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    Stars And Their Cars

    I've long had an interest in Rover cars, which haven't been made as such for decades. As a matter of fact, my signature "BlueTrain" comes from an advertising campaign from the Rover Company in the 1930s. A Rover sedan beat the Blue Train to the South of France, which was a thing to do in those...
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    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    Now, if you were especially Eurocentric, not to mention well-off, you'd had a drilling in that caliber, Herr 416Rigby. At one time, there were several extra-long cartridges like that, because they were mostly for single-shot rifles as well as doubles. When bolt-action repeaters became the thing...
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    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    Given how much I've read about how inadequate the 9mm is, not to mention all the other inferior calibers are for defense against people, I've often wondered how it is possible to kill an elephant with a weapon weighing less than 15 or 20 pounds.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I get a phone call that is a survey, which are entirely legitimate, if somewhat irritating, I just tell them I've learned to keep my opinion to myself. It always gets a laugh.
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    Waldorf Astoria renovation

    I've mentioned growing up in a small town, too, which nonetheless had a reasonably large hotel. The next closest town, of perhaps 30,000 people, had an even (presumably) larger hotel. These were places that would have had a white-table cloth restaurant and even a ballroom featuring live music...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Yes and we're a long way from Jello. 'sokay.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    I was very suprised one day to look out the window here at work and see a mobile crane with "KRUPP" in big letters on the back end. Another well-known (in some circles) armaments manufacters, Skoda, which made big howitizers for Austria in WWI is still in business but now makes cars. I passed up...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Solingen in the Rhineland had been known for centuries as a center for manufacturing knives, swords and other things with blades and in fact, still is. But I wonder if that's what everything depends on. I've mentioned how my old hometown was really centered around a single industry, which was...
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    What Have You Acquired From Family?

    At our house, there's a difference between inheriting something and just hanging on to family stuff until some other family member takes it off our hands.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    The retail stores, including the old independent ones, the later chains like Sears and Penneys and finally Wal-Mart, plus the automobile dealerships, do not float the economy. It's the other way around. The retail economy rides the ups and downs of the base industries of a locality, whatever it...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Other things happen, too. Bad things, of course. One small town I'm thinking of, again in West Virginia, sounded very similiar to your small town, except there was no waterfront. The waterfront always sounded so interesting in the Hardy Boy books. Anyway, there was a hotel, a drugstore, maybe...
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    What Have You Acquired From Family?

    I have virtually nothing from my side of the family except a few photographs, since we didn't have any money. But my wife has all kinds of things. We even have a Confederate war bond and some money. I have some real antique tools passed on when my father-in-law died. He had enough for all the...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    I was born in 1946 and so was a child during the 1950s. The impressions and recollections I've given are my own, not those of adults living during that period. I wonder what their recollections might have been. They, of course, would have been thinking of life during the 1920s and 1930s in...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Well, we had a Western Auto, too. But Vitanola's town sounds very much like our town in some ways, although the dominant industry was the railroad. There was also a Maidenform plant, no longer in operation, at least one sawmill, just outside of town, and it was also the county seat. We even had...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    That's an excellent description of a small town of the past, although by small, I'd have to say it would have been at least 5,000 in population. Other factors that you didn't mention might include what is going on in town besides general employment, such as if it were a college town. And it's...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    It's one of those little things that gets overlooked, that is, the employment of teenagers. I'm not sure why it happened and for that matter, I am only assuming that it happened based solely on what I see with my own eyes. Minimun wage standards may have something to do with it and maybe teens...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    A drive-in restaurant as I have described, with "curb service," as it used to be called, tends to lend itself only to certain locations, as do other things. It simply won't work in town, although "the strip," which is still a town location, sort of, is perfect for a drive-in. I've never been in...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Without detracting from what you just said, I think small towns may have been a little more sophisticated than they are today. But this goes back a ways, probably from before 1950 and in some ways, well before then. There was style and it may have been something copied from a big city thing and...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Oh, the place I'm thinking of, just outside of town on the main road, had a gravel lot, too (partly paved with bottle caps), so there was nobody on roller skates. There was a roller skating rink just over the hill from there, as it happened, but I never once went roller skating. Some things in...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    I went back to the first page of this thread to see what prompted me to start it. I skipped the next five pages, so I hope I don't repeat myself. I do that a lot, though, because I haven't been creating many new memories lately. Something I ate a lot of growing up, was canned biscuits, which...

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