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  1. ChiTownScion

    What is the world coming to!

    It also came out that his personnel file revealed years of misconduct including incidents of excessive force and sexual harassment. The 100 Club of Chicago, which donates regularly to the families of fallen police officers and firefighters, has asked the Gliniewicz family for the return of...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Why all the hatred towards black leather jackets?

    It's merely a matter of personal taste. My own opinion is that I simply prefer Allied military flight jackets, and that brown (and its reddish variants) evoke an image of that chapter of history and of the best and bravest heading off into the wild blue yonder. My ANJ4 has brown oil pull...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    Like the B-6!
  4. ChiTownScion

    What is the world coming to!

    My class had nearly 400, all male, and all but one went on to college. His dad passed away his senior year, and left him a heating & air conditioning business. As the place touted its program as "college prep," that really isn't too surprising. At the reunions, we have one guy who is a union...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It's always a fool's game to impose your own life experience on those of times past, of course. I think that's one of many of the challenges and the rewards of studying history. We were married in 1985, bought an old Chicago Victorian in '86 for $95,000, put in about $40K in actual and sweat...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Sometimes, it's simply a matter of taking existing equity and applying it to a property that has greater investment and resale potential. You "trade up" because a bigger home in a better neighborhood has greater resale potential and is a more prudent investment. I'm not sure that potential...
  8. ChiTownScion

    Buco J-31

    Very reminiscent of the coat worn by German Uhlans before and during the First World War: Manfred von Richthofen wore one before he was a pilot. The design was also used by early chauffeurs.
  9. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    You've mentioned your longshoreman aunt before. She sounds like a helluva lot more interesting character than any 42 virgins I could name.. and right now, I can't name any.
  10. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    My own opinion is that the key is to keep active: physically as much as possible, but certainly, mentally. One of my lodge brothers will turn 91 next month. He still drives, takes care of his home and yard, and is an active member of our fraternity as a Certified Grand Lodge Instructor and Grand...
  11. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    The Statute of Frauds was enacted by Parliament in 1677. It states that an agreement in writing signed by the party to be charged must evidence any contract which involves: 1. Marriage; 2. Performance capability in a period greater than a year; 3. An interest in land; 4. Contracts by the...
  13. ChiTownScion

    Good Wear: Pulled the trigger!

    Wow.. two years? I admire your patience. Seven weeks has me bouncing off the walls.
  14. ChiTownScion

    Thurston Bros. - Official Affiliate Thread

    Is that MY ANJ4, Carrie? (Tom here.) Dang! I can hardly wait !!!
  15. ChiTownScion

    Stay or Go?

    I get that. I think that neurotic thread counting can be taken to an extreme. After all, unless you have the Mustang, Spitfire, or Liberator in a hanger at the local airport to wrap round the jacket, authenticity may be a great conversation starter, but it really isn't a life or death matter. A...
  16. ChiTownScion

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Two very different generations of vets, as exemplified by the reaction to one Sen. Joseph McCarthy. To the World War I vets, he was generally viewed as an anti-Communist patriot. Those of the Second World War were infuriated by his efforts to obtain leniency for Waffen SS perpetrators of the...
  17. ChiTownScion

    Stay or Go?

    Vance, taste is a very subjective thing. If YOU like your new jacket, keep it and enjoy it. Had an uncle (recently deceased) who once tried to tell me that, "...those [fedora, Homburg] hats are just not you." Well, with all due respect: up his late, great, geriatric Irish a***. (And it wasn't...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    How well I remember those days when we had Leo on the North Side managing the Cubs and Eddie Stanky on the South Side managing the White Sox. The teams were less than stellar on the field, but the managers always provided good copy for the papers.
  20. ChiTownScion

    Unsaeasonably mild weather

    Moderate (40's -60's F) days and frosty (low 30's) nights here in the Midwest. I have a new ANJ 4 shearling jacket due to arrive any week now, and I hope it will be cool enough to wear it. Until then, my A-2 jacket and a sweater are doing well to keep away the chill.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    My military experience was almost a joke. I reported to Marine OCS (MCDEC Quantico) after law school graduation and passing the bar. I was a few months shy of the cut off age of 27, and my BP was through the roof over the anxiety of it. I had trained for months for the physical aspect of it...
  22. ChiTownScion

    Vintage trains

    I'm guessing...Pettibone Yard, North Chicago, on the Chicago, North Shore, and Milwaukee Railroad (The North Shore Line). The road ceased operations less than 3 months after the photo was taken. Am I correct, Dan?
  23. ChiTownScion

    Which Silver Screen Star Do You Resemble?

    Not "Golden Era," obviously, but...

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