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  1. nightandthecity

    Pre-1934 Films...

    now check this Cab-tastic masterpiece! Hi-de-ho! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM5v76svQCk&mode=related&search=
  2. nightandthecity

    Pre-1934 Films...

    It is from HI-DE-HO, a great short released in 1934. Find it here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hovtGsLPYeA&mode=related&search=
  3. nightandthecity

    People who talk to themselves

    Most crimes are not committed by schizophrenics and most schizophrenics don't commit crimes. The main "crime" that these people are committing is making others feel uncomfortable. I can think of a lot worse things than that. Incidentally, many of use here are probably regarded as pretty weird...
  4. nightandthecity

    '30s German Suit on eBay

    ebay prices in general seem to be falling again after a 6 month high. Everyone's spending their dosh on the family hols. Now's the time to pick up those bargains!
  5. nightandthecity

    A-2 Modifications

    yes, I've heard this too. Sweeting says it about both the 56th and 479th Fighter groups. I had one many years ago with a red lining...probably rayon rather than silk. I have also had one with a black lining that I'm sure was silk. That was a sweet jacket I should never have sold, a very dark...
  7. nightandthecity

    Vintage Habitats

    Wel, I found your new thread! I shall have to think before answering this. In fact I might opt out as its late. The fact is that the world I knew as a child and a young man has been so thoroughly trashed that I hardly recognize much of it. And it is still going on. I understand that...
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    A-2 Modifications

    Hmmnn...thinking. I've had hundreds of original A2s through my hands. At the moment these are the only mods I can think of, there may be others I've forgotten... the addition of a fur collar (in fact the first one I ever owned at 17 years old had this) the addition of inner pockets ( I...
  9. nightandthecity

    Pubs in East Anglia. . .

    its not actually hard to find the pubs used by 8th Air force crews - IF they are still open (pubs in England are currently shutting down at the rate of one a day). In rural east Anglia there are very few modern pubs, and any pub near an old airfield will almost certainly have been used by the...
  10. nightandthecity

    Depression Era Frugality

    ...mind you, I draw the line at some of Mum's habits. She used to put milk in the bottom of salad cream and ketchup bottles to make the dregs go a bit further. And she always included the apple cores and stalks when she made apple pie.
  11. nightandthecity

    Depression Era Frugality

    I'm a hardcore hoarder myself but its not so much frugality as a mental disorder. Especially when it comes to vintage clothes, books and records.... ..and also old bits of wood, boxes, abandoned doors, the rubber bands dropped by postie, perfectly good screws and half full mastic cartridges...
  13. nightandthecity

    Panamas

    did you mean NEW THREADS? Yes,they look great
  14. nightandthecity

    Panamas

    what new thread
  15. nightandthecity

    Panamas

    no they didn't have helmets like that in King Arthur's day. Marc, you've been watching too much Golden Age Hollywood "history". Anyway, you need some fino-fino chain mail to go with it.
  16. nightandthecity

    Here's a stocking question

    definitely on topic I recently picked up three pairs of mint, in packet, 1940s fully fashioned stockings in a charity (thrift) shop for....50p a pair!! They were CC41 (1941 utility scheme) marked and best of all SILK - not nylon. Back in WW2 real silk stockings were the rarest of the rare, the...
  17. nightandthecity

    Music?

    Getting back to the sub topic (well poor old Taylord obviously did a runner long ago)..... It‚Äôs hardly a secret that a great many jazz musicians were drug users or heavy drinkers, and hardly surprising that dope and booze songs are an important sub-category of jazz lyrics, as were risqu?©...
  19. nightandthecity

    Depression Era Frugality

    dry used tea leaves in the sun and then re-use them. I knew an old lady who still did it in the 1970s but with the "modern" tea bag. Used to hang 'em out on the line to dry.
  20. nightandthecity

    Pre-1934 Films...

    Love the musicals, but don't forget those early gangster films like Scarface and Public Enemy. They defined the genre and are still as powerful as ever. Sometimes I think the pre-Hays era was the real Golden era of Hollywood.
  21. nightandthecity

    BLANK

    quite.
  22. nightandthecity

    Men, What Makes You Choose One Decade Over Another?

    sort of what Herringbone said but with a big P.S. by Wild Root
  23. nightandthecity

    Worst insult

    Withnail! Great film! The most accurate representation of the 60s I've seen. But I digress. In Britain "Ponce" can mean effeminate but it's got subtler nuances....it's more someone who is full of themselves, narcissistic (a bit like some of us here perhaps..but lets not follow that chain of...

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