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  1. Stanley Doble

    Standing up to the Klan

    H L Mencken wrote an article on the Klan about the same time. It was straight reportage of a rally in a public park. He didn't think much of the organization or its members. The Klan put on a nation wide recruiting drive in the early 20s and soft pedalled the racist angle but it didn't do much...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Standing up to the Klan

    The Klan at that time did not present itself as a racist organization especially in the north. I have seen an anecdote by a man whose father got one of their handouts and decided the Klan was just the thing to deal with the bootleggers and hoodlums that the law seemed powerless to control. He...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Games with one-syllable names

    There was a game called Snap but I doubt that was it. Maybe it was fluff? It fits the scene and she did say she made it up. George was always careful not to insult Gracie or hurt her feelings so fluff would be about as strong a crack as he would use.
  4. Stanley Doble

    Standing up to the Klan

    See also "The Downfall of Fascism in Black Ankle County" by Joseph Mitchell, first appeared in The New Yorker, January 14 1939...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Franklin Automobile

    The Franklin did have ash frame rails but replacement is not a huge deal. Blueprints are available from the Franklin club, if you can get the wood you can glue it together at home, cut to shape and drill the bolt holes. Then, jack up the car and put stands or blocks under the axles and...
  7. Stanley Doble

    'A Guy Named Joe' (question)

    The best snooty noms de plume at least in the US: A band called The MBAs in the early 80s consisting of Franklin Mint, Manny Hanover, T. Bill Raitt and Holden Gaines. Their debut album was titled Born To Run Things.
  8. Stanley Doble

    'A Guy Named Joe' (question)

    Kenneth Howard aka Von Dutch after he settled down and got a square job often signed letters to friends "J L Bachs" for Joe Lunchbox.
  9. Stanley Doble

    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Jed: "Jethro's a eatin' man all right. He was the champion of the school." Miss Jane: "Cricket?" Jed: "No, crawdads. He ate 4 buckets. Even Jethro wouldn't eat crickets" *They give each other a look* Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
  10. Stanley Doble

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    They love The Phantom Of The Opera too and there's a guy with half his face burned off who lives in a sewer. Go figure women.
  11. Stanley Doble

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Season 5 of Rockford Files. DVD on sale in a local discount store. Still enjoyable although not as well made as I remember it, but then I was only in my mid twenties the first time around.
  13. Stanley Doble

    Jury Duty Anyone

    Then there is the story about the lady who was called for jury duty. She said " I should tell you I am against the death penalty and can't be objective where the death penalty is involved" The lawyer said "That won't come into it at all. This case involves a man accused of taking $2000 his...
  14. Stanley Doble

    Jury Duty Anyone

    If you like to shoot off your mouth about what the government oughta do, here is your chance to be the government. Do some serious work that could affect someone's life and the life of your community in a positive way.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Question: The music of the GI Generation

    For someone of his age and tastes the default choice would be big band swing music which was the most popular with young people from 1935 until rock and roll came along about 1954. The way you describe him he sounds like the perfect Sinatra fan. But, you never know. He may just as easily gone...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Who here is a millionaire?

    That is the way it was here in small town ville when I was a kid and still is to a certain extent. Those who had the money drove Buicks and Chryslers. There were a few Cadillacs, all bought used by small businessmen and shopkeepers. There was one exception. The local Chev-Olds-Cadillac dealer...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Who here is a millionaire?

    A million dollars does not make you rich anymore, that's the point. Thanks to inflation, a million dollars today is worth about $30,000 in 1912 money.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Who here is a millionaire?

    Maybe it's because what they buy in the shop comes out of their pockets but what they buy in a restaurant goes on the firm's expense account.
  20. Stanley Doble

    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    I love the modern "functional design" school that thinks it's clever to make a radio or appliance out of flat black plastic with charcoal gray lettering so small you can only see it from 6 inches away with a powerful flashlight. Apparently being able to use the controls is not a "function".
  21. Stanley Doble

    Pencil Mustache

    Howard Hughes sported one in the thirties and forties. He wore a fedora with a leather jacket too.
  22. Stanley Doble

    Who here is a millionaire?

    A million isn't what it used to be. Let me prove it. If you take a million dollars to the bank and ask to invest it do you know what you get? About 2 1/2 % on a GIC or CD. Do you know what 2 1/2% of a million dollars is? $25,000 a year. When you see someone who makes $500 a week do you say...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Glamorous Men?

    Cary Grant. Fred Astaire. John Kennedy. Most of the men named in this thread are not glamorous. Glamor refers to a spell, a charisma.

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