MrBern
I'll Lock Up
- Messages
- 4,469
I really don't wanna nitpick, but getting some 1930s/40s glasses would be a great addition. I wear specs and know all too well how tough they are to find, but they're really worth it because people do notice...KilroyCD said:
Believe me, that is something I've been looking for, but my pumpkin head is too big for the vintage frame styles I've come across so far.p51 said:I really don't wanna nitpick, but getting some 1930s/40s glasses would be a great addition. I wear specs and know all too well how tough they are to find, but they're really worth it because people do notice...
David Conwill said:As my favorite history prof was fond of saying "Not too many German bombers made it through to Saginaw." But, I'm sure our British friends can explain the important contributions of the Air Raid Warden closer to the front. My mother's father was one - he couldn't otherwise serve because of his war-critical job and several kids, so he inspected M1 Carbines during the day and helped with the blackout at night.
If you really want to pick on a group of reenactors, I'll start a war profiteer/black marketer reenactment group for you to hate on.
-Dave
As an aside, fellow Lounger Mr. K.L. Bowers set up an O.P.A. rationing board display (complete with portable building) at WWII Weekend at Reading, PA last month. We had fun with him. While he was talking to people out front, we's stick our head in the back door and say something like, "Pssst! Mr. Bowers! Where would you like us to put those four tires you had us grind the serial numbers off of?"David Conwill said:I also just discovered my maternal grandfather was a somebody in the Office of Price Administration in Saginaw because of his pre-war experience running a grocery store. That was actually two discoveries, as I’d always just been told he was a butcher.
-Dave