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  1. Alice Blue

    History Channel Gone Wrong

    Maybe PBS is the History/Hitler channel now - I've been skipping "Secrets of the Dead" and "Nazi Mega Weapons" because they sound so cheesy, but one of the S of the D episodes is actually a UK Channel 4 documentary about the British program to eavesdrop on Nazi POWs in England, and the Mega...
  2. Alice Blue

    WWII Espionage

    I don't know if bugging counts as espionage, but there is a recent TV documentary about how the British successfully eavesdropped on high-end Nazi POWs whom they placed in stately homes which were actually heavily bugged. -- Still available on the PBS website in the US: Secrets of the Dead...
  3. Alice Blue

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Dana Hersey! I haven't thought about him in decades. According to LinkedIn he's doing voice-over work. One thing we have in poky old Western Massachusetts which has disappeared in most other places is an honest-to-goodness downtown department store: Wilson's, which has been around since 1882...
  4. Alice Blue

    What Are You Reading

    Just finished War Games: Inside the World of 20th-Century War Reenactors by Jenny Thompson. She is an academic but the book reads more like a piece of journalism - she writes well and she does not condescend to her subjects, often preferring to let them speak for themselves.
  5. Alice Blue

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I wonder if belt-mounted metal coin/change dispensers have disappeared? I haven't seen one in many years.
  7. Alice Blue

    Thinking about a tattoo, but is it what good girls did in the 1940's?

    I'm going to have occasion to regret my ankle tattoo twice in one weekend: my uncle's memorial service on Saturday and a World War II event on Sunday. I suppose I'll look into tattoo makeup for these occasions. I didn't get one until I was in my forties, but now I'm worried that I'm "outgrowing"...
  8. Alice Blue

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    An independent documentary on the Korematsu case was shown on PBS in 2001, and it's available from my local library on DVD. You guys already know a lot about the case, but I'm going to check it out. Not that this excuses the actions of the US government, but I did want to point out that at...
  9. Alice Blue

    White frames for sunglasses: 1940s only?

    Well that's interesting. I asked a dealer about fitting a pair of 1930s celluloid glasses with prescription lenses, and he thought that the celluloid might break and that I should look for acetate. However I see that in another thread here on the Lounge, another person received the exact...
  10. Alice Blue

    White frames for sunglasses: 1940s only?

    Thanks for the info!
  11. Alice Blue

    White frames for sunglasses: 1940s only?

    I'm also seeing celluloid (frame) sunglasses on Ebay that I'm wondering about. An American Optical pair just went by, and now there is an identical-looking pair marked Cesco 2. In both cases, there is no padding on the cable where it wraps around your ear. Is that the way they are supposed to be?
  13. Alice Blue

    White frames for sunglasses: 1940s only?

    Thanks for all the suggestions and advice. I've seen some reasonable white or clear sunglasses on Ebay now and then, but have hesitated because I have a fairly strong (and expensive) prescription, and I might get more bang for the buck by finding roundish vintage specs and matching them to some...
  14. Alice Blue

    30s Culottes: I'm Loving Them LOTS

    Bumping this thread to add a pattern from the 1940s. A Swiss blogger has a nice writeup today on her adventures with a 1942 culottes pattern. Given the year, and the fact that the original pattern is for cycling in cold weather, I can't help thinking that a lot of people were cycling because of...
  15. Alice Blue

    Talon Zippers

    Good stuff. Robert Friedel's book Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty has a lot of interesting technological and social history, and centers largely on Talon and its predecessors.
  16. Alice Blue

    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    Two Women at Train Station, Melbourne, late 1930s Source: http://museumvictoria.com.au/collections/items/1689721/digital-photograph-two-women-at-train-station-melbourne-late-1930s Spectators at the world kayaking championships, Sweden 1938 Source: Digitalt Museum I have suspected for...
  17. Alice Blue

    tweed run race

    Harris Tweed has a writeup with terrific photos from the recent Edinburgh Harris Tweed Ride at http://www.harristweed.org/blog/2013/06/the-edinburgh-harris-tweed-ride/ PS - If it is that cool in Scotland in the summer I want to move there.
  19. Alice Blue

    If you could solve just one mystery....

    A local mystery that was national news at the time: the murder of Mount Hermon School For Boys headmaster Elliott Speer in 1934. A book was written about it in 2004, and according to the description Speer had made enemies by introducing progressive reforms to the conservative Christian school...
  20. Alice Blue

    White frames for sunglasses: 1940s only?

    I also have a followup question: what would be a good lens color if you are having new lenses put in? Thanks.
  21. Alice Blue

    White frames for sunglasses: 1940s only?

    Hello, I'm looking at vintage spectacle frames to make up into (ladies') prescription sunglasses. I do like the lighter colored frames (see picture below), but since I also like the 1930s I was wondering if the white frames are a 1940s phenomenon only, and if I should be looking for a different...
  22. Alice Blue

    On yer bike!

    This is my ride for summer: Source: http://www.treehugger.com/bikes/amphibian-bike-rides-land-or-water.html
  23. Alice Blue

    Show us what you've made!

    GHT, I was awestruck when you posted that dress, and my admiration has tripled since I've been looking for retro tropical/floral fabric. The attractive prints all seem to be heavier home decor fabrics, and the apparel-weight fabrics lean towards the kitschy side. I'm about at the point of giving...

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