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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I'm glad you are finally getting to drive the Plodge. OK the front end needs work, this must be getting monotonous. At least, parts are available and with the front end done over, a good alignment job, and a set of new shock absorbers you will think you are driving a new car, no kidding. I know...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In the movie of John Philip Sousa's life there is an episode where he plays in the South in the 1870s or 1880s, against the advice of his manager, right after another Northern band got run out of town. He marches into the fairgrounds playing "Dixie". From the bandstand he announces the day's...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Failures in a Modern World

    I blame reincarnation. According to the theory of reincarnation we are all reincarnated over and over into different lifetimes until we achieve perfection and merge into the God head. So, the world's population should be diminishing ever so slowly as a few souls every generation make the...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    An expression that was popular in the Depression that I don't think was used before or since, was "the little people" or "the little man" meaning ordinary people without wealth or influence. Nowadays they would think you were talking about midgets. Which come to think of it, you are not...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Period Films and Inaccuraces

    Since when do movies have to be logical? They don't appeal to logic they appeal to feelings and emotions. If an accent gets the story across effectively then it is the artistically correct choice and the hell with logic.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Capehart was a brand of record player that featured an elaborate automatic record changer similar to what you would see in an old juke box. This made it possible to listen to a symphony or opera continuously as the machine changed up to 20 records automatically. Remember, in those days the...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    The "old body" had the bug eyed headlights on top of the fenders. 48 up was the "Pilot House" model with the headlights in the fenders. http://www.dodgepilothouseclub.org/dodge/dodge.htm
  9. Stanley Doble

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Would anyone today know what the third degree is? Blackmail was a serious crime in those days, now if you accuse a Hollywood star of being a drug addict, a pervert, and a thief it only means you have read his autobiography. How long has it been since a cop hopped on a running board and yelled...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Metal Shoe Shine Foot Rest

    I thought about the Moon cast aluminum gas pedal as a foot rest but they only come in rights. If all else fails you might cut one out of bright aluminum checker plate.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Period Films and Inaccuraces

    The Great Gatsby is a wonderful story but it took place at a specific time, the summer of 1922. Change it by more than a year either way and it doesn't make sense. Of course you can rewrite it into something else but if you do, you are throwing away the best part of the story. Sort of like a...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You mean like Mr Spock strange or creepy strange?
  14. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I live in Canada and I like Global Warming. Unfortunately it was a false alarm. We had a string of 3 or 4 mild winters in the 90s, now things are back to normal with the same old winters I remember as a kid 50 years ago. I had my hopes up but the whole thing was a fizzle.
  15. Stanley Doble

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

    Apcray on the radio.
  16. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I'm intrigued. Strange how? Strange compared to the typical chemistry professor? Strange compared to the average, ordinary specimens one encounters on the Fedora Lounge? How did this strangeness manifest itself? I know he considered himself funny looking, and that this bothered him when he...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I'm a fan of Pauling's and would like to know what you mean by nut job. I know he was considered a crank because of some of his ideas (radioactive fallout is bad for you, Vitamin C is good for you). So far as I know all his far out ideas were based on hard science and research. Some of his...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era stars who died way before their time

    Singer Johnny Ace, died December 25 1954, 25 years of age. Self inflicted accidental gun shot wound. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXSS6Q4xE0
  20. Stanley Doble

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

    If you want to be sure you can go to Wall Street and examine the divots in the granite wall for yourself.
  21. Stanley Doble

    One doofus or an annoying trend in socks?

    My guess is he got dressed in the dark.
  22. Stanley Doble

    WWII era Civilian tents

    WW2 bell tents were brown.
  23. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I agree $995 was a lot of money in 1922 but you got your money's worth. They were one tough car. Oil field Dodge, promo film. See an early twenties Dodge meeting life in the raw on and off the roads of Texas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq2jY1trxqg

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