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  1. Stanley Doble

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

    I don't mind senior, and will hold still for pensioner and old coot. But I draw the line at Boomer and Zoomer makes my guts curdle. There is a radio station I like because it plays old music and comedy and drama programs from the 40s and 50s. I can't listen to it as much as I would like...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Flooring Pre 1950's Suggestions Please

    I know lino was popular but didn't the questioner say she didn't want to use it? The plywood parquet squares, I had forgotten about them. Going back to the thread above, you can buy plywood with hardwood veneers on them which could be cut into squares and used like the plywood board described...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Flooring Pre 1950's Suggestions Please

    Early fifties floors would be broadloom and tile.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Flooring Pre 1950's Suggestions Please

    The plywood floor would be easier if you cut saw kerfs to indicate the boards and laid it in sheets. It would help to know what era or style you were after. 50s style would include "broadloom" or "wall to wall carpet" and vinyl tile or cushion floor in the kitchen, bath, and laundry room.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Flooring Pre 1950's Suggestions Please

    This is a little off the topic, but... One house I did up, was built in the 1870s. The original flooring was tongue and groove red pine 1" thick. I wanted to repair a damaged section with matching wood. Only one lumber yard had suitable material -it was a special thick tongue and groove pine...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Flooring Pre 1950's Suggestions Please

    That is brutal. Plywood held down by ring nails every 3". Almost impossible to remove and if you do it is going to damage the flooring underneath. Which was probably cheap pine boards. Best answer is a new floor on top. Hardwood, varnished. Or soft wood like pine, painted with an area rug or...
  8. Stanley Doble

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

    And when it comes time to write the epitaph of the 20th century consumer it will be "they used up all the good stuff".
  9. Stanley Doble

    Ideas please about 20/30's bush clothing

    "Stanley, where are Ross sporters going for $100? I see them more in the $1000 range. Was $100 just a typo? Are the sporters a straight pull, too?" Jack I remembered Gordon Sinclair's remarks about the Ross rifle and did a bit of a web search before I posted to be sure I remembered correctly...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Los Angeles: The City That Could Have Been

    Wow, that huge glass lense under the California sun frying the people like ants. Too bad it was never built.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Ideas please about 20/30's bush clothing

    An odd side light on the subject of rifles used by big game hunters. Canadian journalist Gordon Sinclair spent several months in India in the mid thirties (see his book Foot-loose in India). He was surprised to find out that the Ross rifle was a favorite of the big game hunters and was often...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Detachable Collars

    Harlem was fashionable in the twenties. White patrons flocked to the famous Cotton Club for the jazz shows. This is what Putting On The Ritz in its original form was about. Later when fashions changed Cole Porter rewrote the lyrics and got some more mileage (royalties) out of it. This kind...
  14. Stanley Doble

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

    I have long suspected that if a family were willing to live as the typical family did in the fifties, they could get along fine on the salary of one bread winner, as most families did in the fifties.
  15. Stanley Doble

    What time period would you live in, and where, if you had to for one year?

    They did from 1937 on. So did every other car. After 1934 , the Airflow layout was the conventional style. As I pointed out, every car after the Airflow looked like an Airflow with chubbier fenders, completely different in appearance from every car before the Airflow.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    They will also have to explain there was a time when black people were fighting to get INTO schools. Sorry if this sounds mean, I just watched Bill Cosby's Pound Cake speech and it reminded me how things have changed since the Civil Rights marches of the sixties.
  17. Stanley Doble

    What time period would you live in, and where, if you had to for one year?

    The main benefit to the Airflow layout was, it moved the engine and passenger compartment forward of the rear axle, allowing the seats to be lowered 4 or 5 inches. This in turn permitted lowering the whole body. The Airflow was also wider than the typical car of the time. An Airflow of normal...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Lounge software upgrade

    I don't like the new What's New I don't like the new What's New function. So don't expect to see much of me from now on.
  20. Stanley Doble

    What time period would you live in, and where, if you had to for one year?

    The Airflow was 5 years ahead of its time when it came out. It scared the hell out of every other car company. Competitors spread a lot of lies about the Chrysler Airflow, then copied them as fast as they could. The Airflow was made from 1934 to 1937. If you don't believe me, compare any make...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    This thread sure went down hill fast.
  22. Stanley Doble

    What time period would you live in, and where, if you had to for one year?

    Southern California, 1962. Not as it really was but as it was portrayed in TV, movies, magazines, and surf music. And me, 16, not as I really was but smart, good looking, athletic, with rich indulgent parents.
  23. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Friend of mine had a 51 Chev, he was talking about having the front end cut off and replaced with a Camaro front end with power steering. I talked him into having it repaired, and an alignment done. This transformed the car and took away all desire for power steering. You have the advantage...

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