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  1. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I've seen many Gladstone bags of this style, but they're all TRASHED. Torn, cracked, stained, ripped, frayed, dry-rotted. Interiors stained, torn, ripped, GONE... This one was in almost mint-condition. And cheap. So I bought it. It's made in ITALY. I don't know how old it is, though. The guy I...
  2. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I was thinking of using some laundry-powder and water and a sponge. Scrub the lining, then wipe it, then do it again just with water, then wipe it, then do it once more (to get the last of the soap-powder out) and then just heat-dry with a hair-dryer.
  3. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Today, I bought this beautiful leather Gladstone bag. It's in great exterior condition, and the lining is intact. However, the lining needs a serious CLEAN. How can I clean the lining without damaging the leather? Removing the lining is obviously not an option here.
  4. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    Fried rice. Sadly, without chili.
  5. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    One Golden Era thing that I've revived is something that has never actually gone away. Although it's rare in the Western world, it's extremely common in Asia. Especially in Korea, China and Japan. The use of personal name-seals: This is my seal. My parents had it carved with my name as a...
  7. Shangas

    We walk the walk but do we talk the talk?

    I've been listening to old Dragnet radio shows for years. I never understood what 'Bunco' was, until now!
  8. Shangas

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    My Ball railroad chronometer-pocketwatch is about 60 years old. My oldest pocketwatch is about 110 years old. I never use a wristwatch. EVER. Far too uncomfortable.
  9. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    Thusfar, I have not been cursed with that affliction.
  10. Shangas

    Monocles.

    My quizzing-glass (Now with a longer chain on it for convenience).
  11. Shangas

    What's For Breakfast...

    Toast, fried eggs and tomatoes, with chili.
  13. Shangas

    Where do you see fedoras worn the most?

    Generally on the head.
  14. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    Tonight - Curry. Tomorrow night - More curry.
  15. Shangas

    Monocles.

    Is there anyone on the Lounge who wears a monocle on a regular basis? Or maybe anyone who carries around a quizzing-glass on a regular basis? I keep a pocket-magnifier/quizzing glass in my pocket whenever I go out. I need it to read small print. With my eyesight, anything helps. It gets a few...
  16. Shangas

    the life of workers living in hotels back around 1890 - 1940's

    For most people, calling a doctor was expensive. And visiting a doctor even moreso. That's why doctors used to do house-calls. If a person was sick, they most likely relied on the local pharmacist, whose services wee cheaper/free, and at whose establishment, you could purchase almost anything...
  17. Shangas

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yun5Kv4kM1k
  19. Shangas

    the life of workers living in hotels back around 1890 - 1940's

    I don't know if this applies to the United States, but in London at this time, there existed (and still does exist) the London Hospital (today the Royal London Hospital). It was a charity hospital established in 1700s for treating the destitute and poor of the industrial East End of London (a...
  20. Shangas

    the life of workers living in hotels back around 1890 - 1940's

    As Stanley touched upon, social welfare as we would know it today (or the "Welfare State" as some will call it), is a very new concept. Until fairly recently, there was no such thing as unemployment insurance, social security, pensions...workman's comp of a sort did exist, but companies (as...
  21. Shangas

    Missing posters

    As an administrator and mod on forums large and small both now and in the past, I'd just like to say that what you see of a forum is only the end-product. There's a LOT OF STUFF going on in the background that most people never even know about. I've built forums from scratch and it takes a lot...
  22. Shangas

    Show us your photography

    You're welcome. Here's my latest shot... My seal, with my name in Chinese characters. Tonight, my old highschool had a fireworks display. I live one block from my old highschool. I managed to snap these shots from our living-room windows...
  23. Shangas

    Moving to the 40s

    The flattop fridge comes with the option of using the top for extra storage. I can't imagine that you could (safely) put many things on top of a monitor-top fridge like that, without it either falling off, or damaging the monitor.

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