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  1. Stanley Doble

    When do Cuban cigars become legally available in the US?

    I think they are now, you could check with customs to be sure. If I am right you will soon see advertisements for "genuine Cuban cigars".
  2. Stanley Doble

    The nicest comment I ever heard

    Sounds like she has better taste in husbands than you have in wives. Don't tell her I said that.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    Lizzie if you are interested in curious statistics, 20,000 to 30,000 American draft dodgers and deserters found refuge in Canada during the Vietnam era, while 30,000 Canadians volunteered for the American armed forces. I leave it to you who got the best of that deal.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Did we have "going like sixty" or "going a mile a minute" for something fast? From the days when 60 MPH was a terrific speed.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I live in a small town and at one time there must have been at least a dozen saw mills and grist mills within 20 miles of here. On a likely river there would be a mill every 3 or 4 miles, driven by water power. The local farmers took their grain to be ground by the sack, took it home and put it...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    Don't get me wrong, there is no question that today's cars are safer than ever. I was trying to back up Lizzie's assertion that the 2009 - 1959 Chev tussle does not tell the whole story. If you were to repeat the head on crash test with a new Chevrolet and my old 1952 Chrysler New Yorker, I'd...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Hiking food.

    For traditional fare try Purity products from Newfoundland Canada. Sailors, fishermen and travelers in the Canadian arctic and maritime provinces still use hard tack, pilot biscuits, dried fish and other staples. This is where they get them. http://www.purity.nf.ca/
  9. Stanley Doble

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    If they used a 52 Chrysler instead of a 59 Chevy it would have destroyed the other car. I am not kidding, I have worked on both cars. The Chrysler bumper resembles a hunk of heavy duty guard rail and it takes a strong man to lift one. The Chev bumper is made of tinsel and can be tossed around by...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    Not to mention the wonder that was Disco.
  11. Stanley Doble

    How accurate is Mad Men with regard to the early '60s?

    I still say it wasn't the least bit accurate. People just didn't think and act that way in the sixties or any other time. Except in the imagination of someone who unthinkingly accepts every negative stereotype ever sold by someone with an agenda. Let's just say it is as accurate as Rush...
  13. Stanley Doble

    How accurate is Mad Men with regard to the early '60s?

    I only managed to watch about 10 minutes of one episode before turning it off in disgust. It seemed to be a mashup of cliches stuck together in a witless style, a bad caricature by someone without taste or art. Not at all accurate. You could try watching some TV shows from that period. Try...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    By the way... Kraftwerk were popular in Canada, at least among the kind of people who dug prog rock. They even got a little air play. I think I still have their Autobahn album around here someplace.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    The Good are you familiar with Syrinx? Canadian synthesizer music from the beginning of the genre. Here is the first song, Melina's Torch from their first album in 1970. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6BeS14PpoQ If that is not to your taste there are other songs, like Appalosa-Pegasus...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    There really was a youthful car culture centered on southern California. Tom Wolfe wrote it up in his first book, The Kandy Kolor Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby, a report on pop culture in America in 1962. This was the milieu Lucas grew up in, and what he memorialized in AG. What do you think...
  17. Stanley Doble

    James Bond -Generational Gap question

    David Niven was the closest to Fleming's concept of Bond in terms of background and life experience. If you had asked him what Hollywood actor could best play the part he would probably have named Niven.
  19. Stanley Doble

    modern "vintage" radios/ record players

    About the only thing that wears out on a speaker is the foam, and that part is cheap to buy and easy to replace, you just cut off the old one and glue on the new. The trick is to shim the coil with paper so it is centered when you glue the new foam on. Some guys do this every year just to keep...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    You think it was a hideous decade to look at, you should have lived through it or maybe you are lucky you didn't. Massive unemployment, with high inflation, cars were not only ugly and poorly made, they got terrible mileage and had no performance. Then there were the gas crises when you couldn't...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Abraham Lincoln’s Top Hat: The Inside Story

    The story says it is impossible to prove that Lincoln owned the hat but this should be simple. If there is a hair caught in the lining or sweat on the sweat band, a DNA test will prove whether he wore the hat or not.
  22. Stanley Doble

    James Bond -Generational Gap question

    Ian Fleming was a veteran of WW2 and so was Bond. The novels were written with that demographic in mind and whatever popularity they had, was with the sort of people who buy spy thrillers and murder mysteries. The movies were something of a phenomenon, with appeal to different age groups...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    The amazing thing is, how heavy the new cars are and how little room they have inside. If you park a 1965 Ford Galaxie sedan beside a new Taurus you would swear the 1965 car is heavier, but in fact it is lighter by nearly 1000 pounds. I kid you not. I was surprised myself but here are the...

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