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  1. Stanley Doble

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    The Prefab Four :) One of the Monkees said it best in an interview. In response to all the critics of their music he pointed out "The Monkees wasn't a band. We weren't musicians. The Monkees was a TV show about a band and we were actors playing musicians". A fact that it is easy to forget.
  2. Stanley Doble

    How old is your house?

    Back stairs were a traditional feature seen in practically all 2 story homes of the 19th century. I have seen them in a semi detached 3 bedroom house that was too small to have servants. They were a convenience.
  3. Stanley Doble

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    It could be any one of hundreds but I noticed it first on Zero Hedge. In fact I notice a lot of things first on Zero Hedge.
  4. Stanley Doble

    The Crown Barber Shop

    "All The Kings In Town Get Their Hair Cut At The Crown" Tania Van Spyk and husband, renowned artist Seth, recently opened the Crown Barber Shop in Guelph Ontario. Tania was inspired by Billy Bob Thornton's barber character in the Coen brothers movie The Man Who Wasn't There to leave her office...
  5. Stanley Doble

    Advice on how to be a director from the 1920's

    Robert Mitchum used to tell a story about Raul Walsh, his favorite director. Raul would set up the scene, start the cameras, turn his back on the actors and roll a cigarette. When they stopped talking he would turn around and say "cut!". Then he would ask how it went? Oh it was ok, I bumped into...
  7. Stanley Doble

    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    A lot of racist and anti semitic comments are posted as disinformation by employees of various government organizations, some of them American. Many times like clockwork I have seen conversations critical of government derailed by a provocateur just when they were getting interesting and...
  8. Stanley Doble

    Counting Change

    Not exactly on topic but funny. I am reading a book about the sun. The astronomer who wrote it, mentioned some of the questions he was asked on a popular late night talk show. One elderly man asked "how did the astronauts steer around all the stars when they went to the moon?" After he...
  9. Stanley Doble

    It's 1900 and I'm alive and living in Downtown LA or San Francisco?

    The questioner specified "solidly middle aged and middle class" and the date 1900. At that time house servants were common for the middle class and it was also common to hire a man for small jobs around the house. I agree that some men chose to do the gardening and other work themselves but this...
  10. Stanley Doble

    It's 1900 and I'm alive and living in Downtown LA or San Francisco?

    As far as cleaning up the yard, etc you would hire a man to do that sort of thing. Your wife would have a full time maid and a cook as well. You would not employ a full time servant but hire men casually for different jobs. There would probably be a neighborhood odd job man you could get for...
  11. Stanley Doble

    It's 1900 and I'm alive and living in Downtown LA or San Francisco?

    In 1900 San Francisco was the biggest city on the west coast, 9th largest in America with a population of 342,000, terminus of the main railroad to Chicago and points east, the Athens of the West, America's main Pacific port, and had been for 50 years. Meanwhile Los Angeles was a cow town of...
  13. Stanley Doble

    It's 1900 and I'm alive and living in Downtown LA or San Francisco?

    Funny you mention San Francisco. Jack London hit it big as an author about that time and rented a brand new house on Russian Hill for $6 a month. This was the fashionable new section of town and your man may have lived in the neighborhood if he was doing well.
  14. Stanley Doble

    It's 1900 and I'm alive and living in Downtown LA or San Francisco?

    If he lived in a town or city it is very unlikely he would own a horse and carriage unless he was very well off. The exception would be someone whose business demanded it, such as the owner of a store, as most retail establishments delivered their goods by horse and wagon. If he had a horse and...
  15. Stanley Doble

    Women in WWII waiting on their Soldiers

    My mother's Aunt Ethel died in 1989 in her 100th year. While cleaning out her house I found in the back of her bedroom closet, an old studio portrait of a young soldier in WW1 uniform. I asked my mother if she knew who it was. She said "that was her fiance" I said "that doesn't look like...
  16. Stanley Doble

    Bourbon

    I was told that you can age whiskey with ultrasound.
  17. Stanley Doble

    One Of Us

    A computer! In the house! Ha ha ha ha ha, what would you want with a giant machine made of radio tubes and telephone relays that calculates artillery trajectories for the Army? If you will excuse me it is almost time for Fibber McGee and Molly.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    About the radio. You need to be careful, some of the old Chrysler radios came in 2 parts. The receiver was in the dash, the amplifier and speaker were a separate section. You need both to have a functional radio. Not sure if the 1941 radio was this way or not. These kind of questions can be...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    About the gas and oil situation. The cars that are in danger from the lack of zinc in new oils are the pushrod OHV V8 and 6 cylinder engines that were common in American cars from the early fifties to the early nineties. Newer cars either have roller type valve lifters, or overhead cams, or...
  21. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Lizzie the brake light switch on the old cars screws right into the master cylinder and works off the brake pressure. They do tend to fail or wear out more often than the modern kind. They get gummed up or dirty, especially on a car that is not driven. Your local parts store should be able to...
  22. Stanley Doble

    UFOs and WWII

    It was supposed to be funny. A satire of the "anti conspiracy" debunkers who like to sneer at anything not endorsed by the mass media. For the younger crowd, there actually were scientists working on rockets and space flight as far back as the 1920s. The Nazis actually did employ some of their...
  23. Stanley Doble

    Hanging your laundry on a clothesline

    Your etiquette book missed one. Ladies intimate apparel should be hung inside pillow cases. This from a home making guide of the period 1890 - 1900. I use an umbrella style dryer, I find it handier than a clothes line and takes up very little space.

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