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  1. Stanley Doble

    The Most "Vintage" US City

    What you need to find is a city that died on the vine at some point. A place that stopped growing and developing, but did not shrink and shrivel up either. I know such places exist, I grew up in one, the town of Port Hope Ontario. Like many Ontario towns its main shopping street was built in...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I believe the first credit cards were called "charge plates" and were issued by department stores in the thirties. Interesting question.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Watch "Ken Burns: Prohibition" to see some incredible hats

    Hoover does look awfully well dressed for fishing. It might be a staged shot, but guys did wear suits to go camping. Look up some old pictures of Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone and Thomas Edison camping. All wearing suits and ties. They are old suits or tweeds, but suits and ties all the same.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Watch "Ken Burns: Prohibition" to see some incredible hats

    You should keep in mind that most of those guys were only 2 or 3 years away from good jobs. In the twenties employment was high, in the early thirties millions were out of work who had never been unemployed in their lives. They were standing in line at a soup kitchen or relief hall, wearing...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage structures recycled.

    In the town of Cobourg 3 solid brick, late Victorian structures were repurposed. A firehall ca 1870 made into a theater. A church turned into a library, since turned into condos. And a large school turned into condos. All were done with sympathy and turned out great. Not to mention, saving a...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Hundreds of thousands of those engines were used during the war in various applications including tanks. Believe it or not, Chrysler built an engine for Sherman tanks using 5 engines like Lizzie's arranged like the petals of a flower. This gave them a 30 cylinder , 21 liter, 470HP tank...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Old Asian Cast Iron Cooking Pan

    Looks too fancy for cooking.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Lizzie Andy Bernbaum in Massachusetts has the correct plug wires and Everdry spark plug galoshes. The Everdry kit is about $39 and a good thing to have, for sure starts in wet weather and an authentic appearance. They also have original 6v battery cables which are quite thick. If someone puts...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Christmas Decor

    We had a candle stick made of a birch log when I was a kid . It was about 14" long with 2 holes drilled ix the top to take the candles. It had feet made of birch sticks a sprig of holly. It showed up around 1951. It was a fixture of the Christmas decorations for 15 years.
  11. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Chrysler built engines were among the best engineered and best built of their time. It is astonishing how they continue to run without protest when in an advanced state of decay, after years of hard wear. Yours is perhaps an extreme example. I'm not really surprised it was still giving good...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Don't count on it. I had a hassle with the building inspector at a cottage I own. It is located 1 1/2 hour drive from my home. The inspector said to expect him "between 10 am and 4 pm". I stopped on the way for a sub sandwich in case I had to wait past lunch time and arrived at 10 past 10. He...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Prohibition

    Until about 1910 everything was legal. You could walk into a drug store and buy a tube of heroin tablets for $2 without a prescription. Many patent medicines contained heroin, cocaine, morphine, opium, strychnine and arsenic. This, ah, caused a few problems. Certain drugs were made...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Black shoe polish on Cordovan shoes?

    It will darken the shoes. If you use black all the time eventually the shoes will be nearly black. I like to wipe off dust with a damp rag, rub the polish on, let them dry for 10 minutes then wipe with a dry rag, finally polish with a shoe brush. If you don't let the polish dry it will be...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Sunday... Now the Bloodiest night of the week.

    I haven't watched TV (except for old movies on the DVD and VCR) since MASH went off the air. Good to know I'm not missing anything.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Crazy Lapels Suit - 1940's?

    Harold Lloyd wore a similar zoot in The Sin of Harold Diddlebock in 1946. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1lAxrp1mxo Get a load of the glad rags at 1:33 Tailor: I made this one for a dog act Manicurist: I can hear it barking.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Crazy Lapels Suit - 1940's?

    Reminds me of a crack Bill Mitchell made in the seventies. He eyed an outfit like that and said "my wife has better linoleum on her kitchen floor than you have in that suit". Ha ha ha ha Is it polyester double knit?
  20. Stanley Doble

    What about the smell?

    You guys need to smoke better cigars. Only smoke the cheap ones outdoors.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Vintage suit with weird inside "strap"?????

    The multiple small pockets ring a bell. Old time watch makers had such coats. After repairing a pocket watch they would carry it around for a few days while they checked that it was working OK, and regulated the speed. So at any time they might be carrying half a dozen watches, maybe more...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    It would be possible to bore the block to 3 9/16 and install a 265 crankshaft making a 283 cu in engine. With a few hop up tricks, raising the HP from the original 90 to 150-175 would be a cinch. Or, a 1952 - 54 Chrysler 265 120HP engine will bolt in. This would give larger displacement plus a...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    That is correct. In 1938 when Chrysler corp built their Canadian engine foundry they decided to standardize on one engine, the same one used in US made DeSoto/Chrysler cars. This engine was used in cars, trucks, farm machinery, military vehicles, snowmobiles, boats etc until 1972. The same...

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