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  1. Stanley Doble

    How you ever worn certain clothes to give others "the finger?"

    Wear the nice clothes and get your revenge when you get promoted over him.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Where do these characters come from?

    They might be a costume designer's idea of 1912 outlaws. You wouldn't have seen a fedora or a white suit, and if you did it wouldn't be white for long. You might have seen a man in dark suit, wing collar and derby hat although it would have been slightly out of place outside town. Other than...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Yesterday the starter failed on my car and turned me into a pedestrian. I got to thinking how long it has been since I heard the word pedestrian, it must be 20 or 30 years.
  4. Stanley Doble

    What's For Breakfast...

    Eggs with kippers, cereal, and orange juice followed by a mug of tea with condensed milk.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Gas rationing stickers on windscreens

    An even lesser known fact was that many of these new 1942 cars were converted into stretch limousines for semi bus work. Here is the story of one that was used on the Los Alamos atomic bomb project. It turned up a few years ago in a junk yard, was restored and is now in a museum. Most of the...
  7. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Made a crock of sauerkraut on Saturday so will have home made kraut for supper in about 2 months. Tonight put some lima beans to soak, will make a lima bean and ham hock casserole tomorrow. Tonight got a burger and fries at Wendy's. Yes I plan ahead but am not very good at it ha ha.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Gas rationing stickers on windscreens

    Essential workers could not only get extra gas, they could get new tires, batteries and even a new car. I know of a veterinarian who was given permission to buy a new car, which came from a bonded government warehouse. I suppose with food in short supply and gas and tires rationed, horses and...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That seems likely but I don't know for sure/
  10. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In the custom body era of the twenties and thirties bodies for luxury cars were often made in batches of 50 or 100 and put into storage until needed. The bodies were painted with white lead primer. When a customer ordered a car the body would be painted and trimmed to order and installed on a...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Readability

    That is the way I do it. Although using a space between paragraphs seems a bit avante garde compared to indenting the first line the way I was taught in school.
  13. Stanley Doble

    DC-3 / C-47

    Few people know the DC3 was never approved by the FAA. It was in service before they started. They decreed that the DC3 should be withdrawn from service by 1940, extended to 1947 because of the war, then they seem to have forgotten about it. Funny to think that if the FAA had got started a few...
  14. Stanley Doble

    old terms or expressions that are still among us

    I was surprised to learn how far the expression "hang out" dates back. Mark Twain recounts a tale from his childhood when an old hillbilly woman criticizes her daughter in law, a town girl, for her fancy ways. She describes how she "gaumed the inside of her cabin with some nasty stuff called...
  15. Stanley Doble

    The Dessert Menu

    Have been cutting down on bread and sweets so no desserts for me. But a few days ago couldn't stand it any longer and made a pan of corn bread. So I had corn bread with butter and molasses, corn bread with butter and jam, and corn bread with my chili until I ran out of corn bread.
  16. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Steamed cabbage and perogies. I used up the last of a head of cabbage that had been in the fridge for weeks and it tasted sweet. Never had this happen before and I am sure the same cabbage did not taste so sweet when I first got it. Does cabbage get sweeter as it ages?
  17. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Natural gas or propane produces a bright white light if you use a fixture with a Wellsbach mantle. We used to have a travel trailer with a gas light in it, similar to a Coleman lantern.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    We did have coal gas in major cities in Canada but switched over to natural gas in the fifties. Now every town has it. In rural areas propane tanks are common, refilled from a large tank truck. There are large natural gas fields in Canada. In some areas farmers hit gas when drilling for water...
  20. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Fried Spam, mashed potatoes, cauliflower carrots and broccoli. With a glass of French cider.
  21. Stanley Doble

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    3 1/2 hours ago listened to part of a Gunsmoke episode on AM740 the Toronto nostalgia station. From 10 to 11 they play an old drama, then a comedy program. Don't know the date but recognized Howard 'Floyd the barber' McNear as Doc.
  22. Stanley Doble

    Any good pre Edwarian era adventure novels?

    Zane Grey and Gene Stratton Porter might be up your alley. They wrote westerns in the period and were very popular. Rudyard Kipling is hard to beat. I presume you have gone through Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories but he wrote other things as well.
  23. Stanley Doble

    Any good pre Edwarian era adventure novels?

    E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific and popular adventure novelist of the period although his stories tended to a more sophisticated cast of millionaires and spies. Still, I think you would enjoy them and they can be easily found for free online.

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