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  1. Stanley Doble

    Tramps and other characters

    Yeah, sounds like he's not a real lucky guy to know.
  2. Stanley Doble

    How Dress Shoes Are Made - 1930s

    Tour a shoe factory in the 1930s and see how they made a pair of men's dress shoes, start to finish.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Rhubarb also known as pie plant, was very popular in the 19th and early 20th century because it was the first fresh food you got in the spring. It is a perennial, and before the soil was fit to plant a garden the rhubarb would be big enough to pick and eat. Usually stewed with sugar or in a pie...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I had rutabagas tonight for supper. I know not many people like them but you can still get them. One thing that surprises me is that kale made a comeback as something new and great. 50 years ago the only people who ate kale were old immigrants from northern Europe who grew it in the back yard.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Any vintage Zippo lighters collectors ?

    I don't think you can get the good strike anywhere matches anymore. There are refillable butane lighters.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Any vintage Zippo lighters collectors ?

    I never liked a Zippo for lighting a pipe, you taste the Benzine. A gas lighter like a Bic is better. I preferred kitchen matches but I don't think you can get them anymore.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Any vintage Zippo lighters collectors ?

    I've still got a couple of Zippos around from years ago when I used to smoke. One is a brass 50th Anniversary job still in the box. So if 1 is a collection I'm a collector lol.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Hey Lizzie...Any of Your Belongings Missing?

    How can he be on probation?
  10. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Yes, good rutabagas are bitter. A little salt helps.
  11. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Made hash of leftover onion rutabagas carrots and potatoes. Fried up with a few pieces of bacon. It was kind of unusual.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Another California characteristic is slurring the ends of certain words, so west coast becomes wes' coas' for example. Steve Martin said he took voice lessons and this was the hardest thing to overcome. He still finds it an odd, stilted way to speak but no one has ever mentioned it to his surprise.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Burma-Shave signs without rhyme?

    SSuperdave did you know someone collected 900 jars and claimed the trip to Mars? He got it. Mars, Germany that is.
  15. Stanley Doble

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

    Sorry, your first link is a 404 error, your second requires a password and the third is so small as to be illegible. It doesn't surprise me that a smart manager would have more than one reason for making a certain decision. I long ago got over the tendency to group everyone into heroes and...
  16. Stanley Doble

    did they have public out houses in San Francisco back in 1890 - 1900?

    If he did he got thrown out on his ear.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Repro Moterbikes

    In many areas you can ride a pedal bike with a motor up to 50cc with no driver's license, license plate or insurance. I have a Norco balloon tire bike with Chinese motor like the black one in papaya's post. They can be a lot of fun for not much money. Around here they are mostly a fun thing for...
  19. Stanley Doble

    did they have public out houses in San Francisco back in 1890 - 1900?

    Only place I heard of a urinal in a bar was one very remote pub in Australia.I don't know enough about San Francisco to prove different but it sounds unlikely.
  20. Stanley Doble

    old candy bars were called lunch bars?

    Went in the McDonald's at Walmart while they were changing my tires. They have Rhubarb pies, never saw that before.
  21. Stanley Doble

    The "real" cool cats.

    For a contemporary look at Hollywood's take on rockabilly culture here is a Peter Gunn episode from 1958. The hot rod is Norm Grabowski's iconic T bucket that later gained fame as Kookie's car in 77 Sunset Strip. It was not a movie prop it was built by Norm in his back yard garage, and was his...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Lizzie would you say Donald Trump has a typical New York accent? I hear it but, must admit it is fainter than in older people. It is interesting to me that some very rich New Yorkers shared the same accent with their less sophisticated or well heeled contemporaries. Here is Tom McCahill. He was...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    And on the right, the tailfin of a 1963 Buick LeSabre station wagon.

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