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  1. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I was a devotee of the Hillbillies. I remember being put out because my Cub Scout meetings moved to "Beverly Hillbillies" night (I think it was Wednesday).
  2. KILO NOVEMBER

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    I turned 7 in 1960, so I have a kid's-eye view of the decade. When I started first grade, Ike was the President, we kids played WWII in my neighborhood, and everyone's father had been in "the Service". By the way, I still like Ike!
  3. KILO NOVEMBER

    Flash Gordon's Motorhome

    I remember Barry Weiss driving it on an episode of Storage Wars. It's cool, but maybe it's a sign that the owner has way too much spare cash.
  4. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That reminds me of one of my favorite TV shows when I was a boy, The Outer Limits. See the opening of each show on this YouTube video. Oh, and does anyone still have "rabbit ears"?
  5. KILO NOVEMBER

    Doing Dishes

    I just take my down to the river and beat them against the rocks with a stick.
  7. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here's one story" 'New York City-born comedian Jimmy Durante (1893-1980) used “Why the guy’s making a federal case out of it” on his radio show with Gary Moore, The Durante-Moore Show, broadcast about 1944 and printed in a book published in 1945. The phrase was picked up by other New York...
  8. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That one was common in my neighborhood, near Pittsburgh. There are lots of people of Slavic ethnicity in southwestern Pennsylvania.
  9. KILO NOVEMBER

    Overly appreciated movies?

    Aw c'mon. Can you really say that Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis weren't hilarious in Some Like It Hot?
  10. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was a boy, my mother and father urged us not to exaggerate a grievance with the injunction, "Don't make a Federal case out of it." Anyone else ever get this advice, and if so, does anyone know the origin?
  11. KILO NOVEMBER

    An Art Deco PC - Flightline

    It's interesting to think that the case of that computer is worth 50 times what the guts are worth. The first ENIAC was built 65 years ago and cost (in "inflation-adjusted terms") about $6 million. A current smart phone has probably five orders of magnitude more computation and memory capacity.
  13. KILO NOVEMBER

    Shorpy All Stars

    The photo looks, to my eye, to have been made on a Washington, DC street. The store sign visible on the far side of the street is a local retailer, still in business. According to the obituary of Madeline Rizik Curry, her father and uncle(s?) opened the store in 1908. It is now located on...
  14. KILO NOVEMBER

    Shorpy All Stars

    According to Wikipedia, "The village was devastated by the Ohio River flood of 1937. The village's population was moved several miles inland to New Shawneetown." My guess this photo was taken around the time of the flood, based on the boots two of the men are wearing.
  15. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here's one from the Roaring Twenties, "the cat's pyjamas". And here's another from my grandfather. When describing distances of an intermediate magnitude (more than few feet or yards, but less than a mile, say from his house to his barn), he would specify his estimation in "rods". But for the...
  16. KILO NOVEMBER

    American Accents in the Golden Era

    I've lived in northern Virginia for forty years. I have yet to hear anyone with a northern Virginia accent. I expect that it's the flood of us "foreigners'" who have lead to its extinction. Today you can hear Appalachian accents from people who grew up in West Virginia or further south along the...
  17. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Dollar-a-year man In 1917, the size of the Federal workforce was very small. In the effort to organize the industrial and transportation sectors of the U.S. economy to meet the production and logistical challenges of "The Great War", a number of wealthy industrialists accepted leading positions...
  19. KILO NOVEMBER

    Cost of steamship passage 1935 ...

    The great-grandfather came to the United States aboard a 673 ton, three-masted sailing bark named Genesee which was built in 1854 at Bath, Maine. I have some evidence that this ship was chartered by a Hamburg shipping company, Knorr and Holtermann, to transport emigrants to North America. It...
  20. KILO NOVEMBER

    Cost of steamship passage 1935 ...

    My great-grandfather sailed to the US from Le Havre in 1859 at the age of 18. Another great-grandfather arrived at New York in 1891. Both were farmers from Germany, the former from Hesse, and the latter from East Prussia. According to the arrival records, the latter came over on the "main...
  21. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How about "the real McCoy"?
  22. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Flash, adj., looking expensive in a way that attracts attention
  23. KILO NOVEMBER

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My father's "if" aphorism had to do with a small dog, chasing a rabbit, and defecation. Not suitable for a roomful of strangers.

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