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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I love my Pendleton shirts and have about a half-dozen. I also love most Filson products. But the funny thing is, they are all almost too good to use and I really don't wear them that much. One good thing about the Pendleton wool shirts is that they are machine washable. One model, however...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Say what you will, knife wounds are still common in the States.
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    Old gas stations

    In some cases, yes, in other cases, no. Some places that have become depopulated are not that remote. But places that really are remote may not actually have improved communications or transportations. In other words, it depends. However, many places that are no longer the bustling places of...
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    Old gas stations

    I rather identify, if that's the word, with the one underneath (Bodfish store) as well as a couple of other ones. It speaks of a time before interstate highways and when there was more going on, so to speak, in the more rural parts of our country. These days, however, except within commuting...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    As the line in the play "Bye Bye Birdie goes, "What's the matter with kids today?" The answer was "Nothing!" The usual complaint today (Bye Bye Birdie is almost 55 years old) about kids is that they don't do anything. They don't go outside. They don't play games. They never get in fights. Etc...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Alcohol (Alkohol, mein Schatz!) in the form of beer, which I believe may be the oldest form of an alcoholic beverage. Wine is close, though, and I express no preference. Believe it or not, I spent two years in Germany without drinking beer. Distilled spirits apparently are relatively recent...
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    Old gas stations

    Are they suggesting you go 50,000 miles without an oil change? You may not like cars today because they're expensive, complicated, lack power, are too big, are too small, and so on. But my father once commented that getting 75,000 miles out of an engine was something of an achievement.
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    in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?

    Winston Churchill, who supposedly became ill on a trip to the United States, reportedly insisted on attending the Kentucky Derby, just so the newspaper headlines could read "Churchill Up at Churchill Downs!"
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "His elevator doesn't stop on all floors."
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    Old gas stations

    There is a crossroads in Fairfax City, Virginia, where there are two gas stations across the street from one another, same brand of gasoline. The photo just above puts me in mind of a hot and lazy (and hazy) Sunday afternoon, the sort of day when you might have taken a "Sunday drive," up to the...
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    Favorite Uniforms

    I'm probably the odd man out here but I rather like the undress blue uniform worn between the wars (and before and afterwards, too). It evolved into No. 1 dress and during the twenties and thirties, it was the only dress uniform most soldiers ever had, including officers. If officers required...
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    Small busted Golden Era actresses?

    The movie stars--or starlets--mentioned above had careers mostly built around their figures and their reputations. I don't think Marilyn Monroe is really in the same category in spite of what she did as a model.
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    in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?

    Newspaper headlines, I understand, are not written by whoever wrote the article. Like the above mentioned headline, they might deserve a thread of their own. If they aren't written to be shocking, they sometimes seem to be written to be funny.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    When my daughter lived in Germany a few years ago not far from Trier, she would send us a big box of German chocolates and other confections at Christmas. It happened that a couple of local stores carried everything they send. But it was still appreciated.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I'm not quite up to speed yet but here's a couple more things that will be around for a while: Chocolate: it's been around in some form for a long time. Peanut butter: I don't know how long it's been around but there are good things to be made with peanut butter and chocolate.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    The gasoline internal combustion engine? It is quite efficient and does not require a special plug to refuel from the tap from the power plant. The heater works better, it has a longer range of travel at any time of the day, can be had in a tiny car or a huge truck or gas-guzzling road hog...
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    Small busted Golden Era actresses?

    I rather expect that we as males (those of us who are, that is) are expected to notice such things. There may be things we are expected not to notice but a woman's general figure is not one of them. One might say that the whole point. Regarding thin women, magazine advertisements that appeared...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The talk about red light cameras brings to mind the image of a motorcycle policeman hiding behind a billboard or bushes, ready to leap out and run down the speeders and scofflaws. Or in other words, a speed trap.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    That sounds like coded language. Tramps used to have a code they used, I have heard. I may have mentioned this before but when I was little, in the 1950s, it was not unusual for people to go door to door asking for a handout. Some would show you a little dog-eared and dirty card that said they...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It's a line in a certain movie I watch over and over again. It's the same movie in which one of the characters says, "Oh, to be 70 again." I use that line all the time now.
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