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  1. MikeKardec

    Would you want a remake of something you like to fix mistakes?

  2. MikeKardec

    Vintage or Modern Radio Drama Recommendations?

    Very good! Obviously I have to go back and take a listen into the background of the Lux stuff. I've heard material I liked a lot but not all that often. A lot of my listening recently has been BBC. Of course writers had to take responsibility for a good deal of exposition that gets worked...
  3. MikeKardec

    Vintage or Modern Radio Drama Recommendations?

    I'll open myself to a burning at the stake here but I really don't like many of the old radio dramas. There are some fantastic exceptions but in general they worried too much about what you couldn't see, throwing in a great deal of expositional dialog that clogged up the performances. Typical...
  4. MikeKardec

    Would you want a remake of something you like to fix mistakes?

    Being sort of in the remake, update, adaptation business, I might take a moment to see how some of my ethos sounds in print ... the only way you really discover what you want to say or how you think is to air it in public! The original is always there and is not removed by any sort of redo...
  5. MikeKardec

    How Did You Discover Old Time Radio?

    CBS Radio Mystery Theater to begin with. I used to hide a transistor radio under my pillow at night. 20 years later I started actually doing it, first working with David Rapkin and Charles Potter who did it "old school" with our effects man, Arthur Miller (no joke!) right there in the studio...
  7. MikeKardec

    Cost of steamship passage 1935 ...

    Big thanks to everyone, especially Shangas and Haversack! I think a leg to Japan or the PI and then on to Singapore is looking like it makes the most sense. Story-wise having a look at Japan, even very briefly may be a good idea because the confused psychology of that country plays a later...
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    Cost of steamship passage 1935 ...

    Making Headway! A "late thirties" passage from Yokohama to San Francisco on NYK cost $190 2nd Class, $315 1st Class. With a stop in Honolulu it took 9 days. I have a good source that the same passage on a freighter took around 21 days (see the photo of my Dad that I use as an avatar). From a...
  9. MikeKardec

    Cost of steamship passage 1935 ...

    I'm working on a project where I need to figure the cost of second and "third tourist" class (the old steerage) travel from San Francisco to Singapore (though anywhere in Asia would do). While there is lots of information on Europe to USA in the period before the Depression, I have yet to have...
  10. MikeKardec

    Indiana Jones = Scooby Doo

    Okay, Jeeze ... Indiana Jones. Enormous impact on popular culture with VERY minimal input. My opinion only, but what do we have? A really fun rehash of some really fun stuff in Raiders of the Lost Ark, written by someone who seemed to understand what Pulp Adventure fiction was all about (Who...
  11. MikeKardec

    Have you flown in a vintage aeroplane?

    I've flown in Otter and Beaver float planes in Australia and the West Indies. There was something really small where I sat inside but behind the pilot (not a Cub) and when the wind blew (you could hear it) it seemed like we stopped moving. As a kid I flew on Twin turbo prop Convairs all over...
  13. MikeKardec

    Adventure is My Business

    This probably belongs in the reading room but it is so specific to the outdoors that I'm posting here. I've just been rereading my collection of Russell Annabel books about the old days in Alaska. The collections, which you can find on Amazon, are made up from old magazine essays like...
  14. MikeKardec

    Hiking food.

    If someone mentioned it already, forgive me, but there is an outfit called Reporations that sells military rations to military reenactors. Some might find that useful. I've actually used them for photo shoots and reference.
  15. MikeKardec

    1940 ford coupe is not at the top of its game, issues with columbia rear end

    I second, third, whatever, everyone else here. Carb. We forget what temperamental beasts these were AND they do age. With fuel injection in nearly every daily driver these days we get spoiled. I had a 66 'Vette that always had trouble running right. I messed with the carb, my mechanic, the...
  16. MikeKardec

    Queensland's Own "Orient Express"

    Besides this cool train, the Ipswitch Railroad Shops are pretty great too. I shot a film there about 10 years ago and the classic turn of the century industrial buildings like this ... Became the marketplace in a little Borneo river town, like this ... As we were looking around...
  17. MikeKardec

    Brad Pitt's WWII Tank movie, "FURY"

    I haven't carefully checked out the info on the film which is evolving as more and more coverage about it comes out. But here's a couple of things I do know from my dad who was a Lt in the Tank Destroyers early in the war. Driving a tank, requires serious coordination between the tank...
  19. MikeKardec

    Golden Age Culture

    There was a time life series called This Fabulous Century that had a book for each decade. It sounds exactly like what you are looking for. America in the Twenties by Perrett is pretty good as is The Dark Valley by Brendon. The really good question isn't just what to read ... it's where...
  20. MikeKardec

    Air Conditioning in the Golden Era

    When I was a kid we always called those triangle vent windows on cars "Wind Wings," maybe that was some company's brand name for them. Swamp Coolers worked really well (and didn't rust things) in the desert southwest where it's really dry. The drier it is the better they worked. Spending...
  21. MikeKardec

    Classic train movies

    How about The Seven Percent Solution? A movie that makes you think it's all going to be set on stuffy sets and then ... Nicol Williamson and Robert Duval and Holmes and Watson hijack a switching engine to pursue the Orient Express. The first modern Holmes reboot, it a piece of Around the World...
  22. MikeKardec

    Doc Savage

    I don't believe we'll see another DS movie because the character isn't a "brand name" like all those comic book heroes. Doc, like most of the pulp adventure characters, has slipped from sight for far too long. The level of science and the general understanding of the world we live in also is...
  23. MikeKardec

    After Tragedy, Young Girl Shipped West On 'Orphan Train'

    My dad had an adopted brother who came from an orphan train. The paraded the kids across the stage at the main theater in town a bit like a slave market and Jack (my "uncle") was even allowed to go home with my two real uncles to see if the family would like him. He was told to wait until my...

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