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  1. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    All right. Explain to me why the American people allow their government to start wars for false reasons and commit war crimes around the world without protest?
  2. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    After being without a doctor for 14 years I got one to take me as a patient (by luck). If I want an appointment I have to book at least 3 weeks in advance. If I am sick, I will be better or dead in 3 weeks. If I am not sick I don't want a doctor. So, he may be slightly better than nothing.
  3. Stanley Doble

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    Toronto still has trolley cars and trolley buses, and so do a lot of other cities. Soon it will be possible to do away with the trolley wires and run electric buses. This would be the best, cheapest, and cleanest solution to the mass transit problem yet. Until we get automatic, self driving...
  4. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    If the German people gladly followed him why did he need the Gestapo and concentration camps? Why did he declare martial law (which meant no more elections) after the Reichstag fire? Read a history book.
  5. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    I wish something could be done about the myth that the German people wanted Hitler. If you look at the record he was never elected to anything. He seized power, hijacked the government, and brutally suppressed all opposition. Yes, some people cheered heartily but the rest kept their mouth shut...
  7. Stanley Doble

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    I'm hoping the wonderful strides made in electric batteries, electric motors and electronic controls will give us electric buses soon. Prototypes have been built and are being tested. One idea I like, is an electric bus that connects to a power line when stopped at a bus stop, and gets a quick...
  8. Stanley Doble

    The unknown Sherlock Holmes DVD collection I can no longer find

    You may be thinking of the 1954 American TV series. I have it on DVD but there is no documentary or interview on mine. The TV shows aren't bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_Holmes_%281954_TV_series%29
  9. Stanley Doble

    Bogie's best movie?

    Have to share this shot of Audrey Hepburn washing a car on the set of Sabrina.
  10. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    I wonder if Hitler didn't know he had made a serious blunder as soon as England declared war ten days after he invaded Poland. We know that he wanted to make peace with England and felt that if he promised to lay off the British Empire, England would give him a free hand in Europe. This was...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Yeah but it's 'politically correct'.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Smoking is a hobby with staying power. You can enjoy it every day until you die. If it didn't cost a fortune and kill you, I would still be a smoker. Quit cigarettes in 1992 and pipe and cigars in 2003, and still want a cigar from time to time.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    "Where's this restaurant? I want to tell them over here how it should be done. thanks. " America is famous for the Boston Tea Party, when a gang of wild Indians threw a shipload of tea into the harbor. Their technique has not improved.
  15. Stanley Doble

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    You make a good point about the Chrysler products. They made a strong effort to improve reliability and longevity in the sixties and backed it up with the first "5 year 50000 mile warranty". But don't sell the 51 New Yorker short. I had one, with the Hemi V8 and 4 speed Fluid Torque Drive...
  16. Stanley Doble

    1950's cooking magazines

    The Jello company even offered tomato flavored and celery flavored gelatine for this type of jellied salad. For some reason they never caught on. This must have been about 1971 or 72, I worked in the Jello factory and I saw them.
  17. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    And Canada a week later. Two long years later the US was forced to join in and "win" a war that was half over.
  19. Stanley Doble

    whats the closest thing to Traveling back in Time? to get a feel of times past?

    I don't live in a hot climate but occasionally we get 90+ days in summer. On hot nights I take a tip from Benjamin Franklin and take a cold shower before bed (he recommended a swim) which cools the blood and allows me to sleep more comfortably.
  20. Stanley Doble

    When did the penny drop?

    I haven't looked into the matter too carefully but I believe in the case of Austria, Czechoslovakia and possibly others, the Nazis were invited in by a pro Nazi government or by a plebescite that gave them a 90%+ approval rating. Poland was the first out and out invasion, and therefore the first...
  21. Stanley Doble

    whats the closest thing to Traveling back in Time? to get a feel of times past?

    Lizzie you can still get old fashioned pilot biscuits, hard tack and other traditional maritime foods from Purity in Newfoundland. http://www.tidespoint.com/food/pilot_biscuits.shtml I thought the price looked high, then noticed it was for 4 packages of 400 grams each.
  22. Stanley Doble

    What was your first car...???

    Somehow Nader forgot to mention that the defects he unearthed came from General Motors' own files and that they had long been corrected before he wrote about them, including the Corvair, which got an all new independent rear suspension more than a year before his book came out. Yes GM gave him...
  23. Stanley Doble

    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    Lizzie if you want the inside story of the auto industry by someone who actually knows what he is talking about you should read My Years With General Motors by Alfred Sloan. He was with the company from the beginning to the early sixties and some of his stories are very interesting. One...

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