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Silvertone clock radio
Lizzie is right, they are not a complicated radio and parts are available at reasonable cost. If you can find a radio hobbyist they may fix it for a more reasonable cost.- Stanley Doble
- Post #6
- Forum: The Display Case
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The Strange Irony of Existence
What about the guy who was half Japanese half African American, and every December 7th felt an overpowering urge to attack Pearl Bailey. I know, it`s an ancient joke. Don`t think so much, you might go nuts. You can be against the war even though it did you good. A lot of people are sincerely...- Stanley Doble
- Post #11
- Forum: WWII
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Beard grooming?
I could never get mine the way I wanted it so I let a barber trim it at haircut time. Even then, it seemed to change shape overnight if that makes sense. So I would have to go back the next day and get it evened up. Then it would stay nice until haircut time rolled around again (2 weeks).- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Titanic reborn.
I'm glad I'm not the guy who has to sell the tickets. Be interesting to see how they handle it without mentioning what happened to the first one.- Stanley Doble
- Post #9
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Golden Era stars who died way before their time
You haven't missed anybody except Douglas Fairbanks. The very fit, athletic Mr. Fairbanks died in 1939 aged 56. He was a better actor than he was given credit for. Usually dismissed as a relic of the silent films, he made only 3 or 4 talkies. Reaching for the Moon (1930) is one of my favorite...- Stanley Doble
- Post #89
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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1947 DeSoto Taxi
DeSoto taxicabs were very popular in the thirties, forties and fifties. Depending how you look at it, they were the biggest car in their price class or the cheapest car in their size class. They were roomy, reliable, tough, and simple to keep in repair. During WW2 when cabs were in big demand...- Stanley Doble
- Post #6
- Forum: Vintage Finds and Deals
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Male grooming?
Pears Soap had some great ads. They would hire a good artist and let him have his head. One artist went through a file of fan letters looking for inspiration. He found it. The first ad he did, showed a seedy, unshaven tramp with a caption from one of the letters: " I first used your soap 2...- Stanley Doble
- Post #12
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage hair products
My hair started turning gray when I was 26. I use VO5 for gray hair. It has a little blue in it and does away with the yellowish tinge gray hair often has. I have been complimented on my hair by barbers and hair dressers and I don't think they were angling for a tip. I shampoo every other day...- Stanley Doble
- Post #6
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The general decline in standards today
Where do you think they get the stuff? The CIA has been involved in drugs, and other crimes, for a long long time.- Stanley Doble
- Post #3,746
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
Demand? What do you mean demand? NO country has ever "Demanded" a drug problem. Drugs are not bought, they are sold. The British forced drugs on China in the 1840s because they needed the money for their imperialist objectives in India. The CIA forced drugs on America because they needed the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3,734
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
I did... that ad is disgusting. The ad is a piece of apcray. The least attractive, least enticing I have seen in years. Who do they think it is going to appeal to? Edmonton is hardly one of the world's glamor spots but that ad is scraping the bottom of the barrel even for Western Canada...- Stanley Doble
- Post #46
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The general decline in standards today
Here is another question. If no one had ever heard of alcohol, and some drug company invented it tomorrow, do you think any government would allow it to be sold to the public, knowing its side effects? Or are you one of those people who believes alcohol, drugs, and poisons of all kinds should...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3,728
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
OK, I don't claim to know everything. Let's say you are right, I am wrong. Everyone has free will, everyone has perfect control of their appetites, everyone is rational, no one ever makes mistakes, and any addiction can be cured instantly by simple will power. So, how do you account for 2/3...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3,727
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
If you want to know what kind of drugs will be flooding into the US next year ask what country the CIA is involved with this year, and what kind of drugs they grow or make in that country. This has been the infallible rule since WW2. Laws are for the little people. If you have the right...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3,715
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The general decline in standards today
Let's also dispose of the myth that drug use is voluntary. There is an old principle in law that everyone is responsible for their own behavior unless they are incapable due to extreme youth, or are mentally incapacitated by nature or by some injury or disease, or by alcohol or drugs. We...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3,714
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
Spic n Span ha ha , what about Niger seed. It is a type of bird seed we put out in bird feeders in the winter, I notice they had to change the name to Nyjer.- Stanley Doble
- Post #30
- Forum: The Golden Era
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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
You may think you are kidding but it`s been done. There was a series of TV commercials here in Canada for a brand of dishwashing liquid with the motto `cleans right down to the shine`. They did one ad with women in the kitchen washing dishes and discussing the dishwashing liquid. Later they...- Stanley Doble
- Post #29
- Forum: The Golden Era
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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
I took a look at that ad. Evidently they are looking for customers with bad taste in furniture, men, and clothes who want to look like the Bride of Frankenstein`s bridesmaid. I wouldn`t have thought there was a lot of call for that even in Edmonton, a city hockey players consider crude, but...- Stanley Doble
- Post #28
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The general decline in standards today
I`m not going to tell you about the role of the CIA in bringing drugs to America or what government officials protected the drug importers around Mena Arkansas because you wouldn`t believe me. But the information is not hard to find, not now that it`s too late to do anything about it.- Stanley Doble
- Post #3,699
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
It's not sexist if it's demeaning to men. Try and find a modern ad that isn't.- Stanley Doble
- Post #12
- Forum: The Golden Era
