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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Notions"are the same thing as "sundries" only diffirent.
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The old-fashioned milkshake machine. The person behind the counter would take a big stainless-steel beaker, drop ice cream, milk, flavoring and stuff into it and jam it up onto a machine from which descended a shaft with propeller thingies on it to whip the mixture into the correct emulsion ...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    "They Died With Their Boots On" is one of my favorite movies of the era for its sheer loopy energy and because it has Erroll and Olivia. But as a biography of Custer? Well, Cus befriends Winfield Scott (Sidney Greenstreet) by sharing a plate of creamed Bermuda onions, gets made a general, and...
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    Anything with Shirley Temple in it. Popular beyond belief in the '30s, now they can only be watched as curiosities. I've found these movies to be a perfect demonstration of the fact that within the span of a generation a culture can change so radically that the former becomes incomprehensible to...
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Sounds of the past

    The tinkly tune played by the ice cream truck in summer, and the feeding frenzy it set off with the neighborhood kids.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    This is still a very popular apres-ski drink at ski lodges.
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    Bumper stickers and license plates

    A few months ago I was in a town where some sort of old-days parade was passing by. A vintage military truck passed and that mo-gas exhaust smell took me right back to the army in the '60s.
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Sashay, Diddy-bop
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Bumper stickers and license plates

    My earliest cars had a hand throttle that you pulled out or pushed in to regulate the air-fuel mixture, usually when starting up. It could get complicated, especially in cold weather.
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    To this day that smell of isopropyl alcohol gives me chills. I hated shots!
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    What Harlem Looked like in 1939

    Anyone driving into Oklahoma City from any direction notices that the city limit signs appear long before you can even see the city. Some far-sighted city directors made a huge area city property to prevent businesses from fleeing to the suburbs to escape city taxes. Thus OC's downtown never...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    That's the ticket!
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The talk of litter in the "ticks you off" thread reminded me of another thing that has disappeared. Small towns used to have a public employee who went around with a large canvas bag picking up trash. He was armed with a nail-ended stick with which he speared paper trash and dropped it into the...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Men's Adventure Magazines

    My server won't let me access that site. I get a "can't provide a secure connection"page. Is there any other way in?
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Cop talk is another subject that deserves its own thread. I once attended a panel of LAPD officers at a mystery convention and they were talking about how writers seem to assume all cops use the same slang. This was when "NYPD Blue" was at the top of the charts and they complained that even...
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I recently stayed in a hotel belonging to a major chain and it struck me that hotel stationery has disappeared. I don't remember the last time I saw any. There used to be sheets and envelopes in the bedside tables or the desk if the room had one, all of course bearing the hotel's name. Phone...
  20. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Flatfoot" no longer makes sense. Cops don't walk beats anymore,they stay in air-conditioned (or warm) patrol cars. So far nobody has made up a derogatory term for riding in a car.
  21. Inkstainedwretch

    Autumnal Thoughts........

    This is why Hobbit Holes make so much sense.
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Bird Dog"was an Everly Brothers song from 1958.
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    It's only when the symptoms include your head rotating 180 degrees and projectile-vomiting green goo together with cursing in a basso profundo voice that you really have to start worrying.

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