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  1. Inkstainedwretch

    Name the Actor...

    I don't know but that picture is the absolute definition of "pre-code."
  2. Inkstainedwretch

    Any writers?

    I started in sf. My first mystery was published in 1990 and was nominated for the best paperback original, so it was up for the 1991 awards. My avatar might give you a hint. Thanks for the welcome, Amateisgal. I'm right with you about the magazines. I guess e-pub is taking up the slack there...
  3. Inkstainedwretch

    Name the Actor...

    Concerning Maureen: I read an account by, I think, one of the producers who said they went to a more concealing costume for her because she was a good Catholic girl and she was usually pregnant just when they needed to cast her as Jane. the Code probably came as a relief.
  4. Inkstainedwretch

    What Are You Reading

    Now reading Lee Child's Jack Reacher novel, "Personal." Pretty good read so far.
  5. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    When I began college in fall of '65 there was one of those machines in my dorm in an alcove off the rec room. It was not frequently cleaned and the smell remains etched on my cerebellum to this day.
  7. Inkstainedwretch

    Ghost signs

    I would call it a "skeleton" sign. Either is good for the upcoming Halloween
  8. Inkstainedwretch

    Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!

    Is anyone else here annoyed as I am when people these days refer to any longish coat as a "trench coat"? I first became aware of it with the infamous "Trench Coat Mafia" of Columbine infamy. Now I even hear those Aussie drover's coats with the shoulder doubling called trench coats. They are fine...
  9. Inkstainedwretch

    Name the Actor...

    Eddie Cantor "Roman Scandals." Also pre-code
  10. Inkstainedwretch

    Why the 1920s-1940s?

    I was born in the vintage Boomer year of 1947. My mother was small-town Texas girl and my father the son of Dustbowl Okies who sought a better life in South Texas. They were raised between the two most destructive wars in history and were just the right age to take part in the second. They had...
  11. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Cabooses. Modern trains don't carry crews anymore. I can't remember when I last saw a caboose.
  13. Inkstainedwretch

    Golden era food.

    Someone downthread mentioned the power of the dairy industry. When I was a boy in south Texas in the early 50s cafes served individual pats of butter or marjarine on paper squares. By law, butter pats were square, while marjarine pats were triangular. I don't know if the law was the same in...
  14. Inkstainedwretch

    What do you do for Living?

    I write books.
  15. Inkstainedwretch

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    I haven't gone through all the preceding 410 pages, but this is a subject dear to my heart. Some of the things that have vanished in my lifetime, or were at least common at one time and rare now: Half dollars sugar cubes cigar counters at the cash register backyard incinerators slide rules...
  16. Inkstainedwretch

    Any writers?

    This is my first post. I've been a professional novelist for almost 40 years in the mystery, SF and historical fields. Was nominated for the Edgar Award for my first historical mystery. In an earlier life I see myself sitting at a battered desk, pounding an equally battered Underwood, churning...
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