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    Best suspender-button thread?

    Okay, here's my problem. Black heavy-duty thread, on black trousers. I sewed the six buttons inside the waist band, and the first time around, I decided I didn't care about the thread being visible on the outside of the trousers. Most of them held well and I liked wearing the braces. But I...
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    Best suspender-button thread?

    Please point me to it. I put some on and there were issues. I re-did them, partially, and there are still issues.
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    Big Band concerts back in the day

    Many of the live radio band remotes were just 15 minutes long. You got a sample of Band A at a hotel in City 1, then the next program might offer Band 2 at a ballroom in City 2. They tended to be late, around 10:00 to midnight. Several bands got half-hour weekly shows eventually. You might...
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    When did the time change originate? Why do we still do it?

    I think it only accomplishes something (saving energy by having work and school sessions line up with daylight) in Spring and Fall. In Winter, the sky will often remain gloomy after you've started in the morning, and again before you've finished in the afternoon. (If not all day.) In Summer...
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    Help dating a picture and clothes

    My independent estimate was 1933, but I will move it up to 1936 after reading the other opinions.
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    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    Several years ago, a character on Phil Hendrie's satirical radio show-- "Margaret Gray" the entertainment columnist, was effusive in her praise for "a brave young director, Michael Bay" who made a movie (Pearl Harbor) about what was "actually a real-life incident, which most people would never...
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    What are you wearing today??

    That's great! I'll have to try it. Til now, I've shied away because of hearing the flower is "generally for more formal occasions" and I figure when I'm not even wearing a suit, I can't treat anything as a "formal occasion." The latest jacket I've acquired has an actual button hole, and the...
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    Who Did You Just See Live?

    From Janet Klein's "Birthday Month Show" in Hollywood last week: (she doesn't look it, does she?) Here we are on a Paper Moon: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hobosvintage/6817279902/sizes/z/in/photostream/ With macadamias falling in the front yard at this time of year, I decided to make her a...
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    Myths of the Golden Era -- Exploded!

    Speaking of old vs. new perspectives-- Remember a couple years back, when our President had a bad run for a while-- several problems came up, to which a certain modern descriptive phrase was being applied? I fixed up a photo where a frustrated Oliver Hardy is grumbling to Stan Laurel, "Well...
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    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    Should it be, "ARE THOSE the '50s?" ????
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    Bow Ties

    Just saw, in a Burlington for the first time, "Bill Robinson" brand sets of pre-tied, patterned bows and solid color pocket squares ($9.99). The square is a color found in the tie-- about half the examples were white. They do have that "pre-tied look" and the knot looks like it could be a...
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    1930's 'The Lone Ranger' Remake

    I saw many episodes of the TV reruns when I was a kid, and I've heard many of the old radio shows over the last 35+ years. An episode of the retro-sitcom Happy Days featured "... John Hart (TV's 'Lone Ranger')..." I've never run into the story behind Clayton Moore's absence for part of the...
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    The Dam Busters I

    This is taking me back over 40 years, to watching the movie on TV with my father, and building the Revell model kit, soon after. Eventually I got rid of the plane, but I was into other modeling, so I kept the cylindrical bomb in case I could use it to represent something else.
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    Bow Ties

    That's like hard candies which are labeled "A Fat-Free Food"-- it's true, and it impresses some folks.
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    NYC sports fans: about the "Gints"

    Back to the word for a moment-- why would people turn jy-ants into jints-which-rhymes-with-splints? Are there other words which receive a similar distortion?
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    NYC sports fans: about the "Gints"

    Long ago I read a story, set in the forties, maybe earlier, in which some New York baseball fans were discussing "the Gints." I thought about it for a while, and decided that with author deleting the 'a' (and of course, the G pronounced as J) the name "Gints" should rhyme with "pints." Just a...
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    US Currency Circa 1923

    There was a cartoon drawing in the later 1920s, showing the old large currency as a matron (think Margaret Dumont) and the new smaller bill as a flapper.
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    Sport Coat Vs. Suit Coat

    Try the medium dark gray with light tan trousers (perhaps dependent on whether the grey is greenish or bluish. And grayed-out tan would be best.)
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    Sport Coat Vs. Suit Coat

    Try the medium dark gray with light tan trousers (perhaps dependent on whether the grey is greenish or bluish.)
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    The World According to Jack Webb

    I remember hoping the next show he created/ produced, might have him in an acting role as well. A couple weeks later, he died. I was in the crowded parking lot of the local mall when I heard it on the radio (two days before Christmas.)

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