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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When I was in the service, a few of us were sitting around shooting the bull. We realized that there were several expressions that referred to the excrement of different animals and used with different meanings. As best I remember, the taxonomy was as follows: Apes**t - noun. Meaning -...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The local Trader Joe's tends to rearrange their stock every six months or so. Mild aggravation ensues for both customers and staff. One, (admittedly post-war), item that seems to be disappearing from store shelves is frozen orange juice concentrate. The same local Trader Joe's just admitted...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Fading Fast wrote: "And the three-light ones, I'll bet, went to all-flashing from midnight to 5am (or some similar time frame) - red facing the less traffic street / yellow to the busier one. Out town wasn't even that small, but that happened to our lights after midnight." Even in not-so-small...
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    Forgotten Advertising Characters of the Era

    Hamm's used to be popular out here in Northern California too. The Hamm's brewery Bryant Street in San Francisco had an iconic animated sign that overlooked the freeway and Seals Stadium. A gigantic goblet that filled and overflowed again and again.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I watched Chimes at Midnight for the first time since high school the other evening. This was Orson Welles' 1965 film compiling all the Falstaff parts from Shakespeare's Henry IV Parts One and Two, and Henry V. I got a lot more out of it now that I know about movies and the history of the time...
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    Movie locations

    HadleyH1 wrote: "Many TV shows like "The Streets of San Francisco" had scenes filmed in Chinatown." One thing I noticed about The Streets of San Francisco is that when they say they are going from one part of town to another, the intervening scenes are of a plausible route. (Unlike the famous...
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    Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually

    Besides the cultural shifts discussed above, I think that one of the causes of the ubiquity of casual dressing is the drop in price of clothing relative to income. Americans today have a lot more clothing than they used to. (I base this unscientific surmise on the increase in the size and...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I remember the first time I got a five-dollar bill. It was in 1964 for Christmas from a grandparent. My father told me that if I used my new microscope, (also a Christmas present that year), I could read the names of the states that are inscribed around the pediment and frieze of the Lincoln...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A couple of terms related to the Asia-Orient question that appear to have fallen by the wayside are, 'The Far East', and 'The Near East'. ('The Middle East' still being on active duty.) Here in the US, 'Far East' has largely been supplanted by 'Asia' in meaning. 'Near East', which referred to...
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    The Fall of the Moustache

    In at least one of the states in India, (Madhya Pradesh), police officers are given additional money in their pay-packet for wearing and maintaining a moustache of the proper sort. The reasoning behind this is the belief that moustached men command respect...
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    Experimenting on foods.

    Dates stuffed with an almond, wrapped in jamon, (Spanish dry ham - like prosciutto), and fried are a fairly common tapa at traditional Spanish restaurants. They can also be served cold without frying. Its the combination of sweet and salty, and chewy and crunchy that makes them so addictive.
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    Leornian ealdspræc Saxonum-Anglisc

    Although not Old English, the science fiction author, (albeit with a degree in physics), Poul Anderson wrote an essay on atomic theory entitled Uncleftish Beholding in which he used only words of germanic descent. This was a thought-piece exploring what English might have looked like without...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Here in Northern California there is/was a variant on cafeterias which are known as Hof Braus. You still have a tray that you take down a serving line where you indicate what you want and a serving is handed to you. The primary differences are that the line begins with a carving station where...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    T'wasn't just 18th C. Prussians who used the Death's Head. 17th Light Dragoons used it in memory of General Wolfe.
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    PeterGunnLives wrote: "table-side Caesar salad, prime rib roast carved and served from an art deco style chrome cart" You are familiar with The House of Prime Rib on Van Ness in San Francisco? You described it to a tee. Also, Bix on Gold off of Jackson Square does a good table side Bananas...
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    Remnant of "Red Scare" repealed.

    Edward Wrote: "Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act 1955 (the Wikipedia on this is quite good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_and_Young_Persons_(Harmful_Publications)_Act_1955). This made it an offence to publish or distribute comic books that depicted violence or...
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    You Know You Live in a Small(ish) Town When...

    … there is only one telephone in the town and its in the gasthaus/pub. Ran across this in a very small town north of Nürnberg back in the early '80s.
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    Old gas stations

    How about this for an Art Deco/Futurist gas station? Built in 1938 in Asmara, Eritrea.
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    Old Smells that Make Your Nose Wrinkle

    The smell of a mixture of burning diesel oil and human waste. At a boy scout camp in the late 1960s, a daily chore was to pull the two halved oil drums full of ordure out of the plywood seat box, douse them with diesel oil, light the mixture, and stand there stirring it with a long stick until...
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    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    The combined smell of low-tide and roasting coffee as one approached San Francisco on the Bay Bridge. In the 1960s & 70s, a couple time a year, we would drive to San Francisco for shopping and site-seeing. The smell meant we were almost there. (Back when San Francisco had a working...

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