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    in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?

    My father certainly saw combat and even spent a year as a POW in Germany, coincidentally not far from where I was stationed in the army (My son was stationed in the same town Elvis had been stationed in). But he got a job almost right away after leaving the army in late 1945, glad that the...
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    in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?

    I think the Mickey Spillane sort of adult action fiction that became popular after the war, which also occurred in the movies, including in Westerns, was due to the men coming out of the armed forces who had seen enough brutal and bloody reality that the movies aimed at grade school kids, like...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    The toga was Roman and Socrates was Greek but I understand what you're saying.
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    He is (yet) another thought about men's clothing. Our comments on them generally are limited to what we have observed in our lifetime, beginning with whenever we were old enough to notice such things. Hence the comment that someone things "the rot" began in the 1960s. The implication is that...
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    Aside from sitting beside my father and observing everything he did in the car or truck (at work) all the years prior to getting my license, my father didn't teach me how to drive and I never once drove the family car.
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    It's a little hard to explain in just a couple of paragraphs, especially when you take into account all the exceptions.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I wasn't all that shy when I was going through school but I was sometimes painfully aware that we had a lot less money than some of the other kids and some of the clothes I wore to school were a little ragged. I couldn't say how much difference it made to other students, though. I usually sat...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    My 50th reunion was the first one I attended. I passed up the next one, which was supposed to be a "60s" reunion of more than one class year but I had a conflict. There was a table set up at the location of the reunion with photos of class members who had died and that was a little shocking...
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    Old gas stations

    VW busses are getting rare around here. We rented a VW Touran or very similar van when we were in the U.K. It was a six-speed manual with right-hand drive. The first hundred yards was tricky and I never really got used to having that many gears. We now have a VW "Sportwagen," a Golf variation...
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    Neither my father nor father-in-law ever made comments about the driver, although both were rather talkative, as I sometimes am. I rode around with my father a lot when he was working (as a truck driver). He was easy-going as a driver and easy-going in general. My father-in-law was just the...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I went to my 50th high school reunion three years ago and had a great time. I was very pleased to be as well remembered as I was. The interesting thing was that nobody's personality, speech patterns or mannerisms had changed at all. A couple of people even looked exactly the way I remembered...
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    I'm none of the above and, anyway, I don't have a cell phone.
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    Old gas stations

    My first car was a 1962 Volkswagen. Not a bad car, really, but hardly one that I had my heart set on. Never had any manual for it, not even a owner's manual.
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    Old gas stations

    I always imagined a Karmann Ghia as the car for a college professor. I realize now that was a false impression since real college professors actually drove VW fastbacks. A Karmann Ghia was not what you would call an especially powerful car but Volkswagens were very solid. I don't know if they...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    You are correct in that there are other things going on. In fact, there are always a lot of other things going on. There really is such a thing as conspicuous consumption, although I think too much is made of it. Most consumption really isn't all that conspicuous. You love sports, meaning you...
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    Old gas stations

    Some would argue that it wasn't a sports car. Of course, the Morgan was the first and only sports car, as we all realize.
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    I would agree that L.L. Bean is bourgeois, although I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. The rich bought their stuff at Abercrombie & Fitch (not the current incarnation of that store, of course). Everybody else bought their stuff at Sears, Wards or J.C. Penney. Army-Navy stores, if...
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    I buy my bridges from a dentist but not cheap. And that's the truth.
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    L.L. Bean used to be a fairly specialized outdoor store. L.L. Bean himself initially resisted the idea of a woman's department. I don't think I'd ever heard of them until fairly recently, meaning maybe twenty years ago. But there's one close enough to actually visit now, maybe fifteen minutes...
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    Old gas stations

    Wow! A Karmann Ghia! Haven't seen one in a month of Sundays. A sports car for the masses, before they had kids.

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