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  1. Stanley Doble

    Have women... in the West at least... "Flipped the Script?"

    Not only do women not need men, men don't need women. It's a whole new world.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    filthy, poorly maintained, run down, unpainted hovels. I remember a short story from the twenties about a paint salesman. His business card bore the motto "Hire a good painter - good painters use white lead - white lead lasts". Even then, lead was not used in all paints. The more lead, the more...
  3. Stanley Doble

    NEW WAVE OF NOIR; Doing it how they did it(1920's-1940's).

    If you remove the tie and possibly the shirt collar, and make it a colored work shirt (blue or tan) then this is what my older relatives dressed like to go to town during the week. This was a generation of farmers born in the 1890s to early 1900s and died out in the 1970s. This is what the...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    What did the petroleum industry have to do with lead paint? I know a few chemists and most of them are pretty cavalier about the hazards of the chemicals they work with.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    You read the JAMA when you were in elementary school?
  7. Stanley Doble

    Leather Jackets With Ties

    By dungarees I mean sturdy brown, blue or green cotton twill. Not denim. Combine the dungarees with matching work shirt and you look like you work in a gas station. With a white shirt and tie you are a sportsman.
  8. Stanley Doble

    What coffee or tea did you drink today?

    Small Tim Horton's with cream. The fuel Canadians run on in the morning.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    I have been a history buff and car fan all my life, read everything I could find about the history of the auto industry and don't recall a single book or article about the danger of leaded gas until several years AFTER it went out of production. This suggests one of 2 things: a massive, totally...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Leather Jackets With Ties

    leather jacket / white shirt / tie an excellent vintage look for fliers, motorcyclists, drivers of open sports cars and roadsters and similar outdoorsmen and sportsmen. The shirt and tie set you apart from the garage mechanics. Should be worn with dungarees or sturdy wool trousers NOT jeans...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    I know lead is toxic, the question is how toxic and how much is a toxic dose? I find it hard to believe that large numbers of people were poisoned or went crazy because of leaded gas between 1928 and 1970, but nobody noticed. Then when they STOPPED selling leaded gas, all of a sudden it became a...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    I'm a Chrysler fan, so I can tell you that all Chrysler products built before the mid fifties had hardened exhaust valve seats and hardened exhaust valves as factory equipment. So did most other cars. The first engine to have no valve seats and no valve guides was the Chev V8 in 1955. This was...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Just remembered, puddler is also someone who prepares and mixes clay for making pottery.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I keep trying to make sense out of livery band, and keep picturing a marching band on horseback ha ha ha.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    As I said before, puddler and knobbler are iron workers and possibly striker as well.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    The kid in the Amoco ad looks like he has been swigging the Ethyl or maybe they were adding Alcohol to the blend.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    I'm not saying leaded gas never made anybody stupid. But if you ask me liquor has done at least a million times more damage. I know what you mean about coming from a violent impulsive family. My father was one of 4 brothers. He was the only one who didn't drink (at mother's insistence). He was...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Could livery band be a misprint for livery hand?
  21. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Puddler and knobbler are both trades connected with iron working or iron casting, not surprising as Pittsburg was the leading iron and steel making city at that time. If I had to guess I would say striker had to do with the same industry. Livery band may have something to do with a livery...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    Tetraethyl lead was used in gas from 1928 until catalytic converters came in, in 1970. The gas companies switched to unleaded to accommodate General Motors, leading exponent of catalysts. They gradually switched to low lead and no lead as pre 1970 cars wore out and were taken off the road. Only...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Retro gym equipment?

    If that is a rubber belt no wonder they don't make these anymore. They would erase the tattoos off the girls' fannies.

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