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  1. ChiTownScion

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Reminds me of a tale that I heard from a German American pal from a town in Minnesota. Seems that the Lutherans all drove Chevrolets and the Catholics drove Fords: it had nothing to do with socio-economics, but everything to do with whose fellow church member owned the local dealership and from...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    One of many reasons why I could never retire to the South: the notion of a total stranger asking me which church I attend. I know it's meant as a friendly and folksy gesture, but to me, it's presumptuous, akin to asking a stranger how much money is in their savings account. Attending a church...
  3. ChiTownScion

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    I wasn't aware that being born into poverty or acquiring cancer was a matter of choice. Although, in fairness, the probabilities of the latter can in some instances be enhanced through the choice of exposure to known carcinogens.
  4. ChiTownScion

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    The only thing that Prohibition left as far as a lasting legacy is to enable organized crime to become, as Meyer Lansky boasted, "bigger than General Motors." When it was repealed, the apparatus that came about to provide the bootlegger's stock in trade simply adapted to provide other forbidden...
  5. ChiTownScion

    Night Owls only

    A good portion of one of the jobs I worked while putting myself through law school were midnight shifts at a Chicago hospital. I loved going up on the roof, ten stories up, and watching the city lights at night. Toughest part was between 4:30 and 6 AM-- for some reason my metabolism dipped at...
  7. ChiTownScion

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    My "knock around" fedora: an Orvis fly fishing lid. Shot today on the lake at our vacation home in northern Wisconsin while at the helm of the pontoon boat.
  8. ChiTownScion

    Lounge member help requested

    Found a brief online regimental history of the 36th Alabama Infantry: http://www.thebadge.us/civil_war_family/36th-alabama-infantry-confederate.html As an aside: a couple of my ancestors were with the 82nd Illinois Infantry. They were on the other side at Resaca and Atlanta. The 82nd was...
  9. ChiTownScion

    What Song Would You Like Played At Your Funeral.

    This would be #1: "Isn't It Grand, Boys" by the Clancys. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ZAL_1rcfQ And this would be #2: "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" from "The Life of Brian." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlBiLNN1NhQ
  10. ChiTownScion

    Memorial Day Tribute

    When we meet thus, when we do honor to the dead in terms that must sometimes embrace the living, we do not deceive ourselves. We attribute no special merit to a man for having served when all were serving. We know that, if the armies of our war did anything worth remembering, the credit belongs...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Silhouettes Custom Hats - Official Affiliate Thread

    Here's me in my recent Vintage Silhouettes acquisition. Went to a wedding last night and got several nice comments about it. Welcome to the Lounge.
  13. ChiTownScion

    Patton

    I enjoyed the movie, and first saw it with my late father who was in Liege, Belgium when the German Ardennes Offensive broke out in December of 1944. My first boss was a young lieutenant under him- to be honest, his opinion of Patton was not all that flattering. The film was great...
  14. ChiTownScion

    The Orient Express

    These are restored private cars coupled to the rear of the City. No need to mingle with the usual Amtrak coach class riff-raff.
  15. ChiTownScion

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

    Those oversized shopping carts made up to look like vehicles - complete with "steering wheels"- to keep the kiddies placated while the parent shops. They are so big that they usually block the entire grocery aisle, and they take up all of the room inside of the cart pens in the parking lots.
  16. ChiTownScion

    The Orient Express

    If you're looking for something nicer in a rail trip in the US, try this: http://www.travelpullman.com/
  17. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    One theory on the origin of this one that I've read credits it to the Royal Navy of the day of ships of wood and men of iron. Marines couldn't climb rigging, reef a sail, or tie a bowline: they were essentially the enforcement muscle of naval law. In other words, tell the Marines because we tars...
  19. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I first heard that one from DeNiro in "This Boy's Life." I heard the variation, "Shut your cake hole!" from Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves) on "Frasier."
  20. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Last time? A recording made in the late 1940's by a fine funny lady named Ruth Wallis entitled, "Davy's Dinghy." "Swab jockey" and "squid" (the latter for both officers and enlisted), I have heard more recently.
  21. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    I'm getting a lot of updates on Facebook about grandkids of people with whom I attended grade school. And the grandkids of those classmates' younger sibs. Tempus fugit, indeed.
  22. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Silhouettes Custom Hats - Official Affiliate Thread

    Art Fawcett and the Brass Rooster Hat Company of Milwaukee, WI, sponsored a "Meet and Greet" today. A lot of hat making- and hat wearing- talent under one roof. We all had a wonderful time. John and Kate of the Brass Rooster have a wonderful enterprise and were gracious and generous hosts. It...
  23. ChiTownScion

    The Return of Vintage DI S E A S E S

    I'd agree, and I go beyond the title as well and try to research the doc's C.V. Fair or not, I have a bias against third world FMG's and in favor of top U.S. medical school grads. Where they did their undergrad work, and if they have published peer reviewed research can come into play as well. I...

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