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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    One should live for today like you were going to die tomorrow and live for tomorrow like you were going to live forever. Or something like that. Nostalgia isn't about the life you lived as a youth; it's about the life you didn't live.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    You know, I was in Germany for two years in the 1960s and my daughter was there for two or three years, off and on, in this decade. But Germany is easily as diverse as the United States. One could easily imagine Berlin (West Berlin at the time) as being another country, the Berliners being so...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    One definition of nostalgia is a fond remembrance of things you never experienced. Mark Twain also said that his memory improved as he got older, eventually reaching the point where he could remember things that never happened.
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    I always get a laugh when I walk around the office saying "These are the best days of our lives."
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    The fact there was even a "70s show" demonstrates my point about how, for some reason, television shows are often set in that 20 to 30 year distant past. But I lived through the 70s and 80s as well as the decades before and after. Even though there are sometimes events which were very...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I still buy CDs, too, and all of mine come from either Germany, Austria or Switzerland. I've even bought one direct from the artist (the Oesch family), who included an autographed photo with the order. Frankly, they don't seem that Swiss if they have names like Melanie, Mike and Kevin, and...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I still haven't found a reference to the TV mystery show that included a telephone operator jukebox. In the show I'm remembering, the operator was a man (I think) who would also go to places and request music that nobody else liked. I did, however, find reference to it in a movie from 1944...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    In the same way, someone pointed out that many television shows set in the definite past (as opposed to the vague past, the way TV and movie westerns usually were), they are typically set twenty to thirty years earlier than when they were being produced. It's hardly a hard and fast rule or...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    I was eight years old in 1954. I don't remember it being all that golden at the time. Maybe we didn't have enough gold.
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Some of this makes me wonder about things. The 1950s were supposedly a sort of golden age. Or is that Golden Age." Anyway, we like to think of it as a wonderful and stable period in American history, forgetting for the moment the wars and threats of wars, the epidemics, the problems with...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    "Everybody knew!" Good excuse for pretty much everything.
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Well, no, we don't all know what happened to them. As for any political subtlety, I assure you that it would have gone way over the heads of ten year-old boys. I can't speak for the adults who were reading comic books but chances are, they would have missed it, too. There was another comic book...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Good comments. I liked Wonder Woman the best even if the artwork was marginal.
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    The thing about superhero vigilantes (never heard them called that before) is that they're all fictional. I don't know if that's good or bad. In fact, the word "vigilante" has bad connotations in that it is usually thought of as men "taking the law into their own hands." In other words, a bunch...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Colt Firearms has Gatling guns for sale, if you want one.
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Well, there are those who believe that the constitution gives us the authority to overthrow the government by violent revolution. I don't subscribe to that interpretation but it makes you wonder how much devotion there really is to the idea of a democracy and an elected government. Of course, it...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I believe that 45s and LPs came out at about the same time. An LP was frequently referred to as an "album," I guess because the old 78s were sometimes sold in literal albums, just like a photo album. An album might have a half-dozen discs in it. I imagine that 45s lent themselves to jukeboxes...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I think I found what I was referring to, although I'm still not sure what TV show I saw it in. I think it was called a telephone operator jukebox. I even saw a picture of one, lovingly restored. The basic idea was that the machine, which was still called a jukebox, was connected to a central...
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    If you had a conversation with a person in 1770 would they understand?

    Well, the only people in real life (where I spent only part of my time) who have exaggerated a stereotypical accent were relatives who were exaggerating their own accent and I do that myself. I hope no one is offended. I think I mentioned that one used to see accented English in books, mostly...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    That's interesting. I never would have guess it. The two and only Victrola's that I remember seeing were probably no longer used. One was owned by my stepmother and I know that I was the only one who ever tinkered with it. I remember seeing an old TV mystery, probably from sometime in the...

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