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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Sorry, I missed your earlier post. Pittsburgh was named after the Scot, William Pitt the Elder, hence the terminal "h" in the city's name.
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Could be. There were any number of obvious misspellings on the page. On that same line, "Puddler" could be "Peddler". How about "Knishler Martin, striker, 111 Third, A"?
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I started this thread with my discovery of the now-extinct (or pretty nearly so) "French Laundry", a kind of service business. This morning I'm looking through a directory of Pittsburgh and Allegheny Cities for 1871 to see if I can find when my great grandfather moved from Pittsburgh to my home...
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Does anyone else refer to decaffeinated coffee as "unleaded"?
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Yes, they were, but "Australia" isn't a place, or just a piece of geography, it's a social construct, which didn't exist before the arrival of the surplus Irish population. Many Irish were exported in the 19th Century, including one of my great-great grandfathers, but in his case, it was to...
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    As a "carpetbagger" myself (moved to Virginia from the Pittsburgh area as a young man more than 40 years ago), I can confirm that today, pretty much all of northern and eastern Virginia is not "the South", but if you get to the south western parts of the state, the accents are distinctly...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Lipstick in the heel

    What I find interesting is that in 1949, Leipzig was part of the Russian occupation zone. Things were very grim in Germany at the time, especially in the Russian zone (the Soviet Union not being a "forgive and forget" sort of outfit). Yet here was a glamor fashion photo!
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Vintage candy that is still on the shelves

    My home town was established in the 19th Century, before zoning laws had occurred to anyone. There were any number (well, seven in my childhood) small, neighborhood, family-operated grocery stores scattered through commercial and residential areas. The one relevant to this discussion was...
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Retro Graphic Novels

    When I was a boy (early 1960's), every Saturday at noon the television would have a Civil Defense (by the spelling I'm sure you can tell that I'm an American) test warning broadcast. The CD logo (CD inside a triangle, inside a circle, inside a square) would appear and a 1000 Hz tone was...
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    What Are You Reading

    This one could almost be an entry in "This Day in History". I've just started Catastrophe 1914:Europe Goes to War by Max Hastings. This Saturday will be the 100th anniversary of the murder of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, the match that lit the fuse that triggered the explosion that was...
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    What are you listening to?

    Johnny Dollar.
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ancestor hat pics

    Here is a photo of a young men's club which called itself "The Olympians" (modest bunch, no?). The fellow at the front is my great-uncle Jack holding his bowler, while the third one in (with the pork pie fedora) is either my grandfather or his brother George.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I often note two actors in the same old television show or movie (1950's for TV, 1950's and earlier for movies) pronounce the city's name differently. A third variant I recall is Los Angle-ese. If I recall correctly, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) and Hamilton Burger (William Tallman) use different...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ancestor hat pics

    Here are two pictures of my father: From the early 1920's. USAAF, 1943 We were a hat-wearing family.
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was a child and not dressed in a way my mother approved, she would say, "You don't want to go around looking like a ragamuffin, do you?" Like most children, my appearance didn't figure importantly in my own thinking.
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ancestor hat pics

    Great grandfather Here's another ancestor. This is my great grandfather, the father of my grandfather's bride.
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ancestor hat pics

    It appears to me to be a studio photograph. The background looks to be painted. All I have is the plate itself. My grandfather was a machinist in a steel mill (as was my father), so definitely a "blue-collar" worker. To me, that means his disposable income was meager. Therefore, I infer that...
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ancestor hat pics

    So, it's like a "negative", in that prints would have been made on paper? Can you explain the process further?
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Ancestor hat pics

    This is a photo of my namesake grandfather and my grandmother, about the time of their wedding. I can't find a record of the wedding, but I know they weren't married in 1908 and they were married in 1910. Their 1910 census record states that the number of years in the present marriage is "0", so...
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've never heard that term. Is a regionalism?

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