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  1. filfoster

    Favorite Halloween movies

    Scary: Bram Stoker's Dracula with Gary Oldman, and of course, 'Rosemary's Baby' , the original. Funny: Hocus Pocus Fun: Johnny Depp's 'Sleepy Hollow', by Tim Burton All Round: Disney's 'Something Wicked This Way Comes' with Jason Robards and durable bad guy Jonathan Pryce.
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    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    I actually have a memory of this, at my mother's parents farmhouse, for one of his last addresses, this would have been '58 or '59-maybe '60.
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    Cincinnati Union Station

    Some may know of the urgent need for about $150MM to restore and maintain this gem. It's been given a funding tax by the City but will it be enough? Hope so. My mom left here, by herself, to go to California in 1940 to be with my Dad who was in Army training in California. He'd dropped out of...
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    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    You are now one of my heroes!
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    How would you earn a living?

    I paid for grad school but back in the '70's, it wasn't that bad and it was a night law school program, so I worked for $ to pay for it by day.
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    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    Wow! Does that thing still work? Can you get it serviced? That's vacuum tube technology. It's hard to believe anyone is still around who can work on these.
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    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    Recall the size of the TV box vs the screen on those early models?
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    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    I found a few seasons on DVD of Highway Patrol. Is there a better time machine to the 1950's?
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    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    Our local network stations would begin broadcasting around 5:30 or 6:00 AM; the test pattern (the sign) would abruptly disappear as a film clip of the American flag running up a flagpole appeared to the sounds of the Star Spangled Banner played 'quick time'. What followed was usually the farm...
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    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    Assuming anyone posting born before 1960 something only had black and white TV, how many stations could you get? We lived in a rural suburb of Cincinnati, and got three local 'network' stations, one Public Broadcasting station and on a clear day and no solar flares, might pull in a Dayton, OH...
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    How would you earn a living?

    I could still be a trust officer, but maybe I'd try something different. Practicing law had to be a lot simpler and more civil then.
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    was tipping at restaurants common in the old days?

    I am appalled at the stories that circulate locally about how poorly sports professionals, entertaining at our local places, tip. An entitlement mentality? Certainly seems to show a narcissistic disregard for 'the little people'.
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    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    Yeah, what was it with Jack Lalanne? I also remember watching him! Howdy Doody for sure. Also Saturday mornings with Roy Rogers. Glad to see others traumatized by flying monkeys! Did anyone else get up early and just watch the test pattern until programming began?
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    Bergmutze / M43 Cap repros?

    Maybe, according to the hypberbolic press coverage.
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    First TV show you ever watched (and can recall)

    My earliest TV memory was a local morning variety show called 'The Paul Dixon Show', about 1956. I was 3. Of course I remember seeing the annual broadcast of The Wizard of Oz and those flying monkeys scared the poop out of me until my teens.
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    Obscure Treasure: The Hitler Gang DVD

    Has anyone else seen this? I saw a reference to it on some forum thread and took a dare that Amazon might have it and it did. The forum comment said the vintage propoganda movie (circa 1944?) was not great acting but the resemblences of the actors to their contemporary counterparts was...
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    What would you miss most?

    To the OP, sulfa drugs and everything I now take as a heart attack survivor. I suppose I'd miss life most since I would not have survived my last heart attack without a cath lab and stents.
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    Bergmutze / M43 Cap repros?

    You're in Scotland or whatever it will soon be...Zib is probably ok. If you were Stateside, www.atthefront.com would be the easiest place to get a good copy. Both probably made by Sturm.
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    Start of WWII

    After so many years of reading it, I believe the only folks who would want to live in an earlier time are those without enough imagination or information. And yet, see the website I post on....
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    Coral Shoes (Chuck Taylor style) Inquiry

    A similar style are the Brit 'plimsols' on www.onlinemilitaria.com

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