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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...- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The ultimate bad-guys of cinema-history?
Frank Middleton as Ming the Merciless.- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- Inkstainedwretch
- Post #14
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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.- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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This site is filthy!
It's all those pre-Code movies.- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- Inkstainedwretch
- Post #57
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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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.- Inkstainedwretch
- Post #7
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?
Library card catalogues, and anything made with Bakelite.- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Name the Actor...
John Carradine and Claire Trevor in "Stagecoach."- Inkstainedwretch
- Post #110
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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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...- Inkstainedwretch
- Post #49
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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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...- Inkstainedwretch
- Post #156
- Forum: The Golden Era
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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.- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: Hats
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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...- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: Hats
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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.- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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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...- Inkstainedwretch
- Post #604
- Forum: The Reading Room
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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.- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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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...- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!
Cowboy hats? Hahahahahahaha! Everybody knows those are Indiana Jones hats!- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Name the Actor...
- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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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?- Inkstainedwretch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
