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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    The original Olde Tyme Peep Shows, 1895 - 1909

    In the 50's they had a bunch of these in Disneyland at the Main Street Penny Arcade. I used to love operating them. Long gone now, of course. Probably worn out or far too valuable to use.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Science fiction writers of the post-WWII era saw this coming and had a lot of fun with it. In Frederick Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth's "The Space Merchants"(1952), set in a future America, government had disappeared and all was run by corporations, of which the advertising business was the most...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Music and sound shorthand in movies

    I've noticed that in period films a musical shorthand is used to establish the time. If it's set in the 40s/WWII you'll always hear Big Band music playing over the opening shot. It's usually Glenn Miller, and it will always be one of 4 or 5 famous Miller tunes: "Moonlight Serenade," "Take the A...
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Lizzie is right about the specificity of the magazines. Periodical publishers understood "niche marketing"before almost anyone else. Vanity Fair is a good example. It was a magazine of wit and sophistication, but you can read its entire run from 1930 to 1936, cover to cover, and never guess...
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    In recent years cashiers have stopped bothering to ask me if I qualify for the senior discount.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Red and white "tiger-balm"

    Speaking of the strong-smelling liniments, a lot of that was deliberate. People think that if something smells stronger, it is stronger. My father, who had a career in packaging told me that the inventor of Pine-Sol found that he had a cleaning product that was like many other cleaning products...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Dan Ireland has passed away at the age of 57. Ireland was a founder of the Seattle Film Festival and directed several himself. His first effort "The Whole Wide World"is of special interest to Golden Age aficionados. Set in West Texas in the 30s, it is a biographical film about the great Texas...
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    I want to know why I look so much older and fatter in photographs than I do in the mirror.
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Most quotable movie

    We already have a thread about favorite quotes, but what about the movie with the most quotes? I would think it would have to be either "Casablanca" or "The Godfather." (the first one.) Any thoughts?
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    I remember seeing "The Purple Plain" at the Midway drive-in outside Kenedy, TX in 1954. I was 6 and I went to sleep about halfway through it, so my memory of it is a little hazy. All I remember is a party or something getting bombed and a dead woman with a shard of glass stuck through her palm...
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Red and white "tiger-balm"

    TT, your avata rbrings back fond memories of Gardner Mckay and Micheneresque doings in the South Pacific. One of my favorite series back then.
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Bitchin'!
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Red and white "tiger-balm"

    Speaking of Ben-Gay, does anyone remember Peter Pain?
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Red and white "tiger-balm"

    If you could taste i upon application it must have contained DMSO for penetration. When I was a boy there was a liniment called Absorbine Jr. Absorbine was a horse liniment. Absorbine Jr. was for people. I remember it as very strong smelling.
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    20 miles north of me in Moriarty, NM there is a fireworks stand in a big revival-style tent. Near the 4th of July and new year's they have a sale and have 3 or 4 searchlights sweeping the sky at night. I can see them from my backyard at this distance.
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Things That Never Seem to Change

    Hudson's Bay blankets have been made almost without change since at least 1780. They've stayed in production in all the years since, so the Hudson's Bay blankets you get now (if you can afford them) are not replicas or reproductions, they're the original goods. Some indigenous peoples of Canada...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The original and probably still the largest of these convenience store chains is called "7-11" because those were the hours they were open. They're now 24 hours, but retain the name for its recognition.
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Must've been a heck of a gas war. That's a searchlight truck. Maybe they were expecting an air attack from a rival gas station.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Another item that had to be replaced en masse somewhere in the 60s was the gas pump. Until then their price windows only had three slots for the flip-over numbers because there wasn't a car or truck in America that would hold $10.00 worth of gas.
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I see the easy perishability and constant maintenance of "modern"roads I sigh and think of Roman roads, some of which are still usable after 2000 years or more, with no maintenance. Of course, such roads are feasible only if you have unlimited slave labor, as the Romans had.
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