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    The 1940's Air Terminal Museum (Houston, Texas)

    Whenever I hear a reference to "Houston Hobby Airport" I have a mental image of guys in a field flying R/C planes.
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    Wingtip collar/ plain-front shirt (on a budget)

    Once I asked here, about finding shirts like those I was seeing in early 1930s movies, with wingtip collars but NOT having ruffles or fancy panels on the front. Some loungers supplied helpful-but-beyond-my-budget leads... Lately, in a minority of the Burlington Coat Factory stores in my area...
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    Bow Ties

    One Sears had some bows... all I remember is that the name was French. Not much variation in width, among the 6-7 brands I see at Ross, Marshall's, and Burlington. (I'd expect Penguin to offer some narrow ones from 1950s inspiration, but theirs are the same width as most of the others.) Sean...
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    Dumbest movie quotes

    I wish I could add a few more from "Plan 9" but I'm muzzled by Army brass.
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    Bow Ties

    Kohl's has more bows than ever before (Croft & Barrow label.). About 60% are pre-tied. When I saw them at 45% off (of $32.00) that made them just slightly more than I've ever paid for a tie.
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    Talk Like a Pirate!

    "They started off so good, and then WHAT HAPPENED?!?!" (Oh sorry, I thought you said it was Talk Like a Pittsburgh Pirates Fan Day.)
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    What are you wearing today??

    It's great to include some sort of vintage prop in the photo.
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    Definition of "star boarder"

    I noticed a long, two-story old building in La Puente CA about a dozen years ago, called "Wagon Wheel Inn" or something like that. Then the exterior got modernized, somewhat. I happened to meet someone who had lived there... down on his luck... and he said the was one bathroom for upstairs and...
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    Definition of "star boarder"

    Take a look at this from 1898-- the attorney for the fellow being sued for support, suggests he was not the woman's "husband by contract" but rather, a star boarder. The justice doesn't know what the term means, and no one in court will explain it to him. Almost makes it seem indecent...
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    Definition of "star boarder"

    One of Chaplin's shorts is "The Landlady's Pet" aka "The Star Boarder." My mom (with only a bit of little personal experience) tells me it's someone who's been there so long, or has such a pushy personality, that he's calling the shots almost as much as the landlord/landlady/host family. I...
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    How Did You Discover Old Time Radio?

    I just remembered a Mr. Schilling, who taught English in 7th and 8th grade. He'd play OTR once every couple weeks. One of the few bright spots for me in Intermediate School.
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    1940's Baseball

    If I remember right, Barber advised Scully, something on the order of "Don't feel you need to SAY something, unless you're sure you'll improve the silence."
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    1940's Baseball

    In my cassette days, I obtained one or two late-Brooklyn games, including "Carl Furillo Night." Lately I've been listening to an mp3 disk which includes some of the games from the '63, '65, and '66 Series (NBC); the '66 All-Star Game(NBC); and a few Mets regular season games from around '66...
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    1940's Baseball

    For about 30 years, Vin's partner was a nice guy, an "adequate" announcer, named Jerry Doggett. He supposed called one play something like this: "He's going after it, back, back... and he HITS HIS HEAD AGAINST THE WALL! Now...... it's rolling back toward the infield..." Jerry had worked for...
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    1940's Baseball

    I notice the same differences in Vin Scully's voice now, that I notice with octogenarians I know personally. But I go to some lengths to hear him... I'm not usually near a TV when he's telecasting (and the radio only carries him... simulcast... for innings 1-3. Except in post-season.) Last...
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    Vintage Pics in your vintage threads!

    Nice pants. And the trousers look good too.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Into the 1970s, "even here in southern California," my dad would obtain HARD rough-hewn flat blocks of maple sugar candy... when we wanted to eat some of it, we had to bring the little hammer out of the utility drawer and knock a few chunks off. When I've asked around, people bring me...
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    1940's Baseball

    Lizzie, the article on Curt Gowdy at, ahem, Wikipedia... says the Yankees and Giants shared a radio network, and announcers-- 77 games each-- through the 1940s. And that the Red Sox and Braves had the same sort of arrangement even a couple years longer. Not saying I'd stake my life on that...
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    DIY Gone Wrong

    This has taken some of the heat off of Really Bad National Anthem Singers.
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    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    Long ago, my mother knitted "snoods" for two afghan hounds... so their ears wouldn't drag in their food bowls!

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