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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I was thinking along similar lines myself. Lizzie your Dodge cost about the same or a little less when it was new and was a much better car. I have a garage bill my grandfather paid for repairs to his Ford in the early twenties , the bill includes 10 gallons gas @ 24 cents. You could still buy...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I don't like the time they waste. If they have an interesting guest why not let him talk? I understand they have to run some ads but why waste time on the same old interminable music and pointless breaks? I usually turn to a different station and often forget to turn back.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    But then I enjoy Coast To Coast AM even though I know 99% of the guests are deluded or fakes. I like hearing new ideas, even crazy ones. Sometimes, especially crazy ones. George Noory is an acquired taste. I can't believe anyone can be so dumb and ask such idiotic questions. There are times he...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I can't believe this coming from you. I thought you would appreciate lively political debate as part of a pluralistic democratic society. I think they are a great idea, the only reason I can't stand them is because the hosts are morons who always ask the wrong questions and most of the call ins...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Restoring vintage fridge

    They are rare around here too but I know of at least 2. One is an appliance store run by a 90 year old guy who inherited the place from his grandfather, I am not kidding, and none of them ever threw anything out. The other is run by an eccentric hippie type who collects and restores ancient...
  7. Stanley Doble

    1940s picnic

    Glasses, silverware etc. from the kitchen. Paper plates and paper cups. Bottled pop, lemonade and milk. Melmac and similar plastic available from the forties or possibly the thirties. Clear plastic glasses from the fifties.
  8. Stanley Doble

    1940s picnic

    Don't forget the potato salad! Solid Potato Salad, 1944. You won't believe it until you see it, and you still won't believe it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1J3NLNWAPU&feature=player_detailpage
  9. Stanley Doble

    Amazing research resource - old film periodicals

    I don't know if this is well known or obvious, but a lot of the information in movie magazines came from the studios' publicity departments and was totally bogus. Artists' names, dates of birth, place of birth, and all the details of their biographies were invented and any resemblance to a real...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    It is possible to swap the hubs side-for-side if you have to. I have seen this on old cars that were repaired with junkyard parts and had left hand threads on the right side and vice versa. It is also possible to remove the drum and install a new drum on the original hub. But this requires...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Teacher wears same outfit in pictures for 40 years.

    School teacher wears same outfit in annual class picture for 40 years. http://www.bloomberg.com/video/teacher-wears-same-outfit-in-photos-for-40-years-9e_yFpuLRmGUrQcJyLrd_A.html?cmpid=otbrn.video
  13. Stanley Doble

    Restoring vintage fridge

    Have you tried asking the oldest appliance dealer or repair shop in town?
  14. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Pork chops, perogies, red cabbage.
  15. Stanley Doble

    The Streetcar/Trolley/Tram/Electric Railway Thread

    Is there no gasoline tax or diesel fuel tax in Michigan? Do you not pay for license plates? Is there no tax on the purchase of a car? No taxes at all on the ownership and use of a motor vehicle?
  16. Stanley Doble

    The Streetcar/Trolley/Tram/Electric Railway Thread

    There are cities that never tore out their infrastructure. Toronto being one. It has an excellent streetcar system and a subway too. Also buses. They all work together to form one transportation system. The street cars are not cheaper than buses. The system must be subsidized by the taxpayers...
  17. Stanley Doble

    The Streetcar/Trolley/Tram/Electric Railway Thread

    If you drive a car you pay road taxes on gasoline or diesel fuel, an annual license fee, possibly sales taxes when you buy a vehicle and many other taxes. The fuel tax alone, which was supposed to go to road and highway building, has been diverted to general revenues for years. As far as...
  19. Stanley Doble

    The Streetcar/Trolley/Tram/Electric Railway Thread

    I am heartily in favor of mass transit. I am not a big fan of wasting money. There should be some way to have a clean, efficient transit system at affordable cost. With the latest advances in batteries and electric vehicles, electric buses and delivery trucks may soon be competitive with gas...
  20. Stanley Doble

    The Streetcar/Trolley/Tram/Electric Railway Thread

    "Why is rail expected to be self sustaining when streets and airports are not? " Are you kidding? Autos and trucks are not only "self sustaining" they pay heavy taxes as well. Same with airports. Public transit should be self sustaining, or as close to it as can be managed. Taxpayers' pockets...
  21. Stanley Doble

    The Streetcar/Trolley/Tram/Electric Railway Thread

    What about the cost? It is hard to justify the higher cost of light rail when it offers no advantage over rubber tired buses. I suspect if rubber tires had been invented 80 years sooner, railroads would never have been invented. With today's battery developments it is possible to build electric...
  22. Stanley Doble

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

    It was Lincoln Steffens who famously said on his return from the Soviet Union " I have seen the future and it works". He was not the only one who thought the Soviet model was a good one for the US to follow. An accident of history made the Communists our allies and the Fascists our enemies...
  23. Stanley Doble

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

    There was a general feeling in the thirties that capitalism and democracy had failed and that some sort of central planning would be key in the government of the future. Technocracy, Fascism, Socialism, Communism were all heralded as the wave of the future. I know you don't want to hear this...

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