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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The whitewashing of the lower 3'-6'tree trunks has a couple of practical reasons. It discourages wood boring insects and also makes detecting their presence easier. The other reason is to prevent sun scalding. This occurs when the sun is bright while a tree is dormant for the winter. The...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    It depends on the methodology and means. Persuasion can run the gamut from the rubber hose to skilled oratory to subliminal and omnipresent images. They are not morally equivalent.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    It is well to remember that modern advertising and propaganda are pretty much one and the same. They are both designed to make their audience feel a particular way about a particular subject. And consider the overlap in the career of David Ogilvy. He went from working for Gallup to working...
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    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Before there were streetcar suburbs, (of which there were many in the US), there were railroad suburbs. The Main Line communities outside of Philadelphia along the Pennsylvania RR's main line, and towns on the San Francisco Peninsula such as Burlingame and Atherton are two such examples. In...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    The technical term for the eating of non-nutritionous substances such as white clay or chalk is called Pica. Although classified as an eating disorder, there are some studies that suggest that some forms of it may be an attempt at correcting mineral deficiencies or as way to combat intestinal...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Trenchfriend schreibt: "Is there disturbing föhn (blow-drier)-weather in the US, too?" A couple of regional names for that type of wind are Chinook winds, (northern prairie states and Canadian provinces), and Santa Ana winds, (in Southern California).
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The ones that really annoyed me are the obvious scams: "Hello. This is _Frank_ from Windows Security Division. Our instruments indicate that your computer is sending out viruses". All said in a South Asian Accent. This scripted scam, with different names, used to call every day and...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Regarding different colored sections of newspapers, the San Francisco Chronicle still uses green for the sports section, (titled 'The Sporting Green') and pink for the entire weekly entertainment section printed in tabloid format in the Sunday edition. Up until a few years ago this was done...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Small towns used to be, (pre-freeway), much more self-sufficient. They would have amenities which we now only associate with cities. Hotel, fine-dining restaurant, department store, theatre w/stage, clothing stores for men and women, hospital, etc. There might only be one each of these...
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    Favorite Historic Buildings or Places

    Nobert wrote: "*That's the original Portland, cordially differentiated from Other Portland with a couple of simple descriptors." What, the one in Dorset?
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    JC Penney Might Be Going Belly Up (Along With Sears)

    There used to a fair amount of art, (or at least representational art), incorporated into public buildings for everyone to see. It might be subtle like the frieze of walrus heads, sea serpents, and icicles which adorned the old Alaska Commercial Company building in San Francisco. Or it might...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    In some of the neighborhoods in Portland, Oregon, there are still loose steel rings set into the curb for the purpose of tying up a horse. The neighborhood I remember seeing them a lot was around SE Hawthorne east of the Bagdad Theater.
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    The post-war demand for housing led to a lot of innovation and experimentation in construction. One of the more interesting technologies was the Tournalayer. This was a giant concrete form on wheels that could cast a reinforced concrete house in 24 hours. See here for one in action.
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    Neighborhood theaters and Drive-in Movies

    When I was in architecture school, I came up with a list of semi-heretical questions, quotations, and musings. I don't have it immediately to hand but a couple which come to mind are: 1. Which are the most important to please, and in what order? The client, the users, the neighbors...
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    Weapons in the Movies

    2jakes asked: "Why or what was the purpose of standing up in straight line formation in battle?" The reason infantry stayed in close formation was at least twofold. First, it allowed for the maximum amount of firepower to be concentrated. Muzzle loading muskets had maybe a 100 yard range in...
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    Vintage neon signs

    Jim-Denny's #2. I ate there many times back in the mid-80s when I was working on the Governors' Mansion. Jim Van Nort, one of the two founders, was still behind the grill then. Only has eight stools inside. You could find State Senators from the nearby Capitol Building seated next to bums...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    skydog757 wrote: "Three on a match is bad luck." That goes back to the First World War. The amount of time it takes for three people to light their cigarettes from one match is the time necessary for a sniper to notice, aim, and shoot. And the flare of a match being lit under the right...
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    What's for Dinner?

    Tonight will be seared pork loin on a bed of apples, onions, ginger and cabbage cooked in dripping and cider vinegar.
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    Lost art of proper relaxation

    Some places still offer vocational ed in high school. Back in the '90s I was costing out the design for a new high school in central Oregon. It was interesting to note that it had an entire ag studies wing which included greenhouses, stable and paddock, and machine shop with tractor bays.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I've always taken the phrase about something being, "hotter than a three dollar pistol" to mean that the object was seriously looked for by the police or that someone was on the run.

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