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  1. Stanley Doble

    Top Secret Hats is closing down

    Maybe they were too secret.
  2. Stanley Doble

    Land Line Phone

    I always know where to find my home phone and the battery never goes dead and it never loses its signal. More than I can say for any cell phone I ever owned.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Made in America. Stayed in America.

    This trend may be reversing. See this article in December's Atlantic Monthly. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/12/the-insourcing-boom/309166/
  4. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era Passtimes / Hobbies

    Has anyone mentioned Crokinole? It was a big favorite in my grandmother's house. We used to play it all the time at family gatherings.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Iced Graham Crackers

    Graham crackers with peanut butter and honey is my treat.
  7. Stanley Doble

    The tobacco speakeasy...

    There are cigar lounges and clubs, as there were "cigar divans" in the 1870s.
  8. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Lizzie I still have some genuine Canadian manifolds, the ones I have are from the fifties. I know the earliest ones had the exhaust outlet at the very back, then they moved it ahead 3 or 4 inches. If you can post a picture of your old one I will see if I have one to match.
  9. Stanley Doble

    The Age of Entitlement

    It was from a novel published in 1918, based on the author's experiences growing up in Indianapolis in the late 19th century. He was describing a type that would be familiar to his readers, and alas even more familiar today. Back then you pretty much had to be rich to be that spoiled. Now I...
  10. Stanley Doble

    In the Pressure Cooker!

    Forgot the tomatoes. In the lentil soup, add a 19 oz can of crushed or chopped tomatoes.
  11. Stanley Doble

    What TV shows were you GLAD were cancelled?

    There have been a lot of terrible TV shows but only one made me happy when they cancelled it. Other than that one show, I just change the channel or turn the TV off if I don't like something. The one show I resented was Hee Haw because it replaced Laugh In, which I loved, with shall we say an...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Was there ever such a thing as "TV Insurance"?

    If a policy like you described was ever offered (I never heard of it) it may have been an advertizing gimmick to reassure potential customers. There were lots of rumors going around in the early days of TV, like it will cause eye strain or ruin your eyes. I think a lot of them were sour grapes...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Was there ever such a thing as "TV Insurance"?

    I remember TV commercials for an insurance policy or service contract for TVs. It was supposed to protect you from the dreaded "Pop-a-tube-a-phobia". Early TVs with tube chassis and hand wiring frequently went wrong, and were much more complicated and harder to fix than a radio. A decent TV...
  15. Stanley Doble

    The Age of Entitlement

    I didn't read the whole thread.... but anyone who thinks a sense of entitlement is a modern phenomenon, should watch The Magnificent Ambersons, set in the 1890s but made in the 1940s. See Orson Welles protest indignantly, that a job he was offered does not pay enough to support him and his...
  16. Stanley Doble

    My dream; a 1930s Lunchroom

    Do you serve Oliebollen like Tante used to make?
  17. Stanley Doble

    Rare Photo of the Mushroom Cloud Over Hiroshima Discovered

    The radiation coming off Fukushima equals 11 Hiroshimas every hour. This has been going on since April 2011 with no end in sight.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    So, buy a good $5000 or $3500 car. Ironically, people buy brand new $35000 cars and use them as daily drivers. You couldn't make a decent car out of that pail for less than $10,000. So buy one that is not so far gone and save your time, money and sanity.
  20. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Frankly you would be better off from a dollars and cents standpoint to buy the best car you can find. Also, save a lot of time and work. Also, end up with a better car, a real good original not a patch up job. If you want an early fifties Buick sedan you should be able to find one in near...
  21. Stanley Doble

    The Depression as Depicted in Art, Literature and Pop Culture. True or not?

    On the race question: They used to say, in the south they will let you get close but they won't let you rise up. In the north they will let you rise up but they won't let you get close. Whenever times are hard and money is scarce, people start to resent anyone they see as taking jobs away...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    Those round glass pots with the funnel that went in the top were the standard diner and cafe coffee maker for years. You fill the pot with cold water, put the funnel on top with the coffee in it and put it on the heat. When the water gets hot most of it is forced up into the funnel by steam...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    The ads were by Doyle Dane Bernbach. They were famous as the "think small" campaign if you want to look it up. David Ogilvie was better known for his Rolls Royce ads. I remember Stan Freberg for his Chun King Chinese food commercials.

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