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Is This a Real Trolley Type?
I don't know what your dream means. It seems you were trying to conjure up a street scene from the fifties. In an actual city all the trams or street cars would wear the same livery (color scheme). Unless there were 2 companies and they would not both be operating in the same neighborhood. The...- Stanley Doble
- Post #8
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Is This a Real Trolley Type?
Your car is a sort of generic fifties convertible with GM style rear fender trim and 1959 DeSoto tail lights. Cadillac had a mock chrome air intake something like that. Oldsmobile and others had a chrome rock shield with the half round shape but only at the bottom of the fender not all the way up.- Stanley Doble
- Post #7
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Is This a Real Trolley Type?
Looks like the classic "Red Rocket" streetcars used in Toronto from the thirties to the seventies. They were built to a design called the President's Conference Committee. This was a design laid down by an association of streetcar operators, built by different builders in slightly different...- Stanley Doble
- Post #6
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Patton leads German troops against USSR?
I used to know an Irishman who served in the British army in WW2. He told me "by the end they were taking guys with one lung". Whether this was literally true or not I don't know but by all accounts Britain was exhausted and starving. The Cold War was a big enough waste. The world is lucky...- Stanley Doble
- Post #23
- Forum: WWII
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Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...
Excellent tip. If you aren't careful you might end up reading something that upsets your world view or shows things to you from a different angle and that would never do. ( warning this post may contain sarcasm) I try to read accounts of the same thing from various sources. It helps to...- Stanley Doble
- Post #182
- Forum: WWII
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Snow.... are you kiddin' me?
We are getting some nice weather here too. Sunny and warm today and the rhubarb is beginning to sprout.- Stanley Doble
- Post #46
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...
Allowed? Allowed? You don't know much about German history. Before WW1 Germany was a paragon of political virtue, pioneer of social programs and very strict on graft and malfeasance in office. The respect felt by the people for the government, went a long way to explain why they went along when...- Stanley Doble
- Post #170
- Forum: WWII
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What's for Dinner?
Sausage, kale and perogies. With a glass of Welch's grape juice.- Stanley Doble
- Post #10,904
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Correct Telephone Habits
I try not to be mean to telemarketers. Think how bad you would need a job, to do what they do for the pay they get (not much). If I have time I will chat for a minute, if not I just ask them to take me off their sucker list. In any case it costs nothing to be polite. I don't even like hanging...- Stanley Doble
- Post #53
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Snow.... are you kiddin' me?
Good point. This subject is closed.- Stanley Doble
- Post #42
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Snow.... are you kiddin' me?
What has Al "I invented the internet" Gore ever been involved in that wasn't a scam? By the way I have done far more for the environment than he ever has. My carbon footprint is about 1/100th the size of his.- Stanley Doble
- Post #40
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Snow.... are you kiddin' me?
March 30, 2015 Source: University of New South Wales Summary: Analysis of 20 years of satellite data has revealed the total amount of vegetation globally has increased by almost 4 billion tons of carbon since 2003. This is despite ongoing large-scale deforestation in the tropics...- Stanley Doble
- Post #38
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...
Just for the record, the people never voted Hitler into anything. The best the Nazi party ever did in a national election was 37.27% and in the last 1932 election that dropped to 33.09%. At that point they held 196 seats in the Reichstag, far short of the 293 needed for a majority. In the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #162
- Forum: WWII
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Snow.... are you kiddin' me?
I live in Canada and could use a little Global Warming. Have been following the whole Global Warming, Climate Change thing for years. Watched Al Gore's movie, and have a memory that goes back farther than what was on TV last Tuesday. 20 and 30 years ago "experts" were making all kinds of...- Stanley Doble
- Post #33
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Snow.... are you kiddin' me?
A couple of years ago there was a proposal to make a new moon mission. Experts at NASA pointed out that this would be impossible until they figured out a way to shield the astronauts from the radiation that we are normally protected from by the atmosphere and that this was no simple matter. The...- Stanley Doble
- Post #32
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What's for Dinner?
Onion soup, pumpernickel toast spread with liverwurst and a salad.- Stanley Doble
- Post #10,888
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Snow.... are you kiddin' me?
I think we should punch Al Gore in his fat stupid face while shouting WHERE IS THE GLOBAL WARMING YOU KEEP PROMISING? Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...
Not quite true. German authorities admit the gas chambers shown to tourists were not built until after the war, or were not used as gas chambers during the war. The records from Auschwitz finally turned up behind the iron curtain. They contain records of all deaths, there were between 60,000...- Stanley Doble
- Post #56
- Forum: WWII
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Just when you think you'd heard the worst of it ...
Have you seen the reports he tracked down from official German sources during the war giving statistics on the extermination of jews, gypsies and other undesirables? Or the speech Heinrich Himmler gave taking credit for killing more than a million jews in secret extermination camps in Poland? He...- Stanley Doble
- Post #51
- Forum: WWII
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You know you are getting old when:
And so have you Harold. So have you. Oh well Success Is Just Around The Corner.- Stanley Doble
- Post #1,079
- Forum: The Observation Bar
