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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    In a sense, nothing is "real" at the beginning. It's "new"; it's innovative; it's the latest thing. Eventually, though, it becomes dated, worn, old-fashioned, out-of-touch, etc., etc., etc. (Etc. is what you say when you can't think of another example). Anyway, it's sort of a life cycle. It's...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Resist!
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    For Remembrance Day - Colourized Photos First World War

    There are original color photos taken during the war, although they are the exceptions.
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    Every Time I Toss the Bacon Grease I Feel Guilty

    Is that good or bad?
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    Classic Safari vehicles!

    A friend of my uncle, who he grew up with and who I had known since childhood, had a Bronco. But my uncle said you still need a pickup truck. I don't know how I've managed all these years but we get by with station wagons, hatchbacks and now, in addition to the station wagon, an SUV. When I...
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    Every Time I Toss the Bacon Grease I Feel Guilty

    Used cooking fat, both from the deep fryer and from drippings, is collected from restaurants and recycled. But I have no idea what it is recycled into and what it's used for after that.
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    Vintage trains

    You can still take a ride on the Orient Express, if you have the fare (and a trifle to spare). In the movie "Obsession," a story about a man who is going to get even with another man for messing around with his wife, there is a discussion between him and a police detective about trains, since...
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    White RAF Roll Neck Sweaters

    There is a theory that a combat uniform becomes a dress uniform in two generations, maybe three (not everyone's generations are the same). I'm not sure I fully agree but it does seem like that. But everything keeps changing. Sometimes you might get the impression the military, particularly...
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    White RAF Roll Neck Sweaters

    I must have walked down that road. Lots of (other) foreigners around. Regarding the submarine sweater, go find an early 1950s Royal Navy documentary--there are several--about shipboard duties and life and see how the sailors looked during that period. There may be some from the 1940s and...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I've been watching Charlie Chan movies lately, although I barely have the patience to sit through a whole hour of a motion picture these days. All the ones I've seen have been those with Sidney Toler. There is much about them that is fascinating, although the plot is not generally one of them...
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    Classic vintage CANVAS TENTS

    You talk about canvas tents having an odor? My two nylon tents have an awful odor after being stored anywhere. But it clears up after you air it out. But they are a little more delicate than canvas, although they won't rot. You just have to be careful with sparks and flame. Not the thing to...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Some movies are very "talky," and that may have been difficult for some but some movies are only a little more than filmed stage productions, with most of the action, such as there is, taking place in one room. Still, I suppose there needed to be a different style of speaking and moving around...
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    Lost art of proper relaxation

    That's how Herbert Hoover dressed to go fishing. We visited his "camp" up in the Shenandoah several years ago where he liked to go to get away from Washington. It's my idea of a nice camp. But Hemingway never dressed like that to go fishing but his friend Gary Cooper did.
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    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    I was trying to remember when I've ever had any of mine cleaned. I'm sure I've washed at least one of them once. If I did, I probably hand-washed it and rolled it up in a towel to soak up the water, then spread it out flat. I wouldn't recommend hanging it up. I'm not sure what chest patch...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I think Cary Grant was playing Cary Grant all the time. And that suggests something about all of us. Somebody said a long time ago that all the world's a stage and so we're all actors, after a fashion. Some are better than others. Acting isn't easy and I don't know how they remember their...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I really haven't seen many stage productions, not counting concerts, but I have enjoyed the musicals I've seen. Plain old song and dance productions are rare and musical variety shows are virtually non-existent, as far as I can tell. If they're still around, they aren't anything like what I...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In a sense, most everything done on stage is like that. Performers on stage usually don't speak in a normal tone of voice. Everything has to be a little exaggerated so it can be seen and understood by someone sitting fifty feet away. Same with the makeup, although I suppose even all of that can...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    A man's has to believe in something.
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    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    When did we disagree?
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    Military 'woolly pully' sweaters

    You would probably like wool serge trousers, too, along with a flannel shirt.

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