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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Your new engine should be nicely broken in and performing well. I'm glad you are getting some fun out of your Plodge after all the trouble of putting it in top shape.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Alright Pipe Smokers. It's the question that has destroyed countless friendships.

    I used matches for years, paper or wood, what's the difference? When the Bic lighters came out I found them good until they got lost or ran dry so usually had a few books of matches around. Zippos are for unfiltered Camels. I have a few but only used them on cigarettes.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Favorite comfort food . . .

    Home http://www.purity.nf.ca/
  4. Stanley Doble

    Favorite comfort food . . .

    If you mean what I think you mean, you can still get various types of hard biscuit, pilot biscuit etc from Purity in Newfoundland. They have been supplying the maritime provinces for 90 years. http://www.purity.nf.ca/products/
  5. Stanley Doble

    50 Unexplainable Photos

    Lizzie maybe you can help me identify a movie. This has been a puzzle to me for 50 years. Some time in the early sixties I saw an old movie on TV. Not the whole thing, not the beginning or the end, just part of it in the middle. Have never seen it but that once and no one has ever heard of it...
  7. Stanley Doble

    [Movie + Child Actor = Box Office Bonanza]!

    The way George Burns put it, "the problem is there is no place to be bad anymore". He himself put in 17 years in small time vaudeville doing 3 or 4 shows a day, six days a week without discovering his true comedy talent. Then he met Gracie. Most of the comedy stars of the twenties through the...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Young men living at home in the Golden Era?

    Some women see a husband the way they see an old house, as something to remodel.
  9. Stanley Doble

    The Soda Thread: Coke not Classic; Throwback Pepsi

    Does anybody remember Stone Ginger Beer ? Canadian brewer O'Keefe decided to expand their product line to include soda pop during Prohibition. Here are some of their products.
  10. Stanley Doble

    Coldest Weather I've been in

    I do believe this is a new record for cold and snow for mid November. More like what we usually get in February.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Put an egg in your shoe and beat it.
  13. Stanley Doble

    for vintage shoe fans: shoe store closed in the 1960s unearthed

    There must be hundreds of such places in dying rust belt cities. I have seen similar sights in small towns where nothing ever happens. Not in main street shops but in the offices upstairs.
  14. Stanley Doble

    Mr. Moto gets a boxed set

    Everybody hates the way they are depicted in the movies. If you make a villain a doctor, you will get hundreds of letters from doctors complaining that doctors are not mean. Which is irrelevant to the movie, but there it is. W.C. Fields went so far as to make the villain in one of his comedies...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Favorite Authors

    Barbara Tuchman Tom McCahill Mark Twain Nikolai Gogol
  16. Stanley Doble

    Young men living at home in the Golden Era?

    Go back before the 1950s and most single people lived in boarding houses, rooming houses or hotels. There just weren't the apartments, and modern conveniences we take for granted.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Young men living at home in the Golden Era?

    Pretty common especially among certain ethnic groups and in cities. I had an uncle who never married and never left the farm he was born on. He kept on working there, and eventually bought the place from his father, who bought another farm about 5 miles away. Young people would move out when...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Was there a "Fox News" back in the day?

    I thought Cronkite took his reputation for neutrality and honesty seriously, and turned down many offers to endorse or appear in ads for commercial products. Am I misinformed?
  20. Stanley Doble

    Hat With History - Bonaparte's Hat For Sale

    Rum and cider were the drinks back then. Cider was considered a healthy drink, and the populations of cider making regions were considered exceptionally healthy and long lived. However, I doubt they lived " a couple of decades" longer.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Was there a "Fox News" back in the day?

    It was taken for granted that every newspaper had its agenda. They all supported a certain political, religious or social viewpoint and you could pick the one that suited your taste. Every city had at least 2 newspapers, morning and evening. The morning paper was for the middle class, the...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Was there a "Fox News" back in the day?

    Suppose today's broadcast journalists were offered their choice of 2 magic powers 1) You will always know the truth of any story 2) Your hair will always look perfect Can you think of any who wouldn't take the hair?
  23. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    Elvis Stojko?

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