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Show us your Guns!
1956 vintage Ithaca Model 37. 12 gauge. Sent from my SM-G386T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Television stations that signed off for the evening.- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your Guns!
As to shotguns, I think I was spoiled. My Papaw had a pre-1913 LC Smith 16 gauge and every other shotgun, Ithaca Featherlights possibly excepted, feels like a plank.- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
Doctor Who stuff. Matt Smith, the Eleventh Doctor, was about one when I started watching. David Tennant, the Tenth, is roughly MY age. Jenna Coleman was negative three when I started watching. Peter Capaldi AND David Tennant are sort of second generation Whovians; they grew up watching and have...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your Guns!
Those are some fairly chesty handloads I am not sure I would shoot through a 73 Winchester or Police Positive Special in that strip, too. "Yuuuuuuuge" flat point on the bullet; while they aren't quite what people wrote about from shooting the old HV .32-20 through a pistol, just going by recoil...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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Show us your Guns!
Previous post, but with speed loader. C. 1926 Smith and Wesson .32-20... .32-20s fit the 38/357 zip strip like they were made for it. Sent from my SM-G386T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Display Case
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What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?
The Talking Machine Show on WWCR shortwave. Seems... proper to clean 1920s vintage Smith and Wessons while listening to contemporary music to them....- plain old dave
- Post #56
- Forum: Radio
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If you could be born in any year
Indeed. I just happen to live about a 15 minute drive from where that happened. http://www.people.com/article/cameron-jo-ann-boyce-clinton-12 They bombed Clinton High, too, about two years later. And the kids from Clinton wound up getting bussed just about three blocks from where I sit typing...- plain old dave
- Post #39
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Origin Of "The Fifties"
Great thread, lot of good points. Few random observations: I would date the beginning of The Fifties really as 1954-55. A truck driver from Tupelo and a former Western Swing bandleader on one side and a North Dakota bandleader that took decades to learn to properly pronounce "wonderful" on the...- plain old dave
- Post #254
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tail fins (cars)
We had them every year. They had the county number from the license plate; ours was 3 and when we went up to Maynardville, Union County was 78 and so on. I remember it being done away with in 1978 as we had a '78 Chevette and only had the one sticker, from when it was new.- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tail fins (cars)
Good info. Statewide inspections were done away with in early 1978. Sent from my SM-G386T using Tapatalk- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tail fins (cars)
This thread is becoming more and more interesting... The EPA found Nashville Metro "noncompliant" and there was fairly lively debate about the EPA-required vehicle inspections as to whether they would be simply smog inspections or whether they would bring back the old safety inspections...- plain old dave
- Post #84
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tail fins (cars)
Without getting off into politics, the Governor before Alexander was pretty corrupt. The law only allowed one place per county to do inspections, and all 96 of them were Democrat Party donors or office holders when Alexander repealed the law; the inspection was widely seen as an income...- plain old dave
- Post #77
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Shortwave Radio Thread.
I have made a routine out of Shortwave Saturday Night on WBCQ. Just listened to BBC Newsline rebroadcast from New Zealand on a new (to me) 1970 Zenith D7000Y Trans-Oceanic. This is a great radio, booming full tone. Good sensitivity, too. It's the only portable I have ever had that will get WDVX...- plain old dave
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- Forum: Radio
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Tail fins (cars)
Inspections and DMVs are something I haven't had to fool with in decades. Here in Tennessee, we have no State vehicle inspection. Lamar Alexander did away with them as almost his first act as Governor in 1978. No DMV either. License plates are processed by the County Court Clerk's office and...- plain old dave
- Post #69
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tail fins (cars)
Outstanding. A TV show about MY Golden Age that was made in Gen Y's "golden age." I keep hearing late teens and twentysomethings go on about how great the 80s were. They were pretty good in some ways, but not so much in others.- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tail fins (cars)
THIS. The mighty Chrysler 300 is the epitome of the Golden Age. Gold star to anybody that can ID the actor and TV show.- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Shortwave Radio Thread.
That's the AM Window, 3.880 or 3.885 Mc. There's a similar Window on 1.8 and 7.2. Listen long enough and google the rigs they're talking about. Most of those guys use Golden Age Amateur Radio equipment, some even build their own. Occasionally, you'll hear a slight clunk when they start...- plain old dave
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- Forum: Radio
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What was the last TV show you watched?
Night Court, one of the good later ones. Judge Harold T. Stone may well have originated my fedora fascination....- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/arts/television/earl-hamner-jr-who-created-the-waltons-dies-at-92.html?_r=0 Earl Hamner, writer of Spencer's Mountain and creator of The Waltons. This show introduced a lot of Gen Xers to what we're now calling the Golden Age. He was portrayed in the series by...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
