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  1. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Made cauliflower soup tonight, of cauliflower, celery, onion, boiled in milk and water then added parsley and a roux of flour and butter. It was good but I can't help thinking I forgot the spices.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Forgotten Celebrities of the Era

    A few more H. L. Mencken Timothy Leary C. H. Douglas Gaylord Hauser All were well known in their day for their controversial ideas, now largely forgotten
  3. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Wheel for bicycle and wheelman for a bicycle enthusiast. I believe this was current slang in the late 19th C and I heard it used by some very old relatives. In a similar way, here in Canada any small imported car was an English car in the late forties and early fifties
  4. Stanley Doble

    Do You Still Use "Golden Age" Products?

    Vitalis, Noxzema shaving cream, Lifebuoy and Ivory soap. You can't get Lifebuoy soap anymore and I haven't seen Vitalis or Noxzema for a while but you can still get Ivory soap.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Einstein-style sweater

    In Einstein's student days the turtleneck sweater, dungarees and leather jacket was the uniform of the student radical, borrowed from the working class. He preferred to dress this way all his life. If you could find out what sort of sweater factory workers wore in Berlin in 1900 that would be...
  7. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    You read about people younger than you dying of old age.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era Anathema

    As far as Lucille Ball being a pioneer of female comedy or physical comedy - it happens I come from Cobourg Ontario, Marie Dressler's home town. She was a top comedienne on Broadway in the 1890s, starred in the first full length comedy feature with Charlie Chaplin in 1914 and won an Academy...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era Anathema

    I can't stand Jimmy Stewart. I have a phobia about actors pretending to be stupid and his mumble mouthed rube routine rubs me the wrong way. Same reason I could not watch more than 5 minutes of Forest Gump, and all the modern movies belittling poor people. On the other hand I love I Love Lucy...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In England many years ago if someone was in financial difficulty or struggling they were said to be 'in queer street'. If they were so badly off there looked like no way out, they were 'a long way up queer street'. The American equivalent would be up shit creek, and up shit creek without a paddle.
  11. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    And if your name isn't there you get out of bed.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    If you want to see someone enjoy an egg in his beer find the 1937 William Powell Myrna Loy movie "Double Wedding". Not only is it a great movie, very enjoyable, but you can see William Powell having a schooner of beer with a raw egg in it for breakfast.
  14. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    They had bell peppers on sale so I bought some of the orange ones and made stuffed peppers, vegetarian style. The filling was rice, mushrooms, onion, parsley, garlic, and spices. Baked in a pan with tomato sauce, served with basil pesto. It was very good, it is hard to come up with good tasting...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Ask a question, get an answer

    If I had a photo I wouldn't have to ask what one looked like. Have seen 2 or 3 references in stories written in the 1920s or a bit earlier to a man wearing a Christie hat but no description or helpful context.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Maybe I should add, all the references to Christie hats were in the US and Canada.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Cooking Golden Era recipes

    Do you know about Glen and Friends Sunday morning old cook book show? Every week he features a recipe from one of his vintage cook books of the 1900 = 1940 period. It's an interesting and fun show, often the recipes are taken from community cook books from around the US and Canada, each region...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Ask a question, get an answer

    I have seen several references in 1920s books to Christie hats but they never defined what one was. I know there is a well known London hatter named Christy but of course, they make many different models. Can someone tell me what they meant by a Christie hat in the 1920s?
  20. Stanley Doble

    Forward Time Travel

    The Doonesbury gag: POW: Have you got this week's Life magazine? Host: Ah.... about that... POW: Never mind, it's almost time for Ed Sullivan.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Cars

    Cadillac was still "the standard of the world" in those days. Get the best one you can find, you won't be disappointed. The funny thing is if you buy the most desirable, and expensive vintage car you are almost guaranteed to make money when you sell it provided you don't wreck it or run it into...
  22. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Home made beef stew
  23. Stanley Doble

    Did People Wear Vintage in the Golden Era?

    It wasn't uncommon for men to continue wearing the same style that was fashionable when they were young for the rest of their lives. You can see pictures of older men in the thirties, forties and even early fifties wearing wing collars that were fashionable in 1910. In some remote or rural...

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