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Premature burial that causes you the most pain....
Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. One of the freshest and funniest shows ever. Replaced by Hee Haw, one of the cheesiest.- Stanley Doble
- Post #64
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Why do you come here? Why do you love the Golden Era?
I was born there. Nice to visit the old place once in a while. Not sure I would want to go back there to live.- Stanley Doble
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Early to Mid 1970s: The Last Gasps of the Golden Era
Wispy threads connect us to those times. Doc Severinson said in an interview that he was a very lucky man, getting the job of Johnny Carson's band leader when he did, in 1967. All the great Big Bands that survived from the forties were breaking up in the early seventies and he had his pick of...- Stanley Doble
- Post #4
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Iron Sky
If they had the technology to travel to the moon in 1945 they wouldn't have lost.- Stanley Doble
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Who Wore Formalwear in the Golden Era, and When?
Robert Benchley made an interesting comment in a review of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in the mid 30s regarding Gilbert and Sullivan audiences. Everyone was dressed in evening clothes. They might not be the latest thing in evening clothes but you got the impression they would be wearing them...- Stanley Doble
- Post #9
- Forum: Suits
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
Highest performance Continental six was the supercharged 140HP job in the 1954 and 55 Kaiser. Kaiser built their own engines under license from Continental in a war surplus plant they leased from Continental. They differed from the Continental industrial engine in having 6 intake ports instead...- Stanley Doble
- Post #706
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Exercise during the GE
As others have pointed out, in the Golden Era most people got more exercise at work, walking to and from work, playing etc. Children spent a lot more time playing outdoors in good weather. You did not get a lot of pop and junk food. There was a lot less obesity and most people were in decent...- Stanley Doble
- Post #17
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
They used a double leading shoe setup on the front, with dual wheel cylinders. Conventional on the back. State of the art for their time, but more complicated than competitors' brakes. Very efficient if installed and adjusted properly which they seldom are. The shoes should be arched to fit the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #692
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Premature burial that causes you the most pain....
There was a short lived series called The Rogues that lasted one season (1964 - 65) that I loved. Get this for a cast: David Niven Charles Boyer Gig Young Gladys Cooper Robert Coote Larry Hagman John Williams Barbara Bouchet Can you beat that? I...- Stanley Doble
- Post #41
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests
One of the best built most reliable cars of its time. 2 things that surprise new owners: left hand threads on the left side wheel bolts and positive ground 6 volt battery. Do a compression test before you buy , or have one done. Factory specs call for 120PSI in all cylinders. The car will...- Stanley Doble
- Post #682
- Forum: The Golden Era
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I just got's to know.....
I was thinking out loud, in a general way, about the whole payola thing. It can get complicated. In the fifties it was not uncommon to give disc jockeys a cut of the song to get it played. They knew it was worth it because the right jock could put over a song. As one guy put it, the singers...- Stanley Doble
- Post #48
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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I just got's to know.....
1 penny on a million selling record is $10,000. Giving Col Parker $3,333 leaves you with $6,666. I can see why a song writer would go for that deal, if he or she didn't think that particular song had what it took to go gold without Elvis. I can also see why a "big name" song writer would turn...- Stanley Doble
- Post #41
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Driving golden era cars in the modern era
Octane measures the resistance to knock and nothing else. High octane gas is not "more powerful" in fact a low compression, long stroke engine will develop more power on a heavier, oilier low octane fuel. Something like a diesel engine which is designed to burn a heavy fuel, some of them are...- Stanley Doble
- Post #759
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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FL Cult Films
You must be thinking of "The Producers". Originally a Mel Brooks movie of 1968 . Recently (2005) it was remade.- Stanley Doble
- Post #42
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Driving golden era cars in the modern era
The rule is, your octane should look like your compression ratio. Your car came with 6.5:1 compression so it should have 65 octane gas or thereabouts. No one has sold such low octane gas in the US since about 1954. The lowest you can get is 87 which is better than the hi test of the 40s...- Stanley Doble
- Post #753
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Building a WWII era British Suit: the details?
I've heard that in the late forties - early fifties "genuine prewar" material was something to be sought out in England. When wartime restrictions came in I don't know but I understand there was strict rationing of material and all tailors and manufacturers were limited to "austerity" designs...- Stanley Doble
- Post #38
- Forum: Suits
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Dumbest movie quotes
Of all the dumb lines the dumbest must be "dying aint much of a living boy" yet nitwits never tire of quoting it.- Stanley Doble
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Prohibition
Sadly the whole mess is even more pointless than that. The intelligence community is always short of money and one way to get big money fast is by selling drugs - especially if you have the power to stop the law in its tracks. I don't believe they ever targeted any market. They would have...- Stanley Doble
- Post #140
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Prohibition
If you think free enterprise and entrepreneurship are behind the drug trade you need to learn more about what certain CIA backed groups were doing around Mena Arkansas when Clinton was governor, and east LA in the nineties. You could trace the whole mess all the way back to the OSS and the...- Stanley Doble
- Post #138
- Forum: The Golden Era
