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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    First - The George Formby/furniture-refinishing line is a setup for LizzeM to correct me. In Nashville in the late fifties we had a probably-unique mix of country, rock-and-roll, rockabilly, and you-name it until things got sorted out and pure rock-and roll took over the local radio. (Country...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    George Formby?? Didn't he market a line of furniture refinishing products?
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    The fact that my college seniors were listening to the Beatles gave me the same hope for the future.
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Eventually we B-B's will die out - but the going is more gradual than the arriving, plus we have had some effect on following generations. Perhaps in 50 years the lump will get out of the system and there will be more equality of consideration of all persons/time-periods. However, it will...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    As an engineer I tend to think of things in engineering terms, so I'd be satisfied to change "cultural force" to "cultural inertia". If you get a large mass going the same way you get a tendency for it to keep on going. Same with culture and music... For better or worse (better, I think)...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    As someone whose line of work is educating people, I certainly think that knowing as much as possible about as much as possible is a good idea (and goal). The fact that Boomer-music/rock-and-roll is a "cultural force" may be the key. It goes on and on... On an anecdotal level, one of my...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Why? One reason is that there was a lot of other more-engaging things going on in those days (1950's - 1960's) than listening to music from way-back-when. However, that is not the same as being somehow opposed to it or doing anything detrimental to it (assuming we as a generation had that...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    As a card-carrying member of the Baby-Boomer generation and rock-and-roll fan I'd like to emphatically plead "Not Guilty" to the charges leveled at us concerning the treatment that we allegedly subjected 1900-1940 music to. As a whole, we had little or no concern for, or interest in, music of...
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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    Recently I saw an old Western from the '30's, and when one cowboy wanted another to leave he said "Beat it.". I can't prove that cowboys didn't say that, but I doubt it.
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

    Definitely agree that the real fifties started in ~54-55. Us leading-edge Baby-Boomers (1940's birth dates) had to get old enough to start wanting and getting Davy Crockett hats, Hula-Hoops, transistor radios, Kellogg's Sugar Corn Pops, and all the other good 1950's stuff. I don't attach the...
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    The Origin Of "The Fifties"

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    Verbal anachronisms in period movies

    An irony is that John Banner was actually a sergeant in the *US Army* during WWII. He supposedly was on a recruiting poster but I have not been able to find an example of that.
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    I think Trenchfriend mentioned a bad wheel bearing. Good possibility... Here is a check that sometimes will locate a bad wheel bearing easily. Drive the car for several miles. Then stop the car, get out quickly and touch the center hub of each front wheel with your finger. If the bearing on...
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    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    The one in the front is a 61 Chevy. Note the dark slots above the front grille just below the hood line. The one in the rear could be a 65-67 Ford. They all had the vertical-stack headlights.
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    Papa: Hemingway in Cuba. New Movie.

    I can't access the trailer so I don't know what it says about Papa and gun-running, but I do know that he had an affinity for firearms. He came close to losing his WWII war-correspondent credentials for carrying a Thompson submachine gun and going out on patrol with the French Resistance. A...
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    Tail fins (cars)

    This is sufficiently odd as to be intriguing. As a car-nut/hot-rodder I must have gone through half a dozen cars from the mid-'60's through the late '70's and never had any sort of State inspection. Same for my pals and relatives... This was also when I was doing the engineering evaluation...
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    Tail fins (cars)

    Adblue is the European/German name for what we call Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF). It's added to a reservoir, sort-of like washer fluid, except that it is injected into the Diesel exhaust for environmental reasons.
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    Tail fins (cars)

    Please amplify... I've been driving here in TN since the mid-60's and have never seen or heard of any State inspections.
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    Tail fins (cars)

    As a very-long-term resident of Tennessee I'm perplexed about the auto-safety inspections referred to. I've been owning/driving a car here in Tennessee for over 50 years and I've never experienced any sort of auto safety/structural inspections. Were those local or county inspection operations...
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