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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
I still have a few Zippos around here someplace including a brass 50th Anniversary job I bought for a souvenir and never used. I always had one in my pocket when I smoked cigarettes ( a long time ago). They are still one of the most reliable, honest, well made inventions you can buy. Nobody has...- Stanley Doble
- Post #4,656
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's for Dinner?
Meat loaf, mashed potatoes and green beans all home made. The gravy came in a can but I hopped it up by pouring in the grease off the meatloaf before I heated it.- Stanley Doble
- Post #12,531
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Zippo is a purely American product made in Bradford Pennsylvania since 1931. http://www.zippo.com/about/article.aspx?id=1574- Stanley Doble
- Post #4,654
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
One of the last projects W C Fields worked on was a radio situation comedy that featured two Jews from New York running a western dude ranch. He called them Moishe and Hymie. A Jewish executive objected that the names were 'too Jewish". Right away Fields shot back "How about if I name them...- Stanley Doble
- Post #4,653
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes
Here's my contribution, a modern Norco bike with Chinese motor- Stanley Doble
- Post #414
- Forum: The Display Case
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The "SS United States" will maybe sail again?
You would have to buy a 1965 wreck or shell, and use the registration and body tags. It could not legally be registered as a 2016 because it does not meet the latest safety and pollution standards.- Stanley Doble
- Post #33
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's for Dinner?
Made some polenta tonight. That's cornmeal mush and tomato gravy for you Southerners lol ha ha. I never made it before. This morning I made hoe cakes for breakfast and decided to cook up the leftover dough into polenta for supper.- Stanley Doble
- Post #12,492
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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What's for Dinner?
Roast chicken leg, rice, cauliflower, carrots. I tried making my own shak n bak with flour, corn meal, poultry seasoning, pepper and salt. Needs work.- Stanley Doble
- Post #12,489
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
They used 'boys' the way we use 'guys'. There was even a song, See What The Boys In The Back Room Will Have, even though the youngest 'boy' would have to be of drinking age.- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,541
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
How about whizzing around like a fart in a mitt. My older relatives sometimes used that one, years ago.- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,515
- Forum: The Golden Era
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WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.
Did someone step on a duck? Wind or windiness was the usual euphemism in England. I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned.- Stanley Doble
- Post #25
- Forum: WWII
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What's for Dinner?
Steamed cauliflower with 4 cheese alfredo sauce from a bottle, hopped up with a few strips of bacon fried crisp and cut up.- Stanley Doble
- Post #12,426
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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1930's and 1940's Household Products
Sapolio was a very popular, or at least well advertised soap. It was around for many years then suddenly disappeared. Wonder what happened.- Stanley Doble
- Post #28
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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1930's and 1940's Household Products
The women in my family all had hardwood floors in their houses and they all had electric polishers to maintain them. A machine like a vacuum but with 2 rotating buffers on the bottom. You could use them to apply paste wax. When the wax was dry change the buffers and polish the wax. They even...- Stanley Doble
- Post #27
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects
If you mean what I think you mean, it reminds me of a remark made by automotive expert Tom McCahill 50 years ago. He called German engineers the world's biggest mechanical hams. By that he meant, they have to overdo everything and find some clever, difficult, expensive way to make everything...- Stanley Doble
- Post #38
- Forum: WWII
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Things That Never Seem to Change
Lizzie you need to pick up a Coleman stove or a little propane stove. I keep one on hand in case the power goes out. Or just a fondue pot. I have one I picked up at a thrift store for a couple of bucks. In a power outage you can at least heat up some soup or make some oatmeal. You get the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #85
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects
Speaking of rumors, I have an old book written by an American war correspondent who was with the American force that invaded Germany. He said there were many reports at the time, that the Nazis had secret underground bases in the mountains and were prepared to launch a counter attack at the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #34
- Forum: WWII
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Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects
I was told by someone who was there, that the Canadian army had the least equipment and the worst, especially at the beginning of the war and when training. The man who told me this was in charge of training signal men. He said they scrounged through bookstores and libraries to get any kind of...- Stanley Doble
- Post #33
- Forum: WWII
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Deco Deliveries
Streamlined trailer of the Enna Jettick shoe company made by the same Curtis as some others in this thread. They also had their own airship.- Stanley Doble
- Post #49
- Forum: The Golden Era
