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    Families of the Lounge

    When my sister was born she had blonde hair and blue eyes. My parents both had dark hair and dark eyes. A local busybody accosted my mother in the grocery store and asked in a loud voice "how could you two have a baby that looked like that?" My mother's reply was "Oh, you hadn't heard? She...
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    Vintage Appliances

    Your logic is faultless. However, it's worth it to me to repair things that aren't intended to be repaired to raise a tiny middle finger to those who intend for me to buy another of the same product after i pitch the current one.
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    Deco Deliveries

    Go find it! There is your next project. It will keep you out of the tavern. Or drive you to it.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    We are all subject to greed and suggestion on some level I suppose, but the majority of the television scum shysters should be found guilty of taking advantage of the mentally deficient. Anybody of average intelligence can easily see what they are and stay away from them, so who is their clientele?
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    Vintage neon signs

    My parents were not travellers in general, but for some reason they started going to Lost Wages in the 1970's for a few days every winter. For a lot of those trips the Stardust was their hotel.
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    Old gas stations

    I assume Sloan/Hall is a professional office of some sort. God bless their endeavors since they kept the flying red horse.
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    Vintage neon signs

    I'm not sure when it happened that chicken lost it's place as the meal to serve to company or the fried chicken as a restaurant specialty but it did lose that spot. Strange how perceptions change.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Yes. I've always taken that to mean if you lag behind or don't take care of your business you're on your own, or every man for himself. I've also seen it as may the devil take the hindmost.
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    Vintage neon signs

    Don't forget this.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A common one here was little twerp. Here's a few more. http://dare.wisc.edu/survey-results/1965-1970/family-relationships/z16
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    Vintage neon signs

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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I thought of one today that may be a regional thing. Hells katoot was a common exclamation among my grandparents generation. It bled over into the following generation, but seems to have faded away since. I have used it myself even though I don't have any idea what a katoot is or why hell would...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The last time I remember hearing the name was in Mike Royko's columns, who I still miss reading. Slats Grobnik was a recurring character that Mike would converse with over a beer. If you aren't familiar with Mike it's worth the trouble to dig up his work.
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    Vintage neon signs

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    Vintage neon signs

    HoJo's!
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    Vintage neon signs

    Not as much neon, but here's one for the tiki fans.
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    Vintage neon signs

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    Deco Deliveries

    The curvy auto is a Delahaye. The curvy pilot is the English actress Diana Dors.
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    Old gas stations

    ^^^ He looks like Joe Kennedy's unclaimed son.
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    Things that make you smile

    A few years ago I was relieved at a fundraising booth by my stepson. He came over to help his mom and parked and left his 2 dogs in the car. I left the booth as soon as he got there to collect the hounds and take them home with me. Approximately 10 minutes had elapsed between his arrival and my...

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