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  1. Stanley Doble

    Electric meters on the side of houses in the 30s and 40s?

    Looking at old pictures, if you see the wires coming to the house, then a pipe about 1 1/2" in diameter that is the electrical conduit. Where it ends you will find the fuse box and meter.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Be careful, FAP has acquired a new meaning since the 1930s.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Why didn't men wear wedding bands?

    The jewellery industry hadn't gotten around to pushing them yet.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Do lunatics help or hurt an online forum?

    A large problem these days is hired trolls sent to discredit and derail forums their pay masters disagree with, are afraid of, or want destroyed for any reason. You won't see that here but I see it all the time on forums that are more oriented towards social, political or business issues. If...
  5. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Stopped at the grocery store for a roast chicken, potato salad, cole slaw and dinner rolls. My favorite fast food takeout.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Brylcreem?

    I am sure it can but it will work in better if your hair is slightly damp, as after washing. I use VO5 for gray hair, a drop about half the size of a pea and work it in after I wash my hair.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I believe alley oop (the expression) came from the vaudeville stage. I seem to recall it used by acrobats. And that like a lot of broken French expressions it originated among the troops in WW1.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Electric meters on the side of houses in the 30s and 40s?

    In those days meters were usually inside the house or in the back porch. Sometimes the meter reader had to go in the house and down in the basement. If no one was home they would estimate the bill and adjust it the next time they got a reading. Putting the meters outside started in the sixties...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Nazi Plane Tailfin

    Or fake bullet holes to make a better story.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Coldest Weather I've been in

    -18.8 c. This is getting to be a bore.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Depends on your version of hand made. It would be pretty hard to make them without a lathe.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Wooden salad bowls. I bought a set in a thrift store. Haven't seen them in years. Are they still a thing? Wooden salad bowls and giant wooden fork and spoon used to be the height of sophistication at dinner parties according to fifties womens magazines.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Do flat caps make you look like a brainless servant?

    True, in England the flat cap was associated with the proletariat but not with servants as such. But it was not exclusively theirs. I recall a comment by a maker of luxury cars with a sporting bent. Some criticized his cars for being too low, but he replied that when driving you only need enough...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Lunch, Anybody?

    An apple and a piece of cheddar cheese.
  17. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Burrito, green salad, iced tea.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Coldest Weather I've been in

    I switched from pickup trucks to minivans about 15 years ago. Cheaper to buy, cheaper on gas, better ride, more comfortable, safer, front wheel drive makes driving in snow, rain and ice a breeze. Will do about 90% of what a pickup will, and for other times, like when I have to haul a stove or...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Did only Women use Shampoo?

    I know of one old timer who used nothing but yellow laundry soap on his hair. He would rub the bar over his wet hair before combing it, and when it was time to wash his hair, just washed out the soap.
  21. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    No beer???!!! There is such a thing as taking fitness too far. Even Jack LaLanne drank wine with his dinner.
  22. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    Show him some Douglas Fairbanks silent movies. It's 1920s Parkour all done live with no stunt men or special effects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBud6ii5Wk
  23. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Hard to believe 1938 was 77 years ago. Last night I watched a Bob Hope picture from 1941 and it seemed more "real" to me than the crazy things you see on TV today.

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