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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    In some ways the business world is in the same position it was in 1900. That was the era of the super rich (first time around). There were new business that were changing the ways people shopped and one of them was Sears, Roebuck. Maybe they should have kept Roebuck! Anyway, there were lots of...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That wasn't what I meant but you probably know anyway.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    If you're old enough, you may recall there were a number of airplane hijackings for a while in the distant past, along with a few planes that were blown up in mid-air. While it's possible to blow up a train or bus and get the results you want, you can't hijack a train or a bus. I guess you could...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've heard some of the expressions in that list linked by Bruce Wayne. The one I remember best is "horse feathers." I don't really remember the context but one of my uncles used the word. Some horses do have feathers, you know.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Tell us what it is because I've never heard of it either.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I have to add here that I grew up in the southern part of West Virginia but went to college in the northern part. I was and still am surprised at how different everything was. There were foods I'd never heard of and even more across the state line in Pennsylvania. I'd never eaten fried potatoes...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The place I was referring to was small and not a family place. Virtually everyone who ate there was a college student who lived off-campus, which was just a few yards away. But that was it, otherwise. Nobody shouted, though, and there were no waitresses. There was no backroom. Everything was...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    That sounds like the cafeteria where I ate most of my meals when I was in college. It's was more like a diner by day and a beer joint at night. There was no counter (that is, no stools along the counter where you moved along as your order was being made ready), only booths. Not a bad place. It...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Musical instruments generally are long-lived as a certain kind of instrument and in some cases, individual instruments have very long lives, being cherished and used for generations. I suppose drums are the oldest kind of musical instrument. Yet some instruments really aren't as old as all that...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Since English is a Germanic language, one would think that it would be easier to learn than other languages. Some of the words are the same, word order is the same and so on. But I just can get past the fact that "auf" means "on."
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    One of my memories of lunch counters, mainly in drug stores, was the frequent high-pitched rattle of dishes. It's a strange way to put it but it was almost a business-like sound, in the same way that offices used to have those distinctive sounds of typewriters and adding machines. Computers...
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    Old gas stations

    "You can trust your car to the man who wears the, uh, what was it the man was wearing now?
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    One of the early outdoor writers, probably Kephart or maybe Beard, said a woman could go camping with nothing but bobby pins. But I think the writer may have been exaggerating.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Washington, D.C., has both an uptown and a downtown, although it wouldn't be correct to think that it's clearly defined. Not like East Side and West Side in Manhattan. "Uptown" suggests something classy, like that's where the expensive apartment buildings are. That was where an old movie...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Next thing you know, they'll be banning hatpins.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The term "Dummkopf" is sometimes used in the United States to mean exactly the same as it does in German. The meaning seems pretty obvious. I don't know how it came into being used in this country, although there are a few pockets of German speakers here and there (their German is not exactly...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    It's a Kroger, too. I suppose they all were downtown storefronts at one time. Even a small town had a "downtown." In my hometown, though, we called it "up town," because you went up hill to get there (all of two blocks away). Don't know what people on the other side of the main street said.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I rather like the word "verrückt" myself. There's also "übergeschnappt," but that's going overboard. I'm not familiar enough with the language, in spite of having actually lived in Germany, to know the usual usages.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I think rock & roll music, depending on how you define it, can be produced on almost any instrument. There is even a German group that uses an alphorn. The problem is in defining what rock & roll is, which can be said of several other musical genres, like country & western, swing, western swing...
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    Old gas stations

    Referring to places that have seemingly become depopulated, it isn't always what it seems. It is true that you can travel through an area and see a lot of abandoned properties, including old gas stations, general stores and buildings that may have been the location of some small industry at one...

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