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  1. Stanley Doble

    radio case reapir

    Yes this can be repaired. There are several vintage radio and vintage furniture sites that have the information. I believe it involves glue and a hot iron then careful staining and lacquer or varnish depending what the original finish was. You may be able to find someone local who can do it...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Buying Vintage homes for cheap . . . what's the catch?

    Were you as astonished as I was, to find out that California which is bankrupt, chose to spend billions of dollars on some kind of light rail transit that they know will not work, even though they already have a perfectly good train system? I understand it is some kind of political payoff? But...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Buying Vintage homes for cheap . . . what's the catch?

    Americans made a collective decision in the seventies or earlier to send all the manufacturing jobs overseas. They are gone and they are not coming back. The result in such powerhouse manufacturing cities as Detroit can be seen today. Even if manufacturing makes a comeback modern methods mean...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Modern Day Fighter vs. a Pro boxer back in 1875 - 1898?

    Bare knuckles boxers fought for hours, fights of 20 rounds or more were common. The ability to give and take "punishment" was prized. I don't know if today's fighters would have the stamina.
  5. Stanley Doble

    the leopard can never change its spots

    Fans of leopard skins should look up a book called " Red House". It is about the oldest continuously occupied house in New England, built in 1647. During renovations the owners discovered that at one time, the inside had been completely decorated in a leopard skin motif. An expert on the...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Living a Ration Book Life

    In the north it is common sense to have on hand food, fuel, warm clothes, blankets, flashlight and radio batteries etc. to last a week or two. If you are prepared, a blizzard is a pillow fight. If you are not prepared it can be a disaster. Every time there is a blizzard or bad snow storm one...
  8. Stanley Doble

    The Oddity of KRIT Motors

    Henry Ford repudiated his anti Semitic views in 1927. He issued a public apology, shut down the Dearborn Independent and burned a large and costly library of anti Semitic works. Ironically he got his anti Semitism from some Jewish socialists and political radicals in 1915 or 1916. They blamed...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    You mean taxes account for less than half what we pay for gas? I'm surprised it's that little.
  10. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I read certain American hot rod sites with a lot of "they can have my big block V8 when they pry it from my cold dead hands" "if those Commies and Ay-rabs won't give us their oil let's go steal it" and "front wheel drive and 4 cylinder engines are for homos" type comments.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    1 liter = 1.05669 US quarts. I threw that in for my American readers who may not be familiar with the metric system, just think of a liter as about a quart. Canada is the world's only oil exporting nation whose citizens do NOT get a break on oil prices. Our oil gets sent to the US where it...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Working Out Killing My Hourglass Physique

    I used to have a Chippendale dancer physique until my chest fell into my drawers. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
  14. Stanley Doble

    Anyone else interested in trying out ration dieting?

    Funny you should mention that. Gas rationing was nearly revived during the Carter administration. Ration stamps were printed up but never distributed. The closest they came was "odd and even days" in the early seventies. If your license plate ended in an even number you could only buy gas on...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Living a Ration Book Life

    Sounds like the way I have been living all my life except for the gas and speed limit. In Canada building materials were in short supply and building of new houses curtailed. I had one relative who did a complete renovation on an old house that should have been replaced, simply because he could...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Vintage vintage

    They didn't have a name for it unless it was "eccentric". Some older men continued to wear the wing collars and old fashioned suits of their youth. Canadian newsman Gregory Clark preferred elastic sided boots long after they went out of fashion. President Roosevelt commented on them, called...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    First garage I worked at was a B/A (British American Oil Company) station. Regular was 45.9c a gallon. Shortly after I started working there, the price rose to 49.9. The owner predicted a large drop in trade, as the price had been 45.9 for several years and he didn't think his customers would...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Go ahead, try it. Paint your car first then rebuild your engine and see what your fresh paint looks like when you take off the fender covers. I guarantee, the second one you do, the engine will get rebuilt before you do the paint job.
  20. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    ^ Reminds me of the story about the guy who suddenly got all kinds of perks at work, promotion, key to the executive washroom, company car, the whole VIP bit. His friends asked what he did to get ahead so fast, he said "I don't know but I've been having all kinds of luck since somebody stepped...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    It is not a matter of being careful. If you have to do a lot of work under the hood, leaning over fenders, it is nearly impossible to avoid scratching fresh paint no matter how careful you are. You can remove the seats and door panels and let the upholsterer work on them while bodywork and...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Yes they were in use for a long time. First use of punch card data processing was the 1880 US census. Government statistical experts said that without it, the census could not have been complete before the next census (1890). Last time I saw them was some time in the sixties, I don't think...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I didn't know they had already been discussed. My apologies.

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