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  1. Farace

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    If you haven't seen it, you might like a more recent film, Lost Christmas starring Eddie Izzard. It's a little bit Christmas Carol-ish crossed with a touch of Doctor Who, while still being entirely its own thing. We stumbled across it by accident a couple of years ago and now it's in our regular...
  2. Farace

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    We're into our holiday movie run, and have already watched Polar Express and A Christmas Story, but we always like to find movies we never saw, and last night came up with The Shop Around the Corner starring Jimmy Stewart and Maureen Sullavan.
  3. Farace

    The Era -- Day By Day

    I still need to look for my copy. I got sidetracked onto a Hammett and Chandler kick. I read five novels and a novella by Hammett and just finished The Big Sleep by Chandler and will start The Long Goodbye today or tomorrow. I had realized that I'd never read any of the lit on which film noir...
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    Who likes vintage tools?

    I wish I had included a scale of some sort in the photo; it's a rather delicate tool, for something meant to hit. The Thin part of the handle isn't much thicker than a pencil. My partner asked a friend of hers and he opined that it's for jewelry making (he being a jewelry maker).
  5. Farace

    Who likes vintage tools?

    Can anyone identify the purpose of this hammer? Found it among my dad's tools but unlike most of his tools, I had never seen this before. No idea where he got it.
  7. Farace

    Who likes vintage tools?

    A few months back I was going through a toolbox of my grandfather's that I have out in the garage and came across a very cool Stanley no. 12 1/2 Veneer Scraper. When I found it, it was rusty and filthy: So I decided to clean it up. I gave everything a good soak in Evapo-Rust, except the...
  8. Farace

    West German Greatcoat?

    On the two that I had, the collar was the same wool material as the rest of the coat. Yours looks a bit more "higher rank" than mine. :)
  9. Farace

    West German Greatcoat?

    Except for the collar, it looks an awful lot like a couple of West German Army surplus coats I used to wear in the '80s and '90s. They were readily available and quite reasonably priced from a number of surplus vendors back then.
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    I still do this from time to time, but I never confuse it with real apizza. I grew up on New Haven apizza; my ex-wife was a Manhattan native and we used to argue over where the best pizza lived. But I come from a long line of pizza snobs--my great-grandmother arrived here from Italy in 1916 and...
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    The Era -- Day By Day

    A Brooklyn PCC. We have the very first production PCC, from Brooklyn, at the Trolley Museum in East Haven, number 1001, which was put back into operation this summer after extensive repairs necessitated by damage from floods brought by Hurricane Sandy. One if those WPA artists was Jackson...
  13. Farace

    Care/repair of lambskin?

    Okay, here's how it looks.
  14. Farace

    New Member to the Hat Forum

    I found an older Carhartt chore coat for dirty work at a local thrift store a while back. Was informed by a well traveled church member what SNET was. My grandfather worked for SNET in New Haven for more than forty years. He retired in the 1970s, I believe. I never saw him in any...
  15. Farace

    Care/repair of lambskin?

    Thank you. Yes, I can tell that the lamb is not as sturdy, but it's so soft and supple, and I've long wanted a leather blazer, so I couldn't resist it. I suspected that trying to touch up with leather dye might be more noticeable than just leaving well enough alone. I might try the shoe polish...
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    Care/repair of lambskin?

    Somehow I made it to the age of 59 without ever owning a leather jacket of any sort. Well, the other day I was in the thrift shop and came across a Scully black lambskin blazer (from their website, I believe it's their model 501) for $35. (If it had lasted another week and a half, it would go...
  17. Farace

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Those old Servels are still highly prized in some places. I believe my parents had one when they got married in the '50s, and then it went to my great-grandmother if I have the story right. Around '66 or '67 my grandparents bought a 200-year-old farmhouse in Wayne, Maine that served as a family...
  19. Farace

    The Era -- Day By Day

    Just so you know, after having mentioned tidbits from several of the past days, my partner has now started to ask me to read the newspaper summary aloud to her. :D
  20. Farace

    Ask a question, get an answer

    Mine is metric.
  21. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    Apparently others in that streetcar group on Facebook have taken the original poster to task, and the identification has been changed to Schenectady. They also strongly suggested that it was from the late 1930s, rather than 1898. (Now I want to see the photo that should have been NYC in 1898!)...
  22. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    I'd say that's a distinct possibility! Looks quite similar indeed. Good sleuthing!
  23. Farace

    The Golden Age of the Streetcar

    I noticed that, too, but I have no answer. I could imagine a Schenectady [something] being a shop in NYC, but who knows?

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