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  1. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    A little smoke out of the breather after shut down is normal especially if the car has not been driven much lately. It indicates moisture and gas vapors being driven out of the oil. 180 is no cause for alarm if the cooling system is in good shape. If you can get a cheap electronic temp sensor...
  2. Stanley Doble

    Could you survive?

    When they started selling bottled water here in Canada I thought the world had gone crazy. Why would anyone pay money for water? There was an old comic poem with the line " the grocers give one lake away with every pound of tea". That was when Canada had more clean fresh water than any country...
  3. Stanley Doble

    Park service hat reuse?

    Wear it in the city and they like it just fine, Wear it in the country it's a twenty dollar fine, Hot hot papa, Hot hot papa. With apologies to George Thorogood. Seriously, I agree that you can wear it if you replace the band and do not wear any insignia or badges. But frankly unless you...
  4. Stanley Doble

    I get hassled buying "used" clothing.

    Everybody wears used clothing. Unless you buy new clothes, wear them once and throw them away.
  5. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Don't know if this is the time to mention it or not. But pre 1967 cars had master cylinders vented to the atmosphere. This means it is a good idea to change the brake fluid every 2 years. This gets rid of "stale" brake fluid and prevents corrosion in the system. Brake fluid will absorb water and...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Could you survive?

    Some of the modern conveniences we have now, were available in a different form. When no one had cell phones there were phone booths on every corner. Now there is hardly any demand, and they have gradually disappeared. But in 1937 if you lived in a town or city there was usually a phone booth...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Could you survive?

    A side note on the "curtain burner" radios. These were the first low cost home radios you could plug in rather than buy batteries for. The tubes available at the time required a lower voltage than house current so the manufacturer made the power cord out of resistance wire. This reduced the...
  9. Stanley Doble

    Picnic food ideas

    I checked out the food time line. Its quotes reminded me of the days when the reporter on the food page was recently promoted from obituaries and had to beat his brains out each day to come up with something new. The result was recipes that never appeared before on land or sea and which no one...
  10. Stanley Doble

    Could you survive?

    H L Mencken said any man who knew his trade, had read 50 good books, and wasn't afraid of ghosts could be successful in America. By that standard this crowd would have no trouble. One thing that might be a little shocking is the generally lower standard of living. Someone with a good job like a...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Picnic food ideas

    One old timer told me how they bought honey when sugar was rationed and used it to can their own peaches. I know this is not helping,just thought I would throw it in. Mother used to make ham salad sandwiches for pic nics. Like chicken salad or egg salad but with ham. I don't remember ever...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Christys Bowler Hats + Skateboarders? Strange hat crossovers.

    Would you say Christy hat means bowler? I wonder because many years ago an old friend (born in 1900) referred to someone he knew in the 1920s as wearing a Christy hat. I never asked what he meant, somehow I thought he meant a straw skimmer, now I'm not so sure?
  14. Stanley Doble

    Could you survive?

    At least the world would make sense. Roosevelt wouldn't let them get away with all the crazy goings on we have these days.
  15. Stanley Doble

    Golden Era Passtimes / Hobbies

    Hobbies came and went. Someone would invent a new pastime, it would become a fad, only to be supplanted by another fad. Starting from the twenties there were jigsaw puzzles, Mah Jong,radio,bridge, soap carving, crossword puzzles Monopoly, miniature golf, Canasta, and no doubt a few more I have...
  16. Stanley Doble

    A victory for decorum.

    A good judge is supposed to be impartial when it comes to judging a case but passing sentence is another matter. It's surprising how many don't know this. Or maybe they don't mind a longer sentence, or jail time instead of community service.
  17. Stanley Doble

    Help!: Zeppelins, Dirigibles, Airships, etc.

    Slide Rule by Neville Shute is a must for any airship and Zeppelin fan. He was one of the engineers involved with building the R100 in the late 20s. The book is his memoirs of the aircraft industry up to 1938. He has the inside story of the successful R100 and the not so successful government...
  19. Stanley Doble

    The Abbreviation “OMG” Is Way Older Than We Thought

    So is "groovy". The oldest use I have seen was in an English short story of about 1900. The story was about a woman who became obsessed with a family tragedy. The family solicitor said "she thought about it too much and got groovy on the subject".
  20. Stanley Doble

    ever heard of very many tall people that live over 80?

    If he's 81 and in good health maybe we should be asking him what to eat.
  21. Stanley Doble

    Passive Resistance?

    As far as people wising up... it's already happening. Practically everyone is aware of the difference between healthy eating and junk food even if we have a hard time giving up junk food. This awareness simply didn't exist before the 1980s except for a handful of health nuts and hippies. I...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Passive Resistance?

    That has nothing to do with it. If you are loaning money as a business there are really only 2 things you need to know: 1) Is this person going to repay the loan as agreed? 2) If he doesn't, how do I get my money back? The first question is one of character. Only one person needs to worry...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Iron Sky and the real question about Nazi experimentation with flying discs...

    There were a lot of crazy rumors going around at the end of the war. One was that the Nazis were prepared to hole up in a secret underground base in the mountains and keep the war going indefinitely. As the Allied armies advanced, the stories got bigger and bigger. At the end they supposedly had...

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