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  1. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    "Cap'n! Enemy frigate off the larboard bow!" "Bring her about! Loose your guns and run out the starboard battery!" Antique/vintage three-draw brass telescope. Engraved on the barrel with "C. Simon". Probably the original owner. Comes with shutter across the eyepiece to prevent damage and...
  2. Shangas

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It is indeed. Can you imagine what it'll be in a few years' time? "What do you think?" "Oh it's so handy!" "I love it! Isn't it great?" "I want one! Where'd you find it?" "Oh it was at the $50 shop!" "A BARGAIN!!!"
  3. Shangas

    1920s Crocodile Gladstone Bag

    I love gladstones. What a fascinating bag. A pity about the lock. Is that repairable? What about the lining inside? In my experience, old gladstone bags often have terrible linings due to decades of abuse.
  4. Shangas

    Hair won't really slick back/part with new pomade?

    I have quite thick hair (something my father is envious of!) and on the rare occasions that I style my hair, I use Murray's pomade, and get pretty damn good results out of it (and I like how it smells). I wet down my hair slightly with warm water, scoop out some pomade. Rub it in my hands...
  5. Shangas

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    Al Capone had a way of dealing with problems related to enthusiasm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-sV-O2-jCY
  7. Shangas

    Inkwell Question

    I'm a member of the FPN. You have a beautiful piece there, but I don't know if I can tell you anything about it. Best ask on the Network. Try the Pen & Paper paraphernalia board on the main forum, that's where we discuss desk-accessories and such (inkwells included).
  8. Shangas

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    This is a photograph of one of the main buildings on my school campus. This whole thing was built back in about 1920-1924. You can see those huge old double-hung windows. Those are the ones I'm talking about. We used to have to wrestle with those things every summer. No air-conditioning. Not...
  9. Shangas

    How would you earn a living?

    When I was a kid we didn't have a computer at home. I learned to do my touchtyping on a typewriter. I would be quite used to going back to that.
  10. Shangas

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    "Rhett! What'll I do!? Where'll I go!?" "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!" --- OK, nostalgia aside. When I was in school, we didn't have air-conditioning of any kind. Even in the new buildings not yet 10 years old, we never had air-conditioning. Our school campus was built in...
  11. Shangas

    Let's See Your Watches! The Vintage Watch Thread.

    I never go to that place, Talbot. Too damn expensive.
  13. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    $35 at the flea-market today. Westclox 'Big Ben' bell-back alarm-clock. Ca. 1920. Gonna send it to a clockmaker to have it sorted out.
  14. Shangas

    What is the Golden Era to you?

    Granny lived to an impressive age!! Bravo! I agree with that assessment. I asked my grandmother (1914-2011) a similar question once. Her reply was more or less identical.
  15. Shangas

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    While I can see the appeal of 'open floor plans', I can also see how they can be a HUGE pain in the butt. Between one and the other, I'd rather have a house with clearly marked boundaries and rooms.
  16. Shangas

    What is the Golden Era to you?

    To me, the Golden Era is roughly from roughly 1850-1950. It was during this era that many of the things we take for granted, were invented, manufactured, and produced. It was during this era that many of the social movements and laws which govern our lives today, were put in motion. It was...
  17. Shangas

    Show us your vintage home!

    I would LOVE to call a place like that 'Home'.
  19. Shangas

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    We got one of those downstairs. It's a combination storage-room/crawlspace/dumping-ground/breeding nest for creepy-crawlies and place to dispose of dead bodies. Extremely useful.
  20. Shangas

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    I don't think anyone has mentioned these, but as a pianist myself, any house I moved into would have to have... Piano Windows: These are rectangular windows set high in the wall, usually about six feet up off the ground. They were so that you could park a piano underneath them, on an...
  21. Shangas

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I don't think I've seen this one here yet. But as I've used it twice in two days... Does anyone else still use the word "Conniption/conniption fit" anymore?? Does anyone still know what the hell it means? I've never heard anyone apart from myself using it.
  22. Shangas

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    My family doctor's old house (and, I think, even his new house), comes with laundry-chutes. When I used to go there for sleepovers (I grew up with his son), we used to love chucking our laundry down there. So convenient. Folding wall shutters like that are great. Our house also has an old...
  23. Shangas

    Young men living at home in the Golden Era?

    It was pretty common in the old days for families to live more together. My father didn't move out of home until his mid-twenties. My brother didn't move out until he was almost 30. I'm almost 30 and I haven't moved out, either. I have cousins in their thirties who are married. And they...
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