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  1. ChiTownScion

    Re-branding Pearl Harbor anniversary for a new generation

    My dad had a real attitude against joining the American Legion or the VFW. His attitude was, why should he have to address some clown as "Captain Doe" simply for what he had done decades ago? He witnessed a lot of horror in that war, and it was over before his 21st birthday. I think the idea of...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Things that make you smile

    Great footage! I especially enjoy seeing Flying Scotsman in all of her glory. She toured the US in the late- 1960's, and even though they slapped a bell and American coupler on her front- and crowned her with a large headlight- she still maintained her noble bearing. Building a new locomotive...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Things that make you smile

    Pulling up to a railroad grade crossing as the gates come down and a fast train roars past. Passenger train or long freight, it doesn't matter. Travel or commerce, moving on 4 foot eight and a half inch gauged steel rails.. as has been done for the last 130+ years: there is something satisfying...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The challenge my wife and I occasionally throw at each other: "Curse like you're in a Walt Disney movie!" Oh, gee. Darn it. Shucks. Fiddlesticks.
  5. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    That (bar hopping) does display an abysmal lack of imagination when applied to the dating dynamic, doesn't it? I understand that options in a smaller town may be limited, but there still has to be viable alternatives to going to a bar: concerts, a picnic, movies, a dinner..... hell, even a nice...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I suppose that my parents were "high school sweethearts" within the broadest definition of the term: different high schools, he was a senior, she was a freshman. Then he went off to fight World War II and she was "the girl back home." They married in 1946, and that marriage lasted 29 years on...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The oft repeated adage is that "Whoever dies with the most toys, wins." I would counter that whoever dies with the richest life experiences, wins. And that richness can be measured in many ways, and can be played out on many different cosmic planes. It's really those around you who enrich your...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The problem is that so little work wear that was used then can be bought now. For example: Osh Kosh hickory striped overalls and chore coat? Fahgetabout it.... unless you're buying for the kiddies. They stopped making menswear.
  10. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I'm certain that was part of it in many instances. The laws of inheritance played a major role as well, both formally and in terms of culturally mandated preferences: primogeniture accorded the first born son favored status, and the siblings got nothing. Or, as in Ireland, land was divided among...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have APPEARED In Your Lifetime

    When we last toured Abe Lincoln's house in Springfield- about 1993- the backyard three seat privy was the feature which most impressed my then- 3 year old son. My understanding is that when they were restoring the home, "archeologist" types went through the pit, quite literally with the...
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    Vintage Things That Have APPEARED In Your Lifetime

    Wow, they finally opened it, didn't they? They've been promising that one since the Third Avenue Elevated was torn down in the 50's- correct?
  14. ChiTownScion

    What missed opportunities do you regret?

    It would have been mine for the asking: the OSO was a fellow student enrolled in an LLM program at my school, and back then, few law school grads wanted any part of the military. No real grounds for bitching on my part as I have said... but I think that I'd have been a good officer and would...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Came across this on YouTube: last streetcar service in Chicago, 1958. Green Hornet (PCC) car made the last run.. but there is some footage of the old "Red Rocket," mainly Pullman, streetcars in their pre- CTA Chicago Surface Lines paint scheme with a CTA sticker. The cars ran well to the end...
  16. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Top pic is of a Marmon Herrington trolleybus on the #54 Cicero Avenue line crossing the ground level Douglas Park rapid transit line just north of Cermak Road (22nd Street). Easy to date, as the car behind it is a 1969 Ford Galaxie and the electric busses ceased operating in 1973 so, that's...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Sure is. A purist can note the difference between their "Chicago car" and the real thing... but it's still a fun ride.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The PCC (Presidents’ Conference Committee) cars were developed in the 1930's as a standard design for the North America's streetcar lines. They thought that I was a madman when I landed in Toronto one late night in 1979 and rode them all night (instead of getting a hotel room like a sane man)...
  20. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Denzell Washington and Viola Davis in Fences. Worth seeing.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    What still amazes me about them was the acceleration on the trolley buses. Late at night on a route with little traffic and a wide street (such as Irving Park Road west of Central) , a driver could "open it up:" the speed limit was 30 miles an hour but topping 45 as the wires above literally...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The one headline in that photo ("PHONY PREACHERS PREY ON PUBLIC") could have been released today- or a century ago. Some things never change.
  23. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I'd submit that the real laughing- up- one's- sleeve in the whole affair should be reserved not for Jenkins, but for the pseudo- sophisticates who kowtowed and went along with the charade that she had singing ability for the sake of pecuniary self interest. Implying that she had the talent of a...

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