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    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    There's a photo of him out fishing somewhere, probably in the Atlantic, and in the background leaning against the side of the boat is a Thompson. Some say he was the first celebrity or at least the first writer who was. Yet another writer claimed that most of his problems as well as the decline...
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    The Ernest Hemingway Thread

    I've not read much of anything by Hemingway. Am I missing something? Don't really read much fiction, anyway. But I have my favorites. To me, a good author is one who writes something you enjoy reading, no matter what the subject is.
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    There is a place near Luray, Virginia, on the way to Shenandoah National Park that has a nice restaurant and cabins for rent. These days, however, the aren't little shacks but rather larger units with all the mod cons. Some have hot tubs and most have wi-fi (or wee-fee, as the French say). It...
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    Bib overalls and suit jackets

    Coveralls (as opposed to overalls) at still commonly made in HBT. I have a pair of work pants in HBT from Pointer Brand but I don't have any coveralls or overalls. One used to see references to dungarees or blue jeans as "waist overalls." To complete the outfit, you need to have the tag of a...
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    Old gas stations

    Gotta watch out for the grammar police.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Well, everyone bleeds red blood, assuming "blue blood" is just a figure of speech. Yet not all blood is the same. It only matters when you need more blood. But there is a more important question. What family are you part of? Naming conventions vary throughout the world. In the United States...
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    Bib overalls and suit jackets

    This place is one source, although they don't have HBTs: https://lcking.com/collections/high-back-overalls. They are American made, however. You might also try "All Seasons Uniforms." They have all manner of workwear.
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    While not a motel, auto court or tourist cabin, trailer parks (mobile home parks?) sometimes convey the same atmosphere. In fact, if you want to capture the past in a vivid way, just find a trailer park. There is a trailer park in the movie "Cry Danger" (1951), that is, or was, unique in having...
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    Tourist cabins, auto and motor courts

    There's a cemetery in my hometown named "Rest Haven," so that name on a motel would be disturbing. We've stayed in cabins on some of our trips. One such place was on the North Shore of Lake Superior, where I don't remember, but we went all the way to Canada on that trip and stayed in two...
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    Lost Cities!

    Well, of course boys are destined to grow up to be adventurers. They go on to fly airplanes and rockets, dive to the ocean floor, fight great battles, solve mysteries, make long treks with a pack, invent ingenious devices, drive trucks through winter snow storms and, sometimes, discover not only...
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    Two actors I think of as showing up everywhere were Ward Bond and Thomas Mitchell. Of course there were a hundred actors who somehow managed to appear in a remarkable number of movies, sometimes more than two hundred. So I guess there were really a lot who "showed up everywhere," even though...
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    Are there still "stock company of actors?" That is, actors who frequently show up in the same movies with certain other actors? I don't go to the movies so much these days, so I can't say for myself. One such actor was Bruce Cabot, who appeared in a few John Wayne movies, although I don't know...
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    Lost Cities!

    Sounds like why travelogues used to be popular. A sense of wonder with the world.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'm terribly sentimental, sometimes at very inappropriate times. Yesterday I was watching a YouTube video that was a short film (not a professionally produced film) showing German soldiers returning from Czechoslovakia and heading home to Germany. Every manner of vehicle was coming down the...
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    Lost Cities!

    Once upon a time, short films called travelogues were in vogue and began appearing as soon as motion pictures become common, or even earlier. They continued being made, I believe, up into the 1950s. During those decades, people did not travel as much as they do now and most of the rest of the...
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    Alright! Confession Time! What's YOUR "Guilty Pleasure?"

    I rather enjoyed Dragnet, too, and I've heard a few of the radio episodes as well. One of the interesting things about seeing TV shows like that and others that had a long run, like Perry Mason, long after they went off the air is seeing some actor before they became famous for other...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    In real life, Indians and settlers often knew one another by name, especially earlier when it was mainly hunters and trappers who were the ones in contact with the Indians. That shouldn't imply they were friendly with one another, however. As far as drinking and alcoholism, I don't know that I...
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    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    I've thought of search for a pair of pince-nez glasses to be part of a costume that would be perfect for me, along with an eyeshade, sleeve protectors, sleeve garters and shirt with a detachable collar. I make my living as a shiny pants bookkeeper.
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    Most immigration up until after WWII was European, not counting all the Africans brought here as slaves or all the Asians on the West Coast. But more recently, there has been more immigration from other places, including Latin America, South Asia, Africa, especially from Somalia and countries in...
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    Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing

    I have often suggested that TV new and even more so, what is presented on Yahoo and similar internet sites, is ever so much like the old newsreels and hardly more timely. There will be something about national politics, something about war in Europe or threat of war, something about the stock...

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