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    Modern cars with vintage style

    There is something about the Chrysler's very flat roofline that makes them feel vintage to me although the 50 era 300 series, for example, did not share it.
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    Specific Issue Arising from Previous Thread

    OK if this topic is actually pondering the aspects of correcting someone during an online discussion we must agree that the topic must be one of which that is historical. By that I mean a topic where events occurred and were documented by the video or sound media or it was recorded for...
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    So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?

    MOST boards generally have participants that feel reviving old threads is unimaginative. I've seen threads on boards run years into well past 100 pages. If a topic is great it will perpetuate on its own. I see the dredging up of old topics good only if it demonstrably answers a question that...
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    What has happened to society?

    Surley- as someone mentioned in another thread it becomes nearly impossible to exclude any reference to politics (in the historical sense) when discussing all the aspects of a society or culture in present or past times. So did politics affect cultural values, mores and points of view, like...
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    What has happened to society?

    In my youth in the mid-west I found it was more of a crusade against alcohol useage on Sunday making it more of a religious thing. I'm not certain that Blue Laws actually affected grocery stores being open on Sunday but no one was very motivated to go food shopping on Sunday and I don't think...
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    So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?

    The Observation Bar has always been an off vintage topic area. Every new person soon realizes that. Why must we state the obvious? Membership only just smack of elitism to me, and for no good reason other than some want vintage topics only. This whole sordid, agonizing thread was begun...
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    Specific Issue Arising from Previous Thread

    It's one thing to discuss a topic asking for Loungers' opinions and quite another to discuss the merits of corporal punishment in schools or whatnot. Opinion is welcomed when someone asks everyone for it. Example- image of hat- "what's others opinions on this hat? I might buy it." When...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Hey Flyer36 you got the quintessential detective pistol there. And I can feel the stig from that sap now!:eusa_doh:
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    What has happened to society?

    Dixon- you brought up a salient point there. It becomes impossible to discuss in detail a society unless we factor in the influence of politics of the given era and its effects. The same goes for times when I've wished to discuss economics of a country or region. Even if I'm forcefully...
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    So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?

    Samsa- thanks for going back in time and checking out the currents of conversation 5 years ago so people can't say, "well, back in the good old days everybody talked about ONLY vintage stuff." It's funny that people want to remember times gone by colored with their own perception. Trouble is...
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    What has happened to society?

    This blue law business is still in effect in much of the heartland. If a store that sell liquor, for example is open on Sunday to sell other foodstuff, the liquor aisle is roped off. Many counties and parrishes of various states are dry completely. Some sell packaged liquor but not liquor by...
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    VW BUG type 1

    As bizarre as it may seem we have Adolf Hitler to thank for the VW. It was his vision of a motorized nation that revived Dr. Porsche's lack of interest in building a "peoples' car." Too bad that the Bug and many other simple cars have died, or been killed, due to our propensity to saddle...
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    Battle 360 - USS Enterprise

    They're running the Enterprise episode again followed by the new Mon on Midway. At 11PM is listed something that looks excellent also- a new Dogfights! Trouble is different cable and satellite providers run shows in all sorts of different slots time shifting them. Check you provider's...
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    So what is the Fedora Lounge all about?

    Every time we get into this mood it basically ends up thusly- There are topic threads. Some people participate in ones that interest them and do no participate in ones that do no hold interest for them. Some people complain about threads topics that they don't participate in. Some people...
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    What has happened to society?

    Perhaps we a are too close to it to see the minor changes that add up after time passes. It just seems as though suddenly things have changed. The world is ever changing. We have had classy societies before ours and will again. If we look at Europe we can see the ups and downs over the...
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    Geatest designs of WWII

    Compensating gunsights were beneficial for aces and green guys alike. We need to go back, away from 2008 and look into the 1930s. Most of the American aces I have talked to were quite familiar with firearms and hunting. They understood lead and deflection. Well so did, at least, the...
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    Prostate exams

    PSA is not infallable. It is an indication, and a better one than just feeling the prostate's size since that can be associated with benign enlargement, common in many men- seen the Flomax commercials? A high PSA read will prompt your urologist to prescrbe a regimin of antibiotics of 7 days...
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    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    I've found the old fashioned flex/stretch metal bands are the wrist hair grabbers. The more modern style of clasp bracelet don't bother me much. But I suspect it's a case of the "weave" of the band metal, tighter being more comfortable. The problem might be finding anaftermarker metal one at...
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    Geatest designs of WWII

    The Norden bombsight was a fairly important classic piece in the war.
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    Prostate exams

    A lot of people have fairly high deductables anyhow and spending $2500 before a yearly PPO or HMO coverage kicks in is no different than a hurdle for income tax. Relative to what you are paying versus to total it is worth it.

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