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    Wanted: 1940s-1970s style "Ricky"/Gabardine Jacket

    Was hoping to get a Ricky or Gab jacket anywhere from the 40s-70s style, if anyone is interested in selling.
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    Corduroy Pants in the Golden Era?

    Am looking for a Golden Era appropriate substitution for jeans, was wondering if Corduroy Pants were popular/often worn in the Golden Era?
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    Question - Did anyone here experience the 1930s-1960s in NYC?

    Am looking to hear some experiences of people who might have grown up in New York City (where I live) between the 1930s and 1960s. I'd really love to be able to hear what it all was like back then - what the people were like. I wish I could have a time machine - but your memories would be...
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    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    Lizzie, I tried pming you, would you please clean out your message box? It says it's full.
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    1940s/1950s cars vs. 1960s cars

    I was watching a film from the mid 60s earlier and I noticed something...I'd always loved '60s cars before, but they really had a sort of flimsy look to cars previous to that - and cars since then have had the same look. I mean, compare these cars: 1949 Mercury Coupe 1957 Mercury...
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    What is this a reference to?

    This a home movie of my grandfather from 1962. He was born in 1920 and died 40 years ago tomorrow. I'm curious what his little jumping gesture with the golf club was in reference to - my mother (who was 8 then) thought perhaps it was a reference to a Jackie Gleason skit, but she wasn't sure...
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    What year do you think this photo was taken?

    To compare, my grandfather (the one on the right in the first photo: 1951 1962 1966/1967 I know of nothing photos (except possibly the one in the OP) of my grandfather between 1951 and 1962.
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    What year do you think this photo was taken?

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    Why did everything look so....crappy? in the 1970s

    I'm probably in the minority here, but I feel cars hit their peak sometime between 1951 and 1965 or thereabouts.
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    Why did everything look so....crappy? in the 1970s

    Everything from the movies to tv shows to fashion, there just seemed to be an air of, I guess the best word for it is 'cheapness', like, if you watch a TV show from the 70s or some movies, it looks cheaply made; it looks coarse as well, almost vulgar, especially the fashions and how loud and...
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    Golden Era/GI Generation: "A man doesn't wear shorts"

    I remember once I was talking to my (now deceased) grandmother. She told me how back in the day, in the 1950s at least, my grandfather was criticized for wearing T-Shirts outside. She said his own aunt would say to her, "How can you marry a man who goes outside in his underwear?", some of his...
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    My grandfather's stuff

    Part II: 1945-1964: Recovery after getting shot, 1945-1946: Grandpa in the hospital, 1945 or '46: 4-22-1945 ("First Sunday Home from the Hospital" on the back of the photos): Hack License, 1951: 1964 World's Fair ID, front and reverse: 1966 Heashot:
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    My grandfather's stuff

    I mentioned in another thread that I inherited most of my grandfather's stuff in an old tote bag of his. His show has become my treasure, and most of it is from the Golden Era. I don't have all of it scanned, but I thought I'd share what I do have scanned thus far. Part I: 1934-1944 My...
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    An immense amount of guilt

    My grandfather has a mixed legacy. He wasn't a perfect man, by far, not at all. A bad husband, yet a good father and a war hero. The guy was a Staff Sergeant by his early 20s and was in the service even before Pearl Harbor - he joined in 1939 and only left when a bullet damn near took his leg...
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    An immense amount of guilt

    I know I shouldn't be logically, but it's hard. I don't even know how they could've been lost. Nothing else was. I've felt like a disgrace, like if the old man were watching me from upstairs, he'd be let down by it. And it's just two damn photos but the two damn photos feel like...pieces of a...
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    An immense amount of guilt

    I never met my grandfather. I was born in 1990, and he died 40 years ago on October 4th 1975. However, I was given a tote bag, which was his, which contained all of his personal possessions, including his WW2 and Army photos, licenses, work IDs, his wallet(s), even down to his 1935 School...
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    NYC Hack License question (Golden Era/late Golden Era)

    Any idea when it would've been issued, though? I have his badge which looks just like the ones on the site. It has the same expiration as the license does (Marc 31st 1952)...Thank you by the way. I'm just curious if there's anyway of figuring out when it was issued between September 1950 and...
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    NYC Hack License question (Golden Era/late Golden Era)

    Hi, I have my grandfather's Hack License (Taxi License). I know the License was issued sometime between September 1950 and June 1951 as the Police Commissioner named on the License is Thomas Murphy, who served as Police Commissioner for New York City in that brief timeframe. What I am curious...
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    Why the 1920s-1940s?

    For me it is similar in some respects. I was raised by Baby Boomers, and to be honest (no offense to our Baby Boomers here), I don't much like the world they gave us. My grandparents' generation, and great grandparents' generation, however, gave us an amazing America, a good society, a simpler...
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    Why the 1920s-1940s?

    For me, it's a matter of nostalgia I suppose. While it was made after the era, the introduction to the film Grease captures everything I love about the period in question.

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