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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
Come to think of it, I recall a vintage television commercial for Spic n' Span on the Internet Archive, where someone had commented about the "blatant racism" of ads of the 1950s because the product was called "Spic n' Span". Case in point, a lot of people are morons.- CONELRAD
- Post #25
- Forum: The Golden Era
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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
It's not sexist, like I said earlier, If any product is targeted toward females, someone will call it sexist.- CONELRAD
- Post #22
- Forum: The Golden Era
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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
How dare they single out women, and imply that they need special treatment. Obviously, the polite and proper thing to do would be to design them specifically to damage secretaries' fingernails, so they don't start feeling special. I think that some people automatically assume that any and all...- CONELRAD
- Post #20
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Land Line Phone
We still have a land line, and we're not getting rid of unless they come and pry it from our cold, dead hands.- CONELRAD
- Post #59
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Never on Sunday
In some small towns in Texas, most of the businesses still do close on Sunday, and at five o'clock the rest of the week. Fredericksburg operated like that if I remember correctly, of course I haven't been there in eight ot ten years. On the other hand, I haven't actually spent enough time in a...- CONELRAD
- Post #35
- Forum: The Golden Era
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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
Perhaps not directly relevant to the discussion, but I've found that ads from the 1960s and 1970s are more often far less respectful to ladies than ads from the 1940s and 1950s.- CONELRAD
- Post #4
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Reproduction Vintage Neckties?
Darcy Clothing offers these: http://www.darcyclothing.com/shop/neckwear/silk-jive-necktie-cr577.html. I don't know anything about the company, but I've browsed it, and some of the stuff looks pretty nice.- CONELRAD
- Post #41
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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"101 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads"
I can't find anything sexist about the majority of them, many of them don't even strike me as politically incorrect. Nowadays, if you even imply a difference between men and women, you're called sexist, and god forbid you try to say something flattering toward an individual of the female...- CONELRAD
- Post #2
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
They had a segment about the radium girls on that "Dark Matters" show on the Science Channel, too. Did Russians use radium? I've got a couple Vostoks, but neither of them are old enough have radium dials, and I'm not sure if I've ever actually seen a Russian watch with radium paint. And while...- CONELRAD
- Post #673
- Forum: The Golden Era
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SILENT mouse and Keyboard
Well, it's the opposite of silent, but I really recommend a mechanical keyboard. They're constructed differently from a typical keyboard, having a separate switch underneath each key, as opposed to a standard keyboard's circuit board that connects to all the keys. They don't come cheap, though...- CONELRAD
- Post #7
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...
Of course it's true that circuses mistreated (and continue to mistreat) animals, but I don't think that the general populace actually condoned cruelty towards animals, I just don't think they put them on the same pedestal that we do today, such as taking your dog or cat for a bath and a...- CONELRAD
- Post #670
- Forum: The Golden Era
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What gives you that vintage feeling?
Nothing gives me the vintage feeling quite as much as listening to my old 78 records, especially "The Glow Worm", "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke!", and my fairly worn copy of "Sentimental Journey", but any of them will do the trick just as well.- CONELRAD
- Post #113
- Forum: The Golden Era
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ADAM ALLEY
I was snooping through Google News trying to uncover the history of the Hollywood jacket, and I decided to look up "Adam Constellation hat", and found this ad from a 1954 copy of the Reading Eagle. It also seems to shed some light onto what the heck "Mystronic" leather means, if anyone but me... -
Heavy Flannel Shirt Challenge
I've had the 1933 chamois shirt in "barley" for almost a year now, and, even though I've only worn it twice so far in the Texas weather, I can say that it is a very fine shirt. Currently, it's my only heavy-weight shirt. When I bought it, they only had three or four colors available, and now...- CONELRAD
- Post #30
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Davis Hat Co.
There's a Davis "Cotton Bowl 1957 Syracuse vs. TCU" Open Road style fedora right now on eBay with an obscene starting bid. I'm not going to post the link because I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post eBay links around here, but it's there, just search for what I said if you want to see it. -
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1939 Worlds Fair Blue Adam Fedora
I saw that one in one of my frequent searches for Adam hats, it's a beautiful hat and an even more beautiful box. I'm tempted to put a bid in just for the box, it'd go great alongside my 1964 World's Fair Adam. I wonder if Adam provided for any other World's Fairs. Here's an Adam box from...- CONELRAD
- Post #12
- Forum: Vintage Finds and Deals
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How do you apply your brimmed hat?
I place the base of my left middle finger at the point where the pinches come together at the top of the hat and place my index finger on top of the crown, with my thumb gripping the top of the right pinch along with my index finger. My ring and pinky fingers are placed in the left pinch. Then I... -
Skills For "Living The Era"
That's what I thought, because it's just common sense, but common sense also says that you should listen to people who are specialists in a field of which you know nothing. I really have no idea where they came up with an idea like that, and I only heard it secondhand, but I'd never heard...- CONELRAD
- Post #152
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Courtney hats
Here's an interesting style of hat made by Courtney or Harry Levinson, with the "controlled brim", I figured I'd post it here before I sell it. -
Skills For "Living The Era"
That's what I thought. I couldn't believe that that could be the case, but I also thought that a plumber ought to know more than me. And, unfortunately, my house was built in 1980, so I don't have any first hand experience. I have no idea where they got that idea, but apparently two of them both...- CONELRAD
- Post #148
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
