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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    If you really want a treat, install new shocks all the way around then get an alignment. You will think you are driving a new car.
  2. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    Not that impossible. Canadian broadcaster Gordon Sinclair recalled how he was taken to visit relatives in Ohio when he was a boy. One of the relatives was a Civil War veteran they visited at the Old Soldiers Home. The veterans entertained him with war stories, and ended up arguing over the...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Ancient Egyptian Coffin.... in an Essex Living Room

    I don't believe mummies were ever used for fuel, that was a rumor started by one of Mark Twain's humorous stories. Have also heard about the rag paper, don't know if that is true or not but I don't think mummies were ever in such plentiful supply as that.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Painting a bread box

    If it is the original paint it is better to paint over it. If it has multiple coats of paint it would be better to strip it. You can avoid a lot of chemicals by using a scraper with a single edge razor blade. It will not remove factory paint but will remove most repaints. On reviewing my...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Now all you need is a distributor cap pencil holder and a rubber tire ash tray. And possibly a Marilyn Monroe calendar.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Painting a bread box

    Unless the paint is peeling I would leave it on. Sand the rusty spots with 120, sand the whole thing with 400 wet or dry. Wipe with Varsol on a rag and give it 2 thin wet coats of primer. Spray bombs will do. When it is good and dry sand lightly with 600, wipe with a tack rag and give it 2 or 3...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Favorite comfort food . . .

    Raisin pie. I like raisin pie but haven't seen it in years.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Does anyone remember paperweights? Before air conditioning, to keep cool you had to open the windows and turn on the electric fans. Office workers used paperweights to keep their papers from blowing around. Many were made of glass with flowers or other objects embedded. Snow globes. Metal...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Or Daniel Boone's "Old Betsy"
  11. Stanley Doble

    Velvet Pants

    Make a statement.
  13. Stanley Doble

    The RV of My Dreams

    That Citroen looks like it was made in someone's back shed out of leftover galvanized roofing.
  14. Stanley Doble

    "Addams Family House" for sale...

    The lady who moved into the house at the age of 8 and lived there for 90 years without even redecorating. The most notable thing she did, was hang out with nuns in her old age. Seems very boring to me.
  15. Stanley Doble

    "Addams Family House" for sale...

    She seems to have had a very boring life.
  16. Stanley Doble

    I need a pair of Breeks/Plus Twos/Plus Fours/Knickers?

    Very traditional, worn by manual labourers in the 19th century. Leather was popular too. Leather was said to wear forever, and look elegant after that.
  17. Stanley Doble

    You know you are getting old when:

    Wait a few years, and see the reaction when they find out you were born in the last millennium.
  19. Stanley Doble

    I need a pair of Breeks/Plus Twos/Plus Fours/Knickers?

    I think you are talking about the Norfolk jacket or similar. A matching cap would be too much, if you mean have one made of the same fabric as the suit.
  20. Stanley Doble

    Anyone have a maid when growing up?

    Scanning your list Lizzie, it looks like pretty well all of them are in place. As far as the 6 hour day and 5 day week go, 30 hours (or 29 hours) is now the typical work week at Walmart, fast food restaurants etc. and this is the only type of employment that is growing. Plus, the minimum wage is...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Anyone have a maid when growing up?

    If you mean what I think you mean, the revolution is already here. Every plank of the Socialist Party platform has been implemented. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are dead letters. Government surveillance is everywhere, 1984 style. Government goons grope your women and children in...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Anyone have a maid when growing up?

    You don't get it for sure. Rich people have servants to do that sort of thing. At work, more underlings to do the actual work. All they do is take credit for other peoples' work, skim off the lion's share of the profits, and jet away to Aspen or the Hamptons for the weekend. It took me a long...
  23. Stanley Doble

    I need a pair of Breeks/Plus Twos/Plus Fours/Knickers?

    For hunting, tweeds in grays, browns, and greens would be appropriate. Hiking boots with breeks and plain wool stockings would be very traditional, the stockings should be chosen to go with the breeks. For example if the trousers were gray or brown with some green in them you could wear dark...

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