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    Cookies, get your cookies here!

    I've heard that they've stopped making the plain chocolate ones - is this true? I really hope it isn't, because I like dark chocolate so much better than milk. Yeah, chocolate covered Hobnobs are heaven in a cookie. In addition to those I'll take one of everything that's been mentioned so...
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    Vintage Ads Books?

    Dover Publications might have a book with what you're looking for. There are some Works Progress Administration posters here. I don't know if they're quite what you're looking for. After a quick websearch I came across this site with ads from women's magazines of the 1920s to the 1940s.
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    Favorite Seasonal Foods

    I love my Mom's christmas sugar cookies - festive cut outs complete with multi-colored frosting decorations, they're really little cookie artworks. My aunt's spritzer cookies are deadly delicious too. Around Valentines I inhale the Necco candy conversation hearts, and then at Easter I eat...
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    what if you just don't suit vintage make up?

    I did the dark smoky eyes + bright red lips once - paired with the black I was wearing I looked more goth than vintage! Definitely not what I was going for. It took me 7 or so lipsticks, but I did eventually find the right color (a plum-y red did it for my brown hair and eyes and...
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    wedding favor ideas?

    M&M's (which were introduced in the 1940s) do personalized versions now, here. As for the truffle in a box, Godiva does really cute wedding favors, and you can personalize the ribbon that's tied on the boxes (although that could end up expensive). I think the Cracker Jack idea is really cute...
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    I know people look at us

    Black painted surgical masks and cat costumes were never mainstream fashion, but vintage clothes were once popular styles so I agree that dressing vintage isn't quite the same. Although there's a similarity in the sense that the clothing deviates from the mainstream fashion norm, there are...
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    Your most romantic gesture?

    I tend to remember silly things, or maybe I haven't really experienced "romance" yet. I will always remember the day several years ago when a guy drove me all the way home to get socks. I'd gone with a big group of friends to the bowling alley, but I hadn't driven. When we got there I...
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    Road to Perdition?1930's era films

    Road to Perdition is definitely good. I also like Gosford Park, I Capture the Castle, the Indiana Jones films, The Mummy (the modern one), and I also have a soft spot for Swing Kids.
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    1939 People, Clothes IN COLOR

    Color images from the 1930s are great - I do like the reminder that the world was always in color, regardless of what the photos left behind would persuade a person to think. But what really amazes me are the color photos from the 1900s. The first time I saw autochromes I was shocked to find...
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    Possibly relocating.. help anyone?

    I've lived in Denver off and on for a few months and it's never been dusty. In the winter it's a bit drier here than other places I've been, but it's definitely not dusty. Personally I would choose to live in California, but that's probably because I grew up there and love the big cities and...
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    Veronica Lake Hair

    That's a funny mental image. Once I did some quick, messy pincurls before I went to bed, woke up in the morning, jumped in the shower without thinking, steamed up the room, then got out of the shower and promptly took the pincurls out. Well, my hair was about as close to electrocuted poodle as...
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    Veronica Lake Hair

    My hair is very fine and resistant to curling. The last time I successfully pincurled my hair it looked Veronica Lake-ish! The hair type must be part of the reason.
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    What Did You Want To Be When You Grew Up?

    I wanted to be an actress when I was really little, then I wanted to be a film director, and inbetween and during all of that I wanted to be a writer. I do a lot of writing as a history major, so in a way I'm a writer (although when I was younger I wanted to do fiction writing and not academic).
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    Young loungers

    Have any of your writing online? I'm always interested in reading detective fiction!
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    Where are the women?

    Maybe the increase in women's rights has resulted in a reverse reaction in movies? The strong, career girl of movies past is now more represented in life so the idea loses the appeal to audiences that it once had? I'm really not sure, although I'm glad you pointed it out. I'm so use to these...
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    Young loungers

    Hi there! I just turned 20 Wednesday. I love history, and the periods I'm interested in are usually heavily influenced by the movies I've been watching and the books I've been reading. I started out as very interested in Victorian Britain from miniseries like The Foryste Saga. I shifted more...
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    Puppini Sisters

    Yeah, the Andrews Sisters are fun to listen to, but I love the Boswell Sisters! Something about their singing beats the Andrews to me.
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    The GANGS of NEW YORK was a great movie!

    I guess I'm one of the only people who didn't enjoy the film. I haven't watched it since it was originally released so maybe it deserves a second viewing, but my feelings are still pretty strong from watching it in the theater. I remember disliking it because it seemed cartoonish. Rather than...
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    A&W's

    Mmmm, A&W makes the best rootbeer.
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    Boxing

    Those books sound great! All those recommendations should keep me busy for awhile, thank you for the suggestions. I will definitely see if my library has any of them, and if not I'll check out Amazon/eBay. I haven't learned any new information recently, but I haven't made the time to look...

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