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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Past lives, do you believe?

    If you were raised in the 50s as I was (born '47), you lived in the early days of television. Throughout that time, the Hollywood studios refused to release movies made post '49 to television. So the tv stations ran films from the '30s-40s and they ran them endlessly. So my generation saw all...
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The diverging paths of Sears and Ward's after WWII was an intriguing story of American business. Both were in bad shape after four years of few consumer goods to sell. Conventional wisdom had it that war was always followed by depression. Ward president Sewell Avery subscribed to this and cut...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    The "real" cool cats.

    I was born in '47, too. Grew up in Ohio, Michigan and Texas, mostly small to medium-sized towns, with summers spent in California, first Pasadena then Santa Barbara after '60. I highly recommend watching the movie "American Graffiti." It takes place in a single, long night in 1962 but it's a...
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I first visited Disneyland (the original, in Anaheim) on my 9th birthday, in 1956. That was just under one year after it had opened. It celebrated its 60th birthday last July. That's dismaying.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    What is the world coming to!

    I went to college in the '60s-early 70s, when American universities were at their most uproarious. But at that time the protests and demonstrations weren't about what was going on inside the college but what was transpiring in the outside world: the Vietnam war, the Civil Rights movement, free...
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    At least there are still some things that never seem to change. Yesterday was the 70th birthday of the Slinky, still very much with us. A few days ago I was in a shop and in the toy section I found Silly Putty in plastic eggs, unchanged since I first encountered it (under the name of Nutty Putty...
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    I've read that our sense of smell is located in the most primitive part of our back-brain, where our animal instincts are situated. Once, it was vital to our survival, and that is why we "remember"smells and associate them strongly with particular times and places. You can detect a smell that...
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Old smells, that immeditately transport you back in time?

    "The smell of "Sea & Ski"suntan lotion (do they even make it anymore?) will always be summers in Santa Barbara in the early '60s. "English Leather"cologne takes me back to high school when you were first starting to do guy stuff like shave and wear after-shave lotion.The whiff of coal smoke puts...
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    My late father-in-law (b. 1911) grew up poor in the Appalachians and for his whole life considered it disgraceful to be in debt. He would never borrow money or buy anything on credit. This meant he couldn't expand his construction business because he wouldn't borrow money for new machinery. In...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Great Art Works of the Golden Era

    Here's my favorite: It's Wladislaw Benda's "Golden Peacock" mask. Benda was a Polish-American artist who did innumerable magazine covers and illustrations from the 20[s-50's, but he came to specialize in the theatrical mask. I think this one is the most exemplary art work of the Deco period.
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    What is the world coming to!

    On the Wonder Woman front: There was an amazing amount of public, readily available kink right on the newsstands in the Golden Age. The covers painted by Margaret Brundage for Weird Tales and other pulps featured frank woman-on-woman bondage and flagellation. Right out in front of passersby on...
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    What is the world coming to!

    Cleavage was the least of it. Wonder Woman was loaded with kink. Somehow, WW always ended up being bound with rope or put in chains or doing the same, usually to other women. Also, there was a lot of spanking. First Liberated Woman, I guess.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    The date 2019 was chosen arbitrarily. It wasn't in the book. At the time the film was made, 37 years seemed a reasonable time for all those changes to happen. Now, all you have to do is change a single digit in the opening credits and make it 2039 and you're right back in probable territory. In...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    I find that one quality shared by the "health nuts" of yore, such as W.K. Kellogg and publisher Bernarr McFadden, was obsessiveness. They were totally dedicated to their theories and to propagating their message. McFadden, father of "physical culture" every morning walked barefoot for miles to...
  17. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Grits usually form the starchy part of a meal, instead of rice or potatoes. When I was a boy in small-town Texas, grits were usually eaten with breakfast, with butter or gravy. There are many regional variants. Cheese grits are popular, with grated cheddar stirred in. On the southeast coast -...
  19. Inkstainedwretch

    What Other Forums do the FL Crowd Frequent?

    Wow. I had to look "monitor top" up, as I'd never heard the term. Of course I recognized what it was when I saw the pics. I remember seeing them still in use when I was a kid. But, yeah, that's a pretty tight-focussed subject of interest.
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    What Other Forums do the FL Crowd Frequent?

    One site I visit every day is Noirish LA. Actually, it's a thread on forum.skyscraperPage.com, but it's the most popular, up to 1600 pages now, dedicated to pictures and accounts of Los Angeles through its history, with emphasis on the "noir" years - the late '30s -50s. L.A. is one of my...
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    Your Most Disturbing Realizations

    But for Americans the two wars were very different. For us, WWI was scarcely a "world war" at all. American troops were involved only for a few months, and only on the Western Front, mostly in France and Belgium. The flu epidemic that followed the fighting was far more devastating. Even so, it...
  22. Inkstainedwretch

    Your favorite movie quotes

    "How many times to I have to tell ya, ya don't kill Santy Claus before Christmas!" Lloyd Nolan, "Santiago" (1956)
  23. Inkstainedwretch

    Old gas stations

    And catch that "gasometer" behind her - another bit of once common but now vanished Americana.

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