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What Are You Reading
just read world made by hand just finished and still was in the bathroom, world made by hand by james howard kunstler and it is scary but not the way you might think, image a future without.gasoline or much technology. Being reverted to amish level and how many of us could survive. Being a farm...- 59Lark
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- Forum: The Reading Room
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What do you do for Living?
Losing my mind but not my trade. 59Lark; apologizing for putting two letters in about my trade, i am losing it and working the computer late at night isnt helping. my apologies again. please forgive my loss of memory lark59- 59Lark
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What do you do for Living?
A trade not a job. When i was a kid, one became a tradesman, quite often he took on the trade of his father, or grandfather. I was the third son so the family farm went to the eldest. The opportunity to go into tv repair, watch and clock repair or sewing machine repair came my way. I am glad...- 59Lark
- Post #557
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What do you do for Living?
Tradesman dying tradition . I was born in a long line of farmers, but i wasnt the first son, so the family farm went to my older brother, after high school i had a couple of opportunties had a chance to take over a tv shop, become apprentice to a clockmaker, and apprentice to a singer sewing...- 59Lark
- Post #556
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The DINER.
The love of the Diner. I travel very little as i own a sewing machine shop attached to my home and work six days a week, not whining but one of my few pleasures is to take every bus trip to henry ford museum, greenfield that is offered and i love Lammy diner, a restored diner inside now there...- 59Lark
- Post #179
- Forum: The Golden Era
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favorite cars of the golden era
my favourite automobile from the past. I guess you will consider me bias, or misguided or someone disenfranchised with other brands but thats not true. I have driven oldsmobiles for years and now drive a old buick and a gmc van, i wont buy foreign. Studebakers hold a special place in my heart...- 59Lark
- Post #369
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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From a Time Before BlackBerries
Royal typewriter I believe that i had a royal nice black portable very art deco with matching wooden case wrapped in black fabric, had it on my desk for five years with my chicago monophone telephone, complete with ash tray and walnut 40 desk then one day, it got moved and the stuff got boxed...- 59Lark
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Sources for Wringer Rollers?
ancient appliances and non electric Dear fellow retros; i do a lot of work with amish people supplying them with treadle sewing machines and see their gas powered winger washers, you havent lived till you see a ancient maytag wringer washer with a gas motor like a 8 horse kohler running make...- 59Lark
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Any "new" old radios out there in Fedoraville?
vast collection electrohome radios Dear Radio lovers; i was teaching and repairing ancient sewing machines at a pioneer museum in kitchener ont, and i could not help but see many beatiful radios and tvs in the hall as i went to the curate room. I was told you havent seen nothing yet and was... -
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Sewing Lessons & FAQ
singer sewing machine guru I couldnt help but reply when i saw this post, i have been a singer sewing machine mechanic dealer for about twenty six years started as an apprentice at eighteen and now am forty four. Now due to the fact that I stuck in the past i grit my teeth when people are...- 59Lark
- Post #1,088
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Bad Ju Ju associated with vintage jewelry?
bad vibes jewerly how about a jackknife. I just read these letters and it reminds me of a jackknife that was given to me over 30 years ago and i didnt feel right carrying it and put it away. Later i was told of my uncle who owned the knife and how he died. He worked for a town roadworks...- 59Lark
- Post #43
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Is there a resurgence in Hats or...
The return of the fedora. I would hope that its more than just a temporay fad, be it due to skin cancer, balding heads or just the fact some of us are tired of the sloppy look. I for one am sick of the baseball cap, sloppy clothes and the fact that teenagers seem to cut all from the same cloth... -
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Sad Story...
cool cars from the past 40s chrylser products were cool, but i have always been fond of the orphans, studebaker, which i own one. HUDSON, NASH, etc, something about the last of the independents or the fact that you have one of the few left. Ask the man that owns one packard. I once sat down at...- 59Lark
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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My second home made hat: The Speakeasy
enthralled by all this information on feadoras Until I found this group, I thought I was one of the last of the holdouts. My 80 year old yugoslavian hatmaker moved away and my clothier retiring at 75 this year. I thought I was doomed and even made arrangements to buy my fedoras from the... -
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The Dumbest Comment I Ever Heard
labels of feadoras wearers. We are labelled by what we wear, having wore magill, biltmore feodaras for twenty years. The labells, gangsters, wearing a blue shirt and work clothes and feadora are you mennonite, i am forty four and young girls at the department store want to give me seniors... -
