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  1. Stanley Doble

    paint removal from clothing

    Try a pair of scissors.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Experimenting on foods.

    Here in Canada it would be a slice of bread or toast, with butter, sugar and cinnamon. Make mine toasted whole wheat bread with brown sugar and cinnamon (Cinnamon toast). A very old fashioned treat, I am sure my grandparents enjoyed it 100 years ago!
  3. Stanley Doble

    Today in History

    How did we miss Back To The Future Day - October 21 2015 -
  4. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "bees wax" "bees knees" Finally figured out that "bees knees" is comic or broken Italian for business.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Usually a shot of oil fixes things. What about the rest of the mechanism? Are the pivots rusty or have you tried oiling them? Worst case, you may need a new or rebuilt motor. They are available. Incidentally Chrysler was the first company to use electric wipers, they may be available for your...
  7. Stanley Doble

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    I'm all for respect on the roads but it should work both ways. If you are driving a slow moving vehicle and other vehicles line up behind with no good opportunities to pass, pull over and let them go by. I have always done this, while driving a school bus, antique car, or when towing a car or...
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    My home town of Port Hope is one of the few in Ontario that still has the original late Victorian main street that has not been modernized out of all recognition. It has been the scene of quite a few films. Once I was called on to appear in a film or at least my old 71 Fargo pickup truck was. I...
  9. Stanley Doble

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    If you really want to know what your old car could do look up the records of the Daytona Beach Speed Trials of the fifties and sixties. The speed trials run on the beach were for certified stock cars inspected by the AMA and were quite different from the stock car races. In 1955 everyone...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Baby Peggy - still going at 97

    Lillian Gish was in her 100th year when she died in 1993. Her movie career ran from 1912 to 1987, an astonishing 75 years. Dean Stockwell's first role was in The Horn Blows At Midnight in 1945, age 9. He is still working and may beat her record.
  11. Stanley Doble

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    "They've long been trialling a hydrogen bus here in London (sole output: water vapour), " Good idea but doing it the hard way. They could just as easily burn natural gas or propane. They burn practically as clean as hydrogen and you can use an ordinarly gas engine. I used to work in a...
  13. Stanley Doble

    What happened to Shoe Shines ?

    There was more demand for shoe shines in the 19th and early 20th century when horses were everywhere and streets were dirty and muddy. As time went by and streets got cleaner less need for shoe shines. And, as people did less walking and more riding in cars buses and streetcars also less need...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Baby Peggy - still going at 97

    This is astonishing. I often watch old movies from the 30s 40s and 50s wondering if any of the actors are still among the living. Never thought about a silent film actress.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Berlin Calling!

    The RAF was more into dropping bombs with his name on them.
  16. Stanley Doble

    1.21 gigawatts -- today!

    I want my Mr Fusion. You can have the hoverboards (which apparently are now available).
  17. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    That is what I would like to know. Insults like "Nazi sympathizer" "fascist" and the like, have no place in an intelligent discussion.
  19. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    Thank you. This was my point exactly.
  20. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    Just in case there is anybody left who is interested in facts, rather than propaganda- I live in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada a small town on the shore of Lake Ontario. The town was founded by Loyalist refugees from the American Revolution. It was renamed Cobourg in 1818, in recognition of the...
  21. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    I don't like being called a Nazi sympathizer especially by someone with a fat, white, bullet headed cigar chomping avatar. My point was that there are lessons to be learned from the history of Europe and the world from the period 1920 - 1945. But they will be completely missed if you reduce...
  22. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    What is your problem? First you agree 100% with the idea that the Gestapo suppressed all dissent. When I point out that I said basically the same thing, you get sore. So tell me, why do you call me a fascist for agreeing with you?
  23. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    What is wrong with the quotations and sources I already provided? For an eye witness account of the events leading up to the war, try Insanity Fair by Douglas Reed published in 1938. It is the source for the information about Hitler's liquidation of the SA and the reasons for it...

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