Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

[LizzieMaine]

Two kids? A bowl of Wheaties each, a glass of milk each, and stop fighting at the table or I'll knock your heads off.

 

[jamespowers]

Two kids? A bowl of Wheaties each, a glass of milk each, and stop fighting at the table or I'll knock your heads off.

Wow, they would be starving Aunt Lizzie. You know they are not the twig boys that you think you might find out here.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I see tons of vintage gas ranges for sale. Too bad I prefer a gas range.

All I know is that my grandparents 1958 electric stove has been in the same spot operating since it was first bought trouble free through three generations now. Dang that has been a long time.

 

[jamespowers]

I see tons of vintage gas ranges for sale. Too bad I prefer a gas range.

I prefer gas as well. The last house I had still had the stove that came with the house in 1940. lol lol I am not going to plumb this up for gas here now so that electric rang eis going to have to last for another 50 years.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I prefer gas as well. The last house I had still had the stove that came with the house in 1940. lol lol I am not going to plumb this up for gas here now so that electric rang eis going to have to last for another 50 years.

We don't have natural gas here, and I don't like bottled gas. So I'm stuck with electric.

My electric stove is the newest appliance I own -- it's about sixty years old, and the only maintenance it requires is replacement of the oven heating element every fifteen years or so, a job I can do with a screwdriver in ten minutes. I got it the same day I got the refrigerator, and expect to have both until I die.

 

[jamespowers]

We don't have natural gas here, and I don't like bottled gas. So I'm stuck with electric.

My electric stove is the newest appliance I own -- it's about sixty years old, and the only maintenance it requires is replacement of the oven heating element every fifteen years or so, a job I can do with a screwdriver in ten minutes. I got it the same day I got the refrigerator, and expect to have both until I die.

No, natural gas would stink. :eusa_doh: I have it over at my mother's place with her old O'Keeffe and Merritt stove.
I forgot about the heating elements. Yes, they go and when they go it can be like a sparkler. My grandmother had one go on thanksgiving while she was baking the turkey. Good thing the stove has a double oven. I keep the stove elements handy for just such an emergency. I am surprised you can still get all that stuff so easily. You can't get parts for a ten year old electric stove. Go figure.

 

[a20havoc]

One thing that wasn't "cool" about the 1930's was that Orson Welles got replaced as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow.

 

[jamespowers]

One thing that wasn't "cool" about the 1930's was that Orson Welles got replaced as Lamont Cranston/The Shadow.

[video=youtube_share;Nzd6F4i5Zog]http://youtu.be/Nzd6F4i5Zog[/video]

 

[a20havoc]

Good find. Thx for posting that. I fired it up as soon as you replied. My favorite Shadow adventure hands down is "The Temple Bells of Neban":

[video=youtube;jeYTnjVCcrc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYTnjVCcrc[/video]

Listening to OTR is one of the very few things "they" did that we also can do pretty much the same way.

 

[Michaelson]

I was fortunate enough to pick up the boxed collections of LP's of the Shadow radio mysteris back in the late 1970's. Advertisers were Blue Coal, Goodyear safety Silvertown tires, and Bromo-Quinine tablets! GREAT stuff!
Regards! Michaelson

 

[jamespowers]

I was fortunate enough to pick up the boxed collections of LP's of the Shadow radio mysteris back in the late 1970's. Advertisers were Blue Coal, Goodyear safety Silvertown tires, and Bromo-Quinine tablets! GREAT stuff!
Regards! Michaelson

Another great thing about the Golden Era---The Shadow. Good to see you here again.

 

[Michaelson]

Thanks! I come in and out as I have time! I'm glad SOMEONE remembers me! (grins)

Regard! Michaelson

 

[jamespowers]

Thanks! I come in and out as I have time! I'm glad SOMEONE remembers me! (grins)

Regard! Michaelson

Oh there are still some of us "old" members still around.
I am guessing that you still have that car in your avatar? Still running it to work on those cold mornings?

 

[Story]

The Quiet Dell murders were among the first big, sensational crime stories of the Depression: A serial killer corresponded with vulnerable widows he met through lonely hearts clubs, then lured them to their deaths.

As a child, writer Jayne Anne Phillips learned about the murders from her mother, who was a child in 1931, when the murders took place. Phillips says she didn't talk a lot about the tragedy, but whenever they drove close to where the crime occurred — near Clarksburg, W.Va. — her mother would say, "There's the road to Quiet Dell."

Phillips' new novel, Quiet Dell, revisits the murders. She says that after hearing her mother's recollections, she developed a strong connection to the sensory details of the story.

http://www.npr.org/2013/10/15/234681427/quiet-dell-revives-a-depression-era-murder-story

 

[Story]

HERRIN, Illinois – Administrators in the southern Illinois city of Herrin have given the go-ahead for more cemetery excavation work intended to find the remains of victims of a violent 1922 labor strike.

The Herrin City Council agreed Monday to let historians, anthropologists and geologists continue their digging at the Herrin City Cemetery. Searchers reported that their efforts last Friday uncovered five sets of unmarked remains in burial plots sold to other families since 1988.

The excavation, which began last month, is meant to find victims of the 1922 Herrin Massacre, which took place during a union strike and killed dozens of replacement workers at the Southern Illinois Coal Co.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/16/cemetery-excavation-at-site-122-union-massacre/?intcmp=trending

 

[Story]

The U.S. government lobotomized roughly 2,000 mentally ill veterans — and likely hundreds more — during and after World War II, according to a cache of forgotten memos, letters and government reports unearthed by The Wall Street Journal.

“They got the notion they were going to come to give me a lobotomy,” Roman Tritz, a World War II bomber pilot, told the newspaper in a report published Wednesday. “To hell with them.”

Tritz said the orderlies at the veterans hospital pinned him to the floor, and he initially fought them off. A few weeks later, just before his 30th birthday, he was lobotomized.

http://www.armytimes.com/article/20...eport-VA-lobotomized-2-000-disturbed-veterans

 

[John Galt]

Another great thing about the Golden Era---The Shadow. Good to see you here again.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?


"Faint hat never won fair lady."

 

[John Galt]

I prefer gas as well. The last house I had still had the stove that came with the house in 1940. lol lol I am not going to plumb this up for gas here now so that electric rang eis going to have to last for another 50 years.

Never knew what"now you're cooking with gas" meant until I had an electric range. Then I got it. My grandmother swore by wood cooking stoves - I have not had the pleasure but if it is even close, I really do get it now gran....


"Faint hat never won fair lady."

 

[bburtner@moran]

Who is this "Jamespowers"?

 

[Stearmen]

Who is this "Jamespowers"?

"The Hippies know!"