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  1. V.C. Brunswick

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Interestingly many of the books on my want list whose prices have gone through the stratosphere are books on military history, aviation and some automotive books that were published within the last thirty years. One example is a book on the Porsche 917 racecar that was published in 2006. On...
  2. V.C. Brunswick

    What are your "Stop and Drop" movies?

    You mean like where every other word is the F-Bomb?
  3. V.C. Brunswick

    What are you listening to?

    Natto Shirukuretto -- Shin Gion Kouta (circa 1927) AKA Nat Shilkret and the Victor Orchestra. Though most likely recorded at the Victor studios in New York or Camden, this unusual recording was made for the Japanese market. Shilkret began his career with Victor in the foreign department...
  4. V.C. Brunswick

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    With no mechanical backups. I call it Titanic on Wheels.
  5. V.C. Brunswick

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Based on the price of toner cartridges I once figured that it would put toner at around several hundred dollars a gallon. o_O
  7. V.C. Brunswick

    What are you listening to?

    RTE Concert Orchestra -- Songe D'Automne
  8. V.C. Brunswick

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Those are what I call yard sale books which are typically the aforementioned bestsellers, self-help books (by the ton), 15-20 year-old textbooks, unremarkable cookbooks (Microwave Magic 2000) and childrens books of very recent vintage that the kids have outgrown. The kind of books that after...
  9. V.C. Brunswick

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    :D Richie: "So we're not in some dark, godless void on the outer edges of human misery?" Eddie: "No, we're in Nottingham." Richie: "It's the same thing." ...Bottom Live 2001
  10. V.C. Brunswick

    Your favorite movie quotes

    "Don't call me Goob! How many evil villains do you know that are named Goob???" ...Meet the Robinsons
  11. V.C. Brunswick

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Used Book Stores I suppose they could be called vintage because they disappeared. About twenty years ago there were at least a dozen or so used book stores in my immediate area, including two very large ones; Acres of Books in Long Beach, CA (opened in 1935) and Book Baron in Anaheim, CA...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    And now many police cars have the lights mounted inside behind the windshield and rear window perhaps because many speeders had learned to keep an eye out for the distinct silhouette of a police car with the "Mickey Mouse ears" on the roof.
  14. V.C. Brunswick

    What are your "Stop and Drop" movies?

    The following were literally Stop and Drop only because I had seen them while passing through the electronics department of Costco, Target or Sam's Club. It took me about a week to watch the whole thing because I would catch parts of it on different days. :D :p Avatar Forrest Gump Pearl Harbor
  15. V.C. Brunswick

    The Good Neighbor Policy; Latin music in the 30's and 40's....

    Pilar Arcos Fun Fact: Pilar Arcos appeared in the episode of I Love Lucy where Ricky's mother was visiting from Cuba. However, she did not play the mother.
  16. V.C. Brunswick

    Your favourite commercials

    Call of Duty: WWII -- The Resistance DLC Look for Conchata Ferrell who played Berta in Two and a Half Men in this trailer.
  17. V.C. Brunswick

    What are you listening to?

    Some years ago the Righteous Brothers owned a nightclub called The Hop that was not too far from where I live.
  19. V.C. Brunswick

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That happens a lot at fast food places where you're sitting there having your meal and the employees insist on sweeping or mopping under your feet.
  20. V.C. Brunswick

    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    Curtiss P-36 Hawk and Brewster F2A Buffalo Both saw very limited US service during WWII but were used more extensively by various other countries, particularly Britain, Finland, France, and the Netherlands. In the case of Finland the Brewster Buffalo was the mount of several of their aces.
  21. V.C. Brunswick

    The Good Neighbor Policy; Latin music in the 30's and 40's....

    Orquesta Miguel Calo -- Porteñismo
  22. V.C. Brunswick

    The Good Neighbor Policy; Latin music in the 30's and 40's....

    Orquesta Miguel Calo -- San Souci
  23. V.C. Brunswick

    What is your favorite military vehicle of all time?

    M6 Heavy Tank Only 40 were produced and never saw combat during WWII.

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