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    Today in History

    My much belated thanks to Mr. Hudson. His department store in Detroit (J.L. Hudson's) was where my little brother and I went to see Santa Claus, just like in "A Christmas Story".
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    Vintage neon signs

    Product trivia: Why does Cora/Wicked-Witch have a picture of Teddy Roosevelt on her table?
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    Vintage neon signs

    We have had so many outsiders and carpetbaggers move here to Nashville - and doing their best to turn it into where they came from - that I have a one-person "truth in labeling" campaign going on: I am advocating that we change the name of this place to "Partly-Portland", "Pseudo-Seattle"...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The Old West was really hard on mothers (and parents), at least as portrayed in the '50's Westerns: "The Rifleman": Lucas McCain and son Mark, no Riflemom "Bonanza": Ben Cartwright and Adam, Hoss, and Little Joe, no Mom "Fury": Peter Graves and a kid and a horse, no Mom "Buffalo Bill, Jr." Two...
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    The Mandela Effect

    Speaking of "Young Frankenstein", I thought for years that Kenneth Mars' embedding of the darts in his (The Inspector's) wooden arm while playing darts with Gene Wilder was done for comic effect. I saw "Son of Frankenstein" for the first time in a long time this past weekend and saw that Lionel...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    "I suspect if you lived in a part of the country where conservative religion held sway, the sort that frowned on dancing and card playing, there would be a lot less of this sort of thing..." Southern joke: "Q: Why do Baptist girls refuse to have sex standing up? - A: Because someone may see them...
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    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    One of the bigger (maybe the biggest?) vinyl-record companies is here in Nashville. (Where else?) A local news item stated that they had doubled their machinery and put on a second shift to keep up with demand. I used to arrange a tour of their plant for my manufacturing processes class to see...
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    Have You Ever Met A Movie/TV Star or Celebrity?

    I had the honor - and it was an honor - to sit next to Theodore Bikel on a cross-country flight. He was intelligent, articulate, witty, and a pleasure to talk to for several hours. I always think positive thoughts about him whenever I see "The Enemy Below", "The African Queen", or any of his...
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    Vintage Cars

    That makes me sad and envious! I had a 1934 2-door Plymouth sedan when I was a teenager that I bought for $60 - in excellent condition, right out of the proverbial old barn. I had a policy at the time that if I could double my money, I'd sell whatever car I had picked up. I got an offer for...
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    Disappearing Quonset Huts

    There was a Quonset hut behind the main Engineering Building here at Vanderbilt until the latter '60's. Mechanical drawing was taught there until just before I arrived as a freshman. It was then used for office space. It was removed during a campus renovation in the '70's.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Remember also that Tom Poston was one of the three "Men on the street" who were "interviewed" on the Steve Allen Show. He was the one who could not remember his own name. (Louis Nye and Don Knotts were the other two.) I looked up Tom Poston's biography and there was clearly more to him than...
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    Am I The Only Dinosaur Here?

    This dinosaur prefers a somewhat earlier time era: 1950's and 1960's - that was the time I was growing up and then going to high school and college. I had a lot of fun and good times later, also, but those were the best times. We did worry about nuclear war in the fifties (Duck and Cover!) and...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I had intentions to do that (almost). I used to do a lot of target-shooting at my mother's house - off the carport and into the hillside. It has become somewhat more "built-up" in that neighborhood, so I can't do that anymore, or at least I choose not to. I was planning on the Fourth to do a...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    One thing we definitely have here in the South is fireworks (!!). So it was before I was a kid, so it was when I was a kid, and so it goes on down through the generations. "The Rocket's red glare, the Bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that it was the 4th of July" in...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It strikes me as funny and odd that you have pseudo-"Dukes of Hazzard" folks way up North there in Maine and down here in the mid-South I had never even seen or heard of the strange "rolling coal" practice. (In the days since it was mentioned I have been actively watching for it - so far still...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I spent ten years as an "Environmental Engineer" in my first career (my actual job title), so I'd certainly notice it if I had seen it in person or heard about it on the news. Truly zero around these parts, for whatever reason... Literally the first time I had seen the term was here on FL.
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Here's another way of looking at the "acquisition" lifestyle (or the lack of it): My parents grew up in rural Tennessee during the Depression, and were by any standards *quite* poor. Later my dad fought in the infantry during WWII and spent part of that time living in a cold hole in the...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    "Rolling coal"??!! - Around here (mid-South), I have never seen or even heard of such a thing. Must be a Northeastern thing... The fact that New Jersey has to have a specific law against it is a sign that it's more prevalent up there. (However, from a Southern perspective, Northeastern...
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    Vintage Cars

    You need to check "LMC Truck". They have EVERY part you could want/need for Chevy pickups. I have bought all sorts of parts for my '66 C-10 over the years.
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    Bad Movie Descriptions of the Golden Era

    I may have seen this one on FL before, but it's worth repeating: "TV Guide" - "The Wizard of Oz" - "Unhappy teen-age girl leaves home and travels to a strange country, where she kills the first person she encounters. Teams up with three odd drifters - one heartless, one brainless, and one...

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