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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    For those who advocate better rail transportation. You already have in the US the most complete airline transport system in the world. I don't think you could get most air passengers to switch to a slower, more expensive railroad ride no matter how much safer or more comfy. I like trains too but...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    It's the same in every socialist country. There is a long standing prejudice against cars as being a plaything of the rich. Maybe in 1905 you had to be a millionaire to afford a car but by 1920 they were a tool of the farmer and small businessman, at least in the US. In Europe and around the...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Return of the Catalina

    The Ventura was long gone by the time I met George in the early 70s. Most likely broken up for scrap metal. He scrapped dozens of planes and shipped out aluminum by the transport load. I remember a Hudson (plane not car) a few Mosquitos (wooden fusilage and wing spars) and the 4 PBYs. Plus a lot...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    In the heyday of the Soviet Union private ownership of cars was practically unknown. They were pretty much all official cars or "company cars" belonging to government agencies and government owned enterprises. You would be assigned a car if your status and job required one. It was...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Here in small town Canada there were a few Cadillacs, all owned by small business owners and shop keepers, all bought second hand. Except the local GM dealer bought his mother a new Cadillac every year, and an old farmer drove a 1966 Fleetwood limousine for years. The other Cadillac owners were...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Return of the Catalina

    George Ventress and Sad Sack http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=4604 George brings home a plane, mid fifties. He is the one in short coat and cap.There also appear to be a helper in overalls and a cop in uniform. Last couple of pictures show the Ventress farm with...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Return of the Catalina

    I've been in a Catalina but not to fly. My old friend George Ventress had 4 of them in his back yard. He was a war surplus and scrap metal man, among other things. He turned one of them into a yacht powered by 2 Ford flathead V8s which he used around Prince Edward County for years. The longest...
  9. Stanley Doble

    The Nazi Gold Train

    It's hard to name a "great man" who doesn't have blood on his hands.
  10. Stanley Doble

    When did the 'short back and sides, wet head' hair style first come into popularity?

    The "white sidewalls" look also came from the military. It was particularly popular in England. It was popular in WW2 along with the even more extreme "brush cut". The brush cut had a vogue in the fifties among boys and young men, especially athletes.
  11. Stanley Doble

    The Nazi Gold Train

    They suspect it may contain booby traps or possibly explosives that passed their Best Before date 60 years ago. So, I don't blame them for advising caution. Personally I will believe it when I see it.
  13. Stanley Doble

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I understand Congress made the metric system legal for trade in the US in 1886. So, you can use it if you want to.
  14. Stanley Doble

    In terms of a span of years, when do you place the "Greatest Generation"?

    Let's face it, how many WW2 veterans are still around and ambulatory 70 years on? The youngest would be near 90.
  15. Stanley Doble

    In terms of a span of years, when do you place the "Greatest Generation"?

    From watching old English TV shows I had the impression the war was an every day topic of conversation and nostalgia in England much more than in North America, as late as the 70s and 80s. At least for those who lived thru it.
  16. Stanley Doble

    When did the 'short back and sides, wet head' hair style first come into popularity?

    I would have to say in the military in WW1. The older generation of the late 19th century generally wore their hair longer, and were more likely to sport beards, side whiskers or handlebar mustaches. Mustaches were the privilege of the soldier but from the twenties on, the big handlebar mustache...
  17. Stanley Doble

    In terms of a span of years, when do you place the "Greatest Generation"?

    I don't think of them as the "Greatest" anything but then I knew them too well. I think of them as my dad's generation aka the Bob Hope generation. I am talking about the group that got out of the service in 1945 - 46, got married, and raised the families known as the Baby Boom generation. It...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Your Strangest "Golden Era" Dream

    A few days ago I had a dream that involved roller skating on a wide boardwalk at a beach side amusement park in the twenties. Easily explained, as I had just watched a Harold Lloyd movie with a similar setting, although there was no roller skating in the movie. I have never roller skated in my life.
  20. Stanley Doble

    What missed opportunities do you regret?

    Also had the chance to take part in a stock investing program at my first job, where the company matched your contributions. So, basically buying dollar bills for 50 cents. I turned it down because I did not understand it. At least, I understood but couldn't see the catch (there wasn't one). At...
  21. Stanley Doble

    What missed opportunities do you regret?

    Turned down the chance to join the football team and a bodybuilding club in high school. I had no interest in sports or fitness. Sometimes I wonder if my life would be different if I had gotten involved in sports.
  22. Stanley Doble

    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    And got it all back by the close. When the bear comes it won't be a one day event. It will be a slow grind with many reversals designed to keep people from selling until it is too late. This may be a warm up to the main event but it is not the main event.
  23. Stanley Doble

    Home Cider Making

    How much do you want to make? For a gallon or 2 a home juicer will work.

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