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    America Gets The Bird

    Thanksgiving dinner here was fairly low-key. Four of us. My wife and her father and step-mother. Cooking was a joint effort. She made a pecan pie, no-churn maple-walnut ice cream, and baked sweet potatoes with balsamic vinegar. Since a turkey has two cavities we each got to make our...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My first posting in the Army was a cornucopia of regional US accents. The Battery Commander was from North Dakota. The four lieutenants were from rural Kansas, Staten Island, Florida panhandle, and Northern California. The First Sergeant was from Beaumont, Texas. and my platoon sergeant from...
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    Sears might be going belly up

    That's actually not a bad idea. Given that Toys'R'Us went west this year, people who have known no other toy store are at a loss for where to buy toys for this year's Christmas. There is competition however from both ends. Walmart and Target have been ramping up their toy selection and...
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    Pets in Golden Era movies

    Then there is Asta.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    One thing about radio out here in Fire and Earthquake Country is that a small radio is considered essential in one's emergency/bug-out bag. (Even better are the hand-crank radios that are often pledge-drive bonuses from public radio stations). Radio is still the best to quickly disseminate...
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    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    The smell of Brasso and Kiwi evokes the open-bay barracks of Fort Lewis' North Post.
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    if a non white person tried to order a meal back in 1850 would they serve him?

    In 1946, the cartoonist H. T. Webster drew a single panel cartoon about the KKK that still carries a gut-punch today.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    To quote Claudette Colbert's character in The Palm Beach Story: "You have no idea what a long-legged woman can do without doing anything."
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Back a couple of years ago, the Disney Family Museum at the Presidio in San Francisco had a special exhibition on the creation of the Disney Snow White movie. In it there was a development sketch of the Evil Queen wearing a side-slit dress showing a lot of leg leading a panther on a leash...
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    Vintage roadside

    I remember my dad talking about the customization of your drink you could get at a soda fountain. Cherry cola, lemon cola, chocolate cola, etc. This was brought about by the local, Northern California soda company, Shasta Beverage doing a large advertising push in the mid-1960s that...
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    if a non white person tried to order a meal back in 1850 would they serve him?

    To answer the original question, several variables should be considered. First, where are we talking about? Coastal or inland? Urban or rural? Settled or frontier? For example: Regardless of continent, seaports in 1850 were exposed to a wider variety of peoples from around the world and...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    George Macdonald Fraser relates in Quartered Safe Out Here, his autobiographical account of his time as an infantryman fighting in Burma during the Second World War, that his hard-case Cumbrian sergeant, after reading Henry V, was also of the opinion that Shakespeare had been a soldier.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Seemingly senseless paperwork, forms, and reports are nothing new in the US Army. During the Second World War and after there was/is an apocryphal story making the rounds about a bored 2LT creating a new paperwork form for recording and reporting the number of insects caught on flypaper spirals...
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    Vintage neon signs

    Both tamales and enchiladas were a staple at San Francisco's old oceanside amusement park, Playland at the Beach. Bull Pup began selling enchiladas in 1923 and the Hot House started selling tamales in 1934.
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    Vintage trains

    I recall back in the early 1990's driving around the part of the Willamette Valley northwest of Salem, Oregon and seeing scores of boxcars and other rolling stock just sitting on unused short-line tracks. And these were old boxcars. They had the manual brake wheels and catwalk along the roofs...
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    The Mandela Effect

    Sam Clemens never said: "The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco". And there is no evidence in any of his writings that John Ruskin ever said: "There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who...
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    Things that make you smile

    Years ago back in the heyday of Usenet and text-only web browsers, there was an entertaining discussion on alt.fan.pratchett about national anthems. (It was shortly after Jingo came out). The upshot was that all national anthems can be sung using only the phrase, "We are right and you are...
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    Linen

    Trenchfriend schreibt: "Linen shirts are absolutely needed in Germany, actually." It is after all part of the Landhausmode, (country house style), triumvirate: 'Leinen, Leder, Loden'.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    About fifteen years ago coyotes began reappearing in San Francisco. Most have come across the golden Gate Bridge from Marin and some from up the Peninsula. Most of the larger parks, (Golden Gate, MacLaren, the Presidio now all have active packs. During kit season areas of the parks are closed...
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    Things that make you smile

    Fading Fast wrote: "Isn't California supposed to have perfect weather everyday" Well it all depends on where you are in California and what you think 'perfect weather' is. Growing up in Sacramento, it was pretty normal to not see the sun at all for all of January and February. The tule fog...

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