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What's for Dinner?
Do you have any onion soup? Everyone has onion soup. I thought of substituting sliced mushrooms for the bell pepper. I like mushroom gravy.- Stanley Doble
- Post #9,893
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
Here in small town Canada in the fifties, sixties and seventies the successful people drove Buicks, the old money people Chrysler New Yorkers and Buicks. Cadillacs were too ostentatious. In 1975 a local real estate broker bought a fully equipped Buick Electra. When he told me how much it cost...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,306
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
When Cadillac was on top of the world they didn't need any "branding" department. The company's executives took care of that as naturally as breathing. The guy who designed the interiors said "when you get behind the wheel I want you to feel a little lift. Every time you go for a drive it...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,293
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
If they fire the whole "branding" department and replace them with engineers, they may be able to build a car worth buying. There was a time when the whole world looked up to Cadillac and millions regarded it as the symbol of success and achievement. Those days ended in the seventies. Cheap...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,292
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
“I don’t buy products, I buy brands. I don’t use Apple computers because they are the best computers, I use them because Apple is cool. We need to show drivers what the Cadillac lifestyle is all about.” What to expect for next fall's new model introductions. Cadillac will announce a sensational...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,288
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
Those of us who remember when a Cadillac was a Cadillac, don't think of Cadillac as an automotive brand now. Younger people don't think of it at all. Winning!- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,286
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
I have heard the Tatra ban story before and the more I think about it the less likely it gets. I don't think any car was more dangerous than combat. The Tatra required a different driving technique but was not more dangerous than other cars if handled correctly. Officers with cars in that class...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,283
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
This one is too good to resist: Cadillac's Director of Brand And Reputation Strategy: "We Don't Want To Be An Automotive Brand" Well honey all I can say is, keep building unreliable sh*tboxes and you will soon get your wish...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,282
- Forum: The Golden Era
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How did people in the 40s-50s casually dress? (Without Suits)
They dressed normal. Now they dress like bums and fools.- Stanley Doble
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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The general decline in standards today
I wouldn't be too upset 1) if the questioner was young, it being a university station could be forgiven for not being an opera fan and 2) they are taking the trouble to get the pronunciation right, not just reading it wrong like most of them. From Some Like It Hot: Detective, questioning...- Stanley Doble
- Post #5,640
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's for Dinner?
It made a very satisfying meal. Next time I may try adding mushrooms instead of the bell pepper.- Stanley Doble
- Post #9,875
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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How do you style your hair? How do people react?
Had to look up Gary Oldman, he is not old in the pictures I found, his hair is not gray or white. The others all look better in short hair. In long hair they look like bums. In the newest pics of Oldman he is to the age where he will keep his hair short if he is smart. There are different...- Stanley Doble
- Post #18
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
The VW beetle had a lot of Tatra influence in it.- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,280
- Forum: The Golden Era
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How do you style your hair? How do people react?
Name one. I am not cracking wise, I really want to know. I tried to think of an old man who looked better with long hair, couldn't come up with one.- Stanley Doble
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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What's for Dinner?
Made a new dish tonight I will call Stuffed Potato a la Stanley. First I fried up a pound of ground beef with a chopped onion and bell pepper. Added a packet of Lipton's onion soup, a spoonful of corn starch and a half cup of water to make a savory gravy. Served over a steamed Yukon Gold...- Stanley Doble
- Post #9,868
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Silver Shirts, US pro-Nazi 1930s group, uniform description and info...
"This was the heart of Ford's war with the CIO -- he refused to admit that the my-way-or-else way he'd done business in 1914 was no longer relevant to the world of the 1930s. " Quite the opposite. Ford established his Sociological Department in 1913 to investigate living conditions and working...- Stanley Doble
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
There was a lot of innovative thinking in Germany and Eastern Europe at that time, especially in auto and motorcycle design. Front wheel drive, rear engine drive, two stroke engines, and many other things that were copied by other makers for years afterward.- Stanley Doble
- Post #2,278
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Silver Shirts, US pro-Nazi 1930s group, uniform description and info...
Before modern quick drying lacquers became available in the late twenties painting a car was a slow laborious process as Vitanola described. The finish was built up coat after coat with drying time in between. But they did not paint the chassis that way, only the body. The chassis, running...- Stanley Doble
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- Forum: The Golden Era
