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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
One thing of the Golden Era that was not cool at all: limited career options for women. Women have always raised their kids while holding down jobs, but from all that I've read it was more in the realm of dealing with an economic hand that had been dealt by circumstance rather than a young girl...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Autumnal Thoughts........
You know those chirpy Christmas newsletters that people send every year ? How I wish every one I get from now on had this degree of honesty.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
In Chicago, you were generally a Cubs or White Sox fan when I was growing up. There were a few oddballs who had downstate Illinois roots who favored the St. Louis Cardinals, but they were rare. So... how did I end up a Boston Red Sox fan? In 2004, our late son John wanted to get me a baseball...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
The gym teachers that my kids had were heads and shoulders above the alcohol swilling Coach Rockjock types that I had to deal with. We only had to deal with phys ed for the first two years, thankfully. As far as professional sports (at least in the US), I'm kind of partial to major and minor...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
Good popcorn is worth it.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
Just a few random thoughts on secondary school et seq. : I thought that prom was a childish waste of money, and a throwback to the 1950's at the time: someone would say the very word, "prom," and all I could think of was a C major, A minor, F major, and F7 chord progression on a Fender...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
When my sons graduated high school there was an all night "lock in" at the school. They had a dance, movies, games, entertainment, and the kids were served meals, snacks, and soft drinks. Purely voluntary, and I think the cost was pretty reasonable. We chaperoning parents were impressed by how...- ChiTownScion
- Post #5,479
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage trains
Mercer was on the C&NW line that ran from Green Bay to Ashland, WI: stops south would have included Woodruff, Rhinelander, Monico, Pelican Lake, Antigo, Eland, Shawano, Bonduel, and Pulaski before reaching Green Bay... unless you bypassed Green Bay entirely and proceeded directly south at Eland...- ChiTownScion
- Post #134
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Anyone else ever "jones" for their Golden Era fix?
Closest it comes to "jonesing for a Golden Era fix" for me is a need for some steam locomotive action. It's getting harder and harder to get a decent Steam Fix-- seems like we've had no mainline excursions in the Midwest for quite a while. Something about the smell of burning coal (or fuel oil)...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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For LizzieMaine............
Ever read, Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, by James Webb? A great read, and they're not even "my people."- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Anyone have a maid when growing up?
I don't know if we "had a maid," but at our last home we did hire a housekeeper to come in every 2 weeks to clean the place up. When my son was about two, he got upset because some of his toys had been put away where he couldn't find them. "Just fire her !!" was his solution....- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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what what your favorite 1960's movies?
I remember the Mad Magazine parody of the TV show. Guy in the car: "Takin' a trip?" Bronson: "Naw. This is a regular cigarette I'm smokin'.."- ChiTownScion
- Post #62
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The general decline in standards today
This brings to mind a change of rules during the Clinton administration. Pharmaceutical companies are no longer allowed to provide the perks and goodies to medical providers in conjunction to continuing medical ed presentations. The presumption was that the docs could be "bought off" and push...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
:eusa_clap :eusa_clap :eusa_clap- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
My reflex in these embezzling episodes is to look for another addiction: gambling. We had a local pastor of a fairly conservative congregation here a few years ago who was skimming the church collections to feed his gambling addiction.- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
Best part of reading these regional articles always are the comments made by the local people. Journalists tend to play by the rules and try to couch things in terms that can't be construed as defamatory... but the local folks aren't so likely to pull punches. And that doesn't mean that all...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are your favorite Vintage Restaurants?
Russell's Barbecue, Elmwood Park, Illinois. Ribs, chicken, home made soups, chili. My grandparents used to take my mom there as a kid- they've been around since 1930.- ChiTownScion
- Post #19
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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what what your favorite 1960's movies?
McQueen and Garner: a lead in to me declaring my favorite 60's film: The Great Escape. Yeah, I know that the escape from Stalag Luft III was a British and Commonwealth operation, and that the American characters were created so that we Americans could "relate" to the plot... but it's a terrific...- ChiTownScion
- Post #49
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?
With me, the freezer capacity of an era refrigerator would be an issue. I usually buy French Vanilla by the gallon, and I also need enough space for that portion of my ice cream maker to be kept frozen. And that's in addition to the needs of others in this house. My personal vices may be rather...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?
Just curious, as this raises an interesting point: What type of electrical usage is employed by your era TV set and refrigeration in relation to similar modern appliances of comparable size and other variables, such as BTUs, square footage, etc.? Has anyone ever done objective and impartial...- ChiTownScion
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
