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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    I just glanced at the theater issue. "The last picture show" is not a happy description. As I see it, the problem of all of those small towns, and I'm from one of them, is simply that the main employer has gone away. It doesn't have to go to China, but merely 75 miles away. That's all it takes...
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    JC Penney Might Be Going Belly Up (Along With Sears)

    That's basically what I was trying to say, although that wasn't my point. In a roundabout way, the local solution to low income residents and all the problems associated with them (or believed to be) is usually just getting them to go somewhere else. It's hard to prove that is anyone's intent...
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    Most buildings and homes don't make it into architechtual or decorating magazines. That narrows it down a bit. The neighbors quickly cease to be important. Ultimately the one paying the bills has to be pleased, mostly. I mentioned Philip Johnson's Glass House, which I have not visited. The...
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    Well, the Architectural-Digest Look covers a lot of territory. About the only think in common throughout the spreads is that they are expensive rooms and usually real expensive. But having lived in all sorts of student housing in college (but not in a dorm), barracks in the army and an...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    During the heyday of the B-Western, all those Colt Single-Actions you would have seen were real Colts. However, by as early as the 1950s, reproductions were already being used, mainly Great Westerns at first. I don't know when the Italian-made reproductions began appearing on the market but I...
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    JC Penney Might Be Going Belly Up (Along With Sears)

    It's a false idea. Even that wonderful small town I keep mentioning, mainly because that's what I know the most about, had streetcars 90 years ago. That's because even in a small town, you can't really walk everywhere. But if you go to either a mall, a big box store or a town center, plan on...
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    JC Penney Might Be Going Belly Up (Along With Sears)

    It is odd that the so-called town center-type shopping centers have become the new place to be for a store. The one that I've been to a few times is actually pretty nice. Not only is it nice, but there are a lot of residental properties nearby and within walking distance, only they're all...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    Something about that P38 doesn't look quite right but no matter. Something I find interesting in old movies is when relatively obscure guns show up. It would be equally interesting today but for some reason it would always feel forced to me. But again, no matter. In one old comedy movie...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Both my wife and I eat oatmeal once in a while. My wife prefers the regular kind, me, the quick kind (one minute). I add sugar (because I'm American), margarine or butter, and milk. I should add raisins, too, sometime. My wife eats hers plain. Once a week or so I will eat müsli, too, which is...
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    I think there used to be a one-frame comic strip that appeared in the paper when I was little called "Some punkins." Or something like that. Another single-frame comic was "There outta be a law." Neither movie house in my hometown had a claims to grandeur. They happened to be across the street...
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    I seem to have left off the main point in my post above. My question was, why are movie theaters name "Bijou?" The name of the book was Afternoon at the Bijou.
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    I was leafing through a book I have about movie series (not serials). You know, the Hopalong Cassidy series, the Range Busters, Tarzan and so on. It's recent enough to include James Bond, at least the early ones. In the college town where I went to school, there was a movie theater named the...
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    Leipzig, 1931

    I was surprised at the number of motorcycles with sidecars. Also seeing a lot of little three-wheelers. There were also a lot of carts being pushed or pulled by people and a lot of horse-drawn wagons. I also noticed several bicyclists giving hand signals.
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    Weapons in the Movies

    I think the idea of a million tiny robots is laughable. What is the object? To achieve something meaningful, you have to either take the ground you want to have or, as Mao believed, destroy the enemy army. Neither is easy, of course. In neither case can you just sit in a hole and snipe at the...
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    How would you earn a living?

    Well, for what it's worth, they apparently didn't do a very good job of getting them into the hands of the troops (meaning me!). But I did see plenty of PS preventive maintenance magazines when I was in the army. They were wonderfully illustrated and the first ones were done by Will Eisner. Of...
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    New Gold Train! 50 Focke-Wulfs under Turkish airport?

    That's it! Very stylish looking, isn't it.
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    How would you earn a living?

    I don't think any of those were produced until the 1950s or 1960s. But I never saw one when I was stationed overseas when I was in the army.
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    How would you earn a living?

    I've had jobs where there were salary cuts because of business conditions, although the owner's income didn't fall. Different individuals have both different expectations and different needs. A man with a family clearly has greater needs than an unmarried worker and is much less flexible as far...
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    How would you earn a living?

    Interesting that you mentioned "Steam Laundry." My father worked for such a laundry as a route man for about eighteen years. My next-door neighbor and one of my aunts also worked there. I don't know how many worked there but one source said it was the second largest employer in town. It had been...
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    How would you earn a living?

    How much writing would a writer have to do, that is, what would the output have to be to actually earn a living writing pulp novels and adolescent or juvenile fiction? There were two or three dozen titles of series characters published from the 1920s up into the 1970s and that was a lot of...

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