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    Model of vintage army pants

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    Vintage neon signs

    Actually, the Loveless Motel/Cafe is on Highway 100, just south of Nashville. It's a real place with very good Southern-style food.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I agree with Trenchfriend about keeping my privacy by using cash *only* for in-store purchases. I haven't made any sort of card purchase in probably ten years. Those phone purchases make sense only if they work. In the recent past I was behind a guy who was buying a snack-size bag of potato...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My uncles and older cousins played a version of the Coke/city game except that instead of winning a "pot", the loser (closest city, I guess) had to pay for the Cokes for all. I never played myself, but watched/heard them play. I think the game died out with that older generation. As for the...
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    Paris In The Roaring Twenties

    Suggested reading: "Lee Miller's War" about her photographic experiences during WWII. She was a photographic correspondent for "Vogue" magazine and took many excellent military photos. She traveled across Europe with the 83rd Infantry Division taking pictures as she went.
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Thank You! - 1948 Model B-B
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    Name the Actor...

    Thank You! Thank You! - I want to thank the Academy, my co-stars, and 2jakes! (I also want to thank the guy who sold me one of those cameras (in mint condition) about three weeks ago...)
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    Name the Actor...

    Self-correction - it's an Ihagee Exakta VAREX, but may be a VAREX V or VX
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    Name the Actor...

    No problem at all - an IHAGEE EXAKTA VAREX II - Made ~1950
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    You know you are getting old when:

    This falls into old category of "Be careful what you ask for, you might get it." As a long-ago Bugeye Sprite owner I can say I never owned a worse car and I've owned a lot of cars. A go-cart with some cheap sheet metal attached... (I only bought it because I was dating an attractive blonde who...
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    Vintage neon signs

    I've done a lot of night photography so here goes: The shutter in that photo was held open for at least a full second or two, perhaps more, with the camera set up on a tripod. Everything that is sitting still is sharp and well exposed (cars and wall). Anything that is moving is going to be...
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    WWII Myths and Misconceptions (That Need to Go Away)

    One of my father's WWII stories that I remember clearly was his description of the last days of the War when the Germans were beyond the usual surrender terms, and were mostly just heading west as quickly as possible. He said his armored column would see a mob of Germans heading toward them in...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Being about a decade or so ahead of LizzieM in time, we saw the uncensored versions of the Our Gang comedies. In those days no one thought about taking anything out, and we saw them so often that we virtually had them memorized. As for swordfights with real swords, in our day we outdid the...
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    Old gas stations

    There were several strikes against the Chevy 1958's from the word "go". It was the first year of having what Chevy historians call the "X" frame, instead of a conventional ladder frame. Among other things this required the use of a two-piece driveshaft - not something people (especially people...
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    Old gas stations

    My lowest premium gas price (as I remember it) was 29.9 in the late '60's. It was high-octane - heavily leaded - stuff that would work in the very-high-compression engines of the day. As your father said, $1 worth of gas would get us through a Saturday night date. (the car in the snow-photo is...
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    Vintage neon signs

    Both for your sake and mine I wish I had a photo of the sign I saw last night. On the illuminated board at the local agricultural Co-Op store: BABY HICKS ARE HERE So *that's* where they come from...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    This just goes to show you that the Baby Boomers weren't 100% evil. (just 99%...) We were showing and watching Marx Brothers and W.C. fields movies at the campus movie theaters in the late 60's and early 70's and enjoying them immensely. I remember seeing "Duck Soup" for the first time at our...
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    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    These days they have a lot better "knock-out" stuff... I had to have some dental surgery done and the nurse was describing the anesthetic's effects before giving it to me. She said I'd be in a state such that I would not be aware of the surgery or any pain. However, she said I'd be mostly...
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    You were told very correctly about the good qualities of the 327. I had one in a '65 Chevy 2-door fastback and it would get that classic vehicle from zero to X in a real hurry. In stockers, hot rods, street machines, and all-out race cars, the 327 worked great for all. (It had a very-nearly...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    "... a completely different wardrobe for every month of the year." Come to Nashville and you'll need several different wardrobes per WEEK. On Monday of this week I was wearing a heavy parka, thermal underwear, hat with chin flaps, and thick gloves. Tomorrow I plan to wear a long-sleeve shirt...

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