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  1. Haversack

    Everything But The Squeal

    Cut up the fatback into cubes, fry them, and use them as croutons in a salad.
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    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    When I was on active duty with the US Army in the early 1980s and stationed in Germany, we transitioned from the Vietnam-era olive-green fatigues to the woodland camouflage BDUs.* This was part of a much-needed Army-wide upgrade of field equipment. One upgrade that had been lobbied for by...
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    Tv shows - Poirot , Campion , Foyles War

    The A&E Nero Wolfe series nailed Stout's characters and stories so well that I read any of my wife's collection I cannot but hear Hutton's voice in my head. It works so well that even the stories not produced by A&E are acted by Hutton, Chaykin, et. al. in the theatre of my mind's eye. It even...
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    Movies that make you laugh out loud....

    I have a fond memory of my stone-faced father laughing uproariously out loud in the scene in the Ealing Studio's comedy Whisky Galore where George Campbell, (Gordon Jackson), finally rebels against his strict Scots mother. He himself had a strict Scots mother.
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    after LABOR DAY would you still wear bright summer colors & whites?

    Here in San Francisco, it is only after Labor Day that we get anything resembling Summer weather. It has been foggy, cool, and grey for most of the past three months, with maybe a bit of sun in the afternoon. Actually, most of Northern California has been having a cool summer. Sacramento...
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    Old homes

    rue posted: http://storybookers.com/ Great site! The Storybook is classic for taking the elements of particular Period Revival styles, (esp. English, Norman, and Tudor), and pushing them to extremes. Southern California seems to have the most concentrated collection of the style. There are...
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    Old homes

    Stray Cat wrote: "What sort of a house is it (does the style have a specific name)?" It is Norman Revival. This was one of the picturesque styles popular in the 1920s & 30s. On of the most common elements of this style is the entry tower in the elbow of the house. For an overview of this...
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    Luxurious Demise

    Luxury can mean different things. One definition of 'Luxury' is based on perceptions of quality and exclusivity. Another is based on the quality of materials and manufacture. Yet another is based on how non-essential or pampering a good or service is. Some things manage to be all three. A...
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    1940's housing, where do I start

    Another caveat to housing from the mid-to-late 1940s is that in addition to the housing shortage affecting build quality, a lot of innovations in both building materials and building techniques began to be widely used. Some of these were successful. Others were not. Some were just weird...
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    Luxurious Demise

    Real luxury goods are still out there. They tend not to have brand names and are made to order. As such, you do not find them in outlet malls.
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    French Cuisine

    San Francisco has had an organized and well-established French Community almost from the start of it becoming a city. Between September and December of 1848, over 20 ships arrived here directly from France. By 1852, the French vied with the Chinese and Australians in having the largest foreign...
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    Dialects/Accents in the Movies

    One of the uses that Hollywood has made of the Mid-Atlantic/Received Pronunciation, (i.e. 'English'), accent is to provide distance and suspension of disbelief to American audiences when a film is set in the past in foreign countries. If the actors are speaking with a standard American accent...
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    Past the Golden Age: 1960-70

    For me, the quintessential film about the 1960s and one of the three most subversive films on the Cold War is The President's Analyst, made in 1967. James Coburn is the title character and is the man that every intelligence shop in the world is out to kill or control. (Including the Canadian...
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    WWII Songs

    One song from the other side that still has legs is Panzerlied. Written in 1933 when tanks were still to the Germans forbidden, it has become something of an international tankers song. I've heard it sung by members of the British 2RTR and the US 1AD. A couple of other early war years songs...
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    Vintage recipies

    Here is one of the railroad recipes from the book Dining By Rail which I referred to back on page 4: Pennsylvania Railroad French Toast Tools: electric mixer, mixing bowl, large skillet, paper towels. Heat oil for frying to hot. Preparation time: 30 minutes. Serves 4. 8 slices white bread...
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    Mysteries of a Nazi Photo Album

    There are a lot of unpublished photos from the war out there and in out of the way places. Back when I was in school, (early '70s), I was over at a friend's who knew I had an interest in WWII. He showed me six thick albums full of photos his father had taken during the war. They were all of...
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    Whats your FAVORITE MOVIE Score?

    Maurice Jarre for his ability to evoke a time and place with his music. (e.g. The Paris Waltz from Is Paris Burning?) Also for his ability to subconsciously refer to older movies in the same genre. For example, in his score for The Man Who Would Be King, Jarre uses the Irish tune The...
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    Favorite Authors

    In no particular order: George MacDonald Fraser - especially Mr. American and The Pyrates. Rudyard Kipling. "Sinclair Beckstein" Rex Stout - especially his Nero Wolfe stories. Poul Anderson. W. S. Gilbert. - especially his Bab Ballads.
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    Mexican Pointy boots.

    Nothing new under the sun. Look up 'poulaines' or 'crackowes'. Haversack.
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    50 Unexplainable Photos

    jamespowers wrote: "Yeah, tastes like chicken." Plenty of people ate 'Hoover Hog' during the Depression. Also, photo #10 shows a pair of Krampus threatening to take away a naughty child. Haversack.

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