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    RIP, the movie theater?

    As long as there are kids 17-21 (your typical dating couple walk in, in movie parlance) their'll be theatres...
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Interesting you'd bring up the Cord. I'm considering one of the Glen Pray Cord 8/10s as a replacement for my Chrysler Crossfire. Something people often overlook why buying a Bentley or Rolls-Royce is that these cars were expensive to maintain when new, and the cost of keeping them on the road...
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    Scottish Tartan Tie

    Try the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin, NC. All wool, and a choice of probably close to 100 different tartans (and thank you for not calling them "plaid").
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I would suggest that buying at auction is not really the best way to buy a collector car. Last week a 1949 MGTC sold at auction for $39,300 including taxes and buyer's premium. On the open market that should buy an excellent, properly restored TC, but this car had a number of issues that would...
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    Red Wing Chukkas

    I used to wear their oiled leather chukkas out shooting. A fantastic shoe...
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    MY LORD IT'S HOT (Summer attire questions)

    Super light weight wool, linen, and searsucker suits in the office and at church or going to dinner, even if dining at a friend's home. Less formal? Linen trousers and a linen or raw silk blazer. Evenings the hat is a pale grey (almost white) fedora, during the day it's a Panama. My dress...
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    Formal Wear Primer

    For the most part, they are junior prom cast-offs.
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    'A Guy Named Joe' (question)

    In answer to your question: In the film the expression, "a guy named Joe" is used by an English boy who says that to Americans any "right chap" is "a guy named Joe." The working titles of the film were Three Guys Named Joe and Flyers Never Die. The studio used A Guy Named Joe as the title of...
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    Franklin Automobile

    Hi Clayton-- I presume that this will be your first "vintage" car, and if that's the case then you might want to consider the merits of buying a more mainstream car than a Franklin for a couple of reasons, the first (obviously) being parts accessibility. The other reason for considering...
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    Show us your vehicles

    I had a '63 GT Hawk in 1965... a superb car, with very sophisticated styling. I particularly like the dash with the large round tach, speedo, and clock set right in front of the driver. Hmm. I'm beginning to feel a twinge of nostalgia. Or is that envy?
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    For those who ride motorcycles (or are thinking about riding).

    Huh. I thought this was going to be about riding, as in riding horses.
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    Morning Dress On the Cheap

    Just as a point of clarification for those coming cold to this conversation; a cutaway coat is a single breasted frock coat the front of which has been "cut away", unlike a "tails coat" which is a double breasted coatee (a jacket which ends at, or just above the waist) with tails in the back...
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    Censorship at Fedora Lounge

    Troublemaker... ;)
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    Censorship at Fedora Lounge

    Alan, as someone who lived in Ireland for 22 years I would have to take exception to your statement that prohibiting firearms makes it difficult for "the wrong people" to obtain firearms. I would think it obvious that "the wrong people" are the least likely to obey the law restricting the...
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    Vintage Concealed Weapons

    The best way to research golden era holsters suitable for concealed carry is to get a copy of one of the old Stoeger's Shooters Bibles from the early 1950s, as virtually all of the holsters advertised will be 1930s designs.
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    It has been a while, so I may not have this 100% correct, but I seem to recall that the engine in the Crosley lived on as an Evinrude outboard motor.
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    Show us your Guns!

    Theoretically either style should work; in the real world however, better accuracy and cycling of the firearm occur when the pistol is held in the traditional manner. Believe me, if shooting "Hollywood style" was any good, it would have been adopted by shooters long ago.
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    Notched lapel "pin" or corner? Please help me find right term for search and images

    Hmmm. I think this would tend to reenforce the old saying, "fashion is fleeting but style endures." Meaning no disrespect you your friend, but "collar tips" sound like the sort of "look at me" embellishment lounge lizards would employ to attract giddy ladies of a certain age -- who should know...
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    Glove Colour

    Yup, brown.
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    Where to buy socks?

    Shooting socks? Powell's in Birmingham, maybe? You might also give the folks at Costello & Son (theatrical costumers par excellence, located in Ilford, North London) a call and see if they can steer you to a manufacturer. Someone (one of those up market Next type stores?) had faire isle socks a...

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