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  1. ChiTownScion

    As A Kid, What Were You Like?

    My ticket out of the suburbs was my being a boy chorister in an urban Chicago choir. Some of those South Side kids were a rough crowd: they may have sang like angels, but among themselves they could curse like longshoremen and there were always fistfights or bullying before or after rehearsals...
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    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    The introduction to the play itself says as much. I've always viewed it as a statement against its contemporary McCarthy era hysteria rather than the events of Dayton Tennessee 1924-- in much the same way that Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" was a comment of those events rather than the actual...
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    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    His performance was not all that shabby, if you bear in mind that the courtroom was Darrow's venue and that Bryan had not tried a case in decades. What a lot of the contemporary Young Earth creationist types forget is that he did concede that the Seven Days of the Genesis creation account could...
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    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    I've always regarded Bryan as more Populist than "Progressive," at least in the Robert La Follette sense. The lines of the two are somewhat blurred as the former essentially evolved to the latter. But I have also felt that Bryan was a man who today is misunderstood by both the Left and the...
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    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Just briefly noting a few points here. 1. Hogarth's Gin Lane illustration is really about an issue of 1750's England..... and it really was not meant to advocate the total prohibition of alcohol. The drinking of foreign spirits, and domestic spirits distilled as their domestic alternatives...
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    Juvenile Delinquency During World War II- One Study

    Another side of that Rosie the Riveter Legacy. "Working mothers during World War II patriotically served their country and made great strides towards expanding opportunities for all women. However, due to a lack of childcare services and misconceptions of feminine sexuality, mothers lost...
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    Help with location in Chicago

    Toscano, or Bruna's, down around 24th and Oakley. Great old neighborhood.
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    Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Champagne Music Thread.

    When I read the word, "unscathed," Lizzie, the first thing that came to mind was Dale and Gail performing, "One Toke Over the Line" in the 70's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8tdmaEhMHE
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    Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Champagne Music Thread.

    Mainly, my grandparents were fans, and I'd watch while visiting. I remember the Lennon Sisters and Myron Floran. And this lady named JoAnne Castle, who'd really pound the keys on an upright piano. I also remember some guy named Aladdin who'd recite the most mawkish and annoying poetry. My...
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    How Did You Discover Old Time Radio?

    One of my friend's dad had several LP vinyl records of OTR that we'd listen to as kids. The Hindenburg crash account of Herb Morrison of WLS Chicago got replayed a lot as I recall. As time went on I'd listen to similar recordings in libraries. It's never really been a passion for me, but I do...
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    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Another thing about the Golden Era that wasn't too cool (if it hasn't already been mentioned): second hand smoke. I was enjoying a delicious steak dinner this evening last for Father's Day, and I just happened to note the clear air in the restaurant. Cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke would...
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    As A Kid, What Were You Like?

    I hated being a kid and I preferred the company of adults to other kids. I always enjoyed listening to stories about the [Second World] War, the Depression, "the good old days," etc., from those who had been there. To me, other kids were annoying and immature. I used to love to give the...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A lot more accurate than a manifestation often heard in the city itself: Chi-CAA-go. Some of my family butcher it accordingly, although I prefer Chi-caw-go. (Hit the "caw" too hard, and you sound like a kid from Brooklyn exiled here to finish law school.)
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    If I had to pick one girl from the golden era

    Rhonda Fleming. Had a crush on her since I was nine and saw her in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court," with Crosby.
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    Take a Look Inside Detroit's Secretive Masonic Temple

    Those older temples must require an awful lot of money for upkeep, but they certainly would make quite the impression upon the mind of the candidate as he takes his degrees.
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    The Return of Vintage DI S E A S E S

    My own view is that if someone acquires an infection resulting in a serious disease that could have been prevented as result of standard vaccination, an action in tort lies. Someone suffering such a consequence is reasonably foreseeable when the duty to exercise reasonable care and caution...
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    My first stolen hat

    If I ever caught anyone stealing my Art Fawcett Silverbelly, I think that "Thou shall not kill" thing might be really hard to adhere to...
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    The Douglas A-1 Skyraider. Not a WWII plane, but the roar of that huge radial at full bore is awesome.
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    Hitler Caught Napping - War Over

    The problem for the German High Command was that their defensive strategy was a hybrid. Erwin Rommel, who pretty much defined mobile offense and defense in North Africa, went contrary to all of that and favored fixed coastal defenses. His attitude was that if the Allies ever landed, the battle...
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    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    The way I've heard it recited is as follows: If you're from outside of the USA, anyone from the USA is a "Yankee." If you're from the South, anyone north of the Mason and Dixon line is a "Yankee." If you're north of the Mason and Dixon line, anyone from New England is a "Yankee." If...

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