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    Your Favorite Sandwiches?

    The best sandwich I know is from a famous Norwegian 20s cookbook. It's called (if I remember the english equivalents to the Norwegian titles correctly, and I probably don't,) a Duke Sandwich. I "translated" the recipe to a modern kitchen, and It's the best sanwich I've ever tasted. The filling...
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    Vintage Bangs

    :offtopic: What in all the world is Paulette wearing? Cowboyish semi-gauntlets on bare arms? And her friend, studded leather galore! That goes to remind us that everything was not elegant and stylish back then....
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    1950s Housewife illustrations

    Argh, this is just the kind of thing that is going to bug me for days! If only I could find the book I think I read this in. But sadly, it wasn't mine and I don't know where it is.
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    What Are You Reading

    Yep! And like with Graham Green, (my other all time favourite writer,) I think critics has had a tendency to divide his books in classes of "serious"/"real literature", (for example "The Winter of our Miscontempt") and "entertainment readings"/"not really literature" . (The Tortilla Flat books...
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    What Are You Reading

    "Grapes of wrath" is the only one of Steinbecks "big" novels I haven't read. I have started it several times, but somehow I just cant get past the first few pages. I have no idea why, I have devoured so many of his other books! You just gave me the inspiration to try again.
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    1950s Housewife illustrations

    Are you sure that the "Good wifes guide" is fake? I think I read almost the exact same article in a Norwegian copy of "the House Wifes Encyclopedia" from the 50s.
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    What's your Holy Grail?

    Shaul-Ike, that's a really cool pipe. To bad his not a pipe smoker. But if anyone has more ideas for zeppeliner-shaped and zeppeliner inspired gifts, I'm all ears. He reall loves zeppeliners, and covets a zeppelin shaped lamp. To find something like that is a continuous quest for me...
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    What's your Holy Grail?

    I have looked around a bit more on the net, and I found another picture. Not much info, take a look at this beauty! It's so clever the way it all fits together, I don't know how my home-bar can live without it! And i have found two copies of our shakers, one at Pottery Barn and one at...
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    What's your Holy Grail?

    That's not the same shaker, but it's the same maker. That's really cool to! And holy smoke, what a price tag! If there is a wave of bank robberies in Norway the next years, tell the police to ransack my apartment for a piggy bank marked with "shaker fund." I first saw this shaker in a catalouge...
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    What's your Holy Grail?

    I really badly want this cocktail shaker! It's a bit difficult to see in the small photo, but all the pieces adds up to form a zeppelin! I would give it to my husband, as he would love it even more than I. And it would earn me a lifetime of delicious cocktails.....;)
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    Where did your user name come from??

    My username is from an Nero Wolfe novel, it's the name of a secretary or something that is very aware of and tired of the pun in her name. I like Nero Wolfe, I like greek history, I loooooooove puns. So that has been an alias for me at several occations.
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    Dilemma:A romantic evening in...

    Tapas! I bet you can find all you need at a big supermarket or a deli.
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    Help me accessorize this Outfit!

    I think the dress would look lovely with a crinoline. I also think playing it up with some more lively colours would liven it up. A nice lilac shade maybe? I'm thinking short gloves, and off course a hat. What if the hat was in a colour similar to the dress, with flowers in shades from lilac to...
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    New Ladies and Gents Step Forward

    Hello there, fellow viking! If I see a perfect 40s couple next time I'm in Oslo, I know who it is. Velkommen til loungen! Her er kryr det av kunnskapsrike og hyggelige folk, s?• du kommer sikkert til ?• trives.
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    Famous folk today who sport a fedora?

    I might be embarrasingly wrong, but I think those are trilbys. As are a lot of, (if not most of?) the celeb head-adorning hats beeing called fedoras. It's the narrow brim that makes me think trilby.
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    What Are You Reading

    OK, a little about Ellroy. I am no expert, though, so far I have only read "Black Dahlia" and "L.A.Confidential." And "The big nowhere" that I just started. They are all books from his "L.A Quartet", novels set in 40s and 50s L.A. Ellroys books are fiction including real life crimes and...
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    What Are You Reading

    James Ellroy, "The big nowhere." Hard-boiled, tough ans sordid, just the way I like it!
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    bye bye television!

    Twitch: I threw out the tv because I discriminate between what I think is crap tv and what I really enjoy. And I really do see the value of different types of screen entertainemt, I jus't don't like the way the tv let's us enjoy it. What I like most, is TVseries. I still watch them, but on dvd...
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    Do I have to curl my hair to be vintage accurate?

    Woaw, where are those photoes from? Amazing! Interesting, therse photoes shows that women who are not well of, does not have that perfect movie-star hair, off course. But all of them seems to have tried to give their hair some curl or wawes, or else they have covered it up.
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    Do I have to curl my hair to be vintage accurate?

    Oh, yes! I think that actually is a very cute vintagey alternative, requiring no curls. You have to be able to braid your hair, though. We are talking about something like this, right? (This is Julia Timoshenko, ukrain politician today. She was the first I could think of with this hairstyle!)

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