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    Bespoke military uniforms?

    Here is the URL for a company that specializes in the ceremonial uniforms accessories for the UK's military. Firmin House According to their site, they have been in business in some form or another since 1655 when England was under the Commonwealth.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There are a couple of traffic circles here in San Francisco. If you are used to the rule that vehicles already in the circle have the right-of-way be warned. Pedestrians crossing the feeder streets have the right-of-way over vehicles exiting the circle. This causes the traffic in the circle...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The substitution of Monkey for Montgomery goes way back in San Francisco. Montgomery Street, (once also known as Wall Street of the West), is still occasionally referred to as Monkey Street. The most famous use of this substitution in San Francisco's history is to the Monkey Block. Built in...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The use of the possessive to refer to a business is still in use here in Northern California. The differentiator appears to be if the business name is based on the name of a person it gets the possessive, e.g. Tadich's, Leopold's, Lang's, Goodwin-Cole's, etc. If the name is not so personalized...
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    Is a black waistcoat acceptable with White Tie?

    Another thing to remember is that it used to be that servants wearing formal or semi-formal accessorize it slightly wrong. For example, a four-in-hand tie instead of a bow tie. This was to allow them to blend in but still be identifiably separate.
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    Experimenting on foods.

    Not too different from Brandade, a mash of potatoes and salt cod. Quite tasty, especially with a poached egg on top.
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    Normal House on the Outside, 17th Century on the Inside!

    My first thoughts when I saw the photos of the interior were: 1. "Gee. That looks a lot like some of the rooms at San Simeon." and 2. "Well, the 1920s and '30s are smack-dab in the Golden Era."
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    the Old Chuck Wagon meals on wheels

    Camp biscuits. Either the gods' own food or like to kill you. Late in the 19th C. the camp cook for the survey party involved in mapping a part of the state of Oregon made a particularly bad batch of biscuits. The surveyors commemorated them by naming two recently surveyed features Deathball...
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    Deutschland 83

    I've been wanting to see Deutschland 83 since I heard about it a couple of months ago. Thanks for the reminder. I was stationed in the BRD from '81 to '85. I never made it to Berlin but spent some time up on the interior border near Hof and saw how it cut through towns and the countryside. I...
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    Eat the Santa Fe Super Chief French Toast

    I've made that French Toast before and it is good. My favorite though is the Pennsylvania Railroad French Toast. You make strawberry jam and butter sandwiches with whole slices of the bread, cut the crusts off, and cut them into triangles. The batter is eggs, milk, powdered sugar, either...
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    Experimenting on foods.

    Trenchfriend schreibt: "In former GDR, the generation of my mother knows Maccaroni with Sugar/Cinnamon" That is an incredibly old dish. From the 1390 cookery book, Forme of Curye. Loseyns (or Lozenges) Take gode broth & do in an erþenpot, take flor of payndmayn & make þer of past wit water...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I was born during Eisenhower's second term and one of my grandfathers when young knew someone born in the 18th Century.
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    The ultimate bad-guys of cinema-history?

    Donald Sutherland as the sadistic and homicidal Italian fascist, Attila Mellanchini, in Bertolucci's 1900.
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    Denim is Inappropriate for the Golden Era

    Acceptance of denim definitely varied. My father, (California born but the son of an English valet and butler), never owned a pair of jeans his entire life. For gardening or backpacking, he wore what he called 'suntans'. (i.e. Khakis). My mother, (also California born and raised on a ranch)...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When my grandfather took me to visit relatives in the UK during the mid-1960s, a rag-and-bone man with a horse-drawn wagon came down the South London street where we were staying. I don't know if there was any ethnic distinction applied to him but I got the impression from one of my uncles that...
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    Golden Era/GI Generation: "A man doesn't wear shorts"

    It should not be forgotten that in the early part of 20th C. America that among the aspirational classes it was customary for boys to wear short pants, (particularly knickers), and socks. It was one of the milestones of growing up when you got your first pair of long trousers. Members of the...
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    Movie sidekicks?

    Two sidekicks from the same movie: The Great Race (1965) Keenan Wynn's Hezekiah Sturdy to Tony Curtis's The Great Leslie. Peter Falk's Maximilian Meen to Jack Lemmon's Professor Fate. And for slightly darker tastes, Peter Lorre's Doctor Einstein to Raymond Massey's Jonathan Brewster.
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    what model rifle used by French soldier?

    As per the Internet Movie Firearms Database, the rifle is an Oberndorf Mauser Sporter. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) Haversack
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    The Nazi Gold Train

    Regarding taking the time to demo and lay boobytraps, it sort of depends on the type of unit doing the evacuation. The Kaserne I was stained at during the early '80s was an ex-Luftwaffe fighter base outside of Nuremberg. During the Allied advance across Germany in 1945, the Luftwaffe pulled...
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    did they have public out houses in San Francisco back in 1890 - 1900?

    Well, a number of the bars, (of which San Francisco had a not a few), had urinal troughs running along under the bar for the convenience of drinking men. The Comstock Saloon, built in 1907 still has theirs.

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