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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Two things that have disappeared, at least to my knowledge: 1) The string hanging from the ceilings in shops, which the counter man pulled down to wrap up your purchases, making a paper parcel. 2) The tube into which the counter man put your money and the bill of sale; then he put it into a pipe...- PeterB
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Origin Of "The Fifties"
This thread, like most threads on FL, raises more questions and thoughts than it answers. To address Lizzie's opening point: may I suggest that we tend to see the past as it is presented to us, rather than as it actually was? With reference to the 50s, I believe, though I am open to correction...- PeterB
- Post #164
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Lizzie, I might have known that you would have the background. Strange because I recall, or think I recall, regular black rotary phones on the extension. Possibly what I saw was an adaptation of the items produced by Bell. The trouble is that memory can be deceptive -- one thinks one remembers...- PeterB
- Post #4,713
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Suitings: Discussions of, and sourcing modern equivalents, etc.
Dirk is right. Tailors will get a good mark-up on the cloth and will use that in calculating their returns. In Dubai I have had no problem bringing my own cloth, but the tailor does seem to think his own cloth is better. -
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
In offices, when I was young, the phones used to rest on a small platform, attached to the wall by a concertina arm made of metal. You pulled the phone out to use it, then pushed it back. Rotary phones, of course. The platform was a wooden square. Does anybody else remember these?- PeterB
- Post #4,708
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What cigar (or pipe) did you smoke today?
Not today, but yesterday, Sugar Barrel in a Kaywoodie Super Grain (3 hole), Balkan Supreme in a Barling rusticated billiard.- PeterB
- Post #10,287
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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New old Sherlock Holmes story comes to light....
I don't think it matters whether it is good or bad. It is an original Conan Doyle. Some of the published stories were not that great, either. Now if we could only come up with a few dozen unpublished Hammets or Chandlers.- PeterB
- Post #5
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Any good pre Edwarian era adventure novels?
Edwardian era adventure novels -- this is the period that brought us the first couple of Buchans, Riddle of the Sands, H Rider Haggard, Conan Doyle and many others. It was a kind of golden age of adventure stories. I recommend starting with King Solomon's mines -- admittedly a little before the...- PeterB
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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Loungers In Print!
Congratulations, AmateisGal, on publishing your book. An intriguing title. Elmore Leonard, in the Hot Kid, and Up in Honey's Room, fictionalizes the stories of a couple of Germans who did escape. I suspect that most Germans were quite happy in Nebraska, and there were probably plenty of German...- PeterB
- Post #55
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Stephen King's 11/22/63
Benzadmiral, on reflection, I have to admit that you are right. I think the difficulty is that King writes for the popular audience, and thus his main characters must have some of the assumptions of the audience members, in order to be believable. I have to keep reminding myself that my own...- PeterB
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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Condemned by The Catholic Legion of Decency
At the risk of sounding out of step I must say I am with the Legion. That period coincided with some of the best films ever made in America. Film makers had to be subtle and I can watch most of that period's films with my children.- PeterB
- Post #30
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Book Recommendations
Try Cornel Woolrich. For period flavour Hammet's Big Knockover series is good- PeterB
- Post #32
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What cigar (or pipe) did you smoke today?
John Patton's Spyglass in a vintage Rocky briar.- PeterB
- Post #10,274
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Linen Suit - where to find a good one...
Linen wrinkles easily. Will a wool-linen-silk blend prove better for keeping a crease and preventing wrinkles? Further to that, would 11 Oz in that blend hang well? -
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Sears might be going belly up
Fascinating thread, this one, like most threads in the Observation Bar. If you happen to read Peter Drucker's Practice of Management, you will see that he credits Sears with being in many ways the first significant modern business in America, it having more or less invented things as mundane as...- PeterB
- Post #141
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Speaking of old names, Theodore is not common nowadays. It seems that every newborn's name begins with a K, such as Kayden, Kaily, etc. Where I live, the Indian community maintains names such as Lionel and Albert, but they are being replaced by newish names. Matilda is still quite common for girls.- PeterB
- Post #4,638
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Pure-vintage lady in Scunthorpe
I was astonished to see the pictures of the lady's house, because the interior looks rather like the house in which I grew up, or at least when I was a small boy, back in the 60s. At that time my grandmother had many left over magazines from the 30s and 40s, and even from WW1 in her house, and...- PeterB
- Post #13
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
We We had Hires in Canada. Haven't thought of it for about 50 years.- PeterB
- Post #4,611
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Stephen King's 11/22/63
The story was well researched but King puts attitudes of the present day into the late 50s. I had the impression that he wants us to think that the period was quaint or somehow inferior to the present time. He can't help that. And too much swearing as always in his books- PeterB
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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Mapledoram Suits on Etsy...any experiences?
Dirk, I don't know what happened to Sator. I think he used to be on this forum. He was very keen on thick cloths, but then seemed to change his mind. He had good articles and posts on the Cutter and Tailor. I have found that the problem with the thin cloth is that it wrinkles quickly and loses...
