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  1. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Made a burrito tonight. Made refried beans with black beans bacon and onion, put it on a whole wheat tortilla and added some fresh lettuce, tomato, green pepper, red pepper, ranch dressing and hot sauce. It was delicious. With it I had Mighty Tea black iced tea with lemon juice and Stevia.
  2. Stanley Doble

    An interesting story about Hollister clothing's origins

    A few years ago I saw the pictures of the Hollister "riot" in uncropped, unedited form. When you see the whole picture it becomes obvious they were faked up and posed for effect. I expect the boys thought they were posing for 'gag' pictures, and were surprised when Life magazine made them into...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There are campgrounds but a lot of them turn away trailers and motorhomes more than 10 years old. They want to keep out the riff raff. I would like to show up with a 1985 Rolls Royce towing a 1985 Airstream 32 foot Excella and say 'how do you like me now?'
  4. Stanley Doble

    The Big Sleep location?

    What about the Sternwood mansion? Was that an actual place?
  5. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Tried something new tonight. Cooked the rice in tomato juice. It was awful. Might be good in the right kind of recipe but I had it with chili and broccoli.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Lead Paint

    Dupont's profits from WW1, ha ha there weren't any. They borrowed millions to build new plants for war production and when the war ended the government unilaterally cancelled millions of dollars worth of contracts with no compensation leaving them badly in the lurch. Then they came after them...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Lead Paint

    Lead paint is harmless unless you eat it. Unfortunately, with children this is always a possibility. If the paint tests positive for lead do not just seal it or paint over it. Use it for a doll display but get a new one for the kids.
  9. Stanley Doble

    The Ultimate Vintage Movie Collectible

    They kidnapped Charlie Chaplin and held him for ransom.... 2 months after he died. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/grave-robbers-steal-charlie-chaplins-body
  10. Stanley Doble

    What Are You Reading

    Just finished Insanity Fair by Douglas Reed. Published in 1938, it is the best analysis I have seen of the political events leading up to WW2. Reed was foreign correspondent for English newspapers and lived in Europe for 10 years before the war. He spoke fluent German and visited Germany...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Golden era restaurants & cuisine of the era

    I'm fond of corned beef hash when I can get it but have you seen what it costs? It is not cheap anymore. The last I bought was $2.75 a can and that was on sale. As for buying corned beef and making your own, I wish I had one of those wooden bowls with the matching curved chopper that used to be...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Golden era restaurants & cuisine of the era

    There were sign painters who made a business of painting advertisements in windows. They often had a regular route they went around, each week they would go to all the grocery stores and paint the week's "Specials" in the window, with illustrations and cartoon figures. They would also do...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Golden era restaurants & cuisine of the era

    Our local theater allowed smoking to all patrons when I was a kid. In the late 60s smoking was restricted to a smoking section at the left rear part of the seating area near the ventilator exhaust. Smoking was not banned entirely until the eighties. At that time this was all at the discretion of...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Golden era restaurants & cuisine of the era

    Our local theater allowed smoking when I was a kid. In the late 60s smoking was restricted to a smoking section at the left rear part of the seating area near the ventilator exhaust. Smoking was not banned entirely until the eighties. At that time this was all at the discretion of the...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era Dog Names

    In the fifties I had a German shepherd called Chief. It had nothing to do with Indians. I was a fan of the Superman TV show and Clark Kent called his boss Chief all the time. I thought it was funny.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    It's called revisionism. Henry Ford was a master at publicity and was probably interviewed and quoted more than any other industrialist. He built up a generally pro Ford mythology (except for the anti semitism thing). Only in recent years have revisionists come along to emphasize his mistakes...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I also remember Ford introduced the $5 day when average wages in the auto industry were half that, and that he started a Sociology Department to gather information on working conditions and living conditions, in an effort to improve his employees' lives. Or that he built hundreds of small...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The only time I have seen "bread and butter" used that way was in the first Topper movie. There is a scene where a squad of cops in a hotel lobby join hands and "rake" the room to catch a ghost. As they go around a small table, hands still linked, one cop says "bread and butter".
  21. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Ford also commissioned more than 1000 buildings by Jewish architect Albert Kahn including some of the biggest factory buildings in the world. Ford was a strange quirky character. It is impossible to sum him up in a single garish political poster. My study of Ford's life and work has led me to...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Home Cider Making

    New England and the northeastern US used to be great cider country. The custom was to plant random apple seeds and whatever grew up, got made into cider. These "wild" apples tend to be tart and sour, and make better cider than sweet but insipid "dessert" apples. If you want to make old...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Golden era restaurants & cuisine of the era

    Organ meats seem to be passe. Don't remember when I have seen liver, stuffed heart, steak and kidney pie, or even ham hocks.

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