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  1. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I begged....BEGGED..... my parents to ship me off to a military school. It sounded exciting to me: wearing uniforms, marching in formation, etc. And being sent away from home sounded like an adventure, not a threat. (Maybe I thought that they'd let us target practice with .50 cal machine guns...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Favorite Military Quotes

    “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Wish I'd known those steel wool in the exhaust pipe and dryer sheets in crevices tricks when I stored my boat for the winter-- in an unheated shed in northern Wisconsin. I'm always certain that small woodland creatures find sanctuary there. No evidence of any real damage thus far, but sounds...
  4. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Theory of Everything (2014). Very thought provoking biography of the life of Stephen Hawking.
  5. ChiTownScion

    Black Thursday/ Friday, my annual plea

    Nothing galls me more than some More Important Than Thou type berating some underpaid sales associate or wait-person. My kid sister told me of an episode where she put a fellow shopper in her place for doing just that. The woman wanted a cash refund, and it was store policy not to offer same...
  7. ChiTownScion

    [Movie + Child Actor = Box Office Bonanza]!

    Brings to mind the time that my wife tried to fix a basement drain in our first house herself, wanting to save a few bucks by not calling a licensed plumber to do the job. She made a bad situation worse, cost us more than we would have paid for the repair in the first place....and good naturedly...
  8. ChiTownScion

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    I'm not familiar with Lena Dunham. I have, however, heard of Lena the Hyena..... Thanks and a nod of the fur felt fedora to Basil Wolverton.
  9. ChiTownScion

    Election signs from the 40s?

    I model 1948. That was the year that the Pullman car monopoly was largely broken up, so it allows for both Pullman green fleet cars and recent railroad acquired cars painted in road colors, but it was also the year of the Truman- Dewey presidential election. I run my equipment on a club layout...
  10. ChiTownScion

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    The biggest challenge for me is not acquiring too much crap and clutter in the first place.
  11. ChiTownScion

    Young men living at home in the Golden Era?

    Three basic areas I have found to be the source of tensions in a marriage: money, kids, and in-laws.
  13. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My dad once told me that if I put a chameleon on a piece of plaid cloth that it would have a conniption fit. Never tested that one.
  14. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Might that have something to do with the decline in quality of newspaper comics? I haven't read anything "funny" in the funny papers since Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes.
  15. ChiTownScion

    What Song Would You Like Played At Your Funeral.

    I would never request it myself, but if my friends played, "Ich Hatt' Einen Kameraden" at my funeral, I'd be smiling wherever I am.
  16. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Elvis was 42, and Groucho was 87 when they died. I think it was a shock at the time because many perceived it as a situation of his dying young. As one aspect of this consideration, Presley's daughter was nine at the time he died. I also think that the details of his drug abuse that came out...
  17. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Elvis was 42, and Groucho was 87 hen they died. I think it was a shock at the time because many perceived it as a situation of his dying young. As one aspect of this consideration, Presley's daughter was nine at the time he died. I also think that the details of his drug abuse that came out...
  19. ChiTownScion

    The YMCA in the Golden Era (including 1960s)

    There were also "Railroad YMCA's" located in towns that were division points where crew members could hold over at the end of a run.
  20. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
  21. ChiTownScion

    The YMCA in the Golden Era (including 1960s)

    I recall as a ten year old kid (1965) being told to steer clear of the Central YMCA on South Wabash Avenue in Chicago because there were "undesirables" there. Mentioning gays to a kid my age would not have been typical at the time, so, whether that was code is anyone's guess. On the other...
  22. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    I always preferred the Stones, anyway.
  23. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

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