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  1. Stanley Doble

    Panama Hat styles of late 19th century

    Reminds me of the hat Reverend Drone wore in Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, ca 1910
  2. Stanley Doble

    Doing Dishes

    Use an iron skillet and you don't need to wash it. A wipe clean with a paper towel is all it needs. If I use mine for spaghetti sauce or get food stuck to it I wash it under the hot tap with a copper scrubbing pad, no soap. A thoroughly seasoned iron pan is almost like Teflon. Iron seems to...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Hoarders Have To Go.

    Does anyone else remember saving bread bags to wear on your feet? Put them on over your socks and your feet slide easily into your winter boots and if you get a soaker your feet stay dry. They seem to help keep the cold out too.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Hoarders Have To Go.

    My mother saved brown paper bags too but we used them up as fast as we got them. For lunch bags, for making book covers for school books, cut into sheets for scratch paper and to do our homework on before recopying it into our expensive (10 cent) scribblers. For lining garbage pails. For mending...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Hoarders Have To Go.

    No matter where you are I guarantee there are old cars and other old thing going to wrack and ruin out of neglect, or that are up for sale near you. Why don't you go "save" those things, since you feel so strongly about it? Because if you did save them YOU would turn into a hoarder. So, If I...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Hoarders Have To Go.

    This hoarder still has had no response to his offer to sell several dump truck loads of rusty car parts (plus there are 30 or 40 old bicycles and other junk). Nor has anyone showed up to help me move it to a better storage area. I am beginning to think some of you guys are all mouth. You like...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Hoarders Have To Go.

    I guess I am a hoarder, I have a lot of old cars, parts etc rotting away in a collapsing barn. Will one of you kind gentlemen PLEASE come and take this junk off my hands or at least help me carry it all to a dryer place? There are only 2 or 3 dump truck loads of parts left. Thanks.
  9. Stanley Doble

    1909 Advice For Lady Motorists, with pictures

    Article from Slate about a nifty handbook for ladies who drive cars, or wish to learn http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2014/05/20/photos_advice_for_female_drivers_in_1909.html Best advice: The glove compartment should contain kid gloves, handkerchief, powder puff, hand mirror, chocolates...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Money in Old West films

    Unless you have looked into the matter you have no idea how the public was swindled in the real estate and mortgage markets 2002 - 2008. If you did, you wouldn't wonder how the people who bought the mortgages could be so foolish as to be taken in. You would wonder why the people selling the...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    The 1947 MG was a sensational contrast to the typical 1947 American car, and they attracted a lot of interest. Morris sold them by the boat load. They get the credit for sparking interest in sports cars and imported cars generally. To many of the younger generation they were more desirable than...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    If you want to put it back on the road here is an excellent Packard web site. There are some very knowledgeable enthusiast on there who can tell you all you need to know. http://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/ One thing to be leery of, is the power brakes (if you have them). In...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Money in Old West films

    So the chart does not really reflect inflation. There are some very good charts of inflation based on commodity prices like wheat, wool, and barley going back hundreds of years. Also price charts of gold and silver.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Money in Old West films

    So you believe swindlers, liars and thieves should not be regulated in any way and anyone who is fool enough to trust another person deserves what they get.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Money in Old West films

    You are right about the greed part but I am not so sure they were all lying. I know some were, but I am sure there were those who did not see the flaw in the plan because they had believed all their lives in the Keynesian something for nothing system.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Money in Old West films

    Well somebody has to know the difference between a good loan and a bad loan. To me it makes better sense that the bankers should be educated or regulated, than to put the responsibility on people who are not educated or regulated. You are overlooking the fact that millions of people turned down...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Money in Old West films

    What about all the government officials and bankers who said after the crisis that it was completely unexpected and could not have been predicted by anybody? I am with you. It all was completely illogical to anyone with a thimble full of sense. That is because we do not understand Keynesian...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Money in Old West films

    This is absurd. You are saying that Joe Blow who wants to buy a house or a car, should have a more sophisticated understanding of banking than the banker who makes the loans. When these easy money loans began in the early 2000s I was surprised and puzzled. They went against 200 years of banking...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Money in Old West films

    The fault is in the theory that inflation makes the country richer. It is as if they said that by making the yardstick 1/2" shorter everyone would be taller. This is ridiculous but when it comes to money somehow they get away with it. Suppose they did make the yard 1/2" shorter and everyone did...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Mystery/ sic-fi radio shows online?

    If you lived farther East you could listen to AM 740 from Toronto. Theater of the Mind plays from 10 to 11 PM and every night they play one comedy and one drama or mystery program. They have a pretty strong signal and come in all over the northeast and midwest. Of course there are other ways...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Money in Old West films

    A million dollars isn't what it used to be. If you had a million dollars in the bank at 2% do you know what your income would be? $20,000 a year. When you see someone who makes $400 a week do you think "that person has a millionaire's income" because that is what it is. Now if it was a billion...
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