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  1. ChiTownScion

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    I even question Patton's attributes as a leader. My old boss wasn't the only vet I knew who'd served under him who thought that he was a strutting martinet. It was a fairly common opinion. In that vein, I really enjoyed reading Andy Rooney's assessment of him in his book, My War. Not flattering...
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    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    Sounds like the boss at the first job that I ever held, 1970-72. Setting trap targets at a gun club (trap & skeet) for the princely sum of $1.70/ hour. I'm guessing that OSHA would never let a sixteen year old near those trap machines today (they could rip off one's arm) and there was always the...
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    Gable vs. Bogart

    I'm certain that I'd be in the same boat- or at least serving six to thirty for taking my shovel and turning that plow driver into a popsicle- if I didn't have my snow blower. I like mine so much that I actually enjoy clearing my drive and walks when we have a decent (6 inches or more)...
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    Restoring Clocks that My Father Built

    Thanks. Dad was a journeyman carpenter who spent a few years as a cabinet maker. The skills he learned were helpful when he made the clocks and when he did renovation work.
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    Restoring Clocks that My Father Built

    The first one that was restored was a school clock that Dad built from a kit back in 1972. All it really needed was a good cleaning, relube, and pendulum adjustment. Next is a mantle clock with a triple chime movement. It lie dormant for over 20 years. Again- cleaning and re-lubrication...
  7. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Currently there is only one: Blago. Ryan was paroled in 2013.
  8. ChiTownScion

    What sparked your fascination with the "Golden Era"?

    I suppose that I see it from a different perspective. I look back on that World War II generation, and I'm very glad that I was raised by them rather than the World War I generation. To have served in World War II among my dad's peers was no big deal: everybody served. You didn't tell hair...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Time is relative ...

    Well, I was. :roll: :roll: :roll:
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    What sparked your fascination with the "Golden Era"?

    I won't try to bathe any of this in altruism, but any time that a woman (from ages 18 to 80) comes up to me and says, "I like your hat," my day is made. And when I walk into a local restaurant with like dressed friends, and the owner greets us with, "Here come the Sopranos!," I know that he's...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Attorneys and Barristers of the Lounge

    I've actually won cases for clients whose thanks at the end were pretty superficial. As if they were, of course, entitled to prevail and my role was that of a mere incidental.
  13. ChiTownScion

    Attorneys and Barristers of the Lounge

    Best decision that I've ever made was taking retirement. Between CLE seminars, professional responsibility insurance and bar association fees, I don't net a lot practicing PT, but I'm having a lot more fun with the law than ever. The pressure to bill for every micro-minute is not part of the...
  14. ChiTownScion

    Attorneys and Barristers of the Lounge

    Mainly divorce, custody, support, and other post decree domestic matters to date. I never bill for all of the hours that I actually put in so, yeah, I suppose that it can play out as "pro bono" on some level. I've learned the hard way to always charge something for my work, even if it isn't full...
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    Attorneys and Barristers of the Lounge

    Crikey!! Wading through the old threads and I find a reference to one of the cases handled in my division by my friend and colleague, Harold Winston. We worked together in the Office of the Cook County Public Defender. The Alton Logan case was one of his more memorable victories. Two of the...
  16. ChiTownScion

    Anyone else like Hollywood Precode movies?

    I had the penguins in grade school, then the Jesuits. I'm glad that the Jesuits were not of the "do as you're told or we'll pummel the crap outta ya" mentality: it was more an attempt to appeal to the better angels of our nature. I left Catholicism in my senior year, and the Jesuits I spoke with...
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    Anyone else like Hollywood Precode movies?

    I can recall as a kid that, once a year, we'd stand in church and take a pledge that the Catholic Legion of Decency had distributed to all of the churches. Essentially, promising not to view movies that were lewd or obscene. It was supposedly voluntary, but obviously if you chose to sit in your...
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    Anyone else like Hollywood Precode movies?

    I do know that the Hays Code ruined Betty Boop. Turned her from a slightly naughty flapper into a mundane housewife without a husband.
  20. ChiTownScion

    who belongs to a Lodge

    Master Mason since 1986. Past Master of my mother lodge (Paul Revere #998, AF&AM, Chicago, IL), and currently Junior Warden (and life member) of my current lodge, Libertyville #492, AF&AM. Life member in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of Chicago, NMJ (32nd degree) as well.
  21. ChiTownScion

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    And then there were these commercials with Johnny Cash. Among my friends and I we knew them as, "Buy your gas from Standard...or I'll cut ya!"
  22. ChiTownScion

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    George B. McClellan's term was, "the original baboon."
  23. ChiTownScion

    Road signs from the late 30s to WW2 era?

    Did a check, and that must be Caboose Hobbies, a retailer with a pretty complete website. I have never done business with them, and have never discussed them with friends, so I can't really say whether it's a mecca or not. I'm keeping my own purchases in the hobby somewhat limited these days...

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