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Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver
People often don't think things through when it comes to dates, or are bad at math. My favorite is the guy who was wearing an old college sweat shirt. A stranger mentioned that her brother went to the same college then read " ------ ----- College 1838" and said "1838... so you went there...- Stanley Doble
- Post #254
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver
Take a good look at that wheel. Notice the wheel bolts she is taking off. The rim is just a ring of steel, once you take off the bolts it slides off. The wood spoke center stays on the car. It has its own steel ring or rim to hold it together. She must have taken off the flat tire and is putting...- Stanley Doble
- Post #250
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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What specific hair products did men use in the 30's, 40's, and 50's?
Does anyone else remember VAM? V is for vegetable, A is for animal, M is for mineral 3 natural aids for healthy handsome hair You used to hear this jingle on TV in the fifties.- Stanley Doble
- Post #13
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
"And we don't only sing, we can dance just as good as we want"- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,114
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Bogie's best movie?
It seldom gets mentioned but I am a big fan of Beat The Devil (1953) which stands out as the funniest Bogart picture. The cast includes Bogie, Gina Lollobrigida, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley and Peter Lorre with script by Truman Capote and director John Huston. She might get a kick out of...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What's for Dinner?
Dined with a friend at a sushi restaurant.- Stanley Doble
- Post #11,832
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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What specific hair products did men use in the 30's, 40's, and 50's?
I don't think pomade was that popular. Vitalis and Wildroot Cream Oil were favorites. If you look at some old magazine ads there may be others.- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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did they have public out houses in San Francisco back in 1890 - 1900?
I happen to know San Francisco had municipal water service in the 1860s because Mark Twain wrote about it. While he was a reporter on the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City Nevada, a San Francisco paper printed an article critical of Virginia City mining stocks and recommending San...- Stanley Doble
- Post #6
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Mid-Century Finnish Furniture
I'm told that the stripped down, unadorned style was created in Scandinavia during WW2 because hardware and skilled craftsmen were hard to find. But they had plenty of wood. So designers created furniture that could be produced with the minimum of equipment, metal adornment and skilled labor.- Stanley Doble
- Post #27
- Forum: Your Vintage Home
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Mid-Century Finnish Furniture
Similar furniture sold in the United States as "Danish Modern" style in the fifties and sixties. Out of fashion in the seventies, eighties and nineties. Wish I had a nice ensemble to compliment my 1962 SABA Breisgau console 16 tube stereo.- Stanley Doble
- Post #26
- Forum: Your Vintage Home
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did they have public out houses in San Francisco back in 1890 - 1900?
To answer your question, there were public rest rooms in all cities built and maintained by the city government. There were also public bath houses and Turkish baths because a lot of older tenements did not have adequate bathing facilities. In some cases none at all. Hotels built before the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #4
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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did they have public out houses in San Francisco back in 1890 - 1900?
Indoor plumbing was available but not everywhere. Cities like San Francisco would have it. In small towns and villages you would have the old fashioned outhouse in back of the buildings. Scientists and medical men proved a link between outhouses, contaminated water and diseases like cholera...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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When did the penny drop?
A rather fundamental question, I suppose: At what point did the German military leadership begin to think that they had lost the War? And what plans had they in place to do anything about it? That was the question. The answer is, Hitler never had the unquestioning support of everybody...- Stanley Doble
- Post #20
- Forum: WWII
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When did the penny drop?
But they did answer back. The opposition to the Nazis was strong, at it was put down with brutality. And how do you explain 35 assassination attempts? Some by ordinary working class Germans and some by members of the upper class?- Stanley Doble
- Post #16
- Forum: WWII
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When did the penny drop?
It would be wrong to say everyone in Germany loved Hitler ( see list of 35 assassination attempts). It would be equally wrong to say everyone hated him (see cheering crowds everywhere he went). Human nature is not that simple. There were millions of people with all shades of opinion. Hitler used...- Stanley Doble
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- Forum: WWII
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When did the penny drop?
In early February, the Nazis "unleashed a campaign of violence and terror that dwarfed anything seen so far." Storm troopers began attacking trade union and Communist Party (KPD) offices and the homes of left-wingers.[1] In the second half of February, the violence was extended to the Social...- Stanley Doble
- Post #13
- Forum: WWII
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When did the penny drop?
Nobody wanted war but Hitler. I'm not sure he wanted war but he certainly took advantage of everyone else's desire for peace. After WW1 everybody else was a pacifist or at least, had an appreciation of what total war meant. Hitler took chances that gave his top brass the heeby jeebies. But he...- Stanley Doble
- Post #10
- Forum: WWII
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When did the penny drop?
According to a book I read recently, that was written in 1938, Hitler had to liquidate the SA to secure support from the big landowners, the military establishment and the big industrialists. He knew they barely tolerated him, and that if they wanted to get rid of him they could. Hitler's...- Stanley Doble
- Post #8
- Forum: WWII
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
I don't like flying either but once the jet airliner was invented, the train was obsolete for passenger use. They get away with them in Europe because distances are shorter and the railroads are heavily subsidized by the government.- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,849
- Forum: The Golden Era
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When did the penny drop?
"I can only assume that German military leadership was at no point 'thinking', and from the moment Hitler stole power, they believed that they should say 'yes' to everything, and abdicate responsibility for the sake of an easy life. " Or life. period. Study the Nazi takeover of Germany and you...- Stanley Doble
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- Forum: WWII
