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    Favorite Historic Buildings or Places

    Great Question. This thread would take me for ever to answer, if I posted all my favorite historic sites -- and if I tried to think of all those lost sites that I'd love to see, I'd never get off the computer. As an adopted St. Louisan, though, I can at least address one small part of the...
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    Vintage Phones

    Thanks! So here's what I found out: the only thing inside the phone that is printed in orange-red are the letters HC. I also found the following printed on the bottom of a square thingy (sorry, I don't know much about machines): IND 101A III 49. Could that be an indicator that the phone was...
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    What era of dress or style doyou prefer?

    My single favorite year for women's fashion is 1939; that's the year the waists were natural, the skirts full without being poofy, and the sleeves nicely puffy at the top without becoming too mannish. Incidentally, that's also the greatest year for Golden Era movies. When I make my own clothes...
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    Show us your vintage knitting and crochet!

    I've been working my way through volumes 1 and 2 of A Stitch in Time -- both the original (1970s) version of vol. 1 by Jane Waller, as well as the more recent revisions by Susan Crawford. My most recent effort was "It Cannot Fail to Please," which worked out well, but unfortunately turned out...
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    Vintage Phones

    Thanks for all this helpful information, everyone! I am wondering whether you would be able to help me identify my telephone? I found this years ago at an antique mall, had it repaired by a lovely fellow in Arizona, -- and it works beautifully. The only problem is, I can't identify it; there's...
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    office sealed since the `30s

    I'm sure you must all have heard of New York's Tenement Museum? Some time in the 1980s, a developer investigated an old store front in New York's Lower East Side, only to discover that the building had been left untouched since the mid-1930s. All of the furnishings and most of the fixtures had...
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    Favorite Vintage Perfumes

    Bluebird Marsha, thanks so much for that insightful & helpful discussion. I realized pretty early on that I would have to hide most of my vintage fragrance experiments if I wanted my dressing table to look authentic. I have to admit that I found myself becoming deeply immersed in these scents...
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    Does your vintage wardrobe have to match your vintage house?

    Well, that was my problem exactly -- I moved to St. Louis a few years ago for my current job, and discovered good news and bad news. The good: I was actually able to afford a 1929 bungalow on my tiny salary. The bad: the house matches my salary -- about 1000 square feet. To get back to the...
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    Favorite Vintage Perfumes

    I find this thread absolutely fascinating, because I've been experimenting with vintage fragrances lately. I'm particularly interested in what an average working-class lady would have worn if she'd lived in my house in the mid-1930s. Right now I'm looking for vintage versions of Emeraude and...
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    Cologne and perfume

    Lately I've become obsessed with vintage fragrances, mostly because I'm in the process of recreating the mid-1930s in my tiny St. Louis bungalow. So I've been wearing the kinds of scents that a woman would have worn if she'd lived in this house about 75-80 years ago: Emeraude, L'Aimant, Tabu...
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    Making pressed powder

    Hi there. I'm very new to this forum, as you can see, but I'd like to weigh in on this thread. I've been experimenting with refilling vintage powder compacts. I think somewhere on this forum there was a conversation (though unfortunately now I can't find it) about using the above-mentioned...
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    New Ladies and Gents Step Forward

    Good afternoon. I live in St. Louis, and I have been deeply interested in the golden era (for me, mid-1930s through mid-1940s) for most of my life. A few years ago I learned about the 1930s Lady in Amsterdam, and realized that there's a whole community of like-minded folks out there. I'm in...

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