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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Show us your Guns!

    I've seen Tut's dagger in the Cairo museum. At the time (1987) it was displayed in a glass case and I could lean over it and get a look at the dagger from inches away. It still retains much of its polish and it was a memorable experience to see my own face reflected in the oldest dateable iron...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When I was young, whenever a fire,police or ambulance siren sounded, it set all the dogs in town howling. This no longer happens. Did they change to a pitch that doesn't bother dogs?
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    Show us your Guns!

    Send us pictures when you get it!
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Back to things that have disappeared...what has happened to dental floss? It used to be stout, waxed cord that did an excellent job. You could even use it to truss a chicken if you didn't have butcher's string handy. Now all I can get is this thin, flimsy stuff that shreds and leaves tiny fibers...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The AK 47 gets too much attention in Vietnam memoirs. I only saw a few. I saw a lot of SKS carbines. Same ammo but not the glamor.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    In the early '50s there was a semi-animated series of cartoons called "Crusader Rabbit" that was aired on various kid's programs. I remember it from the Sheriff John show in L.A. I've read that its creators went on to create Rocky and Bullwinkle, and that the characters were inspired by Crusader...
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    Have You Ever Met A Movie/TV Star or Celebrity?

    Lizzie has mentioned the "shy" celebs, who are very private and uncomfortable being confronted in public, though most of those I saw in Montecito were good sports about it, especially with kids. And then there was Jonathan Winters. He was one of those comedians who are always "on" and always...
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    That vintage feeling

    For me, one of many triggers is remembering being a child in the '50s, but that's not what does it. It is remembering staying with my great-aunt and uncle in Kenedy, TX. They were born in the 19th century, and I doubt that anything in the house dated from later than the '20s or '30s, except...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Forgotten Celebrities of the Era

    Duke Kahanamoku (don't have a picture) and Father Coughlin, probably best forgotten anyway, except as a warning.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    My father used to say "They lit a shuck" meaning "They got out fast" or "They made their getaway." I used to hear it as "lit ashuck." He was born in Oklahoma but his family was from WV.
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    Have You Ever Met A Movie/TV Star or Celebrity?

    When I lived in Montecito,CA in the late '70s I used to see stars from time to time. The Hollywood community was mostly older and semi-retired, though I once exchanged greetings with Michael Douglas when he was jogging one way and I was jogging the other. I'd see Richard Widmark from time to...
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    Secret Marilyn Tapes Revealed - Otash was the inspiration for Chinatown Jack

    Fred Otash figures prominently in James Ellroy's non-fictional writings, and under various guises in his novels.
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    vintage pub reopened: Formosa in LA

    The Formosa was used as a location in the classic neo-noir "L.A. Confidential." It's where LAPD detective Ed Exley confronts Lana Turner and boyfriend Johnny Stompanato.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've always wondered... Do land offices really do a lot of business? Do hotcakes really sell? Are churchmice really poor?
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    The old Sid Caesar show had a running skit that featured the "method actor" Torn Shreds.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When I was a boy in the early-mid '50s I was lucky enough to take some trips on Pullman sleeping cars. One odd ritual was passing through Oklahoma. OK was a dry state and that meant that, when the train reached the OK state line, it had to drop off the "bar car." Once on the far side, it picked...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    What do you still have in your possession from your childhood?

    Not exactly my childhood, but I still have the Randall #1 fighting knife I ordered in spring of 1964 when I was in 11th grade. It arrived almost exactly a year later in spring of '65, when I was a high school senior. Had it 54 years.
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    Your favorite movie quotes

    The Wild Bunch: Pike Bishop: "Let's go." Lyle Gorch: "Why not?" Never has so laconic an exchange been freighted with so much near-Apocalyptic meaning.
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    New Catch-22 mini series - George Clooney to Direct

    A friend of mine and my wife's, the late Tony Hillerman, told me about his one encounter with Heller. Tony, a WWII vet himself with some decidedly acerbic views about the Allied leadership of that war (he thought there should have been some trials and executions of Allied generals and admirals,)...
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Show us your Guns!

    I have one of these (mine's a Puma but same-same) in .44 mag. I wanted a .357 but this one was what was on Big 5's rack that day. It's a sweet little carbine and I can load it with .44 special for less recoil, or load .44 mag brass down to the original .44-40 ballistics.

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