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  1. Stanley Doble

    Buyer's Remorse or "What do we do with our failures?"

    Do they play cards?
  2. Stanley Doble

    What's Your Favorite Fall Weather Drink?

    Sweet apple cider. I live in apple country and one of the great things is stopping at an orchard's roadside stand and buying a gallon of fresh cider. Since they all started pasteurizing or adding preservatives I buy cheap cooking apples and make my own cider in a juicer. Non alcoholic, but...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Buyer's Remorse or "What do we do with our failures?"

    Normal human nature. We all think we will be happy if we just get the right job, the right car, the right clothes, the right wife, if we can get rid of the wrong wife (made a mistake on that one) etc etc etc. Then we get some of these things and we are disappointed. It turns out they don't make...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Removing dried liquid glue from suit

    I still think a dry cleaner can clean that suit so you will never know the glue was on there. Or, it may be impossible to clean - but a dry cleaner would know, or could find out.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Window planter help.

    If you mean a window box they usually hung from the window sill with iron straps. A concrete sill means you might have to drill a hole with a special bit, and insert a plastic lag to take a screw. Redwood is a good wood for planters, it takes a long time to rot. Or red cedar.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Removing dried liquid glue from suit

    I would take it to the best dry cleaner in town and ask him.
  8. Stanley Doble

    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    We had one of the first TVs in Canada, from 1952, the year the first TV station went on the air in Toronto and the year after I was born. So there was always a TV in the house. It had about a 17 inch screen and around 1953 or 54, my father built it into the wall so I don't know what brand it...
  9. Stanley Doble

    was tipping at restaurants common in the old days?

    I know that when times were hard, as in the depression, many people would skip dessert or order a cheaper meal, to be able to leave a dime for the waitress.
  10. Stanley Doble

    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    Happy the white Alsatian. In our house children were not allowed to touch the television. A grown up turned it on, you watched what they watched (westerns if there was one on) and when they were through watching they turned it off. Same deal with the phone. My mother was astonished to find...
  11. Stanley Doble

    was tipping at restaurants common in the old days?

    The standard was always 15% of the bill. This was considered a fairly generous tip for good service. I understand today, more is expected, 20% and up. They never added a tip to the bill. This was always up to the patron. Some were very generous, some were not, just like today.
  13. Stanley Doble

    was tipping at restaurants common in the old days?

    From the 20s thru the 50s a dime was the usual tip in the "blue plate special" class of restaurants. No doubt, fancier places got bigger tips. My favorite tipping story was told by Tom McCahill, who was a close friend of bandleader Paul Whiteman for many years. When Whiteman was playing private...
  14. Stanley Doble

    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    I can remember watching Jack LaLanne's exercise show with my mom. As the show was on at 10 in the morning, this must have been before I started school in 1957. Was also a big I Love Lucy fan, and this was a couple years earlier, possibly 1956 or 55. I would have been 4 or 5 at the time.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Correct Punctuation

    Simple. An apostrophe indicates POSSESSION or ELLIPSIS. Possession: Joe's hat, indicates Joe has a hat. Joe's hats, Joe has more than one hat. The boys' tent, indicates more than one boy share a tent. Boys' tents, more than one boy and more than one tent. Ellipsis means you left out...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Dodge was one of the first cars to have a steel framed body, in the early twenties. It is possible the Plymouth does not have a wooden body frame. But if it does, and if it has been allowed to leak and deteriorate, it could be a nightmare to repair. Dodge was the first all steel car, at least...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Things You Learn as an Old Car Driver

    Vacuum wipers can be improved by adding a reservoir and a 1 way valve. The reservoir can be as simple as a tomato juice can, in the 80s they were factory equipment on the more expensive Fords with vacuum headlights. The ultimate cure is a double decker fuel pump, the upper story being a vacuum...
  19. Stanley Doble

    How would you earn a living?

    Some of you may be selling yourselves short. For one thing, higher education was a rarity pre WW2. H.L. Mencken said in the 1920s that any man who knows his trade, has read 50 good books, and isn't afraid of ghosts can be a success anywhere in America.
  20. Stanley Doble

    How would you earn a living?

    You writers would have a much easier time getting work. Back then, newspapers and magazines were popular entertainment, there was no TV or internet, but there were dozens of magazines and every good sized town had at least 2 newspapers, and the average city had half a dozen. All disappeared in...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Never owned one, but they were a well made, reliable car. The first car with flexible engine mounts for smoothness, called Floating Power. A refinement other cars did not get for several years. It was also the first low priced car with hydraulic brakes and had full pressure lubrication to...
  22. Stanley Doble

    How would you earn a living?

    It would be easier to get a job, but the pay and lifestyle it would buy would be disappointing.
  23. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    A speedo shop can calibrate your speedo (if there are any left). All they do is change the little plastic gear in the transmission. Takes about 10 minutes. If you can use a GPS or phone app to find out exactly how far off you are, it will make things easier. 30 and 60 MPH are convenient bench...

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