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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    U.S. Army, 1967-1970. The last year included a tour in Vietnam. The military impresses on you your actual value in the grand scheme of things, which is not much. This is a valuable lesson to learn, and far too many young people never learn it. There is a great deal of boredom in military life...
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    The ultimate bad-guys of cinema-history?

    Frank Middleton as Ming the Merciless.
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    What happened to Shoe Shines ?

    The shoeshine man (we used to say "boy" but no more) was a fixture in old detective movies and tv shows. He was the guy nobody noticed because he was a fixture, but he observed everything going on in the street. The private eye, or sometimes the reporter, would get on the chair for a shoeshine...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Pickled crab apples. They used to come in jars, red or green depending on the food coloring used. They were delicious and I haven't seen them in ages.
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    This site is filthy!

    It's all those pre-Code movies.
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    TV series set in the Golden Age

    There have been two seasons of "The Bletchley Circle," about a group of women who worked as codebreakers at Bletchley Park. It is set a few years after the war. The women are forbidden by the Official Secrets Act to speak of their war work and even their husbands think they were just...
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    Tiki Culture

    Don't forget the influence of surfer culture, with its Hawaiian origins. When I was a kid in California in the '50s-early '60s, every beachside junk shop sold tiki pendants and other surfer paraphernalia, most of it tiki-themed.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Library card catalogues, and anything made with Bakelite.
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    Name the Actor...

    John Carradine and Claire Trevor in "Stagecoach."
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    whats the closest thing to Traveling back in Time? to get a feel of times past?

    Years ago I toured a 15th century house in Glasgow, Scotland called "Provand's Lordship." Like most Scottish great houses it was rather small and austere. At first it was a typical tour of an old house until I stepped alone into one of the rooms fronting on a cobblestoned street and at that...
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    Vintage neon signs

    This beauty is about 20 miles north of me in Moriarty, NM on old Route 66. It was a landmark on 66 for decades, above the Comida de Anayas restaurant. After years of being inactive it was restored a few years ago, but only worked for a few months. It rotates on horizontal and vertical axes...
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    The Cap Faction

    My B! Gatsby arrived today, 5 days after ordering but with a Sunday and Columbus Day intervening. Commendably fast service and a fine cap. I'll be posting pics as soon as I figure out this Samsung tablet thingy.
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    Berets, Anyone?

    Me at Ft. Bragg in July 1968, back when only one outfit was authorized to wear a beret. I was at Special Forces Training Group, and I'd finished First Phase, so I had my beret, but wouldn't be assigned an operational group until the end of training, so there's no flash behind the insignia. My...
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    Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!

    Definitely a difference, but just as most people today think any long coat is a trench coat, they also think of a fedora only as Indy's hat. They likewise couldn't tell a porkpie from a homburg. The gentlemen's lid has fallen on hard times.
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    Any writers?

    That's a great idea! Look at Charles Ardai's "Hard Case Crime" imprint. The idea sounded goofy: Let's start a paperback imprint that reprints classic crime novels plus modern noirs by name authors and give them vintage-style covers like the originals. It turned into a huge success. I'm working...
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    Movie sidekicks?

    Alan Hale to Erroll Flynn. Flynn later said that Hale would invariably steal a scene by doing something goofy when he was out of Flynn's sightline.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I first encountered crumb sweepers in New Orleans as a teenager. Back then all the restaurants featured a roll shaped like a small loaf which, when you broke them open, unleashed a volcano of crumbs that carpeted the tablecloth, which a waiter would sweep up dexterously with his crumb sweeper...
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    Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!

    Cowboy hats? Hahahahahahaha! Everybody knows those are Indiana Jones hats!
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    Name the Actor...

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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Virtually all the paraphernalia involved with smoking is gone: restaurant ashtrays, Ronson table lighters, cigarette vending machines ... How many people now would even recognize a "silent butler" if they saw one?

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