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  1. Stanley Doble

    The Little Things

    For small appliance repairs, the fix it shop went out of business 60 years ago. But you might find an old retired guy with a garage like Clint Eastwood had in Gran Torino. There are still people who appreciate well made things and know how to fix them the problem is finding them.
  2. Stanley Doble

    The Little Things

    There are still sewing machine repair men around. I had an electric Singer overhauled for $35 a few years ago, I bought it at a yard sale for $20 about 10 years before that. I use it for repairing work clothes and overalls. For cleaning old records I use a soft paint brush, and warm water with...
  3. Stanley Doble

    What do they want? What did they want in the Golden era?

    You can get away with anything with women as long as you don't bore them. Look around, the biggest louse, the most selfish abusive boyfriends always have their pick of women and they stand by them too. Then find a real gentleman, who treats women like queens and caters to their every wish and...
  4. Stanley Doble

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    "Absolutely. There hasn't been much violence because the Authorities know they have nothing to worry about from a bunch of underfed art-history majors. If the Occupiers had been true revolutionaries, there would unquestionably have been tanks in the street -- but there also would have been...
  5. Stanley Doble

    1954 Mercedes Gull-Wing 300SL

    You haven't missed your chance to buy a Mercedes sport model cheap. The SL 2 seater convertible series ran from 1972 to 1989 with various 6 cylinder and V8 versions. Very well built, you can buy a good one for the price of a Hyundai. Keep it for nice days, maintain it by the book and it will...
  7. Stanley Doble

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

    Dancers tend to be long lived. Buddy Ebsen was 6' 3" tall and lived to 95. I don't know anyone of similar height who came close to that.
  8. Stanley Doble

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

    Tall people do have more health problems and shorter lives. I have known a couple of 6 footers who lived to 80, they were very thin and walked all the time. There were tall people in the past just not as many. Then they all died. What you might call "giants" meaning 7 feet + had very short...
  9. Stanley Doble

    FL Cult Films

    I also wonder why he didn't just say "I have friends waiting for me in Los Angeles. If I don't join them tomorrow they will come looking for me and the first thing they find out is I got off the train in Black Rock and never got back on. I may have my suspicions about what happened to my buddy's...
  10. Stanley Doble

    FL Cult Films

    Bad Day At Black Rock was spoiled for me by casting Spencer Tracy in the lead. He was about 40 years too old for the part. I spent the whole picture trying to figure out why someone's grandad was impersonating a recently discharged combat veteran looking for his best buddy's father. Was he an...
  11. Stanley Doble

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    OK I get it. More refined and better spoken than he expected but a little rough around the edges. His depiction of Gatsby fits the same description. Rich, smart up to a point, but if you look close you can see he comes from the wrong side of the tracks. The tells being things that would be...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Passive Resistance?

    Maybe Morgan never loaned himself money ha ha ha ha. I know I wouldn't rent a house to myself.
  14. Stanley Doble

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    I got that. Rutgers is an Ivy League college. But why Rutgers, why not Yale or Harvard? What is distinctive about Rutgers men? Or rather, was distinctive in 1920?
  15. Stanley Doble

    Ward Cleaver's Golden Era

    Dirtiest phrase on fifties TV: "Ward, weren't you a little hard on the beaver last night?" Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
  16. Stanley Doble

    traveling in the golden era

    It's all according. If a couple were going for a motor trip they would pack lighter than for a more formal affair. You used to be able to buy fitted luggage made to go in the trunk of one specific car. That sounds like the set you describe. On the other hand a couple from New York who were...
  17. Stanley Doble

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    Fitzgerald was known for working a lot of reality into is stories. The anecdote about Gatsby warning Colonel Cody off a dangerous shore when the wind changed actually happened to a friend of his. The same man's favorite expression was "old sport". The valley of ashes, east egg and west egg were...
  19. Stanley Doble

    Passive Resistance?

    By an odd coincidence today at the public library I started reading a book on honesty or trust and prosperity. The conclusion was that the countries with the highest level of honesty and trust were the most prosperous and the countries with the most corruption, bribery, crime and general...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Passive Resistance?

    Very good question though. What are you supposed to do when you are caught up in a corrupt system that you have no power to change? Stick up for what you believe is right, lose your job and face ruin? Or go along with the system, keep your head down, collect your pay, and keep mumbling "I was...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Passive Resistance?

    I also find it hard to put the onus on the borrower when every bank in America, every mortgage lender, every government agency and every media outlet was telling them to do it. It happens I have been involved in real estate for almost 40 years. When they started handing out mortgages like candy...
  22. Stanley Doble

    Passive Resistance?

    Undertow is right about the mortgage thing. The mortgage mess of 5 years ago was totally the fault of the mortgage companies and big banks gaming the system for big profits. When their illegal schemes collapsed they ran to the government for a bailout. Some of the biggest banks in America were...
  23. Stanley Doble

    The Little Things

    Yard sales and Craigslist may be able to provide small appliances. I have bought electric fans, waffle irons, and toasters from the 30s for $2 to $5 although I admit they are not as common as they were a few years ago. I have seen an original Waring blender from the 40s (sorry I didn't buy it)...

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