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    Period casual-general shops still functioning in (near) original condition?

    Best I can find is this photo I've stolen from somewhere - and it's not even an interior shot. Blast!
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    Budget New York backpackers/ Hostels

    Yeah, there's that. Although, I would be tempted to bring a towel if I planned on staying at a hostel. And maybe even an "over sheet". Naw mean?
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    RKO Signal

    Here's a photo of our Orpheum theater at 8th and Mulberry, 1919 Later renamed the RKO Theater - I still can't track down the date of the rename. The building was demolished in 1977.
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    Period casual-general shops still functioning in (near) original condition?

    George the Chili King - current location since 1952. Two other locations since 1920, including downtown Des Moines (the building is now a parking garage). Des Moines Register Article, George the Chili King Celebrates 60 Years
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    anti-hat article | The Guardian UK

    Wow, this is really shameful on part of the Guardian. I usually trust them, and other UK outlets, over American trash. Too bad they seem to be going the way of US news with half-baked articles like this.
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    This generation of kids...

    Haha, was that the episode that he gets the bump on the head?
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    Budget New York backpackers/ Hostels

    Naw; they don't provide locks for lockers, either. Seems they provide the essentials but you have to provide your own accessories. Because you're renting a bed, as opposed to a room, you're getting linens as part of the deal, but nothing above and beyond that.
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    Budget New York backpackers/ Hostels

    Is that anything like the Cockpit store which recently closed in Minneapolis?
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    RKO Signal

    Huh, I guess that would explain why the Orpheum theater in downtown Des Moines, which had primarily seen Vaudeville acts, was later renamed RKO theater sometime in the 1930s or 1940s (the date escapes me at the moment). (Naturally, that building was demolished decades ago.)
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    Do you think there could be a second Great Depression?

    Living in Des Moines and watching our downtown area change so drastically in the last 12 years has been both refreshing and heartbreaking. When I saw this picture today, the air escaped my chest and I couldn't catch it again for nearly a minute. Sometimes, you just have to bite down on the...
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    Excessive posting? ... Interesting.....

    ...but then who will trim the crust from my sandwich...? :(
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    This generation of kids...

    Eghad! Does he know where MONEY has been? It's covered in germs!
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    This generation of kids...

    This was my experience as well, being in newspaper journalism. I suppose a fitting, if not maybe a little morbid, analogy would be the young men who are rallied to war, only to find themselves in a rain soaked hole with a heavy rifle, stained pair of trousers and a cold metal cup of coffee...
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    Jury Duty Anyone

    I really enjoyed serving on a jury. [huh] I would do it again in a heartbeat.
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    Beaver Brand Hats, gone?

    I purchased two Biltmore Senators prior to the end of the line. The felt is quite dense and pleasing - much better hand than modern Hatco hats.
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    size 9 hat, no lie

    Wow, I guess that leaves one with all sorts of options!
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    This generation of kids...

    Yes, that is right - I saw very man young, hopeful journalists who go in with the best intentions and come out thinking they're going to have the news-world by the tail. I know I did. That's why I don't blame these kids who go in for the education and hope to come out a bona fide journalist...
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    This generation of kids...

    Right. You had a man in Washington DC who only earned his bread by keeping his ear down to the ground, looking for a scoop. You had local reporters absorbing police blotters and inside tips for any manner of scandal, murder, robbery or crime. You had editors that followed major events and slung...
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    This generation of kids...

    Noir, I don't disagree entirely, but there is yet another factor which you alluded to at the end of your post - quality of articles. The Des Moines Register used to be a national newspaper, well respected, well reported, well received. When revenues appeared to be slouching in the 1980s, the...
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    Beaver Brand Hats, gone?

    Although I don't have any info on the facility, I would be interested to know as well. That's alot of equipment and one would assume the company might sell it off to close any outstanding accounts. If one had the capital, one could start a business over night. Or perhaps in the case of a modern...

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