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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I don't get it; smoke is smoke, isn't it?
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    This could go in the thread about things that have disappeared in your lifetime. But I think it deserves its own thread, that is, if there isn't one already. Once upon a time in America, there were motion picture theaters everywhere. In town, that is. Even in small towns, there was very likely...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You can trust your car to the man who wears the star.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My father was a little like that but he was never vulgar. He was not well-educated, either, never having attended high school. He served in the army, drafted when he was about 28, which was a little older than average. He drove a truck most of his life, six days a week. He was also a rural mail...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    While I don't have a person experience to illustrate this, I have heard that siblings can turn out to be just the opposite of one another while giving exactly the same reason for the way they were. They had the same father but one wanted to be just like him and the other wanted to be anything...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    We lived with my grandmother (my mother's mother) until my mother died and my father remarried. All my other grandparents had died before I was born. To some extent I believe what you say is true. In the neighborhood where I lived, there were not only families with children, both younger and...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It's bad but never as bad as it seems. Almost nothing ever is.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Oh, so you're not going to die like the rest of us? Well, it is possible that you'll be an exception, I suppose. But I think I understand what you're saying. But don't imagine that your experiences are somehow special or that your generation was the first one to experience great changes. World...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    There's nothing happening to us that didn't happen to every other generation that came before us. We grow old and die, losing friends along the way.
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    Old gas stations

    Even when things are long gone, there can sometimes be evidence of their presence somewhere there yet, if you know where to look. Anything that changed the earth can be very long lasting, even if it's difficult to detect. In the U.K. in places, there are faint marks of Roman roads crossing a...
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    Old gas stations

    In a way, it's a little more surprising when something hasn't changed than when it has. This last post, however, shows our current need for lots of parking lots. The lack of parking was something people complained about in my hometown sixty years ago, so there must be something to it.
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    New Gold Train! 50 Focke-Wulfs under Turkish airport?

    I knew a militaria dealer in Springfield, Virginia, near where I live who had one. I don't know if it was in running order or not but I think he sold it to a museum. You might recall there was one in Saving Private Ryan, somewhere close to the end. All German half-tracks were quite complicated...
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    Tear it down or leave it up?

    For what it's worth, Karl Marx's house is still standing in Trier. I even visited it year before last, although that wasn't the reason for my going to Trier.
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    New Gold Train! 50 Focke-Wulfs under Turkish airport?

    Some WWII German army equipment, including rifles, tanks and half-tracks continued in use well into the 1960s and in a few instances, even later. There was a great deal of surplus equipment everywhere after the war and much of it was handed out to smaller countries around the world who used it...
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    I'm always rather surprised at the amount of drinking in British TV shows. There are some YouTube videos of men going through the British military academy at Sandhurst. I think they were made probably in the 1990s, maybe later. Their training is in two parts, the first part was more like basic...
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    New Gold Train! 50 Focke-Wulfs under Turkish airport?

    When I was stationed in Germany in the mid-1960s, there were lots of stories circulating about buried German war munitions. However, it is true that Germany supplied war materials to some of the allies, the best known being to Finland, which also received aid from the United States and Great...
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    Joseph Goebbels' secretary at 105: "We really didn't know anything."

    My father was a prisoner-of-war for a year in Germany, having been captured in Italy. He was given work on a local farm somewhere near the prison camp in Moosberg, north of Munich (I was stationed in Augsburg). Yet he never had a bad word to say about the Germans he met; many good ones, in fact...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The weekend is probably safe but the eight hour paid workday is slipping. Extra unpaid time is apparently expected by some employers. It can make it difficult to get to your second job on time.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I think I made a comment in this thread that some expressions were older than I thought and my example was "weekend" from a 1943 or 1944 movie. Well, I just ran across a YouTube video of a "Weekend" music video, a 1938 German record. It was a foxtrot.
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    Did they try to promote Smoking in old movies? they sure smoked a lot

    A few weeks ago someone died who was known for those big red plastic cups that are used for beer at sports stadiums. If I ever wanted to be remembered for something, it wouldn't be for red plastic cups.

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