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Most depressing song you know?
While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Heard it at the Woodfield Mall in Chicagoland during Desert Storm shortly after I lost my mother. Everything kind of "came together" when it came on the radio and somebody looked at me right afterward and said, "Boy... You look like you just lost your best friend...- plain old dave
- Post #29
- Forum: Radio
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Sears to close more stores as holiday sales slump
Our Sears in Oak Ridge is on the list, too. The wife and I have bought tires from Sears as long as we have been married; we both travel a LOT and Sears are everywhere. Simple solution to complex problem: Dump K Mart before it makes Packardbaker the controlling precedent; Packard died in...- plain old dave
- Post #40
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What sparked your fascination with the "Golden Era"?
It's a lot of things for me... Earl Hamner's generation saw some of the most profound changes the world has yet known. Consider, when your Papaw was a teenager: One car in a household was a luxury. A portable radio took 2 hands to carry. He probably knew several people in elementary...- plain old dave
- Post #158
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Pencil Mustache
About a year and a half old. Bonus points if you can tell where I am.- plain old dave
- Post #447
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Saving History
May well be off topic, but as this is history, too, I thought it would be OK. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Inn The Alexander Inn in Oak Ridge, TN (aka "The Guest House" during the days of the Clinton Engineer Works) was the Transient Quarters for our 1/3 of the Manhattan Project...- plain old dave
- Post #8
- Forum: WWII
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Time Warp Towns
Couple nominees: Oliver Springs, TN. Dressed up for "October Sky" but not much. Some of the store fronts are still as they were changed for the movie. Clinton, TN. Here. Oak Ridge. The majority of the homes are WW2 surplus, built for the Manhattan Project, and the East End shopping...- plain old dave
- Post #78
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Non Fathers on Fathers' Day
My father's been gone since 1990. Name on a piece of paper, anyway. No kids. Father's Day is just another meaningless holiday. End of self-pity.- plain old dave
- Post #20
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Your favorite movie quotes
Mine are a little more serious: Col. Freemantle, it does not begin or end, with my uncle or myself. We're all sons of Virginia here. That major out there, commanding the canon? That's James Deeran, first in his class at West Point, before Virgina seceeded. The boy over there, with the color...- plain old dave
- Post #162
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Who are you favorite generals of WWII
No Marines. Technically, Sailors are Admirals, though, so no comment on this being a land service thread. My vote would have been for Clifton B. Cates; UT alumni have to stick together. Go Big Orange!- plain old dave
- Post #44
- Forum: WWII
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Help please (radio restoration)
+100 on electrolytic capacitors. Here's a thought: Look in your local area for a ham radio club; a LOT of us hams keep "boatanchors" on the air and have detailed obsolete repair equipment to do so; electric radio is almost a sub-hobby in Amateur Radio. Pay close attention to the callsigns of...- plain old dave
- Post #3
- Forum: Radio
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American Roots Music
We have us a whole station in Knoxville that plays NOTHING but roots music: www.wdvx.com They started in a camper up near John Rice Irwin's Museum of Appalachia. They stream and have lots of good info on the website. They are even trying to bring back a sort of combo of the Farm and Home Hour...- plain old dave
- Post #14
- Forum: Radio
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songs that make you shiver/cry
God Bless America, ESPECIALLY if done by the United States Marine Corps Band and preceded by the Presidential Fluorish. I get misty just typing about it.- plain old dave
- Post #331
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Lookin' for an OR clone...
Clarification: I will take any source offered, whether Lounger or e-store. Further, all hats mentioned thus far are *felt*. It's past Easter and before first frost; I would have thought straw at this time of year didn't NEED to be mentioned. Still looking for a straw OR or clone on the 60s-70s...- plain old dave
- Post #5
- Forum: Hats
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Wearing Suits to Lodge
While I will not comment on Masonic philosophy, I will say this: My fairly extensive experience in the TN Lodge (Scottish Rite, mostly, with some York Rite) is that Business Casual seems to be accepted, with little if any mention made if a man were to wear business attire. PM me for more details.- plain old dave
- Post #11
- Forum: Suits
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Lookin' for an OR clone...
More I wear it, the less I like my straw Stetson OR. Too tall of a crown and a little broad-brimmed for me. What I really want is a straw hat with c. 1965-75 OR dimensions; stingier brim and lower crown. I'm weird, I know.... It's just that a "classic" OR makes me almost look like as much of...- plain old dave
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- Forum: Hats
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Norma Zimmer has passed.
Broke on the news this morning. Norma Zimmer, Lawrence Welk's last (and longest tenured far as I know) Champagne Lady, passed of "natural causes" last night. Following Youtube clips should suffice to demonstrate just what an awesome Voice she had. We have lost a very significant connection to...- plain old dave
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Could you survive?
Define further. If you mean shoot on a 5-V target, no. But I would think a 75-0X offhand would be at least a 40 with 3-4 Vs...- plain old dave
- Post #127
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Could you survive?
Let's see... WW1 vet First Class Petty Officer in the Navy Reserve: Check. Civil Servant: Check. What I Do is part of law enacted in the Depression. IMHO not much worth mentioning has been invented SINCE 1937, so I reckon I'd be OK. Would even still be able to shoot my trusty M1 in NRA Service...- plain old dave
- Post #125
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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If you could live/move anywhere right now, where would it be? Why?
Basically, anywhere in Appalachia would be OK. For the uninitiated, draw an oval on the US from WV running Southwest to Northeast AL and Northwest GA. Eastern boundary is along the line of Lynchburg, VA and Asheville, NC. Western would probably be between Hazard, KY and Lexington, KY running...- plain old dave
- Post #62
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What Are You Reading
"Sailors To The End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal And The Heroes Who Fought It" by Gregory Freeman. A riveting account of the worst mishap onboard an aircraft carrier in US Navy history, a flight deck fire on 29 July 1967 that rapidly spread through the aft 1/3 of the ship. No less than...- plain old dave
- Post #4,142
- Forum: The Reading Room
