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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    One term I haven't seen since the early 1970s is Gas War. The cheapest price I ever saw was $.17 a gallon in Sacramento in the early 1960s.
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    Oscars were horrible

    Oscar statues do turn up in odd places. Back in the mid-80s when I was taking a series of drafting classes at a JC near Sacramento, a group of us took the train up to Eugene to check out the architecture school at the U of Oregon. We all stayed at the house belonging to an aunt and step-uncle...
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    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    vitanola wrote: "I am rather fond of Mushroom Catsup with frankfurters when I can find the stuff." The 18th C. reenactment merchants, Jas. Townsend & Sons, regularly carry Mushroom Ketchup. http://jas-townsend.com/mushroom-ketchup-p-1404.html Another frankfurter type sausage eaten with...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The nuts in the expression "from soup to nuts" refers to the nuts that were placed on the table along with the port for the final course after the ladies had withdrawn. The ancient Romans had a similar phrase based on formal dining to express 'from beginning to end' - 'From egg to apple'
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I grew up with a copy of The Best of H. T. Webster in the house, (along with books of Out Our Way and The Bull of the Woods cartoons by J.R. Williams). As Lizzie said, they were pleasant and nostalgic and mostly inoffensive. Some poked mild fun at stuffed shirts and authority and evoked...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    sheeplady wrote: "Why are offices cold all year round?" 1. Because office buildings tend to produce heat what with all the lights, bodies, and electronic equipment therein. Leading to, 2. Said electronic equipment tends to break when overheated and works better when kept cool. If it...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Last night we watched The Hill (1965). A very well done movie directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Sean Connery. Set in a British army prison in Libya during World War Two, it is an intense drama in the same vein as Tunes of Glory. Not for the light of heart.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Stearmen wrote: "Although, somewhat radical, the Geneva eggs are really good." Yes, but that is only for two out of every dozen. THe other ten eggs were irredeemably bad before they were even hatched.
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    The Great WWII Aviation Movie Thread

    Where Eagles Dare just for that winter-camoflaged Ju-52 flying through the Alps. And I have to second MisterCairo's recommendation of Captains of the Clouds. Here you have a color movie made in 1942 about a group of Canadian bush pilots who join the RCAF. It stars James Cagney and features...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Inkstainedwretch wrote: "A bit of movie trivia: Paul Muni shooting up his boss's office in sheer elation over the firepower of his new Tommy gun was replicated in 1969 by Sam Peckinpah with General Mapache (Emilio Fernandez) shooting up the town square with his new Browning machinegun. The...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Growing up, the door stops at home were some of my father's old drafting paperweights. (He was a civil engineer.) These were circular pancakes of sueded leather filled with lead shot. They made good door stops as you could wedge them under the door. Of course when I was working on my M.Arch...
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    Science Fiction Genre - Religion vs Scientific Origins, and the Nature of Self Destruction

    Lean'n'mean wrote: "he's just gonna stick untrained people on an untested spacecraft for 18 months (if they make it that far) & then ditch them on an uninhabitable planet" Gotta have a Roanoke before a Jamestown.
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    Bumper stickers and license plates

    We were still using field-expedient cardboard radiator covers on our jeeps, 880s, and deuce-and-a-halves during the 1980s in Germany. There is a certain smell of diesel and gasoline engines starting up at 3:30 AM in sub-zero weather that sticks with you.
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    Favorite Historic Buildings or Places

    Cottage Grove is also where the parade at the conclusion of Animal House was filmed. Back in the '80s while in grad school, I was part of an architectural survey of Cottage Grove's Main Street. While most of the ground floors were occupied with businesses and such, almost all the 2nd and 3rd...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In regard to organizations protecting their trademarks, the situation can sometimes seem to be taken too far. 1. The Commonwealth of Kentucky's, (i.e. the state government), trademarking the name 'Kentucky' caused Kentucky Fried Chicken to change its name to 'KFC' and the Kentucky Derby to...
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    Every Time I Toss the Bacon Grease I Feel Guilty

    BlueTrain wrote: "I don't remember anything food-like from Bringing up Father but I remember the comic." Jiggs was always trying to sneak out of the mansion to return to his old neighborhood hang-out, Dinty Moore's tavern for a meal of corned beef and cabbage. (And Maggie would lay about...
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    BBQ Grills, and more specifically, Kamados

    tonyb asked: "Will they last a few decades of regular use? Easy enough to justify the initial expense, if so." The Japanese kamados which I am most familiar with are made of thick fireclay. They are somewhat fragile and don't take well to lots of vibration and being knocked about. That...
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    BBQ Grills, and more specifically, Kamados

    I've been using a kamado since the '70s. My parents had one and I ended up getting my own after I got out of the service. I agree that a Weber kettle can do pretty much what a kamado can do but perhaps just not as well. One thing I've found over the years is the heat retention of the kamado's...
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    Essentials for the kitchen

    One kitchen storage feature that you see in pre-WWII houses and apartment buildings in California is a type of cupboard that has screened shelves and exterior ventilation at the top and bottom. Dubbed 'California Coolers', these built-in storage cabinets replaced root cellars and basement...
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    Essentials for the kitchen

    Summer kitchens tended to be found in rural houses or those with enough land to have substantial gardens. The idea was that the summer kitchen was where all the canning and preserving would take place. Since canning involves large amounts of boiling water you didn't want all that steam to heat...

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