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Lunch, Anybody?
Grilled cheese sandwich and a bowl of tomato soup. If you make this stir a spoonful of Salsa in the soup while it is heating. Delicious! It really gives this old favorite a lift.- Stanley Doble
- Post #1,149
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Cary Grant vs. Sean Connery Suits
Cary Grant was a gentleman. Sean Connery is a hod carrier. If you want to see the Cary Grant style analysed in some detail look up Cary Grant A Celebration Of Style by Richard Torregrossa with forward by Giorgio Armani and afterward by Michael Kors. The astonishing thing is that Cary Grant...- Stanley Doble
- Post #72
- Forum: Suits
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What Are Your Favorite Books To Reread? / How Many Times? / Why?
McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, a collection of humorous pieces put together by H Allen Smith. I like all his stuff. Does anyone else remember him? Gatsby I have read several times. I read everything I could get by Mark Twain over and over, many years ago. Some books by Henry Cecil. Barbara Tuchman...- Stanley Doble
- Post #25
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What's for Dinner?
Toasted bacon lettuce and tomato sandwich on whole wheat with a salad of lettuce tomato green onion and thousand island dressing. And a cup of coffee.- Stanley Doble
- Post #14,955
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually
Neville Shute told a funny story about office rules in England in the 1930s. In his aircraft factory the rule was that office staff was called by their last name. That was fine until they hired 2 young ladies, cousins, who were both named Barton. One of them bred King Charles spaniels so she...- Stanley Doble
- Post #73
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually
This brings up an interesting point. Adam Smith, author of The Money Game and other books about the financial world, pointed out that there was a missing generation in Wall Street. Between 1929 and 1946 the investment world was out of date, extinct, and offered no opportunities for new blood. In...- Stanley Doble
- Post #42
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Corduroy Pants in the Golden Era?
An unspoken connection - corduroy started as a tough hard wearing material for working men. Many items of working class clothing were adopted by socialists and communists to show solidarity. That is how teachers and intellectuals got involved. In the twenties and thirties corduroy trousers, a...- Stanley Doble
- Post #28
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually
I wasn't referring to changing fashions per se. I meant that some time in the mid to late sixties, manufacturers of men's clothing (possibly influenced by the Boys from Madison Avenue) deliberately set out to make their customers look like bums, by introducing new fashions at regular intervals...- Stanley Doble
- Post #34
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?
In Never Give A Sucker An Even Break, W C Fields played a scene in an ice cream parlor, in an aside to the audience he said it was supposed to be in a saloon but the censors made him cut it out. 'But it will play just as well this way'. Apparently he wasn't kidding. They did crack down on him...- Stanley Doble
- Post #63
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Tramp Steamers
It occurs to me that by that time the Haliotis had very little value to its captain. It was 10 years old, had been damaged and repaired in 2 incidents previously, and now the engines were reduced to scrap iron, its boilers shot, the main shaft and propeller wonky, and the ship stripped of...- Stanley Doble
- Post #35
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tramp Steamers
The captain of the Haliotis had a grudge against the captain of the gunboat that fired on him and captured his ship. His revenge was to lay an ambush at the mouth of the harbor at Pygang-Watai and sink his gunboat. The ambush was to sink his own ship where the other ship could not help running...- Stanley Doble
- Post #34
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Tramp Steamers
Fine tale of a tramp steamer by Rudyard Kipling, The Devil And The Deep Sea. From a collection of stories called The Day's Work. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm#link2H_4_0005- Stanley Doble
- Post #32
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Why American Workers Now Dress So Casually
The rot really set in in the 1960s. That is when men's clothiers got the bright idea that they could sell more clothes if they introduced fashions to men's clothes, the way they did women's. If they kept up a regular supply of new fashions, men would have to buy new suits every year and not wear...- Stanley Doble
- Post #25
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?
Dressing for dinner was really an English upper class thing. In the 19th and early 20th century they took it very seriously. The world was run by the British Empire which covered 1/4 of the globe, and the empire was run by a few thousand men who took the responsibility of governing and running...- Stanley Doble
- Post #40
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What's for Dinner?
Haven't checked in for a while as I haven't bothered to make a square meal for a while. Tonight I made roast chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, carrots, peas, cranberry sauce and a glass of tomato juice.- Stanley Doble
- Post #14,938
- Forum: The Connoisseur
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in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?
Everyone thrilled to the beautiful movie star in her diamonds and furs, the handsome leading man with his sixteen cylinder roadster, the imperious director and his cast of thousands. I would pay to see that movie myself. Who would pay to see a typical dowdy working class family? You could stay...- Stanley Doble
- Post #38
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?
You should keep in mind that Hollywood had a way of dressing things up and making them look good. You see comments today about the semi employed young people in Friends living in a New York apartment that would rent for about $5000 a month. You could say the same about 30s movies where people...- Stanley Doble
- Post #3
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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in old movies they always dress up for dinner at home?
Not the average middle class family but upper middle class and higher. Robert Benchley made a comment in the 1930s that might fit here. He did a review of a Gilbert and Sullivan musical and commented on the audience, that they were wearing evening clothes which was the custom for theater going...- Stanley Doble
- Post #2
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Which funny videos are you watching?
Who did it better? Two of the funniest scenes in the movies. W C Fields bar room scene from My Little Chickadee Harold Lloyd bar room scene from The Sin Of Harold Diddlebock That's character actor Jimmy Conlin in both scenes. W C Fields is the bartender in the first scene, Edgar Kennedy...- Stanley Doble
- Post #148
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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