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  1. Stanley Doble

    Anyone have a maid when growing up?

    I also find it interesting that she has a good education and good job in spite of her obvious incompetence. How could anyone "earn" a PhD and hold down a white collar job without knowing how to type?
  2. Stanley Doble

    Anyone have a maid when growing up?

    I was raised to believe there is only one thing a well bred person always has, that an ill bred person never has, and that is good manners.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Anyone have a maid when growing up?

    "Sorry" isn't the first word to come to mind, at least not in the sense you mean. "Disgust" or "revulsion" would come close. Maybe because people like me were the ones who were always doing her work and picking up after her.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Anyone have a maid when growing up?

    I don't know what you call working class. I believe I was raised in a working class household. My father was an electrician which made him one of the highest paid hourly employees in the factory where he worked. In 1960 his take home pay was $120 a week. Assembly line workers in the same...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    When someone criticized his cars for being tall and dowdy looking Keller said " they won't knock your eye out but they won't knock your hat off either".
  7. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    You must be big! Chrysler built cars were the roomiest from the thirties through 1954. The president of the company, K. T. Keller, personally tested every new model and if he did not find them comfortable he had them move the steering wheel, seat, and controls around until he did. Keller...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Anyone have a maid when growing up?

    Working class people didn't have maids, they were maids. For a little perspective on the movie angle, there is a story about a well known movie mogul in the thirties discussing a new picture with the writer, director and producer. He said "This is supposed to be the story of the typical...
  9. Stanley Doble

    How would you earn a living?

    The New Yorker magazine was one of the top payers if not the top, in the thirties and forties. I saw a story about Harold Ross, the publisher. He had a group of favorite authors who appeared regularly, but he would not let anyone appear in his magazine oftener than every six weeks. At the same...
  10. Stanley Doble

    HULK HOGAN's New Restaurant Dress Code.

    Jumping to the conclusion the listed attire is confined to one group.... thas rayciss.
  11. Stanley Doble

    How would you earn a living?

    I was talking about professional gamblers and "wise guys" who had the time, and inclination, to contact many bookies regularly. The opportunity to get a middle did not happen every day but it did happen. I suspect in the past it happened more often than today. I don't want to go off topic but...
  13. Stanley Doble

    How would you earn a living?

    My original post concerned gamblers who did exactly that, shopped various bookies and placed 2 bets on a single event, with the bookies who gave the best prices, creating a middle or sure thing. Others said no way could this be true, the bookies would never allow anyone to make such an easy...
  14. Stanley Doble

    How would you earn a living?

    You want to write more best sellers. I hear they make the most money.
  15. Stanley Doble

    How would you earn a living?

    So fading, what would a Golden Era neighborhood bookie do if he had a cash customer who placed large bets of exactly the type he needed to balance his books?
  16. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Looks like fairgrounds bodies on ATV chassis. I'm surprised someone hasn't splashed a mold off an old dodgem car and started making them in fibreglass.
  17. Stanley Doble

    How would you earn a living?

    Speaking of gambling, there was a type of betting in the Golden Era that was fairly common to those "in the know", the wide awake boys and professional gamblers. It was called insured betting or getting a middle and it worked like this. The gambler would have to phone or visit different...
  19. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Still sticking to the wheat free, low carb plan, have lost 8 pounds. My legs have lost the heavy feeling they used to have, I noticed before it is caused by wheat or wheat products. Tonight's dinner featured steamed broccoli with Alfredo sauce, topped with crumbled Italian sausage, grated...
  20. Stanley Doble

    What is wrong with people?

    Half of them are below average, for a start.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Your Most-Often-Consulted Reference Books?

    Some kind of technical manual for autos. In recent years I have answered many many questions on antique auto bulletin boards. Usually consulting my 1954 Motor Repair Manual or Chrysler factory repair and parts manuals. This level of minute detail is usually not available with a quick net search.
  22. Stanley Doble

    was tipping at restaurants common in the old days?

    Doesn't make sense to me. Maybe your server was having a bad day.
  23. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    From the movie Gaslight.

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