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  1. Shangas

    Typewriters

    And the ribbons. Russian Federal Guard Service reviving Typewriter Use On that note, I have a question to ask. A relatively common plot-device used in mystery/detective TV shows/movies, is where the detective or his assistant steals the ribbon off a typewriter. They unroll it and hold it up...
  2. Shangas

    Gentlemen, show us what you've made!

    What type of treadle machine is it? 66? 28? 12? 15?
  3. Shangas

    Saving Mr. Banks

    Hahahaha. As hilarious as this is, Pamela Travers really was this much of a pain in the butt. She couldn't stand anything that anybody did when they tried to turn her books into films. To this day, I don't think Julie Andrews & Dick Van Dyke fully understood how Walt Disney ever managed to get...
  4. Shangas

    "A Gentleman Does Not Wear a Straw Hat in the Metropolis, sir"

    The boater is a pretty old hat. It dates, as far as my research tells me, to the 1870s at least. So by the 1930s era of J&W, it would be the better part of 60 or 70 years old. I reckon most of the style/fashion 'rules' about it would've died out by then, and people were just wearing them as...
  5. Shangas

    "A Gentleman Does Not Wear a Straw Hat in the Metropolis, sir"

    "Sir, I found this hat on our hatstand. I can only assume that a tradesman left it". "Oh Jeeves! We're not going to have a difference of opinion about that hat, are we?" "I'm not yet in a position to say, sir". "This is what is known, among the fashionable elite, as a 42nd Street Skimmer!"...
  7. Shangas

    Show Us Your True Colors: Regimental, School, Club, Fraternity & other Prestige Ties

    These are all my personal ties: L-R: 150th Anniversary school tie. Senior school tie. Leaving Year tie. Alumni tie. ...I do also have the regular school tie...somewhere. In storage. Couldn't be bothered digging it out just for this shot. Also, the school cufflinks:
  8. Shangas

    Show Us Your Pens

    Very nice Parker Duofold set. The ink bottle carton is from the WWII-period.
  9. Shangas

    85 year old fridge still humming along

    It wouldn't do for G.E. to manufacture goods in China in the 1920s, what with civil wars and everything going on. If it makes you feel any better, the Chinese are importing American-made disposable chopsticks, on account of the fact that the Chinese timber-reserves are so damn low, they don't...
  10. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    There's a shoeshiner who works at the Burlington Arcade in London. I've seen him there many times.
  11. Shangas

    Golden Era Police

    "The Man on the Beat" (1945) - A short documentary about British policing in the 1940s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t00dwUCrAWU "History of the British Police Force" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P48YT61zII
  13. Shangas

    What are you listening to?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnvgpeGxzak "Mr. Wu's An Air-Raid Warden Now" "There's a Chinese laundryman, The famous Mr. Wu! He's chucked his Limehouse laundry-shop, And his window-cleaning, too! He's got another job! And it's one of the best! Now he's doin' his bit for England...
  14. Shangas

    Vintage sewing machine help

    I reckon James is right. It's highly dependent on what you want to sew and how much and how often. A good-quality Singer sewing machine for regular use would be something like a Singer 99 (which is what I have), a Singer 201, which is a BEAST of a machine... Or a Singer 66 (bigger brother...
  15. Shangas

    Show us your vintage style home office . . .

    Does this count? I'm hoping to replace that gawd-awful IKEA "desk" with something more suitable in the near future.
  16. Shangas

    Vintage sewing machine help

    I did. But they're the REALLY old ones. The antique vibrating-Shuttle models from before the First World War. There were some companies which did make them. But they come with their own problems (mainly sourcing bobbins and shuttles). Old German manufacturers included... Frister & Rossman...
  17. Shangas

    Vintage sewing machine help

    MOST older sewing-machines do not have two-way sewing. Some antique European manufacturers (Germans, for example) did make sewing-machines which could sew forwards & backwards, but for the main part, it wasn't a feature that showed up until after WWII. At least that's my experience. The...
  19. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I already have plenty of storage for that kinda stuff. Besides, I fail to see what makes this a sewing table.
  20. Shangas

    Vintage sewing machine help

    Singer "Featherweight": I have no personal experience of these machines, beyond seeing one at an antiques shop. What attracts you to this model specifically? The Featherweight is a good machine, and it's prized for its compact size and portability. What reasons do you have for wanting to...
  21. Shangas

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    I haven't bought it yet, but tomorrow I intend to get my hands on a nice, knee-hole pedestal desk which is for sale at my local thrift-shop. It's for a good price and looks to be good quality. I'll give it a thorough once-over tomorrow, and if everything is satisfactory, I'll pay up and sort out...
  22. Shangas

    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Sadly, I just thought of another thing. Tram-tickets. Melbourne, Australia, where I live, has one of the oldest streetcar/tram-systems in the world, and one of the largest (it's made possible due to the relatively flat ground, and ridiculously wide streets, supposedly so that...
  23. Shangas

    What's for Dinner?

    Leftovers turned into a steak sandwich.

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