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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    If my theory is correct and there is a bolt on replacement, the master cylinder changeover should cost about $100 bucks in parts. Later..... a quick search reveals that RockAuto sells a Raybestos dual master for a 67 Galaxie for $45. Other models range from $25 (rebuilt) to $107 (professional...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Denim is Inappropriate for the Golden Era

    Denim was worn as work clothes through the Golden Era. It was when jeans became everyday wear in the fifties, as a protest against Golden Era values, that what we consider Golden Era style and principles began to fade away. Go ahead and wear them for working in the garden, or with a fancy shirt...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era movie recommendations?

    First thing that popped into my mind was William Powell in Another Thin Man (1939). He pulls up to the front gate of his father in law's mansion one night, when the old boy is in fear of being murdered. A guard with a shotgun phones the main house, and describes Powell: ' he looks like a pool...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Time to add a dual master cylinder. Should not be hard as they began to be used about 1967, there should be one for a slightly newer Ford that will fit your car. You will need to change the brake lines but should not be too difficult or expensive.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Something that just occurred to me. A remark made by my great aunt Ethel Ferguson in the late 70s. She said "You know, you never see a jew on the road anymore". I had no idea what she was talking about. It turns out, she was referring to Jewish rag and bone men who used come around with a horse...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    "And it's gone" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DT7bX-B1Mg
  8. Stanley Doble

    Crystalized Honey

    This last time I boiled my honey I paid more attention. I kept it on the stove for a lot longer. It kept getting clearer and when I put it away it stayed liquid longer.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era/GI Generation: "A man doesn't wear shorts"

    T shirts were considered underwear. In WW2 sailors and soldiers got in the habit of wearing T shirts for work, especially in hot climates. After the war some continued to do so. T shirts and jeans for washing the car, working in the garden, and so forth. The older generation (their parents)...
  10. Stanley Doble

    An immense amount of guilt

    If that is the worst thing you ever do you don't have much to feel bad about. You will get over it.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Movie sidekicks?

    Edward Everett Horton was a great supporting actor. You should see him with Douglas Fairbanks in Reaching For The Moon. This movie is one of my favorites, I was used to thinking of Fairbanks as an action hero but he gives an outstanding performance in this romantic comedy.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I don't know how you can call it representation when the so called representatives totally ignore their constituents. The original Tea Party was organized to redress this grievance, before it was hijacked and turned into a circus.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Movie sidekicks?

    Speaking of straight man vs comic there is an interview or chat show on Youtube in which Groucho Marx compliments Dan Rowan's talent as a straight man. Groucho explains that the role of straight man is often overlooked and underestimated by those who are not involved in comedy. To me Jack Benny...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The tea party protests of 2007 harked back to the Boston Tea Party. They were protesting the $700,000,000 giveaway by the government to the country's biggest banks. At the time, members of congress reported their constituents messages were from 100 to 1 to 300 to 1 against the measure. They...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    California hot rodders used to call sports car fans tea baggers. That was in the early 50s.
  17. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    A frozen burrito topped with melted cheddar and a salad with ranch dressing and salsa. Something I make when I don't want to spend more than 5 minutes making dinner.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Bogie's best movie?

    Bogie just kept getting better and better. He was considered a lightweight before Petrified Forest. Producer Arthur Hopkins: 'When I saw the actor I was somewhat taken aback, for he was the one I never much admired. He was an antiquated juvenile who spent most of his stage life in white pants...
  20. Stanley Doble

    An old Messerschmitt gathering dust

    Notice that he got them in leu of payment after they were used to make a movie in 1969. If he hadn't put them away and preserved them, there is a good chance they would have been scrapped in 1970.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Movie sidekicks?

    Keenan Wynn described his start in acting: " I was always the star's buddy who got pushed into the pool". Does a great job as Kirk Douglas's sidekick in My Dear Secretary. They are ably assisted by Irene 'Granny Clampett' Ryan and Laraine Day.
  22. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A+ wise old timer. Saw a Chatelaine last night, in a 1938 Bob Hope film called The Cat And The Canary. Ghost story/comedy set in an old mansion in Louisiana. The plot revolves around the pretty young heiress and attempts to do her in. At one point the old housekeeper offers to give her her...
  23. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Roast chicken rice pilaf and broccoli.

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