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  1. Stanley Doble

    Starting a New Position - To Hat or Not to Hat?

    To my mind the time to wear a hat (or cap) is when you go outdoors. When you come back inside take it off. The only time to go outside without a hat is when you want to catch cold. This seems normal to me. Why would you be scared to wear a hat to work? What do you think they will do to you?
  2. Stanley Doble

    Starting a New Position - To Hat or Not to Hat?

    I find this conversation fascinating. What kind of bullshit job should you be scared to wear a hat to? I have to assume you have enough common sense to wear an ordinary hat not a Mexican Fiesta Sombrero or something stupid like that. Why wouldn't you wear a hat to work?
  3. Stanley Doble

    German tourist ad from 1939

    I've seen a letter from a German Jew written in 1935 encouraging his relatives in the US to come back to Germany, business was booming and everything was great. Have also heard of a German Jew living in Canada, who got sore at some anti Semitic crack and resolved to return to Germany to get away...
  4. Stanley Doble

    so you wish to revive an old radio set?

    Ha ha ha the AA5 also known as the gutless wonder. They worked well with the minimum of parts. I like the console sets from the thirties where the chassis was alive with 400 volts including the control shafts. The only thing keeping the user from getting a lifter were the wooden knobs. If you...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Retro gym equipment?

    If you want to exercise while you travel look up the 5BX Plan or Canadian Air Force exercise program.Dr. Bill Orban developed it for the Royal Canadian Air Force as a way for air crews to exercise anywhere in the world with no gym, no equipment, no instructor, no nothing. It has been around...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Hair Coloring " Gentleman"

    My hair started to turn gray when I was 26 (I'm now 62). For years I have used VO5 hair dressing for gray hair. It has a bit of blue in it which neutralizes any yellow or dullness. I have been complimented on my handsome head of gray hair. A little dab no bigger than a match head after you wash...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Retro gym equipment?

    Gymnasium equipment must date back to the Victorian era or earlier. Free weights as we know them today at least to the forties. Where you would find the stuff I have no idea although I have seen some old stuff at yard sales and thrift stores. One good thing, when you find used exercise...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Hat-pin self defence?!

    I know my mother (born 1920) regarded a hat pin as a weapon. No doubt this was common wisdom at one time. I know some of my older relatives (my grandmothers and mother's aunts) made formidable foes with or without a hatpin. When I read about women in the past being meek, downtrodden and without...
  10. Stanley Doble

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    We only thought it was the worst because we didn't have the new one.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Will rain water spoil a good felt hat?

    Is it ok to Scotchgard a good hat?
  13. Stanley Doble

    Drugstores

    There used to be a law that all stores had to close on Sunday. The drugstore was allowed to be open in case someone got sick. The Kodak company took advantage of this. By selling their film and developing services in drug stores they were available on Sundays and holidays when their customers...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Our own vintage town

    "In regard to the present work I must disclaim at once all intentions of trying to do anything so ridiculously easy as writing about a real place and real people. Mariposa is not a real town. On the contrary, it is about seventy or eighty of them. You may find them all the way from Lake Superior...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Our own vintage town

    Stanleys burned kerosene. Nice, cheap kerosene. The gas burner was only there to heat up the kerosene burner. It burned naptha gas like a Coleman stove. It did take half an hour to start a Stanley from dead cold but if you left the pilot light on overnight it only took five or ten minutes to...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Our own vintage town

    There is no need for that. Different eras in the Golden Era mixed without comment. Older men continued to wear wing collars, pince nez glasses and Congress gaiters (elastic sided boots) of the 1910 era up to 1950 or so. Twenty year old cars, a few even older, were in common use. Some people...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Our own vintage town

    I didn't read the whole thread but would like to apply for the job of one of the old guys who sits on the bench in front of the post office. If those spots are taken how about town drunk, or village idiot? If I have to go to work I could run a fix it shop or help Tom and Dave at the junk yard.
  19. Stanley Doble

    A hat for a crooked head

    There is a thread on Indiana Jones fedora that shows he wore his slightly askew. I never noticed until they pointed it out. At least you are not as bad off as Fred Allen's friend whose forehead was so wrinkled he had to screw his hat on (joke).
  20. Stanley Doble

    Oxford Bags

    Michael Caine writes about this in his autobiography. From a working class home in London, he bought his first bespoke suit when he was in his teens, of "genuine prewar" material. He didn't buy it from a West End tailor but the suit was identical. He had it made by one of the East End tailors...
  21. Stanley Doble

    1920s Drive Around NYC

    The second taxi passenger was Babe Ruth.
  22. Stanley Doble

    Student Jalopies of the 1940s

    The 5 gals pun was a popular joke, it would have made better sense if the back seat was still there! Seig Heil might have seemed funny before the war. You need to remember that the US was not involved in the war at that time, and many facts about the Nazi regime had not come out.
  23. Stanley Doble

    "What's with the hat?" A cautionary tale...

    Second vote for the pocket comb for anyone who wears a hat or cap. I carried one for years when longer hair was in vogue. These days my hair is quite short and the hat hair is not such a problem. If you don't have one you can pick one up in any convenience store or drug store.

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