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  1. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    AKA, C'e La Luna Mezzo Mare.
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    Vintage Silhouettes Custom Hats - Official Affiliate Thread

    Very nice hat.
  3. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A locomotive fireman was sometimes referred to as a "tallow pot." Goes back to the days when tallow was used to lubricate the moving parts of a locomotive. The fireman would often have to crawl out on the running board of a moving and lubricate. And hopefully after a decade or so of that, have a...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Highball" has its origins in early railroad signaling. A red metal ball hoisted to the top of a mast via pulley told the engineer that the road ahead is clear. Hence, the call "Highball!" for "Let's get rolling." As to how it became the name for a cocktail.. I have no idea.
  5. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Pulling the pin." Goes back to the days of link and pin couplers on railroad cars.
  7. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "I don't give 'em hell. I tell the truth on 'em and they think it's hell." But to really understand Harry Truman, you have to understand the role that Freemasonry played in the man's life. He was initiated, passed, and raised when he was a dirt farmer. He became master of his own lodge...
  8. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    He really didn't want to be Vice President, let alone President. He was perfectly content to be the Senator from Missouri, and he did a fine job of running the committee that monitored wartime spending. FDR more or less had to browbeat him into accepting the Veep nomination in 1944. Once he...
  9. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    "Somewhat sanitized" is right. Don't want to play plot spoiler, but I got the feeling that the Legal Department was worried about a defamation suit in regard one specific aspect.
  10. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Other disappeared terms/ expressions: "Who died and left you as boss?" "Who put a nickel in you?" "They looked like Coxey's Army!" "He came in like Grant took Richmond!" "I was doin' that when you were kickin' the slats out of your cradle !"
  11. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I remember my dad telling me when I dressed slovenly that I looked like a "hoonyiak:" I thought that it was just a term that he made up. I also remember him talking about Kashubes. I had no idea what that was, but I later found out that Kashubians are, indeed, a bona fide ethnic group from...
  13. ChiTownScion

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    And I happen to think that there is a distinct difference between evading the draft during a time of declared war and evading the draft during the time of a "police action" in which the United States should never have been involved.
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    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    To me, the 1970's were a long, dark tunnel. I was either in school, or working for my next round of school. Started the decade as a prep school sophomore, and ended it as a night law student still a year and a half from graduation. Music and the arts were incidental: I didn't really enjoy them...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I thought that was Christopher Walken.
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    Is Christmas Ruined Forever?

    Giving gifts on Christmas Eve vs. Christmas Day was resolved in my home based upon my dad's work schedule. He was a Chicago Firefighter and had a 24 hours on, 48 hours off schedule rotation. In years where he had to work Xmas Eve we'd have to wait until 9:30 AM for him to come home: that was...
  19. ChiTownScion

    The WPA

    Couldn't agree more, on all points. Certainly kept food on the table for my grandparents as well.
  20. ChiTownScion

    To beard or not to beard?

    My son is now 25, so that tells you how long ago this was.
  21. ChiTownScion

    To beard or not to beard?

    My wife complained that I look like an old man when I wear one. Other women have told me that I like it...but guess who calls that shot? There is that scratchy wool blanket on your face feel to it, but I always enjoy the view from the mirror when it finally is past the stubble bum stage.
  22. ChiTownScion

    Is Christmas Ruined Forever?

    I figured it out at age 5. The Wright Brothers accomplished the first controlled heavier than air flight in 1903. If that were so, Santa didn't exist. Seemed pretty simple. My view is to never actively represent that Santa is real to kids. I neither encouraged nor discouraged my kids to believe...
  23. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Went back to the original post of this thread and saw this. I believe that they were marketed under the name of "Toledo Torch."

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