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Your golden-era model railroads!
I'll start with mine, which takes place in Eastern Tennessee in the summer of 1943. It'll be in a magazine coming out any day now: http://on30annual.com/current-issue/- p51
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- Forum: The Display Case
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WWII Reenactments 2017
No re-enactment is perfect, just know that before you go to one. The people in it are often grossly overweight or too old to play the part anymore. Many often bring the things they want, even though they know it's inaccurate, citing the costs of the real thing as reasons not to bring the right... -
How would you earn a living?
I went through Commerical Art school in my late teens and got a old-school education on hand-rendering everything. Computers for this kind of thing were just coming out and weren't part of the course at the time. So, I could easily get into illustration of cartooning if I'd had to go to the...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Joseph Goebbels' secretary at 105: "We really didn't know anything."
The scary thing was when I went to Europe the first time, I heard Dutch and German people who were alive during WW2 saying that if Hitler had confined the Holocaust to just the Gypsies, there'd be a statue of the man in most towns across Europe. That was downright frightening to hear! -
Joseph Goebbels' secretary at 105: "We really didn't know anything."
Good point. Keep in mind, there are plenty of Americans who lived on the West coast when the Japanese and Japanese Americans were rounded up and put into camps who say to this day they never saw it and had no idea until after the war was over. How many Germans really would have had daily... -
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Leaping Lizards! That's a phrase I've heard on movies and read but nobody I ever heard actually say it (except to be funny). Maybe it's one of those made-up phrases you don't have to worry about offending anyone with?- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
Funny you'd mention this as that's how I pretty much felt about most actors/actresses from the past. You can look at many photos from the golden era and think, "Man, I bet they smelled horrible" as daily showers is pretty much a recent thing, societally (and of course not everyone regularly...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Bumper stickers and license plates
Maybe it's been brought up here before, but what's the deal with plates on each end of a car? Many western states require it but many others do not. It's annoying to me that I have to have a license plate on each end of the car when the front plate really accomplishes nothing to speak of that I...- p51
- Post #89
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Chain link fences?
Thanks for the info, Lizzie, I knew I could count on you! I wonder why I haven't found hardly any photos of this kind of fence being used in the 40s, especially since it goes back much further in history than that?- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Chain link fences?
I have tried to find info on when chain link fences became common and how much so going into the WW2 era. I can't find any period photos of them being used on Army bases during the war. Anyone have any hard data either way?- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Broken Arrow Discovered?
There's code words for everything that can go wrong with a nuke. Empty Quiver is actually the most correct code word that's be used in the case of that movie referenced above... Nucflash is self-explanatory and the one nobody ever wants to hear! -
Broken Arrow Discovered?
There's more than that out there. You can Google this, but there are a few live nukes that went missing after collisions and crashes, where the DoD and DoE knows the rough area where they must be, but have never been able to find them. One is inside the continental US... -
What if Edward VIII never abdicated?
Oh, I'm well aware of this. My re-enacting group puts on a Veterans Day event at a local high school each November. It’s going to be on the 10th this year. We all get a classroom, set up a display and get to give 20-25 minute talks on a relevant subject to veterans. I vary the program from year... -
What if Edward VIII never abdicated?
I always find it funny when you read history books, they make it sound like everyone was always on the same page. You never heard much about internal strife until the post-war era is mentioned. Just goes to show that in any era, there are those who don't like what's going on... -
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What if Edward VIII never abdicated?
Lizzie, how do you figure the Japanese attack on the Western powers at the end of '41 in your scenario? As I understand it, Hitler didn't have a clue they were going to do this and wasn't exactly happy when he found out... -
M9A1 bazooka
Nice work! I've always wondered about these as I have a very well made M1A1 replica that will fit the rockets... -
Moonshine making during WW2?
Moonshining by servicemen during WW2, especially in the Pacific, is well known (an uncle of mine had a still in Burma, put together only from memory of seeing a busted-up one as a kid), but I was referring to moonshine making stateside during the war. As it's been pointed out, I suppose that the...- p51
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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You know you are getting old when:
Amazingly annoying would be the term I'd use, not 'precious'. I have never suffered fools, even as a kid.- p51
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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You know you are getting old when:
remember when you'd just sit around wondering stuff, knowing you'd never know for sure? I'll never forget one afternoon on a radio station, the DJ asked what kind of car the TV Batmobile was. For 3 hours, they got call after call with "My brother read in a book once..." kinds of answers. Not...- p51
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