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  1. Stanley Doble

    Your favorite movie quotes

    Could the line be "I just had myself Simonized"? It would be funnier. I haven't seen the picture, just trying to guess what would be funny in the thirties.
  2. Stanley Doble

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Under The Yum Yum Tree a 1963 Jack Lemmon comedy. Jack didn't care for it and neither did I the first time I watched it. After thinking it over for a while I figured out that it was a combination romantic comedy, bedroom farce, and sendup of the Hugh Hefner Playboy lifestyle. Looking at it in...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    One silent movie actor who should have done well in talkies was Douglas Fairbanks. I was used to thinking of him as a silent movie action hero who faded out when talkies came in. Then I saw him in Reaching For The Moon, a romantic comedy. His voice and acting were excellent, much better than I...
  4. Stanley Doble

    You Know You're in Canada When...

    In real bad weather they would run a rope between buildings so you could follow it and not get lost even in a driving snow storm at night. On farms they would run a rope from the house to the barn. The livestock must be fed and watered no matter what the weather. They will be snug and warm in...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    If you do get your hands on an old unit and it works, you can carefully take off the outer casing, clean the insides, and oil the bearings on the fan with synthetic motor oil. If you do this every couple of years there is a good chance it will outlive you. Keeping dust off the coils, and off the...
  7. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Last night made broiled salmon with rice and broccoli. Tonight made some 'tiny purses' or date turnovers, a recipe from the 16th century. They are quite tasty. Ran out of date filling so made some cherry turnovers using cherry pie filling to use up the puff paste.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Silver Shirts, US pro-Nazi 1930s group, uniform description and info...

    If you think Henry Ford ever employed any "Boys from Marketing", or needed them, you don't know Henry Ford.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Silver Shirts, US pro-Nazi 1930s group, uniform description and info...

    Meet Albert Kahn, the Jewish architect who did millions of dollars worth of work for Ford including the 1909 Highland Park plant with the first moving assembly line, the massive River Rouge complex that employed 120,000 workers, The Edsel and Eleanor Ford house, the Dearborn Inn, showrooms in...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Film Noir...in Color?

    In an old interview Robert Mitchum talked about making Noir pictures. The way he explained it, the big pictures got all the best equipment and the B pictures he was working on made do with what was left. That is why "we lit our scenes with a couple of cigarettes". I can't find that interview but...
  11. Stanley Doble

    You Know You're in Canada When...

    Irish people taste test Canadian desserts and dissolve in pools of kindness and happiness
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Grossinger's is done for. It has been closed and abandoned since 1986. I guess that means no more "Jewish alps", no more Borscht Belt comedians, the end of something or other. It was an old fashioned American plan summer resort. Opened in 1919, in 1972 they had 35 buildings on 1200 acres and...
  14. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Roast chicken, boiled potatoes with mushroom gravy, succotash and a glass of cranberry pomegranate juice.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Who do you feel are the Top 10 Golden Era actors and actresses?

    I can't believe no one has mentioned William Powell and Myrna Loy yet. Both good actors, together they were magic.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Experimenting on foods.

    This old post reminded me of Roman Meal hot cereal. We had it occasionally when I was a boy 50 years ago but have not seen it recently. It seems it is still being made by the same firm that began making it in 1912. A mixture of whole wheat, rye, bran and flax seed. It began as a health food...
  17. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Hoppin John, fennel sausage, and kale with strawberries and whipped cream for dessert.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Problems of Housing (1944)

    Maybe some day everyone will have a house with glass brick walls, asbestos siding, interior walls and woodwork freshly painted with white lead paint, screens painted with DDT, all fluorescent lighting that looks like a streamlined gas station completely stripped of all color and decoration.
  20. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Fish n chips from the local fish in chips shop. With extra cole slaw and a Molson Canadian.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That's just Lizzie. You should be used to her by now. You know she dreams of machine gunning everyone to the right of Huey Long. And you also know she will never get the chance so why worry about it?
  22. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    What happened to the word Executive? For a few years in the mid fifties everything was executive. Long socks were 'executive length'. Edsel was the new car for the young executive on the way up. Packard even made an Executive model. I guess for a while there every young man aspired to be an...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Who first said "Intellectual agility of a small soap dish"?

    Sounds like a road show S. J. Perelman

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