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    Vintage roadside

    I've lived in and near Alexandria, Virginia, for over 40 years and I've never noticed that ice house. When I saw the name, though, I immediately thought of another building on South Lee Street in Alexandria, just off Duke Street, but I guess it wasn't an ice house. It was some kind of small...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Someone, don't know who, said that certain curse words (meaningless intensitivies) tend to have a certain form that make them suitable for use when frustrated, mad and generally unhappy. It's hard to describe but they are words that you almost spit out and in fact, spit has that very sound. It...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I did not hear bad language when I was growing up with few exceptions. The chief exception was one aunt who used scatologies whenever appropriate, but which was still somewhat embarrassing to me, since my folks didn't talk like that. And again with few exceptions, I have not heard my friends or...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Well, that man was indeed a paperhanger and I think probably also a house painter. He papered one of the rooms in our house once and I have no recollection of his vehicle. He must have had one, though, since he worked with a variety of ladders and special tables. He wasn't talkative and didn't...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Tang?
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There were a couple of men in my working class neighborhood when I was little, in the 1950s, who would visit the closest tavern and come home staggering, falling down drunk. But nobody called them winos. I doubt anyone in the whole neighborhood had ever tasted wine, except for the old Italian...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I never heard any of those terms when I was growing up and incredibly enough, not in college either and I graduated in 1971. I also never heard any reference to moonshine, either, but there were all sorts of names for cigarettes in use, none complimentary. I still never heard the word joint as...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    My father would break up cornbread into a tumbler and pour milk over it for breakfast, but that wasn't all he had. Nearly always eggs with bacon and/or sausage. Sometimes there were scratch biscuits (meaning homemade biscuits) but more often canned biscuits, which I liked rather better. Homemade...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    One of my aunts made a lot of old-fashioned foods, mostly non-descript, as was most food when i was growing up. All that I mean by non-descript, though, is that no one today would find it either remarkable or strange. She was one a couple of people that I knew who made apple butter the...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Oh, I was dead serious.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Not only do we not have a Victrola, we don't even have a record player in the house. However, when my father remarried, my stepmother had a Victrola, which still worked. There was a small selection of old 78rpm records, one of which was a recording of "Tiptoe through the tulips." Don't remember...
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    What is that Color?

    That trenchcoat looks like a US Marine Corps item to me. There never was an official US Army trenchcoat like that, although they were unofficially worn during WWII by officers. Never put that much faith in what army regulations (any army) have to say about what soldiers wear. Certain items may...
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    Automats and restaurants

    I was fortunate enough to once meet Peter Schickele (his real name). He was giving a concert at the university I was attending and I think it was probably around 1969. One of the instruments he used was a bicycle siren. When was the last time you heard a bicycle siren? Left-handed sewer flutes...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've only heard one person use that term and that was when I was still in grade school. She had a wind-up Victrola in her rather bare home two or three blocks from where we lived. The photos of the old gas stations in another thread reminded me of another expression, which I believe has largely...
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    Old gas stations

    I had a 1965 short wheelbase Land-Rover that came with 6.00 x 16 tires and I'll bet that was a still a common size on Jeeps and pickup trucks. When they were replaced, I got 6.50 x 16 tire since they would fit the same rims. The store in the photo that has the shelf full of tires all wrapped up...
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    Automats and restaurants

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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I rather doubt that the place I'm thinking of was actually still in business when I first saw it. But your description captures the feeling exactly. The movie "Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss" also captures the mood of travel in the 1950s, especially the place they went to for their summer...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The ones I'm thinking of that I've actually seen did not call themselves motor courts but merely tourist cabins, even though they may have sported a neon sign to the fact at one time. Nothing approaching a modern motel, of which I mean the kind that had already appeared by the 1950s. Even those...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I've never seen one except in old movies and I do mean old. Apparently, in the early days of motoring, in the 1930s, there were roadside places to eat that were completely open, essentially an open-air lunch counter. I don't know that such places ever actually existed but I doubt they would have...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You haven't seen a vending machine latelyl? Then you've never stopped at a rest stop on the interstate lately. If you do, bring lots of quarters. I don't blame you for stopping at the places you usually stop, though, same as we do. When we go to the Norfolk, Virginia, area and beyond, for...

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