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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    The funny thing is, if the movie or television show were set in the present, you'd never notice the cars and in most cases, the cars aren't important. One exception was the British TV series, "Inspector Morse." He drove a 1960 Jaguar. The series ended in 2000 (!!!) by which time the car was 40...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    For Coolidge, that amounts to a broad smile. I don't think Presidents have to do that sort of thing anymore. There was a book and television series, oh, maybe 30 or 40 years ago, entitled "Connections." I was about several modern technologies that owe their development to something that was...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I meet many immigrants in my daily life and I usually inquire about where they're from if I seen them often enough. They nearly always are pleased that any interest was shown in their origin. They are even more pleased, usually, to be asked about some little detail about their country...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Half the posts in this thread I've made are about expressions that are older than I thought. I don't know if there's a thread for that or not but here's another one. This one came from a U.S. Army Manual dated 1907. In a chapter on combat on page 38, it says "Keep cool," among other things. I...
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    El Paso was 200 years old in 1885.
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    I'm not so sure that the West, beginning with the Alleghenies, ever allowed a person to escape his past. I believe people were better informed about events and people than we are likely to give them credit for, the only difference being the inevitable time lag because of slow communication. I...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I was in Germany in the 1960s when I was in the army (a long time ago), we were given lectures about watching out for bicylists on the highways. Mostly they were all older people, too, and not kids. Invariably they were dressed up, too. In fact, we weren't allowed out of barracks without...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    They grow tobacco in Germany? It's surprising enough to know that it is grown in Massachusetts.
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    Real USN Pre-WW-II Flight Jacket?

    I'm not wonderful, much less a girl but my late father-in-law was in the AAF and stationed (somewhere) in England in 1944 and 1945. My wife has a few photos taken then, including some from over the target. Unfortunately, I am unable to scan any of them (and I don't have them in front of me...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That has to mean you don't live in a retirement community! My late father-in-law had a pilot's license and had seat belts installed in his cars long before they were standard equipment. So says my wife. But he didn't insist that they be worn around town, only on long trips. Naturally they were...
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    As it happens, the home town I frequently refer to is also named Princeton, coincidentally in Mercer County. But the state is West Virginia.
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    Real USN Pre-WW-II Flight Jacket?

    I have no idea how authentic, meaning regulation, the jacket is but it's surprising to see a name tape on the jacket in the first photo, if that's what it is. That's especially true when typically military gear and uniforms as seen in the movies can sometimes be a little out of date because of...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    "The biggest lies we believe are the ones we tell ourselves." That's a line worth of Will Rogers. All reason goes out the window when you start believing your own propaganda.
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    It makes you wonder how the Japanese ever lived in houses with paper partitions and floors made of straw.
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    I meant to add in my previous post that while the larger cities sucked the life out of small towns, it was small towns that grew at the expense of villages and the tiny crossroads communities. One thing that made all of that possible was advances in transportation; better roads and more cars. I...
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    Who Did You Just See Live?

    I've never seen them before and their next appearance around here isn't until April but I want to see Riders in the Sky. It's been a couple of years since we've seen anyone else live.
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Many interesting comments here about many different topics. Regarding the old Westerns, referring now to the B-Westerns and the Singing Cowboy movies, I think one element not mentioned is that they were aimed at an adolescent audience, not adults. That's not the reason for their disappearance...
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    The movie theaters in my hometown were not palaces in any way. But the next town ten miles away had one that might be described like that. It was bigger and fancier than the ones in my hometown, with lots of red velvet and draperies. There was one such neighborhood movie theater next door to a...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    If present trends continue, OSHA will become history within the next couple of years. But trends never do continue, do they? I worked on a tobacco farm one summer and I know about tar. It comes off on your hands when handling the leaves and it is real tar. But it's 100% organic, guaranteed!
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    I've heard that a few movies lost money because they went overboard on period accuracy. The so-called Poverty Row studios of the 30s survived by making movies, invariably 60-minutes long, by operating on a shoe string budget for everything and sticking to it. Yet the big studios sometimes lost...

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