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  1. MikeKardec

    Classic Safari vehicles!

    I have a Defender 90 that has been in the rebuilding process for the last 3 years (constant parts scrounging) but if I had the space this would be my choice for a vintage vehicle -- http://jalopnik.com/5847862/your-chance-to-own-john-waynes-custom-1966-international-travelall/ I love these...
  2. MikeKardec

    Riding the Rails

    Holding her Down. A great description by Jack London of riding the rails across Canada -- http://carl-bell.baylor.edu/JL/HoldingHerDown.html It's a method of transportation that was much more "active" than you normally see in the movies.
  3. MikeKardec

    Fury

    Or Zulu! I believe there was something in Clausewitz about never giving your enemy the battle they want. They must have been zombies or they would have made up a gasoline bomb or used several of those Panzerfausts (or whatever RPG-ish hardware) they were seen marching in with. If it was me...
  4. MikeKardec

    Agent Carter

    Hysterical!
  5. MikeKardec

    Bloke builds a life-size replica of an Aussie 1950s town

    Here's another, not private though -- http://www.historicvillageherberton.com.au/
  7. MikeKardec

    EXchange names for phone numbers

    Mine was OLympia, OL-78696. West Hollywood, CA In Colorado, where we occasionally lived you could still dial four numerals to direct dial your neighbor well into the 1990s. In fiction and film I'd use QUincy, because it doesn't exist.
  8. MikeKardec

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    Dad knew Baer, though later in life when Baer was mostly acting rather than fighting. I believe Dad was talking about the long term effect of accumulated injuries rather than a single traumatic moment or death in the ring. Pretty horrible what happened to Campbell. I don't know if it was an...
  9. MikeKardec

    Agent Carter

    I wish we could expect more from Hollywood but this is one area where subjectivity rules. Even though shows all supposedly have armorers or prop men who know what they are up to, the level of precision in dealing with weapons and weapons handling (especially period weapons handling) is...
  10. MikeKardec

    Did and Didn't

    That's just too cool. I've got a few that my father carried back in the 1920s, just 6 or 7 I think.
  11. MikeKardec

    Did and Didn't

    I know plenty of lefty university professors who'll go on and on about there not being enough cooperation and looking after others in our society, but they all break traffic laws like it was New Year's Eve in Anarchistan. Maybe it's okay because they are risking their own lives at the same...
  13. MikeKardec

    Did and Didn't

    According to the older generation (now departed) in my family ... those who were known to hop a freight or two ... these were very popular with the Hobo crowd. They predated the paperback along with several other inexpensive and portable formats (railway novels) but helped to pave the way for...
  14. MikeKardec

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    I agree. My father who a journeyman professional boxer in the 1920s nonetheless knew a great deal about the sport and managed, promoted and trained fighters up until he went overseas in '43 or so. He always claimed that when they went to the heavier boxing gloves was when you started seeing...
  15. MikeKardec

    How accurate is Mad Men with regard to the early '60s?

    It was also nice to see the era connected to the Depression through Don Drapers past. So often in film and fiction, the two time periods seem like different worlds. Last summer I had a long conversation with a writer for the New York Times, a very intelligent woman who happens also to be...
  16. MikeKardec

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    But ... But ... But Lizzie ... that screws up the whole ten year thing! I can't stand it if eras aren't separated into exactly equal decades that I can give simple names to! I don't want my peas and corn to even touch and DON'T remind me that it all goes to the same place! You're going to...
  17. MikeKardec

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    One wonders if the Railroad term "High Ball" had anything to do with the beverage! "Main Lining" certainly made it in to drug lingo. Anybody know?
  19. MikeKardec

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It would be interesting if someone would weigh in from Europe or the UK, Malaysia, Indonesia or India. I have a suspicion Boy was colonial-speak for subject peoples in other parts of the world too. No end of nasty jokes have been made about the title Best Boy in the film biz ... but since they...
  20. MikeKardec

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    The more I've been thinking about my earlier post the more it seems that if you have to break American history down into decades the 10 year stretches that seem to have the most coherence are 1945 - 1955, 1955 - 1965, 1965 - 1975, 1975 - 1985 ... after that I get a bit lost. WWII was a big...
  21. MikeKardec

    Behind the scenes ...

    A giant in the book business passed a few months ago, the man who saved paperbacks from certain suicide ... http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/article_free.asp?pid=remembering_oscar_dystel_champion_of_paperback_publishing Bantam Books Editorial Director Marc Jaffe and CEO Oscar Dystel
  22. MikeKardec

    Why were the 70s such a tacky decade?

    I like that idea. It's very similar to something that came up in one of the Strauss and Howe "Generations" books. These are a series of books that examines the theory that US and British History {and maybe the history of other, unexamined, countries} are made of four interlocking and cyclical...
  23. MikeKardec

    Where & When do you wear your vintage clothes?

    I no longer have a lot of vintage clothes, I was just too hard to fit. Now I've got a lot of vintage inspired clothing and I mix it into my wardrobe constantly. I rarely want to stick out so much that I wear whole, distinctively "old looking" outfits that feel like a costume but it's probably...
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