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    Downton Abbey - I'm hooked

    If you know where to look, you can sometimes catch the episodes an hour or so after they air in the UK. My wife and I watched the Christmas Special on Christmas! Quite the present, that.
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    Could This Be the new Air Force Dress Uniform???

    Please, please tell me they aren't doing this. I head they weren't going ahead with it. As an officer who purchases his own uniforms, I'm still remembering buying the $400+ service dress from 6 years ago. Tell me I didn't throw down that much money just to have to have it go obsolete!
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    Lucky Strikes

    While I loathe smoking for killing my father, and would never, ever advocate its use, I am incredibly surprised they haven't capitalized on the Mad Men connection. I'd be all over the place with "Don Draper's Cigarette" ads, or at least ones that would make you think that.
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    My "Wonderful" Life

    What a roller coaster ride, FT! I came in to encourage you, but the man upstairs is looking out for you. In all seriousness, may God bless you and keep you in your new situation. So pleased to hear things are better.
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    Downton Abbey - I'm hooked

    Season 2 was a bit soapy, season 1 was perfection. Season 3 could be Carson sending out the laundry every week and we'd still be glued to the tube.
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    Articles says men lose fashion sense at age 37....

    I am 34 years old. I dress in a traditional way - that is to say, the way that educated men/fathers have dressed for 50 years. Oxford cloth button down shirts, rolled up when the heat gets high. Hawaiian shirts for vacation along with resort wear. Wool dress slacks for special occasion or when...
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    Vintage Phones

    I have Vonage at the office and a local cable provider, Suddenlink at home. Rotaries work on both systems for me. My wife thinks I'm nuts.
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    Why Don Draper IS Lounge

    I love the show - partly for the warts and all showing of the era (which admittedly, I did not exist in). When people in the earlier decades scorned the excess and moral depravity of NYC, I think Mad Men shows you what they were disgusted by. Not everything of yesteryear is Sheriff Andy Taylor...
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    Countdown To Christmas!!

    I may put out the lights today as we will be busy through the end of the week. I think I'm enjoying the music and decorating more than gifts. Economically I've not done real well as I had $1,000+ extra expenses last month. I'm really not bothered at not giving presents. Since I'm a minister I...
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    Vintage Phonebooks

    I have my grandmothers, which looks very similar to Lizzie's, except it had a chipboard binder that surrounded it with some 40's typography reading "Telephone Book" on it. As the new ones were issued, you simply put it into the binder.
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    Childhood, Today's Kids...and The Goonies

    I know its off-topic, but I'd say when you have kids everything changes. By this I mostly mean biologically - you're just a different person once you have kids. You can have ideas and philosophies all you like, but there is some kind of weird change that happens to people when you have little...
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    I have a 50's GE fan I cannot disassemble.

    Well, figured it out. Also figured out a way to get the thing off, but destroyed the hub in the process. Found a way to replace it with a new part (not exact, but close enough). Got one or two more minor questions about it, but we'll see how things go. I'd love to give a good report at the end...
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    I have a 50's GE fan I cannot disassemble.

    That's the weird thing - it's put together such that I really cannot tell how they did it. There is a rubber stopper in the center of the fan. I tried to remove it, but only slightly damaged it. It's very odd. Once the GE badge is removed, there is a hole in the cage where presumably they...
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    I have a 50's GE fan I cannot disassemble.

    http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.203536590.jpg Kinda like that one, but there is a fully round base. It hums and barely turns...I need to get it apart, but the cage is all one part and I can't for the life of me figure out how to undo it. The screws to remove the motor from the cowling...
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    Get on eBay - Randolph Engineering lenses are available for $25, and the frames for $25. For $50 and two packages you can assemble your own at a discount.
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    A Vintage Manifesto

    I dearly wished I wrote better, as such this will be clumsy and poorly phrased, but I want to get these thoughts on paper (so to speak). I love vintage stuff and have had a ton of fun converting my office to a '60s theme. However, during my work on my office, it's spread to my home as well...
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    PSA: Vintage Radio Lovers - $5 FM Transmitter at Walgreens!

    At my office, I've decorated it 60's style, but hated having my modern computer speakers out. So I bought a 60's model Zenith radio, tuned it to 99.3 and bought a "Jupiter Jack" from Walgreens for $4.99. It transmits music from an iPod, or anything with a headphone jack over two different...
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    WWII US Army officer shoes repros?

    A few years ago a bunch of us on the Lounge got some Bates shoes in brown for $20 delivered. They were decent shoes - and the supplier you want to look for if you want something the military would use. Don't know if they still make em, but it's what the army would use today if they wore brown shoes.
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    "Mad Men" Office Trouble!

    Hey, massive successful find! Put out a call on Facebook for a green Selectric II typewriter, and a friend delivered! Working it up to use it day to day now. Pics to come!
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    Sears might be going belly up

    What I always enjoyed about Sears (and continue to, to some extent) was knowing that I could buy something there and not get junk. Whatever they had was of middle to high quality, with the tools being the best since if you waste a man's money he remembers long and well! I like Sears very much...

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