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    Show us your Guns!

    Judging from photos, it was standing room only in the gold rush country. Hunting would have been impossible and the grizzlies would have been no problem. There were other gold rushes in the Yukon in later decades, even after WWII, clearly less well-known but much less interesting.
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    Show us your Guns!

    Now, if I were especially interested in the gold rush of '98, which I really am, I'd have to find me a New Service or Single Action Army, and probably a lever action to go with it. Those things were always among the things recommended when you went North.
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    That's interesting. I did hear the expression "old than the hills" a lot. But all the fine differences between various words was lost on me as someone still in school, although that was when I should have been learning those things. I heard "the boonies" when I was in the army but not before. I...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Believe it or not, I don't own a camera or cell phone. It looks like any other GM. I might be able to borrow my wife's camera or whatever she had.
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    Show us your Guns!

    Well, I've done my part to support the American firearms industry by acquiring at great expense a new Colt Government Model n .38 Super. It's old-fashioned enough to mention here (I hope). It's been on my wish list for a long time. Had to cash in my war bonds. Although like I say, it had been...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    For some strange reason, those tall, cone-shaped hat also appear in German folk costumes, though generally in a comical way. They can be found in the souvenir shops at the Frankfurt airport, along with cuckoo clocks and all kinds of chocolates. Stereotypes, unfortunately or not, are generally...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    I sometimes refer to myself as a redneck, being a very conservative person from the sticks, although my wife says I've actually very liberal. But either way, I am from West Virginia and I'm really more of a hillbilly, which term doesn't seem to be used that much anymore. It's almost...
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    Old gas stations

    A hurdy-gurdy looks vaguely like a guitar with a crank on the end and that isn't even close. You may be thinking of a street organ or barrel organ. It's part of a group of instruments that includes banjos, alphorns, bagpipes, penny whistles, accordions and other button boxes and ocarinas, all of...
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    Old gas stations

    The airplanes on the gas stations are interesting but the one with the tail up is scary. And by the way, I just noticed the jack rabbit with a saddle on the postcard.
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    Old gas stations

    I just did a search of images of 1950 Chevrolets and there were a lot more variations that I imagined, although it is likely that I never saw that many of them and even if I did, I wouldn't have remembered them anyway. One of the few old cars I remember was a Studebaker than a neighbor had, one...
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    Old gas stations

    Yes, fender skirts. I don't remember if the car had running boards, though. It had seat covers made of a woven plastic fabric that looked like the kind of flat plastic stuff you would use to make lanyards and things like that in the scouts. It had a three-speed on the column and no radio. I had...
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    Old gas stations

    Same here. My father's first car was a 1950 Chevrolet "Deluxe," black, four-door. It had "spats" for the rear wheels or whatever they were called. They weren't as big as they looked.
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    When I was little and on up until after I left home after finishing high school (had to--no basement), we only had a Maytag wringer washer that I imagine was from before the war. It was on wheels because you had to move it to the sink or other place when it was time to pump out the water. It...
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    Did the Rules of Etiquette Provide a Greater Sense of Safety For Women?

    Don't you imagine the ones from the 1960s were better, although not as good as the ones from the '50s. You couldn't get washing machines in the 40s.
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    Democracy

    The local newspaper added a line under its masthead a few months ago: "Democracy dies in darkness."
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I've noticed the same thing myself in the morning on the way to work. In the afternoon, however, the traffic is much too heavy most of the way for anything like that to be apparent most days. Woe to he who only drives the speed limit. It is as if commuting is a competitive activity, which...
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    Democracy

    Lilly Langtry was not of the golden age (gilded age, yes) but all the others were. Some where still around when the golden age had lost its luster. You never know that you're living in a golden age until it's all over. That is, if you ever did.
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    Democracy

    Well, if you haven't heard of Lily Langtry, then surely you've heard of Lupe Velez. Lucille Ball, maybe? Miss Ball's photo was on the wall of the music teacher's room in my grade school (Lupe Velez's was not). How about Fanny Brice?
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Triumph Spitfires had a swing axle, too. It had been based on the Triumph Herald line of cars and it have rise to the expression, "Hark, the Herald axles swing!' I had two Rover sedans many decades ago and they had a de Dion axle in the rear. Supposedly they have some advantages but when...
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    Democracy

    Hard to say. We talk about Lilly Langtry and Wallis Simpson all the time, don't we?

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