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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Usually I don't care a hoot about being in a lodge of the "Sons of the Desert" type, but if they would appoint me as their "Exhausted Ruler" I'd join up in a heartbeat.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Rankin/Bass animated Rudolph came out when I was in high school, so I think it didn’t have a high priority in my TV-watching schedule at the time. (I have never seen the whole show.) However, I have seen enough bits and clips of it over the years to get the idea, and enough familiarity...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    That look that Ethan gives toward the former captives is so intense in terms of hatred that it scares me sitting at home (and I've seen it a hundred times).
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    Replica WW2 US Visor Caps

    Let me put in several good words for Peter at Society Brand. He made a WWI officers hat for me and it turned out VERY well. Considering it's a WWI hat, I would NEVER be able to find one in good condition in my size, regardless of price. If you need a military hat you should get it there...
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    The Boys From Marketing Strike Back! Poetry Time

    The reaction to commercials you describe was classic Mars/Venus. We boys endured the advertisements for Betsy-Wetsy dolls and Easy-Bake ovens with groans and eye-rolls - COME ON, let's get on to the important stuff - Winchesters and TommyGuns. If the toy people spent any money on psychologists...
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    The Boys From Marketing Strike Back! Poetry Time

    Warning: Heresy Ahead I have a dissenting view on the proverbial "Boys" and their marketing in the '50's. It may be a case of gender and age, but I'm still grateful that the advertisers told us (leading-edge - late 40's - Baby Boomers) about the Mattel, Hubley, Daisy, and other products that...
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    Today in History

    Dates can be a bit troublesome when you're operating near the International Date Line. There is a story of a Navy PBY during WWII which took off from Midway on the 5th of June, flew west and patrolled on the 4th, and landed back at Midway on the 6th.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    One reason for that is that engineers in 1934 didn't have the tools (i.e. computers) to design machines to tighter tolerances and smaller sizes (less factor of safety). They had to rely on slide rules for calculations. Your 1934 washing machine was very much over-designed, compared to what it...
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    Vintage Firearms

    If you are interested in early firearms (pistols) you should find and join the Smith and Wesson and Colt Forums. Many experts and much information there... If you like old firearms at all, reading those sites will cause you to start buying early ones as often as you find them. My most recent...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    A slight variation on that idea was from a friend of my father who worked on river towboats: "I need to pump out, I'm about to sink."
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    We (Nashville) had a few ice cream places that used the "Hum-Dinger" name and cups, but if you asked for a "frap" they would have had zero idea what you were talking about. However, they did make a pretty good milkshake.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Disclaimer - I didn't hear this myself but was told about it by my brother (whom I trust). A co-worker of his would comment on how things were highly-competitive and cut-throat by saying: "It's a doggie-dog world."
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    Ghost signs

    The Nashville version of the Teddy Roosevelt "Good to the Last Drop" legend is that he was dining at the Maxwell House Hotel itself when he said that. Since the Maxwell House was the #1 hotel in town at that time he could have visited/dined there. The Hermitage (Andrew Jackson's home) was and...
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    Ghost signs

    For "coffee trivia" persons: There really was a "Maxwell House" (Hotel) in Nashville which served Maxwell House coffee. Construction started on the hotel before the Civil War, and a claim to infamy is that it was the first meeting place of the national KKK in 1867. It was a large hotel for its...
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    Vintage trains

    Here are some excellent WWII-era train photos: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2018/10/color-photos-chicagos-rail-yards-1940s/571924/
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    Had lunch out at............

    White Castle has a bridgehead here in Nashville and seems to be moving south (like W.T. Sherman in 1864). I still refer to White Castles as "Yankee Krystals" - also, no one called the small hamburgers "sliders" until the White Castle invasion in the relatively recent past. (And around here...
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    Have you ever bumped into people from past & realized how little/much has changed.

    Along that same line, I saw our High School's Head Majorette at our 35th HS reunion and amazingly we got along VERY well. We were in totally different worlds in HS, and everyone thought it was funny that the Head Majorette and the President of the Science Club got together after all those...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    That joke is almost on the mark here (Nashville). We have a shoe repair shop that is so busy that the last pair I took in to fix had a four-week wait time. People come from far and wide to have work done. It looks and smells like the shop in the joke, but the guy who runs it looks like an...
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    Old gas stations

    I'm using an ordinary computer and a university internet service and the FL is noticeably slower and "jumpier" today. Just reporting in...
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    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    "...there were still many extremely challenging environments in the US where military equipment was required to work." The primary training/maneuver area during WWII (1941-44) was Middle Tennessee. The Army decided that terrain here - hills, valleys, creeks, rivers, woods, etc. was most like...

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