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  1. Tango Yankee

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Thanks, Rusty, Chepstow! It’s good to break out a variety of hats again. I’ll try to post more often. Thank you, Bowlerman! I’d like to wear it again but need to resolve the sweatband issue first. As far as I saw, my wife and I were the only ones who dressed up for the New Year’s Eve train ride...
  2. Tango Yankee

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Thanks for the explanation, Rusty! I suppose the Adam I've just posted would fall under the Super-WAR category. ;) Cheers, Tom
  3. Tango Yankee

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    It's been a while... ...since I posted my hat of the day, primarily because I have found myself wearing the same hat most days, a Lee Water-Bloc Ten. But here are a few I've worn recently. First, a Ruxton Hats bowler, from, I believe, the '20s. I wore it for a New Year's Eve train ride on the...
  4. Tango Yankee

    Ebay Hats: Victories, Defeats, Gripes & Items of Interest

    Not cheap enough! I was runner-up. :eusa_doh: Ah, well... if I'd wanted it that badly I'd have bid more. ;) Cheers, Tom
  5. Tango Yankee

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    Well, thanks, Lizzie! This post inspired me to finally get around to getting my Western Electric 500 from 1955 to ring. It worked OK, but didn't ring for incoming calls. Now, it does. :D My oldest granddaughter then showed her younger sister how to dial a rotary dial phone. She's dialing my...
  7. Tango Yankee

    The Dumbing Down of America - Here's Why

    I gave the households of my stepson and my daughter each a Word-A-Day calendar with the advice (and hope) that they make learning each new word a daily fun event for their children. I need to follow up to find out if they have. My daughter's youngest (whom we had custody of for about a year and...
  8. Tango Yankee

    Post office from hell!!!!

    Geez, LMH, that's an amazingly horrible tale! I've always been vehemently supportive of the USPS. They've always delivered my packages safe and sound, whereas UPS, FedEx, and DHL have often been nightmares. I live in a rural area of southern Ohio. One of our carriers won't get out of the car to...
  9. Tango Yankee

    Beaucaillou and Cacklewack are Famous! Fedora Loungers Make Good!

    Thanks for the link to Matt's presentation, Jill! I showed it to Rhonda this evening and she is intrigued. She likes the top-bar hive, and feels we should start with two hives. We used your online store to determine what it might cost us to get started and during that, after I went through the...
  10. Tango Yankee

    Beaucaillou and Cacklewack are Famous! Fedora Loungers Make Good!

    Thanks, Beaucaillou! I was afraid of that. After seeing the bees out there in the feeders we did put out a hummingbird solution for them and saw a few check it out, but after that they ignored it. What they were going for was the bird seed itself. From what I read online they can extract sugars...
  11. Tango Yankee

    Beaucaillou and Cacklewack are Famous! Fedora Loungers Make Good!

    Well, this is interesting (and perhaps timely!) I have mulled over the idea of setting up a bee hive on our property (10 acres in southern Ohio) due to, as the article notes, reading about the Colony Collapse Disorder. Hadn't thought of it in a while, until the weekend before last. It got pretty...
  13. Tango Yankee

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Yup, biometrics will likely be the way to prove your identity for everything from your signature to getting into your car and home.
  14. Tango Yankee

    Going home

    I have a cross stitch that a friend of mine made for me in '87. I received it as a Christmas present while living in a dorm during a deployment to Panama. It reads "Home is where the Air Force sends you." :-)
  15. Tango Yankee

    What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?

    Funny, when I bought my 2004 PT Cruiser (RIP) new I paid to have aftermarket power locks installed! And I'm glad for the power windows. I never did like having to lean across the car to try to roll down the windows on the passenger side, and forget about trying to roll down the ones in the back...
  16. Tango Yankee

    Going home

    Well, I'm from one of the original suburbs, South Gate. Some of the businesses that I remember are still there, but most have closed or, like Weatherby's moved out. And, like Los Angeles itself, is starting to look fairly worn out with too many people using the infrastructure with too little...
  17. Tango Yankee

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Maybe not that soon, but with more and more states deciding that teaching cursive is not important at some point the signature will be a printed name. Whethere or not that will itself be legible remains to be seen.
  19. Tango Yankee

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Oh, I wouldn't be too sure. He will probably do what Tim Geithner did, which was to change his signature to make it more legible. I can't point fingers about legibility of signatures. When I was eight years old the librarian at my city library thought my last name was George, not Yeager. It...
  20. Tango Yankee

    Going home

    Sometimes I envy those who have a place they can call home and to go home to. As I've mentioned before, I grew up in a suburb of Los Angeles, and like people growing up in a small town, went from kindergarten through high school with the same group of kids (with the group expanding when we hit...
  21. Tango Yankee

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    That's what my parents used!
  22. Tango Yankee

    Skills For "Living The Era"

    Boy, this brings back memories. When I was in High School in the '70s I took "Photo Production", which was an extended class (started about 40 minutes before the rest of school started) and covered more advanced photography techniques and shot photos for the school paper and yearbook. We also...
  23. Tango Yankee

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    I use vintage Gillette razors and use a badger brush to whip up a lather of shave cream. (I've also introduced my godson to this type of shaving, and he's gone me one better with a straight razor plus has introduced his college roommate to it as well.) Fountain pens. I carry and use several...

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