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    Why the 1920s-1940s?

    From what I've seen on my 8 years around here, most people here tend to love and gravitate more toward the 1920s-1940s roughly than any other period; most seem to define that rough span as being the "Golden Era". From what I've seen, 1927-1945 or so is the most common marker points for the...
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    What specific hair products did men use in the 30's, 40's, and 50's?

    What sort of stuff would be good to give a slight shine, good hold but greaseless feel to wavy/curly hair? My hair is much like my grandfather's (picture below). Water alone won't keep my hair back, and Brylcreem when applied holds the hair but makes it go straight. I'm looking for something...
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    Best Gable movie?

    Same question as Bogart - what do you think is Gable's best movie besides Gone with the Wind? And what would be best to introduce a person to Gable with?
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    Bogie's best movie?

    What do you guys think was Bogie's best movie? I'm going to go with the obvious choice and say Casablanca. Also, I'm trying to get a friend into Bogie. She's watched Elvis movies before and some Monroe pictures, so she's open to 'retro' things but her era is mainly the 1950s - she'd love to...
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    Denim is Inappropriate for the Golden Era

    Do you think Denim (in the form of a pair of jeans, or a denim jacket) have any place in Golden Era revivalism? I've always associated jeans with the 1950s and the Baby Boomer generation, and jean jackets with the 1970s and Rock N' Roll. I've always felt Jeans - at least the widespread wearing...
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    Best Golden Era (up to mid 60s) Westerns?

    What are the best Westerns say from 1930 to 1963?
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    Star Trek (The Original Series)

    Yeah, the characters in TNG seemed very sterile. The original cast had amazing, almost magical chemistry; While Picard made for an interesting character, I never felt any chemistry between the cast in general, and I HATED Data. Also, watch the old and new series on Netflix back to back. Despite...
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    What make/model car is this?

    That'd my grandma. She just turned 88 this year! :) She was probably dating my grandfather (who has been dead 40 years this year) when this was taken - they were married in 1949.
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    When did the 'short back and sides, wet head' hair style first come into popularity?

    Long hair, shaved sides and back - Golden Era hair trend? This picture of my grandfather was taken in May 1934. He was 14 then. The second was taken in 1967 - it seems to be a style he often went back to in his life. I'm just curious - was this look, longish hair on top and almost shaved...
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    Star Trek (The Original Series)

    The reason I asked is because I was doing some reading and apparently, at least in some circles, the show (or at least Kirk and Spock) was thought to be "middle aged", a show of the establishment, by the younger audience. That's why Chekov was created, a young Russian guy to attract Liberal...
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    Star Trek (The Original Series)

    For those of you with Golden Era aged parents - say, people who either were in their 40s or 50s by 1969 - Did your parents watch Star Trek? What did they make of it's vision of the future back then? Star Trek was very ahead of its time in some ways, with a crew which included a black woman, an...
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    In terms of a span of years, when do you place the "Greatest Generation"?

    If you were to put a definitive set of years to place the birth years of the "Greatest Generation" or the "Depression/WWII" Generation within, what years would it be? And why? My own formulation is that the earliest GI Generation folk were born around 1908 and the youngest tier were born in...
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    Do you think wider lapels/ties will ever come back into fashion?

    Do you think wider lapels and ties - say as big as they were in the 1940s or 1970s - will ever come back into style for men? Not just among suit suits, but regular button down shirts?
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    When did the 'short back and sides, wet head' hair style first come into popularity?

    Arguably the definitive look of the Golden Era in terms of men's hairstyles is the 'short back and sides' haircut, wherein the hair in the front was left long and either slicked back or sideways; it was usually held down with some form of grease or another. By the middle 1950s and definitely by...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Even Nixon used it in press conferences as late as 1962, in the same meaning as "treating someone unfairly."
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    Shocking Stories About Your Golden Era Relatives

    I have quite a few: My grandmother was/is a neurotic sort. One day in the early 1960s, my grandfather was driving her and the children home in the Battery Tunnel, from Manhattan back to Brooklyn. She apparently/supposedly saw a drop of water hit the window and got out of the car and began...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "She gave me the air" heard this one on an old Rodney Dangerfield standup, basically meaning the girl dropped him, apparently it was slang from the 30s?
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    What dance moves are these (Early 60s)?

    I know for a fact, time wise, that the film was shot after June 1961, as that is when the house the film was shot in was bought by grandparents. So the film probably dates to the Spring of 1962 upon reflection, maybe 1963. I'm not sure at what age a Catholic child would make communion back then...
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    What dance moves are these (Early 60s)?

    Posted video link, forgot to in the original thread sorry.
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    What dance moves are these (Early 60s)?

    The film I've linked is an 8mm home movie of my mother's communion party, I am guessing the film was shot sometime between 1960 and 1963 (my mom was born in 1954). What dance moves are she, her friend and my great-uncle dancing, and what kind of music was likely playing? Her parents were...

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