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  1. Stanley Doble

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    I clicked on the link and checked out the magazine covers and I will bet dollars to doughnuts every one is a phony. The artist caught the spirit of the thing but exaggerated a little too much.
  2. Stanley Doble

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    "I am editing a book that contains a lot of 1950s fiction and I'm constantly running up against an aspect of the popular culture of that era that has intrigued me for many years. It seems to me that there was a fundamental shift in men's and women's perception of themselves and each other around...
  3. Stanley Doble

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    Lizzie has a point. The biggest market for he-man mags was probably sunken chested office clerks. See Walter Mitty Complex.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Doing Dishes

    Must be hard on the fine china.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Doing Dishes

    Notice that the Soap Saver is filled with leftover slivers of bar soap from the bathroom. Very Golden Era thrifty. The other method of using up the last bit of soap, was to press the sliver into the new bar when it was wet and soft. Some used soap flakes which could also do laundry...
  7. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    I question your premise. Having read the biographies of dozens of business leaders, my impression is that the most successful were also the most honest, and had the greatest ability to attract and motivate smart talented people. They could be tough when it was called for but that is not where...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Very short men's hair cuts in the golden years

    You might consult your barber or stylist. You may need to use a different shampoo, conditioner or other product. A dab of VO5 half the size of a pea is all I use. If you need more than that the answer may lie in treating the hair before you add pomade.
  9. Stanley Doble

    1950s Culture Weirdness

    Yeah you would think the men were all football fans and women were all bimbos. If you mistake pop culture stereotypes for reality. What you are looking at is what entertainment companies thought would sell. If you picked up a few supermarket magazines you might think modern American thought was...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Much as I like Cadillacs, by the early 90s their quality has slipped quite a few notches. Engines iffy, wiring gremlins, lots of problems. You should also know that 1) it does not have a frame, it is a unit body car and 2) this has absolutely no effect on its ability as a tow vehicle. A unit...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    Nobody was as good at introducing old movies as Elwy Yost. If you are not familiar with his work he hosted shows like Passport to Adventure, Magic Shadows and Saturday Night At The Movies for TVOntario. He was an enthusiast himself, and his love of old movies made it seem like a privilege to...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Unappreciated masterpieces?

    Today they call his acting style "parkour". I would like to see his old action scenes on Youtube with modern musical accompaniment. I bet they would make a hit. 1920s Parkour ha ha ha. Have you seen "Reaching For The Moon"? A romantic comedy starring Fairbanks made in 1931. It is one of my...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Movies set between 1933 and 1946?

    I don't recall any glitz or glamor in those films, or in many others in this thread.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Patton

    Who said "_______ _________ could chew up a ham like Patton without picking his teeth".? I remember the remark but not who said it or who the other general was. It was from a book by a WW2 correspondent, probably Ernie Pyle.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Overly appreciated movies?

    I have never seen a funny Charlie Chaplin film. Like Jerry Lewis, he strikes me as someone with no sense of humor laboring hard to turn out a funny movie. Both terrifically over rated. I admire Buster Keaton for his amazing stunts and occasional laughs. Harold Lloyd is the funniest silent...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Movies set between 1933 and 1946?

    Any of the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musicals. Topper, starring Cary Grant. Glamor was really more a feature of thirties movies. Platinum Blonde. It Happened On Fifth Avenue. Nothing Sacred. Pretty much any screwball comedy of the thirties.
  19. Stanley Doble

    You Ain't SEEN Nuthin' yet...

    For the rest of us, it would be like living in a small town where everyone knows all about you and your family for 3 or 4 generations. I think the wearer would get sick of it pretty quick too.
  20. Stanley Doble

    Being called by your first name at work

    There are exceptions to every rule. Millionaire to new chauffeur: What is your name? Chauffeur: Call me James Millionaire: I never call my driver by his given name. What is your last name? Chauffeur: My full name is James Darling Millionaire: Home, James.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Atticus Finch is right!

    "Is this the real life, is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality"
  22. Stanley Doble

    Being called by your first name at work

    When I worked as a painter in an ambulance factory I answered to "Hey! Rembrandt".
  23. Stanley Doble

    Super bowl prediction...

    I'm with the monkey http://article.wn.com/view/2014/01/30/Utah_ape_predicts_Seahawks_will_win_Super_Bowl_g/

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