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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    vintage68 wrote: "... But I'm sure eventually they'll just be surgically implanted in our bodies..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUa3np4CKC4
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    Hats Renamed or Associated with fictional characters.

    (Wah) Is it perhaps stating the obvious to note that both Fedora and Trilby are names of fictional characters?
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    Favorite Halloween movies

    From opposite ends of the spectrum: Meet Me in St. Louis - (The trick or treating scene) and The Wicker Man, (the original one from 1973 with Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward. Gets one in the real holiday spirit.) Haversack
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    was tipping at restaurants common in the old days?

    In Preston Sturges's 1942 film, The Palm Beach Story, a thinly veiled Rockefeller named John D. Hackensacker, (played by Rudy Vallee), states "Tipping is un-American." And who was described by the Pullman Porter, (played by Charles Moore), "Nawsir. She say he takin' her down to his boat...
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    What's for Dinner?

    Tonight, Alfred's Steak House with wife and friends we haven't seen for a while: Negroni up to start, then Wedge Salad, Dry-aged Ribeye, and Creamed Spinach accompanied with an nice 2005 Rioja. Finished with Fried Cream and Coffee. Then a slow three mile walk home to let it settle.
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    The general decline in standards today

    Curtain goes up. Savoy Theatre, London. 14 March 1885. "If you want to know who we are, We are gentlemen of Japan: On many a vase and jar — On many a screen and fan, We figure in lively paint: Our attitude's queer and quaint — You're wrong if you think it ain't" Haversack
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    Vintage trains

    Blackthorn, If you include Germany on your European travels, I would recommend to you the German Steam Locomotive Museum, (Deutches Dampflokomotiv Musum), in the small town of Neuenmarkt. It lies between Berlin and Nuremberg near the brewery town of Kulmbach. They've got over two dozen...
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    I used to live in a whore house!

    Back when I was in Architecture school in the Pacific Northwest, a couple of the courses had us studying settlement patterns. These involved some field work in some the small towns of the region. Some common features of these towns were the train station, the one big hotel (usually the only...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A bit of dialogue from Kind Hearts and Coronets, (1949): Mr Elliot: Even my lamented master, the great Mr. Benny himself, never had the privilege of hanging a duke. What a finale to a lifetime in the public service! Prison Governor: Finale? Mr Elliot: Yes, I intend to retire. After using this...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The shift in the meaning of 'gunsel' from 'catamite' to 'hired' gun is directly attributable to Dashiell Hammett, author of The Maltese Falcon. The editor of the pulp magazine in which the Falcon was first serialized was opposed to vulgar language. This irked Hammett. In submitting the...
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    Japan in the 1950s

    Fascinating Photos. It should be noted that Japan made an even larger cultural/social/technological adaption a bare 90 years previous to the end of WWII. Haversack
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    Cost of steamship passage 1935 ...

    IF you haven't seen the following sites yet, you may find them useful. First is the APL history site...
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    Images of L.A.'s most famous roads when they were dirt.

    Tasmanian Blue Gums were heavily planted in California from the 1870s through the 1920s for a variety of purposes. A pretty good history of this is here: http://www.academia.edu/322875/Gone_Native_Californias_Love-Hate_Relationship_with_Eucalyptus_Trees Haversack.
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    Field Chow Can

    My favorite Mermite memory concerns a REFORGER at 0230 hours. My driver and I had gone back to battery for the new set of surveyed firing points. While there, our battery mess sergeant presented me with a Mermite and told me not to open it until I got back to my launcher's hide position. When...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Mercedes-Benz - The Rich Man's Volkswagen" A phrase I remember hearing in the early 1960s.
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    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    The photo above of the house sitting in the middle of the road was taken in China and depicts the result of what happened when the owner of the house refused to sell it to the government for a highway project. Sort of like the old Bugs Bunny cartoon. The Guardian article below has photos of...
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    Ha har! Jack lad. Talk like a pirate!

    "Gengu þeir á land upp slyppir, en þeir Þórólfr tóku skipit með farmi ok fóru leiðar sinnar. Hafði Þórólfr þá þrjú skip, er hann sigldi austan um Foldina, sigldu þá þjóðleið til Líðandisness, fóru þá sem skyndiligast, en námu nesnám, þar sem þeir kómu við, ok hjuggu strandhögg."* What? Vikings...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I remember hearing the term Grass Widow still being used in the early 1980s among US Army officers and their wives stationed in Germany. It referred to wives who's husbands were frequently in the field, (e.g. members of the 2nd & 11th ACR). Not too dissimilar to the term Baseball Widow.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Back when I was doing rental inspections for the City of Eugene, I encountered a nicely fitted-out sleeping porch. It was in a large, early 20th C. house that had been divided into about 7 units. One of these units was a studio that had once been the house's sleeping porch. It effectively...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "A little man"... I am reminded of the use of this term in a short skit written by George Kaufman and shown abridged in the 1942 Paramount studio satire and wartime rally film, Star Spangled Rhythm. "If Men Played Cards As Women". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxbqCvnqaaY

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