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The classic flannel-shirts, I am amazed!
It's a mystery that some people can't see that one $135 shirt is cheaper than 5 or 10 $40 shirts. There are posters on here that are still wearing Pendleton shirts their fathers bought.- Stanley Doble
- Post #44
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Ask a question, get an answer
They seem expensive don't they. A decent hat will outlast 10 of your cheap straws. A top of the range pure beaver felt hat will last the rest of your life and you can pass it on to your son, and they cost 700 pounds. You don't need anything that pricey. I'm just saying you have to revise your...- Stanley Doble
- Post #10,265
- Forum: Hats
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Borgward?
There were a lot of innovative cars coming out of Germany in the fifties. One I liked was the DKW 3=6. A front wheel drive, 3 cylinder car with a 2 stroke engine. Like a SAAB but better looking. It resembled an upmarket VW beetle in appearance. I saw a couple of them years ago but never got the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #15
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Liberty Ship ready to blow off English coast?
No doubt they are decayed more than somewhat. It may be this has rendered some harmless, while it made others less stable but still explosive. Oh well so far so good. I wouldn't want to buy a house in Sheerness but it might be a good place to be in the insurance business. If she blows I wonder...- Stanley Doble
- Post #12
- Forum: WWII
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Liberty Ship ready to blow off English coast?
The point is that if the explosives on the Richard Montgomery all went off at the same time it would destroy the surrounding area including the town of Sheerness. And if it blows up there will be NO warning. It MIGHT be possible to remove the explosives by building a caisson around the ship to...- Stanley Doble
- Post #9
- Forum: WWII
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
You are younger and better looking than you will ever be again.- Stanley Doble
- Post #82
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Liberty Ship ready to blow off English coast?
If you want to know what happens when a munitions ship explodes in a harbor- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion The Halifax explosion of 1917, largest man made non nuclear explosion ever. I knew a survivor. A baby at the time, he lived while his parents were killed. He was taken...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: WWII
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
Don't know if it's disturbing but I notice when I read the news or watch it on TV the world keeps getting worse and worst. But when I look at my own life things keep getting better and better.- Stanley Doble
- Post #59
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
Lizzie somehow I can't imagine you being oppressed by someone smaller than you are.- Stanley Doble
- Post #1,302
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
If they had interviewed my grandmother (born 1901) or my mother's aunts (born in the 1880s and 1890s) they would have gotten an ear full. You don't hear of women being an oppressed minority anymore. I used to like pointing out that women make up 51% of the population. That makes them an...- Stanley Doble
- Post #1,300
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Borgward?
I even remember the Vedette. They were sold in Canada for a very brief period, a year or two. I saw 2 of them when they were 10 or 15 years old. One thing that stands out in my memory is the amount of plastic trim on the dash board and doors, and how it all seemed to be warped and crumbling...- Stanley Doble
- Post #8
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
Nothing wrong with vacuum wipers if they are working right, if they have a vacuum tank and a vacuum pump they work as well as electric. Some cars kept vacuum wipers until the late 50s and even the 60s. Buick Packard and Cadillac stuck with them long after all Chrysler products went electric.- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,901
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
Inflation is a bigger thing than people realize even though it is not talked about in the news anymore. The Fed deliberately causes inflation, their stated goal is to cause 2% inflation per year. How many know that 2% inflation cuts the value of your money in half in 36 years? And it is seldom...- Stanley Doble
- Post #52
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Experimenting on foods.
Sounds like an attempt at Lasagna- Stanley Doble
- Post #22
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
"Your parents heard Kurt Cobain play live, wow they must be old"- Stanley Doble
- Post #20
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Which funny videos are you watching?
"Give it some Welly" A proper Englishman (and his dog) starting his car and going for a ride or mowing the lawn, it's hard to be sure.- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Borgward?
I remember the Borgward. They sold a few cars in Canada. I have seen a few of them. As an old car buff I know something of their history. Carl Borgward was a real live wire in the tradition of Henry Ford, Walter Chrysler or Lee Iaccoca. He built up his auto empire from nothing in 15 years and...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
On a hot rod board, there was some discussion of the term short, as in '2 cool shorts standing side by side' in the old Beach Boys tune. It meant a car, to California hot rodders in the sixties. I'm sure I recall a taxicab was called a short in New York in the twenties and thirties. Pretty sure...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,203
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Your Most Disturbing Realizations
Hell, there are people in college whose grandparents can't remember the Beatles having a song on the charts. Try this one for size. Cher has had records on the charts in every one of the last 6 decades. When she was born WW2 had been over for less than a year. Feel old yet?- Stanley Doble
- Post #11
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
I only know of one book or study on the effects of Prohibition and that was Booze by James Gray. Based on contemporary evidence, the effects were almost entirely positive. In fact he got into the subject because when prohibition came in he was a small child with an alcoholic father and his...- Stanley Doble
- Post #1,295
- Forum: The Golden Era
