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  1. Stanley Doble

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    I know bicyclists can be annoying but it helps to say "more gas for me" as you drive past them.
  2. Stanley Doble

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Reading one of Paul Theroux's travel books a few weeks ago. It was about a river trip in China,written in the 80s. A group of rich tourists on a cruise on a river boat. Passing through one city the air was thick with the smell of coal smoke, sewage, and a touch of kerosene. One of the...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Moe, Lizzie, I hope you join the auto club if you haven't already. It is a must for anyone who drives an old car. They will tow your car to the garage or to your home or bring it on a flatbed truck free of charge. Will also give you a boost or bring some gas if you run out. I don't know how I...
  4. Stanley Doble

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    When I see remarks like "cigarette smoke makes me sick" I just shake my head. Imagine such delicate stomachs in the past, living in towns and cities heated with coal fires, full of automobiles with no pollution control, horses doing their business in the street, surrounded by people who not...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Dreamcars... *sighs*

    "So; today our dear "Caruso" (as we have named the car) went into winter-storage" Named after the famous traveller, Robinson Caruso?
  7. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Sounds like some part of the clutch linkage came loose.
  8. Stanley Doble

    When did city slickers start wearing jeans?

    There was a fad for square dancing in the forties and into the early fifties. Square dancing clubs around the country especially in the west. This may be the first time men wore blue jeans to go out, other than to go out and work in the garden lol.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Toothpaste and acne

    The main ingredient in a popular acne medicine is also used as a hardener in plastic auto body filler. I would try a change of diet. Eat nothing but fresh fruit and vegetables for 2 weeks and see what happens. Washing with a mild soap helps too. Drink plenty of water.
  10. Stanley Doble

    Old Home Recipes

    If you don't like pineapple upside down cake try peach upside down cake, the same thing with sliced canned peaches.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Old Home Recipes

    2 holiday dishes I haven't had in 20 or 30 years. Mother used to make a Christmas pudding with a burnt sugar sauce. It was an old family recipe handed down from her grandmother. Father's mother was Dutch and always celebrated New Years with Oelbollen. If you are not familiar they are made of a...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Where did you get that hat?" from a comic song popular in English music halls 100 years ago. Stanley Holloway elucidates. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SseqNp7n5FU
  14. Stanley Doble

    Last Canadian Spanish Civil War Veteran Dies At 96

    Jules Paivio, the last surviving Canadian to have fought in the Spanish Civil War, died last week. He was 96. Paivio was one of more than 1,600 men and women who left Canada during the height of the Great Depression to confront a fascist uprising against a democratically elected Spanish...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Old Home Recipes

    I never heard of any of those. Do you remember pineapple upside down cake? A while back I made one and my friends said " I haven't had pineapple upside down cake in years" while the younger ones said "what is a pineapple upside down cake?" It used to be one of the popular desserts.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Probably about the same. Studebaker Champion (and later Lark) were selling to the same market as the Rambler six. They were the earliest compacts, years before Falcon, Corvair, Valiant, Chevy II and so on jumped on the band wagon.
  17. Stanley Doble

    History Channel Gone Wrong

    Of course we don't know everything. The so called scientific facts you name are not facts at all because they were never proven. They were notions, or ideas, or theories. When better theories came along backed up by evidence, they were exploded. Barbara Tuchman told about a friend who...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Playing cards and glass dice from the Old West

    Are those dice glass or ivory? They were usually ivory or bone.
  20. Stanley Doble

    House husbands

    In WW1 and WW2 the women marched into the factories and bus garages and as soon as the war was over, marched right back out again. Nobody forced them to go to work and nobody forced them to stop. It was the spirit of the times. In the 30s there was a campaign to stop wives working on the...
  21. Stanley Doble

    House husbands

    Up until the 50s there was a wide spread idea that if a wife worked it was because her husband was a bum who could not support his family. I know this was the case at home. Ironically, my grandmother had to go to work because her husband was crippled by miner's consumption (silicosis). This did...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Try the Stude out. It may have adequate power if all you want is to cruise around town. Don't bother buying if you want to swap engines. You will waste your time and money and end up with a car that is not only unsatisfactory to drive, but also worth less than when you started. If you want a...
  23. Stanley Doble

    When did the smiles begin?

    That picture is cute, and not disturbing at all unless you think about it.

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