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  1. Haversack

    Social Media for those of a certain age?

    How fine does it parse one's political leanings? Judean Peoples Front or Peoples Front of Judea? Free Market vs. Tariffs? Is an Absolute Monarchist liberal or conservative?
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Head cheese oder kopfkäse: An important part of a good Bayrische Brotzeit. Some good rye bread, mustard, pickled vegetables, Grupfter (strong spreadable cheese), and Korn (Schnapps). Just the thing for when the hungries start around 10:00 AM.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A lot of Portuguese-American truck farmers around the outskirts of Sacramento in the '60s and '70s. Linguisa and pineapple was a common pizza growing up.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Are my eyes deceiving me or are Larry Wynn and Dan Dunn the same person? Look at those profiles.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    And he obviously kept after Lifebuoy as is evidenced by his later character, B.O. Plenty
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In Italy, you order 'caffe corretto', i.e. 'corrected coffee'.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    In the German speaking world, currywurst absolutely requires curryketchup. On the other hand, "Ein Parr mit Senf" will get you two bratwurst on a hard-crusted roll with mustard. One caveat is that the mustard common to one region is not the same in another. In my experience, Bavaria's standard...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Henry V Plantagenet* had something to say about this: "War without fire is like sausages without mustard". *The historic king. Not the one in the play. His chevauchées into France were noted for their burning and pillaging.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    Well perhaps not an all-encompassing shop. However the Office of Naval Intelligence, (ONI), was founded in 1882 as a response to the rapid development of technology and naval build-up by foreign governments.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    It is interesting to note that in 1940, China's ambassador to the US was Hu Shih. And in December of 1940 Hu was involved in the negotiations that led to the creation of the AVG under Chennault.
  13. Haversack

    Vintage neon signs

    A hive of neon. A trip down Market Street, San Francisco in December of 1966.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    There are a string of bicycle chop shops up and down the West Coast operating out of homeless encampments. Small hand-held angle grinders make short work of almost all locks. Bicycle is ridden or tossed into a truck and taken to one of the open-air chop shops. It is stripped of parts and...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My dad began working for the State Division of Highways here in California back before it became Caltrans and eventually had all the state highway fatal accident reports come across his desk. He didn't talk much about that but he had definite views on certain makes and models of cars. He...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Back in the late '60s our family took a long vacation to visit family friends in western Montana. Driving there, we immediately noticed the small roadside crosses where traffic fatalities had occurred. (My dad, being a highway safety engineer, took a professional interest.) One I particularly...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    US Navy, please take note. The IJN certainly did.
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    Modern restaurants with vintage food thread

    Concerning the new owners of the place replacing liver with avocado toast on their menu: I think they're missing a bet combining the two. Chicken livers and avocados on toast is a classic breakfast dish that goes back to 1919 at the St. Francis Hotel.
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    Modern restaurants with vintage food thread

    If its classic French Continental Dining that you are hankering for, then down the Peninsula from San Francisco is place that should scratch that itch. In Belmont on El Camino Real is the Iron Gate Restaurant. White tablecloth, tableside flambeed dishes, and here's their dinner menu. Its in...
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    Modern restaurants with vintage food thread

    San Francisco still has a few restaurants that meet your needs. (Although they are getting fewer). Oldest is Tadich Grill. Dating back to an 1849 coffee cart, Tadich is primarily a fish house, (you can get liver, bacon and onions though). Menu is printed every day so they can list what came...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I also have found no reference to Göring personally piloting an aircraft over London on September 15th, 1940. This day was the turning point in the Battle of Britain, (now commemorated as Battle of Britain Day), and is documented quite heavily in online sources. That the newspaper story...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    The Mission district in San Francisco used to be full of food processing factories. Back 20 years or so, I used to live between a Continental Baking, (Wonder Bread), bakery, and the Anchor Steam Brewery. When the wind was from the west, the smell of fresh baked bread filled the neighborhood...

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