson was said to have characterized Gerry Ford thus.
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Often used here in the USA, usually as an expression of a sense of futility of one's own efforts, e.g. "I feel like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest!"
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When was the last time you heard of someone being "gaslighted"?
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    How would you earn a living?

    My father and grandfather were machinists in the steel industry. Likely I would have ended up doing the same. On the other hand, my grandfather's father was a shoemaker, and a great-great grandfather along another branch of my family tree worked as shoemakers. That has some more appeal (although...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    19th Century German Shoemakers

    Can anyone point me in the right direction to learn how German shoemakers learned their trade in the 19th Century? My great-grandfather came to the U.S. in 1859 and was an established shoemaker in Pittsburgh within a few years. I figure he must have apprenticed as a boy by way of learning the...
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Can an experienced member help me?

    The picture isn't clear, but it looks like a single-breasted suit. The trousers don't have cuffs, which I find odd. The suit coat has a fairly high "gorge", which refers to the point where the lapels join at the breast, and the lapels appear to be wide, a late 1940's look. I often use a custom...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Can an experienced member help me?

    The two hats are distinctly different. The one on the right, with the narrow brim is usually called a "stingy-brim fedora" and became widely popular (in the late 1950's and early 1960's) just before men generally stopped wearing fedoras. The last appearance of a stingy-brim fedora on a movie...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    1930s Berlin

    Is anyone else a fan of Philp Kerr's Bernie Gunther series of books?
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Diamonds in the Golden Era

    Mae West, "Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie." https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=u7ekAQ_Plxk[
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I see no irony here. When the right-wing talk show types use "politically correct" it's a term of derision. What I remember of the the late 1960's radical-speak is that "politically correct" was a term of approbation. So, did the old-school Reds use it in the former or the latter sense?
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here's a phenomenon I find interesting. Words with negative connotations are often replaced with newer words representing the same phenomena, even in the days before the concept of "politically correct". Here are some examples: "Imbecile", "Moron", "Idiot" were originally technical terms with...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Hickey Freeman Face-Plants!

    Of course I don't have access to their sales records, but my guess is men 40 - 70 years old. Yes, I recognize that with us baby boomers passing out of the work force that market will shrink, but those guys in the video just don't look like the sort who are going to buy $1,500 suits, even if...
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Hickey Freeman Face-Plants!

    How poorly the suits seemed to fit. And the guy on the right looked positively silly with that mop of hair and the bucket hat. It's hard to imagine these guys going to work in suits. I would have thought the suits would have been tailored to fit better, and that the advertising folk would have...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Hickey Freeman Face-Plants!

    To quote Herb Morrison, "... it's a terrific crash, ladies and gentlemen. It's smoke, and it's in flames now; Oh! The humanity! ... Ah! It's... it... it's a... ah! I... I can't talk, ladies and gentlemen." The CEO of H-F re-invents his company's product line and, apparently, its target market...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ben Sansum, The man who lives in 1946

    Some years back (maybe 10 or so) I was listening to something on the local public radio station. It might have been "Weekend All Things Considered", well, in this story a woman was talking about reel push mowers and hiring a teenaged neighbor boy to mow her lawn. The boy was astounded by the...
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    EXchange names for phone numbers

    Many years ago there was a TV commercial featuring two old guys in a one-upsmanship contest. First Old Guy: "When I was a boy we had to WALK to school! Five miles! Up hill! Both ways! Barefoot! In the snow! Second Old Guy: "WALKED! Feet! You had feet!?" So here's my old guy bid. When I was a...
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How about transportation terms my grandfathers would have known? They were both born in the 19th Century. When I read Sherlock Holmes stories and the protagonists are described as riding in various horse-drawn vehicles, I think that readers contemporary with Conan Doyle would immediately...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Walter Neff, Pacific All-Risk Insurance salesman. One really great role and a terrific movie! I think I'll watch that one again tonight.

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