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  1. Stanley Doble

    What type of lighter did Bogart use in Maltese Falcon ?

    They must have had quite a vogue. You see them in a lot of pictures from the early 40s.
  2. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    It depends how high the taxes are and how hard it is to get cheap smokes. Indian reservations sell untaxed cigarettes for half price and "entrepreneurs" buy them by the case, take them back to the city and resell them. Incidentally you may have bought untaxed cigarettes in a convenience store...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Forbidden items in my home...

    How about (Klaus) Barbie dolls? Ha ha ha I crack me up.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Air Conditioning in the Golden Era

    Years ago I read an account of President Garfield's assassination. It said that he was provided with a primitive form of air conditioning in his sick room for relief from the summer heat. I did a Google search and it turns out my memory was not playing tricks. "In an effort to relieve the...
  5. Stanley Doble

    The general decline in standards today

    If pot is legalized it will be taxed. If the tax is large enough crooks will sell illegal pot same as they do untaxed cigarettes and alcohol. The profit margin is in dodging the taxes.
  7. Stanley Doble

    Smokers in films

    Ladies didn't smoke. I had 1 or 2 female relatives as a child who smoked cigarettes, they were considered "fast". This was in a family that frowned very strongly on drinking too. Don't let the movies fool you. In the Golden Age a lot of ordinary people were very suspicious of smoking and...
  8. Stanley Doble

    animal totems...

    In Australia one of the totem animals is the witchety grub. Don't know if I would like to be one of the Witchety Grub people. On the other hand,you are not allowed to eat your totem animal so you would never have to eat a Witchety Grub.
  9. Stanley Doble

    how to fix surface finish 1952 sewing mach

    Sounds like a job for Homer Formby Refinisher.
  10. Stanley Doble

    My New Suit: is it a City or Country Suit?

    Could you wear it on a Friday or do they do casual Fridays where you are?
  11. Stanley Doble

    If you could solve just one mystery....

    Detective Steve Hodel claims his father George Hodel was the Black Dahlia killer, the Zodiac killer and was also responsible for thrill killings in Chicago and the Philippines. http://www.examiner.com/article/could-zodiac-the-black-dahlia-killer-and-chicago-s-lipstick-murderer-all-be-the-same-man
  13. Stanley Doble

    Your favorite movie quotes

    Another funny line. In Twins there is a scene where Danny DeVito is loading luggage into the trunk of his Cadillac. Arnold Schwarzenegger runs up behind him yelling about something. Later as they walk away DeVito says "you scared the living shit out of me". I know it looks like nothing but when...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Your favorite movie quotes

    Here is a line that never fails to amuse me. I don't expect it to work unless you see it in context but it is funny. In Double Wedding William Powell is looking for someone. He opens the door to Myrna Loy's office, looks inside, says "sorry" and leaves. Jesse Ralph who is facing away from the...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Appliances

    In the late 80s I worked in a garage that had an old fridge in the lunch room for cold drinks and lunches. The seal was petrified and crumbling, the freezer compartment which was about big enough for a loaf of bread, was caked solid with ice inside and coated 6" thick on the outside. I salvaged...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Is liking suits so much a sign of craziness?

    My post was supposed to be funny or at least light hearted. In the sixties squares wore suits and ties, the hippies wore jeans and tie dyed T shirts. Now it appears to be the other way around. Or, don't take things too serious. It is not as bad as you think, your co workers will get used to...
  17. Stanley Doble

    The Morris Chair Mystery

    Could the last word be Relief? Jazz Baby for a time Relief? Doesn't make any sense to me either. How about the newspaper? Was it built into the chair or did it slip down a crack ? Chances are the clipping dates to the year of the newest car advertised or maybe a year later.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Is liking suits so much a sign of craziness?

    I see. They want you to be a non conformist like everybody else. They'll get used to your style. After a while your co workers will be defending you to outsiders. You are better off to overdress than underdress in a business situation. PS these days it takes a lot more than wearing a...
  20. Stanley Doble

    My New Suit: is it a City or Country Suit?

    There are city suits and city suits. A suit that would be appropriate to someone in show business or bookmaking might be too gaudy for a lawyer or undertaker. A doctor might or might not wear such a suit. The higher the doctor stood in the profession, the more he could afford some eccentricity...
  21. Stanley Doble

    The Morris Chair Mystery

    The more I look at this the odder it gets. The #8 and the first stroke of the B in Baby appears to be a different, thicker pencil. The start of the B is strangely formed. It appears someone took an existing notation and turned it into Jazz Baby. But what? The B stroke looks line an upside down 5...
  22. Stanley Doble

    The Morris Chair Mystery

    "Jazz baby" was an expression of the time, like "flapper" or "sheik". Similar to what would later be called a jitterbug or bobby soxer. I also see a"#8". This looks like a typical shop notation. Either the upholsterer marked the different sections of the covering, or that chair was job #8 on...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Could you survive?

    Re: the social/racial climate. You might have been better off in Italy, Scandinavia or South America than in the US. About the food allergies etc. In the past they were a lot less troublesome and even unknown. Maybe without today's genetically modified, hybridized, adulterated foods you...

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