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    Music from your childhood

    Well, for me it was an assortment. The records I was allowed to play on my own little record player were: 45's of songs from Disney's _The Sword in the Stone_, red transparent 45's of Leonard Warren singing sea shanties, old 78's of Spike Jones and his City Slickers, old 78's of Tchaikovsky's...
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    How old is your house?

    Our house turns 100 this year. We'll probably throw it a party. Its been a little peripatetic though. It was moved from its original site in 1949 to make way for the freeway. Haversack
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    Any one like Flying Boats?

    Bloehm und Voss Bv 138. Had three diesel engines. This enabled the Flying Clog to be refueled far at sea by U-boats. Useful for ferrying Met teams to Greenland. For more on the Empire Flying Boats, (as well as other aircraft flown by Imperial Airways: Yay Hp.42!) see the following site...
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    1905 'dashcam' video, "A Trip Down Market Street"

    Fletch wrote: "I was astonished how many automobiles were already in the streets of SF in 1905 - half a continent or more away from the manufacturing centers." Not too surprising. The Auto Club of California, (now California State Automobile Association), was founded in San Francisco in...
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    Victorian Thrillers

    The Ealing Studio's black comedy, _Kind Hearts and Coronets_. (although it is not modern.) Then there is _Mrs. Brown_ with Judi Dench in the title role... Haversack.
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    Disney Will Make Over Mickey. Why? To Make Us Like Him.

    For another view of the early Mickey Mouse back when he was the B. Simpson of his day, check out his encounter with the live-action Jimmy Durante in the 1934 comedy, _Hollywood Party_. Raspberries. Nose-tweaking. Running around on the floor making women shriek...
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    Dark Passage, '47...

    If anyone is looking for a pied-a-tiere in the City, the penthouse of the Malloch Building, (the Streamline Moderne building used in Dark Passage) is currently for sale. It is not the unit in which Lauren Bacall's character lived, but you can't get much closer...
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    Jeeves and Wooster Lampshades

    Do they have a policeman's helmet? Haversack.
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    Funniest scenes in cinema history

    Slim Pickens, the former rodeo clown, making like Munchhausen at the end of _Dr. Strangelove_. And speaking those immortal words to Dom DeLuise in _Blazing Saddles_: "Pssi on you. I'm working for Mel Brooks!" Haversack.
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    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    Robt. Grudin I never met him but he was the adviser of a friend of mine when we were both in grad-school there in Eugene. (He was in English, I was in architecture). I learned of _Book_ from him. As my friend's area of scholarship was Anglo-Saxon literature, he had little truck with...
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    "What the Great Depression Did to Culture"

    For an entertaining burlesque of postmodernism in an academic setting, I would recommend Book, by Robert Grudin. It is something of a murder mystery set in the English department of the University of Washagon. Central to the plot is the academic putsch by the postmodernists in the faculty and...
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    Sword and Sorcery Movies from the 80's

    Story asked in regard to Bakshi's _Lord of the Rings_: "Didn't he use footage from ZULU as inspiration for his Orcs?" I don't know about his LOTR, but for _Wizards_, he rotoscoped extensively from Eisenstein's classic, _Alexander Nevsky_. Haversack.
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    We're here because...

    ...we're here, because we're here, because we're here. (To the tune of Auld Lang Syne.) WWI Trench Song. Haversack.
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    Sword and Sorcery Movies from the 80's

    Excalibur, for it is only movie I know that explicitly deals with The Matter of Britain. That scene towards the end when Arthur and his remaining knights ride to the Last Battle and the Land leaps into spring with his passing by still raises the hair along my spine. They truly tapped into...
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    Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

    Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is also considered the "father of the Beachjumpers" after his attached service with British commandos very early in the war. The Beachjumpers were a clandestine US Navy organization which engaged in Tactical Cover and Deception in Naval Warfare. Fairbanks combined his...
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    The End of the Line - The W-Class tram trundles off into history...

    San Francisco's Municipal Railway has one of Melbourne's W-Class operating pretty much daily on the F-Line up Market Street. You can see its history here: http://www.streetcar.org/mim/streetcars/fleet/antique/496/index.html I find it interesting that the State of Victoria has placed an...
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    Comeback for trolleys in Brooklyn?

    dhermann wrote: "The catenary boom on top of the trolley became disengaged from the catenary wire above. When this happened, the conductor had to get out, grab a rope attached to the boom, and pull the boom down and over, and hook it back onto the wire." This is a daily occurrence in San...
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    What would you serve as the best local food?

    A few years back, an old friend and her German physics professor boyfriend were staying with us and we walked over the hill to a little hole-in-the-wall diner/bakery for breakfast. He ordered both the Hangtown Fry and Crabcakes. He got rather excited about these dishes because they was both...
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    Golden Era Building Materials...

    A lot of the answer is going to depend on where and when, and also if you mean structural materials or finish materials. Reason being for the former is that there was, (and is), a lot of provincialism in residential construction. The preferred methods of construction vary considerably by...
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    Hat Quotes

    From George Kaufman's one act play, If Men Played Cards as Women Do as excerpted in the 1942 Paramount studio satire/patriotic movie, Star Spangled Rhythm: John: "Oh say! That's a new hat, isn't it?" Bob: "Why, no---don't you remember? It's the one I got at Knox's in the Spring. Then...

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