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    what foods would you serve a person from 1840 if they traveled to Modern day 2020?

    If the fellow from 1840 waited just a couple of years or so, he would be familiar with Necco Wafers. They've been making them since the 1840s.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Agreed. The music department, (marching band and choir), of my public high school in California was quite good due to two exceptional teachers, extremely supportive and organized parents, and enthusiastic students with a modicum of talent for music and fundraising. Every year there would be a...
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    Star Trek

    If it wasn't for TOS, where would the Klingon Diplomatic Corps be? Still wearing toe-socks?
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I think Benjamin Franklin had the final word on the subject in his essay, Fart Proudly.
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    Grandfather's Editorial Cartoon Collection

    The following cartoon in my grandfather's collection always eluded my understanding until I discovered this site and learned about the tradition of Straw Hat Day. Neither of my parents could explain it as one grew up in Santa Barbara where straw hats were always in season and the other grew up...
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    With the news eighty years ago about the Germany-Japan alliance shaping up, here are a few reflecting that event.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Growing up, I know these as Queen Anne Caramels. See's, (a West Coast confectionary around since the 1920s), sells them as Scotch Kisses.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Its a Wonderful World is another one of those movies that starts off as one genre, (in this case Early Noir), and then turns into another, (screwball comedy). I've got a copy of it because I was curious about its cast and obscurity. (Getting a copy was an adventure in itself as I kept...
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    Grandfather's Editorial Cartoon Collection

    Trying to get back on track, here are some home-front cartoons: And here is more of John L. Lewis. Rationing is in the wings.
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    My Grandfather's Collection of Wartime Cartoons

    Here we are back again. Reference the RAF's night-bombing campaign of German Cities. As most of the rest of the cartoons in this collection are after Pearl Harbor, Japan is increasingly the subject.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I've been fond of They Drive By Night ever since college where my roommate in the dorms had an LP compilation of classic dialogue bits from Warner Bros. movies of the '30s and '40. It had the truck stop banter between the various truckers and waitress Ann Sheridan. I wanted to see that scene...
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    Personal Libraries

    Knew some folks who stripped the drywall off the interior wall between their living room and hallway, nailed plywood to the living room side for shear, and put shelves between the 2x4 studs open to the hallway. It then was filled floor to ceiling with their paperback book collection. A real...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Gee. Given the apparent market for designer ice, do you think the New England Ice Harvesting Industry could be reborn? It used to export natural ice all around the world.
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    Leather glu recommendation

    In the leatherwork I've done, (turnshoes, boxes, quivers), I've used Barge Cement to tack and hold pieces together for stitching and to clump a sole. It is a contact cement where you apply it to both surfaces, let it dry, and then press the two pieces together. I've only used the original but...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

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    No Matter How Much You Try You Cannot............

    I rather thought that Nelson did that at Copenhagen.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    The silk scarf worn as a tucked-in ascot was pretty much a clothing stereotype for an aviator. It dates back to the open-cockpit days and the First World War. A silk scarf worn that way acts as a 'neck gasket' and prevents cold air from blowing down one's shirt. Also, having the ends tucked...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Grass Widow". - A term I last heard used in the 1980s in the Army in Germany. Especially for wives of soldiers in the 2nd and 11th ACRs who would average about 200 days a year 'in the field'. I wonder if it is still in use given the extended deployments so prevalent today.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    According to wikipedia, the countries that had commissioned aircraft carriers in 1940 were, the USA, the UK, Japan, and France. Italy and Germany had some under construction, (but not completed), and Sweden and Romania both had a sea-plane tender/carrier.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    RE: Claudette Colbert: Have you ever seen De Mille's pre-code The Sign of the Cross or Lubitsch's The Smiling Lieutenant? In the first, she plays Poppaea, (Nero's wife), wearing nothing but a milk bath and inviting ladies of her court to disrobe and join her. In the second she plays a...

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