A "greasy spoon" restaurant never sounded like an appealing place to eat. I have been in at least one diner that had the charm of the ages, the "correct" menu (blue plate specials, that sort of thing), not too big or new and still displaying posters of long gone entertainers like Patsy Cline...
If people aren't a little strange, they probably aren't very interesting.
Regarding the Dick Tracy movies and serials, the major appeal is to experience vicariously, of course, the big city, the waterfront, the police in action, the bad guys in action, and so on and so forth. That's true of...
What you say is probably true. I've read that cowboys in the West were positively bashful around women, at least if they were ladies. Part of that may be the fact that they likely rarely saw ladies or even women.
Another thing probably worth mentioning is that some men can have serveral...
If what I read is true, and it isn't always, I still believe that a "gentleman" that knows the rules of eitiquette inside and out is just as much a threat to women (any and all women) as the men in the photo above. As the saying goes, some people even get away with murder.
Do you suppose it's true that all Northern Europeans, which includes a few Northern Americans, are related to Charlemagne? Whether or not we do, somehow it's still very amazing we had any relatives who lived that long ago. I have my doubts about the usefulness of DNA testing, not because of any...
You made my morning. There's nothing worse on a forum than starting a new thread that gets no replies.
While not generally appearing in movies or on TV shows, your comments remind me of a couple of other food service institutions, hardly restaurants, that have also largely disappeared and in...
The picture postcard above is a wonderful illustration. I've seen a lot of postcards like that, typically with a silk finish. I keep wondering how they were produced. Hand-colored black & white photos maybe? All the ones I'm thinking of are of road-side restaurants and "motor courts." Everything...
"Other cultures" may not be the right term but it was something that I was reminded of by the Tiki Culture thread. For all I know, there may be other threads about this subject and if there is, well, now there's one more.
"Tiki Culture" doesn't seem that old to me, meaning it isn't like...
Did I say anywhere in my rambling posts that the rules of etiquette proved any additional measure of safety for women? I sometimes talk around a subject without saying much. Overall, I don't think they did. But I don't think they in any way suppressed women, though that may be a more arguable...
Sometimes but in some organizations there are only two levels. Did your father's gas station only have a single level? I realize there may have been no ritual or none that you noticed. But I don't agree that rite and ritual necessarily exist to reinforce the standing of the hierarchy, although...
I tend to agree with the statement that etiquette rules seem to have been written to keep people in their place, only it isn't true. The two best known etiquette books were in fact written by women, Amy and Emily. If you sit and read them, they are actually quite practical in presentation. I...
I don't think hard water has anything to do with clothes feeling "hard" after air-drying. It's just the lack of motion either in the dryer or on the line. One problem with line drying is that a certain amount of stretch happens which you have to allow for when you hang things. I do my own...
I've not been through the Holland Tunnel but I've been through New Jersey and I've been to Oklahoma. Drive-in movie theaters aside, cities and towns large and small in the past tended to be crowded. There was little of the sprawl that started when cars became widely owned and a suburb consisted...
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