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  1. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    I always thought that image would have been a great theme in a Sam Peckinpah film: a protagonist who's a cross between Carrie Nation and Lizzie Borden. After she smashes up the saloon, she gives each of the patrons, "forty whacks"...
  2. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Because, as we all know, working class hero types never get wasted on alcohol...:beer:
  3. ChiTownScion

    "Willie Gillis in Convoy" by Norman Rockwell

    I loved the Willie Gillis series. Rockwell essentially illustrated the Kid Next Door serving in the Army during the Second World War, and he hit a common chord with millions. Willie's wartime exploits reminded me of so many of the war stories my father and men of that generation told when...
  4. ChiTownScion

    Chicago area people I need some advice

    Highland Park is nice. The downtown boasts several decent restaurants and theaters, and it isn't as stuffy as Kenilworth or Winnetka. Highwood is interesting: a lot more "blue collar" than its neighboring communities, but the downtown boasts a number of excellent restaurants- including one of...
  5. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    Exactly. Like beauty or equity, it rests in the eye of the beholder.
  7. ChiTownScion

    The general decline in standards today

    It's a lot rougher for the kids now than it was for me in my undergrad days (early 70's). I was able to work my way through school and not rely upon my parents, often taking any miserable summer job that I could in order to scrape together the money for tuition, books, etc. Not a picnic in the...
  8. ChiTownScion

    Digital watches/clocks

    One of my criminal investigators told me this story from his childhood: Both his father and his grandfather were life long employees of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad ("The Milwaukee Road," for which even he worked on for a few years, thus becoming a 3rd generation...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Dying (and burying) the old-fashioned way

    The family lore presents this story of the Irish wake of my great grandfather held at home. One of those stories that they never told us as kids, but we learned later in life. Apparently, as was the custom in the early 20th Century, the men congregated in the kitchen to consume considerable...
  10. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Saw "Railway Man" (with Colin Firth) this Saturday last. Very well done movie dealing with wartime experiences, survival, and forgiveness. The torture scenes were quite disturbing- especially those dealing with waterboarding the protagonist prisoner of war during interrogation. But that was the...
  11. ChiTownScion

    Chicago based vintage men's clothing & accessories, also available online

    Looking forward to that Humboldt Park area retail shop opening, Richard. Keep us posted.
  13. ChiTownScion

    Walking Sticks & Canes.

    This seems as good a place to start as any: http://www.fashionablecanes.com/?gclid=CMqYorHkmb4CFe_m7AodoUAAXw Not "vintage" in the sense of "from the Era"....but a nice variety of classic designs in the "collector" category.
  14. ChiTownScion

    MASONIC rings...

    I ordered my PM ring from a brother who makes rings from metal nuts: they are virtually indestructible and intended as "work rings," but I think that it possesses sufficient elegance to wear with my black tie ensemble. Refer to #PM 026. http://gordonsmasonicrings.com/catalog1.htm#BLUE
  15. ChiTownScion

    Oldest person you ever knew?

    One of my wife's relatives lived to the age of 110. I met her when she was 104: still quite alert. She apologized for not being as up on current events (the first Gulf War)as she would like because she only subscribed to the large print edition of US News and World Report, and didn't feel that...
  16. ChiTownScion

    Freddie Fisher and his Schnickelfritz Band

    Here's another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80AFN1L7_8Q
  17. ChiTownScion

    Foreign accents by non natives in movies and TV

    Definitely on the Bucket List: A trip down to New Orleans via Pullman Rail Journeys for an extended weekend with my wife. She isn't too keen on the idea, so I may have to agree to a trip to Maui or Hilton Head as a condition precedent/ trading chit. http://www.travelpullman.com/
  19. ChiTownScion

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

    As I understand it, that's how cars are sold in Germany: sans drink holders. And it reflects that same philosophy: driving demands full concentration, and that is what you're supposed to be focused upon. Personally, I think the mandates of local condition govern such decisions in the US...
  20. ChiTownScion

    Foreign accents by non natives in movies and TV

    On a somewhat similar note, and noting someone who got a regional action right, there was Brando in "Streetcar." A friend and lodge brother of mine had lived in New Orleans (he eventually went back there and has remained there) told me that almost Brooklyn-ese accent of Stanley's is very...
  21. ChiTownScion

    The Wifely Duties

    Marrying a stay at home wife was never in the cards for me: my dear mother was that and stuck it out in a bad marriage for 29 years- only to find at age 48 that she had no marketable skills and had to take any low skill job that she could. I ended up putting myself through college and law school...
  22. ChiTownScion

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

    Another thing about the Golden Era that I find totally "not cool" is the involuntary exposure to second hand cigarette and cigar smoke- especially for children. My rant on that subject as to my own childhood (50's and 60's) could fill a few volumes.....but I'll spare the reader.
  23. ChiTownScion

    Dressing Down For Church Has Gone Too Far, CNN Article

    "Pray like a Baptist. Reason like a Presbyterian. But dress like an Episcopalian." I confess that I somewhat like that.

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