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  1. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    We have 21st century "light rail" here in Houston. When I think of a "street car" or a "trolley", the image is of a single car riding along in the same lane as other traffic, as Tony describes above. "Light rail" is more like a train, with six or eight cars riding on its own dedicated lane...
  2. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    We still have a few of those around here, mostly in smaller towns. In high school, we had the Burger Mart, though we called it a drive "up". And there's always Sonic, which still has the classic window ordering and even carhops on roller skates.
  3. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I eat rutabagas all the time. My dad loves them, and we had them at least once a week growing up.
  4. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    There are still places today where if you want an item this week, it's either Walmart or a 6 hour drive. I can understand, and I've noticed that Walmarts in small towns attracts a completely different crowd than the ones in the city. As for needing a rental storage unit, we had to get one to...
  5. HudsonHawk

    Hold on more or less unwritten styling-rules or break for health-reasons?

    I wear Crocs when I go wade fishing. I'm a heretic.
  7. HudsonHawk

    Musician's hats

    Someone get Jackson Browne a hat!
  8. HudsonHawk

    Musician's hats

    My favorite Guy Clark story is the one where he locked himself in his bedroom, to hide from TVZ, and nailed the door shut. After a while he had to relieve himself but couldn't get the nails out. He tried to open the windows, but couldn't do that either. In the meantime, he wrote Let Him Roll...
  9. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I refuse to shop at Walmart because it's impossible to find anything. It's like they just took one of everything, threw it up in the air, and wherever it landed, that's where they stocked that item.
  10. HudsonHawk

    Musician's hats

    If we're gonna talk great songwriters, may as well put the three greatest America has produced in the last 60 years in one post:
  11. HudsonHawk

    Power poles in rural areas in the early 40s

    A side note about the color of insulators: Most were some shade of the aqua green, as that was sort of the default color that resulted from the process, as Lizzie points out. You could order special colors, and that was sometimes seen on poles that had a lot of different circuits, which made...
  13. HudsonHawk

    Power poles in rural areas in the early 40s

    Substantially like they look today. The common pot transformer has been standard since the 1910s. Maybe this will give you the idea: And it would have contained PCBs. I assume your model will not be *that* accurate.
  14. HudsonHawk

    Power poles in rural areas in the early 40s

    Not an expert, but... I'm pretty sure there were all kinds of colors of insulators by the 1930s...green, blue, amber, clear, etc. There are many websites dedicated to collectors of such who could probably tell you exactly what kind you'd find in your neighborhood. As for transformers, they...
  15. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Get well soon Lizzie. I had mine out on Christmas Eve, 1985. Worst. Christmas. Ever. Story though...a few hours out of the recovery room, and the nurse said "now you've had an IV for several hours, so soon you'll have to go to the bathroom. That's a good sign, so don't hold it." So in the...
  16. HudsonHawk

    Musician's hats

    One of my favorites from back in the day... Frontman Jason Ringenberg has also had a second career doing children's music as "Farmer Jason":
  17. HudsonHawk

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Lots of Dylan covers are more famous than the original....Peter,Paul and Mary's version of Blowin' in the Wind, The Byrds' Mr. Tambourine Man...how many people have covered Knockin on Heaven's Door? Personally, I'm a fan of Jason and the Scorchers' version of Absolutely Sweet Marie. But to the...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A "drawl" is simply elongating words, making a single syllable word into two syllables by drawing out vowel sounds. It's common in most Southern accents, but not exclusive to them. Perhaps you have a bit of a drawl when you're tired or speaking lazily, and people just automatically associate...
  20. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It worked the same way here, they recoup the phone discount on the contract, except that they said most people nowadays want a new phone every 8-10 months, so they're simply doing away with the contract and making you pay the entire amount up front. Of course, plan rates didn't change, so it...
  21. HudsonHawk

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I'm not sure how it's a good deal for me. Instead of paying $200 for a phone and $50/month for service, I'm paying $800 for the exact same phone and $50/month for service. Yes, the former locks you into a 24 month contract, but the penalty for leaving the contract early is paying the additional...
  22. HudsonHawk

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I think my wife means it just in a general sense, that the old Florida Cracker accent creeps back in. You don't hear it much anymore, as Florida has become so homoginized, but certain things are very pronounced. You eat "bald" chicken an check the "awl" in your engine. The only authentic...
  23. HudsonHawk

    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    "Growing up in Florida, baseball was huge among us kids, more so than every other sport combined. Of course, we played year round as we had no real winter, and got really excited every spring when the Big Leagues were getting ready to start. We didn't have a local team, but we got the Braves on...

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