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Living in the dark ages (golden era) without technology
so you want live amish?` Having grown up with wood stoves and freezing cold houses, water on the nightstand would freeze over night. The getting out of bed and down to the kitchen was a mad dash. The one hour of televsion on the old spartan was a treat. The few here that relish in the peace and...- 59Lark
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Omega Man (I Am Legend)
OMEGA MAN. Have a very old vhs tape of the omega man and every so often i pop it into the player which is also old and play it. One of my favourite scenes is when he is coming back late to his home in the mustang convertible and he is ambushed the music and action is good. Well you know what i...- 59Lark
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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my imagination or did i wake up in the wrong time
we need to change conditions for amber alert. We in my small city in ontario have been overwhelmed with the murder of a small child, who was kidnapped on her way home from school. The accused are a couple of people who are known drug users, losers who for whatever reason never made to back to a...- 59Lark
- Post #42
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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my imagination or did i wake up in the wrong time
UPDATE ON THIS MISERY. YES THIS IS woodstock ont, and today they arrested a couple for the murder 0f that little girl. Now there is relief that the murders are caught, but the allegation is that they murder her on the day on her kidnapping and for a month we have been looking for a dead person...- 59Lark
- Post #41
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Eccentrics
howard hughes never same after plane wreck. MY opinon and thats all it is, that poor howard was never the same after the plane wreck, head injuries are a never the same injury and perhaps he did have aspbergers as well. The above average intelligence and the sensitivity to sound, smell and...- 59Lark
- Post #48
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Kid's Observations on Traditional Dressing
kids reaction to fedora etc. The kinds of reactions vary, wearing a fedora old tired one with old style work clothes ie dark blue or gray, with top button on shirt with collar done up, are you a farmer ? (i was a long time ago) which colony ie mennonite colony ie group are you from ? plain...- 59Lark
- Post #20
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Whatever happened to "coat and tie required"?
whats a cloak.? I once went into a fairly fancy renovated upscale chinese restraunt, dressed with overcoat and fedora and asked the hostess where the cloak room was and she looks at me and says what is a cloak? I realized that society had dropped a notch or six. 59LARK.:offtopic: :rage:- 59Lark
- Post #51
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Vintage Vestiges of Your Profession
Trade handed down from forties. I am a sewing machine mechanic and salesman,dealer representative for the singer sewing machine company, and our shop is a dinosaur of a shop. We still carry and sell treadle sewing machines and handcrank sewing machines. We still repair any age of sewing...- 59Lark
- Post #51
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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my imagination or did i wake up in the wrong time
update on this misery. Just when i didnt think that I would write anymore additions to this, my eldest 15 terrified my youngest 7 that she too could be taken away. The problem is that oldest has aspberger and everything is literal and has to acurate and no holds back, no feelings . So sleeping...- 59Lark
- Post #33
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update in the hat blocking saga, 59lark
UPDATE ON BLOCKING AND CLEANING. Dear LOUNGERS; i am far from doing any yet but i have been searching the net and found a supply place in oregon and they sell stiffer than is not flamable, mix with water, and they sell stain remover and brushes and leatherbands, looks promising for supplies... -
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my imagination or did i wake up in the wrong time
my apologies to the ladies. Dear Ladies; I am sorry for intended or not, it wasnt so much as power over woman there aint any of that in my home, or my fathers. IT was more than a mans word meant something, i have had a store for nearly thirty years, and the first fifteen i rented, i never...- 59Lark
- Post #16
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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my imagination or did i wake up in the wrong time
Did you ever have the feeling you were left behind, not talking about aliens. The time frame, concept is more like it and its getting worse. When i was growing up, the world seemed so much different, a mans word, and his reputation was king, i once got a job simply because my father and his...- 59Lark
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How to say goodbye to an old soldier.
update on elmer. I GET A phone call on friday, its me elmer and i am calling from the otherside, long pause on my side, i dont think bell telephone has lines that far. So he came out of his coma, two days and was eating meatloaf and pasta on friday. Believe or not, he didnt have any room mates...- 59Lark
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How to say goodbye to an old soldier.
This week, i got a phone call the wife of a dear friend, called his three year battle with cancer is coming to a end. He slipped into a coma and she called ambulance and they took him to the hospital. The doctors were able to bring him out and the one person he asked for , was me. However since...- 59Lark
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Gentlemen what is the ideal lady for you?
its the ground round not the love in. There is a scene is the old movie yours mine and ours, with henry fonda and lucille ball, where they are going to the hospital to have their first baby since the two main characters married and henry fonda character is explaining to one of the older...- 59Lark
- Post #70
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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should i buy or not hat moulds and last.
apprecitate all advice and help. I really do appreaciate all the advice and help, but my life is too busy right now to do too much of this anyway. We have a fulltime business, sewing machine shop, the basement has 25 repairs probably now. The service van transmission is shot, and its spring... -
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should i buy or not hat moulds and last.
more on this line of thought. [huh] Herman ; what disappointed that we didnt have the large moulds and blocks that could be used for the amish and mennonites and cowboys hats. The bottom line is, he said we couldnt do any part of the craft here due to the basement workshop and the equipment... -
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should i buy or not hat moulds and last.
beware of sharks wearing newsboy caps. So the last chapter thus far in this saga, herman the german was called and he told us about using the chemicals in our basement. He told me that my insurance agent would flip. The upside to this was, that he could do this work at his house due he has... -
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update in the hat blocking saga, 59lark
LOUNGERS in the continuing saga, of the hat blocking equipment, had a phone call with herman the german who is the one hope of someone teaching us to clean and block the hats. He spoke to me of setting up the equipment to clean and block the hat and he said where are you going to do this. Do you... -
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recommendations for a new straw summer hat.
Loungers, its been a long time since I had a satisfactory summer fedora, being here in southern ontario summers get fairly hot and wearing a felt fedora is out of the question. The straw hats that i have been getting from magill just dont meet the bar. Biltmore at the factory outlet have nice...
