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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    "Get a Life" fans surely remember the episode in which he was bicycling off to "The Big City" to make his fortune, and it turned out to be New York as portrayed in 1940's movies - B&W, with streetcars, cops in long overcoats, etc. In my opinion the best one of the series...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I would say more like Red in his younger days. The Mad Canadian wore one of those knit stocking caps with the little ball on the top. However, the basic Red Green idea was definitely there - the Mad Canadian had a stuffed weasel as a pet. (Mentioning Red Green makes me think of my favorite...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It's not a student film, but it was an amateur film that my brother and his friends made, that followed your suggestion (in advance) that they should make a comedy. From the name alone you can get the general idea: "Scoop Slanders, Crime Reporter". It was a combination of...
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    Model of vintage army pants

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    Vintage neon signs

    Actually, the Loveless Motel/Cafe is on Highway 100, just south of Nashville. It's a real place with very good Southern-style food.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I agree with Trenchfriend about keeping my privacy by using cash *only* for in-store purchases. I haven't made any sort of card purchase in probably ten years. Those phone purchases make sense only if they work. In the recent past I was behind a guy who was buying a snack-size bag of potato...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My uncles and older cousins played a version of the Coke/city game except that instead of winning a "pot", the loser (closest city, I guess) had to pay for the Cokes for all. I never played myself, but watched/heard them play. I think the game died out with that older generation. As for the...
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    Paris In The Roaring Twenties

    Suggested reading: "Lee Miller's War" about her photographic experiences during WWII. She was a photographic correspondent for "Vogue" magazine and took many excellent military photos. She traveled across Europe with the 83rd Infantry Division taking pictures as she went.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Thank You! - 1948 Model B-B
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    Name the Actor...

    Thank You! Thank You! - I want to thank the Academy, my co-stars, and 2jakes! (I also want to thank the guy who sold me one of those cameras (in mint condition) about three weeks ago...)
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    Name the Actor...

    Self-correction - it's an Ihagee Exakta VAREX, but may be a VAREX V or VX
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    Name the Actor...

    No problem at all - an IHAGEE EXAKTA VAREX II - Made ~1950
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    You know you are getting old when:

    This falls into old category of "Be careful what you ask for, you might get it." As a long-ago Bugeye Sprite owner I can say I never owned a worse car and I've owned a lot of cars. A go-cart with some cheap sheet metal attached... (I only bought it because I was dating an attractive blonde who...
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    Vintage neon signs

    I've done a lot of night photography so here goes: The shutter in that photo was held open for at least a full second or two, perhaps more, with the camera set up on a tripod. Everything that is sitting still is sharp and well exposed (cars and wall). Anything that is moving is going to be...
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    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    One of my father's WWII stories that I remember clearly was his description of the last days of the War when the Germans were beyond the usual surrender terms, and were mostly just heading west as quickly as possible. He said his armored column would see a mob of Germans heading toward them in...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Being about a decade or so ahead of LizzieM in time, we saw the uncensored versions of the Our Gang comedies. In those days no one thought about taking anything out, and we saw them so often that we virtually had them memorized. As for swordfights with real swords, in our day we outdid the...
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    Old gas stations

    There were several strikes against the Chevy 1958's from the word "go". It was the first year of having what Chevy historians call the "X" frame, instead of a conventional ladder frame. Among other things this required the use of a two-piece driveshaft - not something people (especially people...
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    Old gas stations

    My lowest premium gas price (as I remember it) was 29.9 in the late '60's. It was high-octane - heavily leaded - stuff that would work in the very-high-compression engines of the day. As your father said, $1 worth of gas would get us through a Saturday night date. (the car in the snow-photo is...
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    Vintage neon signs

    Both for your sake and mine I wish I had a photo of the sign I saw last night. On the illuminated board at the local agricultural Co-Op store: BABY HICKS ARE HERE So *that's* where they come from...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    This just goes to show you that the Baby Boomers weren't 100% evil. (just 99%...) We were showing and watching Marx Brothers and W.C. fields movies at the campus movie theaters in the late 60's and early 70's and enjoying them immensely. I remember seeing "Duck Soup" for the first time at our...

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