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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    For most of its existence, the pit forbade cameras, especially movie cameras. I can see why. From the few minutes of film I've seen, they knew how it would affect the general public. To people of that culture, I'm sure it was all very sensible and exhilarating. to Joe Sixpack (or his Era...
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    I always thought chicken a la king must have been made for a pretty undemanding king. Really good chicken & dumplings, though, are fit for anyone. But don't get me started on liver.
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I guess it was a big-city thing then. I grew up mainly in small to medium-sized towns and suburbs where we got the big-city papers but probably only the morning editions, no extras. My summers in the Pasadena-L.A. area the paper was delivered, no newsies hawking editions. The closest I came...
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I can't say it disappeared in my lifetime since I never saw it, but did newsboys really yell "Extra! Extra! Read all about it!" ?I don't think I ever even saw a newspaper put out an extra edition.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Today it's snowing here in New Mexico. Here, we call this, "spring in New Mexico." Tomorrow it'll probably be 80 degrees outside, then another snowstorm on Monday. By the end of the month, just hot and dry.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    These thread titles are merely suggestions, springboards for our far-ranging flights of fancy. Start with jello, end up with Krupp. It makes sense to me.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    A number of years ago, Binney & Smith, makers of Crayola, were obliged to eliminate their color Indian Red, because it was thought to be offensive to Native Americans (I'm willing to bet money that it wasn't actual Indians who objected. There re people in the world whose life's passion is being...
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    On a different thread here we discussed the "Tramp Steamer" genre of pulp stories, with its offshoot the "small-craft Navy" story ( think "The Sand Pebbles"). Joss Whedon did his own riff on this with "Firefly," about the down-and-out crew of a dumpy little spaceship in the aftermath of losing...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Remember Otis on the Andy Griffith show? That's another thing that has disappeared: the funny drunk.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    The Agents of F.L.A.S.K.

    I want to know what's really at Area 51.
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    The wonderful foods of the Golden Era

    Concerning Solingen and the Ruhr Valley generally - although famed for cutlery and, in the old days, armor, the source of the valley's prosperity is the abundance of coal and high-grade iron ore in close proximity (Trenchfriend should chime in here). So as long as steel is needed for any purpose...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Same here. They spend days transforming the town totally, shoot for two or three days and I drive in the day after and you can't tell they were ever here. That's what makes having your town for a film location so attractive. They come in, they spend money while they're in town, then they're...
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I know De La Vina well. My aunt had a beach house on Padaro Lane from '61 to around '75, then a big house up a canyon in Montecito, finally a condo in Plaza Pacifica in Montecito, where she passed away in 2013. As you might imagine, she married money. A lot of it.
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I live out on the New Mexico desert. My nearest neighbor is more than half a mile away. It's isolated, but there is a certain comfort in having a clear field of fire in every direction. I can see visitors coming from a long way off. The nearest town, Estancia, is 2 miles north. I just went in...
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    From 1954 to 1960 (ages 7-13) I spent my summers in Pasadena, CA with my aunt's family. The time I spent there, my experiences and friends, marked me for life. In 1961 my aunt moved to a beach house in Santa Barbara and that is where I spent my teenaged summers and I visited often later, even...
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    Not to get too political here, but I'm always amused when I see people lamenting:"This is not the America I grew up in!" As if it should be. The fact is, no middle-aged American has ever lived in the America they grew up in. If you were born in 1800, the America of 1850 was unimaginable. If you...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Max Schmeling was a class act and no Nazi. After the war he became a successful businessman and when he learned that Louis had fallen on hard times he helped him out financially. In the end he helped pay for Joe's funeral.
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    You know you are getting old when:

    Could've been worse. They might have invested it all in Beanie Babies.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The big interstate lotteries like Powerball and Mega Millions are fantasy machines. The odds of winning are infinitesimally, but not infinitely, small. Eventually, somebody wins, so why not me? If you buy your ticket ahead of time, then for three or four days you can legitimately fantasize...
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Discovery in a Chicago theater of a 1930s clutch purse

    A familiar trope about handbags from the Era that I haven't encountered in a while: You knew you'd picked the wrong boyfriend when you saw the police and he handed you a gun, switchblade or stolen goods and said: "Here, put this in your purse. They won't search you."

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