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  1. Bugguy

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    DDT... it had a unique smell all its own. I think it was my nasal membranes mutating. Pic's from the late 60's Korea - I was the fool taking pictures of my co-workers and breathing the gas. Obviously, the only remedy that cut the taste was alcohol.
  2. Bugguy

    Classic vintage CANVAS TENTS

    This thread brings back memories of my Boys Club camp days in Northern Wisconsin. Late 50's, post-Korean War we had surplus 6-man wall tents... think Hawkeye and Trapper in MASH. Same tents, same war surplus. Dirt floor that we trenched around the permitter to keep water from running in. Skunks...
  3. Bugguy

    Lost art of proper relaxation

    I taught in an EVGC (Educational-Vocational Guidance Center) in Chicago in the late 60's with "socially disadvantaged" kids from Cabrini-Green. They learned a skill... they printed and laminated the best forged Chicago Board of Education parking cards I'd ever seen - even consecutively numbered...
  4. Bugguy

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I was responding to a comment 2jakes made in another thread and I was thinking about the premiums my mother got for making a bank deposit. That led to my favorite... S & H Green Stamps. Being of Czech lineage and every stereotype of a cheap Bohemian, I grew up in a Chicago neighborhood of like...
  5. Bugguy

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I was looking for a fork this morning and it was right in front of me. I found myself saying "if it had a mouth it would bite me". The waitress didn't get it...
  7. Bugguy

    Seemingly insignificant things that connect you to the past

    That's funny, isn't it? I just sold a full set of "china" with all the special bowls that was in perfect condition for decent money. When I was growing up, my mother got them one at a time as a premium for making bank deposits. In that era, they were special, to be taken care of. Now we'd stick...
  8. Bugguy

    Seemingly insignificant things that connect you to the past

    Wow! I just emptied my mother's house and found this same set. I set them aside for my wife to look at... they were a keeper. Now they're in my bar.
  9. Bugguy

    Vintage roadside

    Anyone who grew up in Chicago and fished for perch and smelt on the Lake will remember Rocky's Bait Shop on the lake at Streeter Dr. just south of Navy Pier. Gone for a long time, but the best fried shrimp. Boats would tie up and families would pack the narrow aisle between the minnow tanks and...
  10. Bugguy

    DC-3 / C-47

    As I recall, the DC-3 was also a glider tow plane in Europe during WWII.
  11. Bugguy

    Men rings - How to choose? What do you wear?

    I wore may highschool ring through college till my first teaching job in Chicago. When my 9th graders figured out they were only a couple of years younger than me and I realized they were many years more streetwise than me, I took it off. I taught across the street from the old Cabrini-Green...
  13. Bugguy

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Drivers of big, high-end SUVs that take the railroad tracks at 2 mph.
  14. Bugguy

    Old Smells that Make Your Nose Wrinkle

    The old Chicago Stock Yards when the wind blew from the South The purple Gestetner mimeograph fluid from my early teaching days.
  15. Bugguy

    What would you not be seen dead in?

    Speedo - only when I was on the high school swim team. I threaten my family with it if they misbehave on vacation. TMI as my daughter says. Scary image. And maybe a male pedicure with black nail polish.
  16. Bugguy

    Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore

    Some Chicago lore... if you lived north of North Avenue, families went to Bangs Lake. Southsiders went to the Indiana Dunes. Growing up in Chicago I practically lived there. We camped on weekends and hauled our coolers almost a mile down the beach. As an undergrad I spent days there studying...
  17. Bugguy

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I plan to watch more of his works. As you suggest, I've heard they get better.
  19. Bugguy

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    OK, so I saw my first mockumentary today, A Mighty Wind. I had never heard the term till my 30-something daughter enlightened me. I'm not sure I'm totally on board with the genre, or maybe this particular movie was a difficult introduction. It sounds like there may be some that i'll better...
  20. Bugguy

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I appreciate the hood ornament - that's a great image. Too bad today it wouldn't last 10 minutes on the street before it was ripped off. Kind of like the gremlin gas cap on an AMC Gremlin. I went through 3 of them before I gave up. I guess I could have welded it on, but that would defeat the...
  21. Bugguy

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    This reminds me of an acquaintance who escaped from Soviet-occupied Czechoslovakia and called himself a Cancelled Czech.
  22. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    We used the H2O2 and baking soda method. It sort of worked, but it's tough to keep out of their eyes. Challenge #2 was where would they sleep.... its easier to wash sheets than the couch, so we had stinky company. It's all good now. They survived.
  23. Bugguy

    The Fall of the Moustache

    I grew mine out mustache first, then beard. It all started with Movember and raising awareness for men's health. I just don't get the 3-day growth look... its like the kids are playing dress-up. They're pretending to be "mature" and macho. A few can pull it off, but most are comic.

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