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  1. DecoDame

    Linda Przybyszewski -- Remember the Name!

    I'm glad this thread got bumped. I was able to find this book in our library system and have requested it. I'm curious to read it. Learning to sew competently is an ambition of mine. Relying on stock from the stores is never going to make me happy with what I own.
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    Agent Carter

    (SPOILERS of course) I liked tonight's episode, though the beginning was relatively slow. I didn't mind it, but wondered if the attention-spanned-hampered general audience might be getting restless. The last 20 mins or so really picked up with the fight on the boat and the surprising hit on the...
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    Golden Era Women's Names

    I’ve long appreciated women’s names that just seem to embody the Era. That when I hear them, I can see someone in the typing pool or on the factory floor or the old family farm, being called to lunch. “Elizabeth” or “Sarah” or “Katherine” were certainly around then, but they can also evoke...
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    Agent Carter

    As I mentioned in the general "What are you watching" thread, I really, really enjoyed the premiere. So I'm in. As Bushman said, it really is the only network broadcast show I'm currently bothering to follow. And also one of the few instances in watching a period piece where I've enjoyed the...
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    Stripping Paint?

    Enjoyable thread. Firstly, because I planned to use that Soy Gel on our salvaged 30s mantel and it's reassuring to hear a success story (The mantel has grooved "speedlines" on it, too, because you want your fireplace to be streamlined and "speedy" as it goes nowhere, but I love it) and...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Sounds like you can set them up just fine, Lizzie. I'll pass on your number. ;)
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    I enjoyed that Rod Taylor interview, HoosierDaddy. He has that typical Aussie self deprecating humor. And Taylor always struck me as able to play Robin Williams better looking older brother, if they had been closer in age. Or father, I suppose. But then, I always thought Harrison Ford and...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Yep. It was their dream house and took decades for them to get it exactly like they wanted - something we have in common anyway (though mine is ever on-going), so I'd never (purposefully) rain on their parade. But I can't for the life of me relate to much of it. And oh yes, I remember that TV...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    *Rolls Eyes So Hard They Fall Out Of Skull* Thanks for explanation though. I wasn't aware of this kind of "updating" being done the old systems. I like your solution of radiator covers too... To touch on the love of new tech though - we just got back from a brief visit with my in-laws...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    You DO have working radiators! Well. That's fantastic. I'm so pleased for you. I've gone on about them elsewhere before, but I'd have them in my home in a snap. Question: If the other apartments have ripped out all the "old things", is the super really keeping the furnace going just for your...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Fading Fast: What a score! Very pleased that you two have landed in such a place and that it can be properly appreciated and preserved. So a score for the apartment itself, as far as I'm concerned! That reminds me of my first city apartment I got out of high school. It was preserved more out of...
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    Golden Era Woman of the Week

    (Patiently) looking forward to it, Lizzie!
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    Essentials of a 40's Party

    St. Louis, I thank you for the invitation and I am sorely and seriously tempted to take you up on it and drag the partner along to boot - even though I hate road trips these days like a cat hates baths. lol But come spring, the blood may be thawed out enough for me to get adventurous again. So...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    I watched Agent Carter and GREATLY enjoyed it. I was able to set aside my usual picky tendencies watching period pieces for once and just take in the stylized comic book/super spy delight that it was. I love Hayley Atwell and I love how utterly brutal and ungraceful her fight scenes are. :D...
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    Golden Era Woman of the Week

    Seems that a movie biopic featuring Effie Manley - a baseball pioneer Lizzie profiled earlier in this thread - is being made by Penny Marshall. I know "League of Their Own" was pretty sentimental, but I still have a strong soft spot for that movie. Even if Marshall's biopic misses the mark, at...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Hoity-toity? As in, "The hoity-toity thought themselves naturally superior to the hoi polloi."
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    Happy New Years Eve Welcome 2015

    Best Wishes to all in the New Year.
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    RIP Luise Ranier. Makes me realize I don't think I've ever seen a movie with her in it, strangely enough. I'll remedy that for the New Year. She always struck me as a very elegant lady. And I remember watching Edward Herrmann throughout my life, most recently on The Good Wife. Will miss...
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    Mike Disfarmer: 1930s-1940s portraits

    I've gotten several books from the library of collections of his work. He was certainly an odd duck, but did manage to amass an amazing piece of history of that particular town's citizens. These folks shown here don't look too hard up, but I remember quite a few where you could tell they were...
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    Crazes of the Era

    Exactly what I have. :D Thanks for the lowdown on Mr. Tracy. (Huh, now I'm wondering about the origins of "lowdown". It's a never ending cycle of curiosity.)

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