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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Regarding putting sugar on grapefruit as Fading Fast mentioned, grapefruit today are bred to be significantly sweeter than they were in the 1960s. (I also remember sugaring grapefruit).
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Saltines and sardines are Golden Era camping food. I was introduced to this by my father when we started backpacking in the '60s. They had been a staple for him after WWII when he manned a fire lookout in southern Oregon. (No refrigeration). Canned goods have been shaping American cuisines...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The only time I have heard the term 'peckerwood' used was by a senior marine captain instructor at Fort Sill during the mid-1980s. It was his favorite phrase when one of his students made a 'dumb' mistake. (As opposed to a 'smart' mistake). Of course he had an Arkansas accent you could cut...
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    Show Us Your Oldest Books

    Along with my grandfather's leaded glass bookcase, I've inherited many of the books he won as school prizes in the 1890s-1900s. Included in this is the 1901 Boys' Own Paper Annual and an edition of Herbert Hayen's novel about the Hungarian Civil War in 1848, The Red White and Green.
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    What is a day worth?

    Its all part of the fight against Entropy. Being a home owner means that everything is going to need replacing/repair. Related to this, I tell people in the reenactment/recreation group that I am part of that I am cheap and lazy. If there is something that I want or need to do, and it is...
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    Forward Time Travel

    On a more serious note, while the physics of time-travel and the potential paradoxes it entails are at present unknowable, I've often speculated on what effects time-television would have on society. To define terms, it could only view the past with sight and sound but unlimited by place on...
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    Forward Time Travel

    But what if it is a car that goes back in time to kill Hitler?...
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    Vintage neon signs

    I've a bit of a family connection to Arrow shirts and collars. Frederick F. Peabody was the president of Cluett Peabody the company that made and sold Arrow products. He retired to Santa Barbara in 1919. My grandfather was Mr. Peabody's valet.
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    Vintage neon signs

    This is the view looking north on Willamette Street in Eugene, Oregon in 1962-63. That's Skinner's Butte in the background. There is a reverse view from the top of the butte looking south, (supposedly of the same era), in the movie, Animal House.
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    What Are You Reading

    I am just starting The Broken Road by Patrick Leigh Fermor. This is his third, concluding, and posthumously published book journaling his walk from Holland to Constantinople in 1934 at age 18. I have just finished reading the first two of this series, A Time of Gifts, and Between the Woods...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I asked my wife about the difference between large & small curd cottage cheese, (one of her food-hobbies is cheese making). She said the primary difference is that large curd is made with rennet so it sets curds fast and produces less acidic whey, whereas small curd is made with a...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Lithia Park in Ashland Oregon is famed for its mineral water which coincidentally has a high concentration of Lithium Oxide. It is not bottled for sale but instead is available at a public drinking fountain in the town plaza.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    3fingers wrote: "He must not live in California. I've been told it is illegal to harvest rainwater there, since according to the state it belongs to the state." Not since 2012 in California I think. During the most recent drought, the City of San Francisco was giving property owners free 55...
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    Linen

    Linen shirts, linen suits, and linen sheets. Love the stuff. Line-dry it if at all possible and dry-iron your shirt while it is still slightly damp. It will iron crisply with a slight shine. There is nothing like the cold kiss of a clean & pressed linen shirt when you first put it on.
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    Forward Time Travel

    MikeKardec wrote in regard to the short story, The Time-Traveler: "I've got to read this it sounds fantastic!" It is from Spider Robinson's collection of short stories entitled, Callahan's Crosstime Saloon. He has written dozens of science fiction short stories set in a certain Long Island...
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    Things that make you smile

    I encountered some non-metric hold-outs back in the 1980s in southern Germany, (Franconia to be exact). I would be in the Metagerei, (Butcher shop), and hear people asking for "Eine Pfund Hackfleisch", (a pound of ground meat), or "Eine viertel-pfund Bauernschinken" (a quarter pound air-cured...
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    Why were the Germans so bad at espionage?

    MikeKardec wrote: "England had been playing international intrigue for a LOT longer than Germany had been a country. They were experts at it. While they weren't used to tracking down too many spies at home they were good at counter espionage in the colonies, especially those bordering Russia."...
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    Forward Time Travel

    Another examination of forward time-travel by a science-fiction author, (albeit involving no futuristic technology), is in the Spider Robinson short story, The Time Traveler. It concerns an American missionary who early in 1963 had been imprisoned in a Central American country just as a...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Growing up, I was fond of Necco Wafers. I always had a roll of them along when I went backpacking. They also made good BB-gun targets at 15 yards.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It was back about 1970 when MAD Magazine ran an Al Jaffee cartoon about "The Incredible Shrinking Candy Bar". It displayed how small the package would be without the interior cardboard tray. I've also recently noticed that sugar is no longer sold in 5 lb. bags. They are all now 4 lb. bags...

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