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  1. Brinybay

    Motion Pictures that should NEVER be remade?

    I can't see them re-making The Godfather. Besides, I have all the lines memorized anyway, I've seen it that many times.
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    Anybody join me for evening coffee?

    You'd like it up here, there's a Starbucks on every corner that serves that exact drink. It's also my favorite.
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    Antique radio repair course?

    Well, I was thinking in terms of trying to fix the only one I own, a 1929 Majestic. Too much for a beginner? http://s252.photobucket.com/albums/hh22/Brinybay/Radio/
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    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    Learning to sew has crossed my mind from time to time, but I wouldn't know where to start. How did you learn?
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    Vintage Computers

    I used to know a guy in the military who said his first MOS (Military Occupational Skill) was a "computer", i.e. his job title was a "computer". He did clerical work that involved accounting of some sort. Speaking of vintage adding machines, can you shed some light on this old Wales...
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    Antique Shop Finds

    I mostly only browse antique shops because they usually want too much for their wares. However, I did find this several years ago in an antique shop that was marked 50% off. Like I said, I wouldn't have even considered it at full price. It's ceramic, not a genuine whale tooth. Not sure of...
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I have to ask, what are "toilet pins"?
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    If you could spend one day/night in the Roaring 20's/Golden Era what would you do?

    That occurred to me, but you would have to buy them at today's prices and exchange them at yester-year's prices. It would work, but you would take a hit in the exchange rate, wouldn't you? But then again, I'm not factoring in the buying power of a dollar in the past compared to today, so maybe...
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    If you could spend one day/night in the Roaring 20's/Golden Era what would you do?

    That's one of the dilemmas of time travel to the past - how do you buy all that stuff? You can't use currency from today, and your checks and credit cards would be worthless.
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Nice find! IMHO, I consider CL just an online version of yard sales.
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Went to visit Mom for a couple days. She loves to thrift-crawl, bless her heart, and so do I, so we spent an afternoon and visited 3. I picked up a leather bomber-style jacket for $15 and this wing-back chair. While not exactly "vintage", the tag indicates it was made in 1987, but I always...
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    If you could spend one day/night in the Roaring 20's/Golden Era what would you do?

    I would spy on my family in the 20s. Great Grandparents (both sides) and were already dead, but paternal Grandpa was in his mid-40s and Dad and Mom were little kids. I never knew my maternal Grandparents, and only remember my paternal grandparents after they were elderly and Grandpa had long...
  15. Brinybay

    Working Men's Hats

    One of the dive tenders is wearing a hard hat, but the rest appear to be wearing fedoras: Here the dive tenders are all wearing newsboys:
  16. Brinybay

    RIP Mothers Cookies: 1914-2008

    At first I thought you were talking about these. These are what I remember as a kid. I was relieved that it wasn't so. Nabisco Animal Crackers are still around:
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    How to incorporate high-tech items into your vintage lifestyle?

    And too pricey!
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    Antique radio repair course?

    I'm wondering how difficult it would be to learn to repair my old radio myself. I'm finding that the more I ask around, the more cost prohibitive it becomes to have someone do it for me. I got a flat-out rejection from The Radio Nut who's not far from me. He said he uses the Majestics like...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I did watch the entire movie (Raging Bull). To each his own, and although I still give it 3 out of 5 stars, I didn't come away with any respect for this guy at all. He may have been a good fighter, but as a person he was a total ar$e. I was appalled at the way he treated women and others who...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    3 stinkers in a row, not even sure how a couple of them got in my Netflix que. Landscapes in the Mist - Slooow, disconnected, art-house nonsense. I tortured myself to watch it to completion because I wanted to see what ultimately happened to the kids, who ran away from home (in Greece) to...
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    Cash found in Ohio house's walls becomes nightmare

    The contractor was a jerk. The only part I don't fault him for is for opening the boxes, that was just natural curiosity. Can any of us say we would have just set aside a couple locked boxes found hidden in a wall? He started out right by telling the owner about it. Sad to say, there are...
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    U.S. Army considers new uniforms

    Well, yes. You forget that these are people who get violently indignant over the slightest provocation, real or imagined. Even puppies upset them. Besides, that's nothing new about being advised not to wear the uniform in certain places. I remember being advised (we were never actually...

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