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  1. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There certainly were floorwalkers in department stores. See Captain Peacock of Grace Brothers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44Q3es3hdpE They went out when discount stores and malls replaced the old multi story department store. A Walmart greeter is just not the same thing.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Let's Kill Hitler

    Have any of you read The Boys From Brazil? It is an old thriller. The plot concerns a fugitive Nazi scientist who creates 12 clones of Hitler in Brazil and places them for adoption with families as similar to Hitler's as he can find. Hoping at least one of them will grow up to be the new...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    I wasn't there but it sounds chivalrous and a bit flirty to me.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Let's Kill Hitler

    I would be more interested in preventing WW1. That was the real turning point in history. Nazism, the Russian Revolution, the Roaring Twenties, everything that came after traces back to it. J B Priestley, English WW1 veteran, observed that the best young men of England, France, Germany, Austria...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Let's Kill Hitler

    You know, I have given this some thought and I wouldn't kill Hitler, I would give him a free trip to Paris. Let me explain. One of the features of Hitler's character was, he was a mooch. In his younger years he usually lived with a relative or friend, when he became a successful politician he...
  7. Stanley Doble

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    Ha ha ha I have one of Lindlahr's books, and he was right too. One of the early "health nuts" like Gaylord Hauser. About the canned vegetables, they may have travelled farther than you think. Back then there were little canning factories in every farming community. One town of 2000 population...
  8. Stanley Doble

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    I know we have covered the subject of dirt and smells. Has anyone mentioned how empty you would find the country with 1/3 the present population? Or how poor, even though the US was the richest country in the world it would resemble a fairly well off third world country compared to today.
  9. Stanley Doble

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    No passport required, in fact it would be unlikely they would even ask for ID. "The World's Longest Undefended Border" is what they called it. During Prohibition you might have been searched for liquor and of course after 9/11 everything changed. In both cases it was the American border guards...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was a kid the euphemism for being in jail was "under the clock". I guess it was because the local police department and jail cells were in the Town Hall which had a big clock tower on top.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Or 3 hots and a cot = 3 meals and a bed = room and board Old gag - the pay is 21.50 a week - 21 meals and 50 cents.
  13. Stanley Doble

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    I think you would find the food tastier at least the fresh produce but it would only be available in season. You would find everyone eating a very unhealthy diet, heavy on meat, potatoes, bread and overcooked vegetables and very few salads or raw fruits. On the other hand, candy and soda would...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Matching vs Unmatching Vests

    I have been watching Green Acres on DVD for the last few nights. If you are not familiar with the show, one of the running gags is that Oliver Douglas, a New York corporate attorney turned farmer, works his farm wearing the same suits and ties as he wore in the stuffy law office. His most...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Blackstrap molasses :( Crosby's Fancy Molasses for me. http://www.crosbys.com/ Fancy molasses is sweet, blackstrap contains no sugar. Cooking molasses is in between. I always thought fancy molasses was for the table, blackstrap was for livestock.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That's what you get for going a mile a minute. When were you born, 1900?
  17. Stanley Doble

    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    It was a different era. My mother was a little proud of the fact that her family had a car and a telephone right through the depression, which was more than the neighbors could say. These were not poor people. They were prosperous farmers who lived in one of the most technically advanced, and...
  19. Stanley Doble

    O, Walter, Where Art Thou?

    You misunderstand me. The point of using Mitty as a jumping off point for a new movie, is that they can buy the rights cheap and prevent someone else from claiming plagiarism of a different story. It doesn't matter to the studio that the movie they make has little or no resemblance to the original.
  20. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I was surprised to find the phrase "hang out" dates back to the mid 19th century. I think it was in one of Mark Twain's stories I saw it. An old lady from the mountains, criticizing a neighbor's cabin, says "I wouldn't hang out in such a derned hole". A lot of these terms go in and out of...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    By keeper do you mean sugar daddy? High hatting is a good one. There is a lot of good slang and snappy patter in the Thin Man series. In another one, Nick takes Nora to a wrestling match at Madison Square Garden where he introduces her to some of his underworld acquaintances. They take to her...
  22. Stanley Doble

    BattleDress Question

    I don't know the details but I do know that Canada declared war on Germany 1 week after the British, in September 1939. Canada's economy was put on a war footing immediately and Canada became a leading supplier to Britain, of trucks, weapons, food etc. Whether Canada supplied uniforms or cloth...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Coldest Weather I've been in

    If you weren't shovelling snow you would be mowing grass. The grass takes longer but only has to be done once a week not every day so it's a tossup.

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