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1942 Time Capsule Apartment discovered in Paris
My guess: the owner spent winters in Italy or the south of France. During the war she decided to stay there outside the German zone of occupation. 1942, 1943, 1944 came and went. The war ended in 1945 but conditions were so unsettled, better wait till next year. Somehow she never got around...- Stanley Doble
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
What does it mean to call someone a pill? I know it is an old expression from the twenties thirties and forties. I think it means someone is a boring or annoying. Does anyone have an explanation or derivation or a definition of what it means to be a pill?- Stanley Doble
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Right, like this is the first time this thread has been hijacked. It's already more discursive than Tristram Shandy. Sorry we are boring you. Time to lay off.- Stanley Doble
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"That's all obsessive behavior and (I believe) a sign of some type of mental deficiency. I've always personally wondered if Gatsby wasn't somewhat psychologically damaged in the war. He seems to be stunted in late teenager phase- right when he left to fight. I'm talking about the phase where...- Stanley Doble
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Who knows the secrets of the human heart? Why does anybody fall in love with anybody? People fall in love with unsuitable partners all the time and get in trouble for it. Most of the time onlookers can't figure out what they see in each other. Gatsby spoke of erasing time, turning back the...- Stanley Doble
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You have to remember that Gatsby was a phony and his life was a fiction. I believe he made some money in partnership with Wolfsheim the gambler and fixer and spent it all putting up a front to get Daisy back. I could go into all the ways a wise guy could rent a big house furnished, get his...- Stanley Doble
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Hold on tight to your dreams and don't let anyone steal them away. They may be cheap trashy childish dreams but they are your dreams and if you let them die so will you.- Stanley Doble
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You should know that in the first couple of years of prohibition,a bootlegger was seen as a kind of swashbuckling adventurer. It was only later that the real gangsters with machine guns took over. Gatsby wouldn't have lasted a week against that kind of competition but in the 1919 - 1921 period...- Stanley Doble
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
Better price rechromed bumpers before you make up your mind. You should also know that the chrome you get these days is often inferior to what they did in Detroit in 1961. Try cleaning them with copper scrubbing pads (not steel wool, it scratches no matter how fine) and Pledge furniture polish...- Stanley Doble
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Gatsby was anything but honest or moral in the conventional sense. Nick admired him because he was true to his ideal conception himself and true to his love, Daisy. The rest of that crowd would use people and throw them under a bus without a thought (literally in the case of Myrtle Wilson).- Stanley Doble
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Jay Gatsby's life was a work of performance art created by Jimmy Gatz, a poor farm boy from North Dakota. He may have been a crook and a four flusher but he was more of a real person than the society stuffed shirts around him. That is what Nick Carraway meant when he said "you are worth more...- Stanley Doble
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"old sport" was a phrase of Gatsby's but similar phrases like "old man" "old boy" "old top" were Britishisms of the time. Fitzgerald borrowed the phrase from a man he knew who was one of the models for the Gatsby character. He often took people, incidents, and places from real life for his...- Stanley Doble
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Restaurant variety in the Golden Era compared to today?
There were probably a lot of different types of cooking and restaurants, but localized. In New England you would find seafood restaurants featuring clam chowder ( Boston style or New York style with tomatoes, but never both in the same place) lobster and fish. In Boston there was a famous...- Stanley Doble
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
How about 'dude'. In a Thin Man mystery detective Nick Charles was trying to get into a millionaire's estate. The guard at the gate house, over the phone, described him this way "he looks like a pool hall dude". Nick gave him a look but let it pass LOL. The movie was from about 1938- Stanley Doble
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The Do-It-Yourself Dude
Another thing that caught my eye was the license number, T54. Weren't low numbers assigned to political big shots and their party supporters?- Stanley Doble
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The Do-It-Yourself Dude
From 1911 to 1928 Renault made a big luxury car called the 40 CV with a 9 liter six cylinder engine. Yes that is a 549 cubic inch engine. The US agent was in New York City, they sold a few every year and they were seen in New York and surrounding areas. They were in a class with such imported...- Stanley Doble
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The Do-It-Yourself Dude
The car is too big and expensive for a taxi but could be a chauffeur driven job. But a chauffeur would have overalls for working on his car. Notice also the wristwatch, an expensive accessory at that time, favored by trend setters and military men. Most men had a pocket watch, you saw very few...- Stanley Doble
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The Do-It-Yourself Dude
Had to share this pic of a dude in knee pants, white shirt, ascot and gloves painting his car. The car appears to be a Renault, and the license plate says it was taken in 1920 in New York state. On the site I swiped it from, one guy commented " I don't dress up that nice to go to church" Ha...- Stanley Doble
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I remember when.....
I remember when doctors endorsed smoking but warned against taking vitamins.- Stanley Doble
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We walk the walk but do we talk the talk?
The censors had a problem with the line "how long have you been off the gooseberry lay" not knowing that the gooseberry lay meant stealing clothes off clothes lines, kids stuff in the world of crime.- Stanley Doble
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