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  1. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Roast chicken, black beans and rice, steamed broccoli, tomato juice and a cup of tea after. Didn't take long to make. I had to go out to the hardware store about half past four. So before I left I put the rice, chicken stock, beans, poultry seasoning and butter in the rice cooker and plugged...
  2. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    Mark Twain commented in the 1870s that adultery or keeping a mistress was much less common in the US than in, say, France which puzzled some people. They put it down to easier divorce laws in the US but Twain said, where love is, there is no room for the seducer. Since most marriages in the US...
  3. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    If you want to get the feel of a certain era hit the second hand book stores and look for books from that era, non fiction are good but you can find out how some people were thinking from fiction too.
  4. Stanley Doble

    What's For Breakfast...

    Oatmeal with cream and brown sugar, whole wheat toast with honey, orange juice, coffee.
  5. Stanley Doble

    What's for Dinner?

    Grilled pork chop, Irish potatoes with gravy, green beans, yellow beans, baby carrots, and a glass of tomato juice.
  7. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    If you survived a depression and a few polio scares, worked your way through college, fought a war, got a job, built a house, got married and had a family all before you were 30 your outlook might be different from someone whose biggest accomplishment was his skill at video games.
  8. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    I always admired that about Cosby. That, and he never played the race card.
  9. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    It's possible to be funny without being vulgar if you have talent. The guy who 'discovered' Abbott and Costello in burlesque thought they were very funny but feared they were too 'blue' for radio. He asked if they had anything suitable for radio, and they gave him 'Who's on first'. Yes, they...
  10. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    Anybody can work dirty. A little girl can say 'poop poop' and her friends will laugh. Comedians always go for the easy laugh, or the desperate laugh but it soon loses effectiveness. So then you have to think up something dirtier. Now we have witless so called comics who couldn't do a clean act...
  11. Stanley Doble

    Which funny videos are you watching?

    These videos are strangely addicting. I have watched the whole series going back several years. The presenter is an American historical re - enactor, specializing in the Revolutionary War period of the late 18th century. In this series he demonstrates how to cook authentic 18th century dishes...
  13. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    The difference in chrome prices is mainly the hand labor of repairing and polishing. Chrome hides nothing. What the part looks like when it goes in the chrome bath, is what it looks like coming out, except shinier. If you want a perfect job every pit and scratch must be laboriously filled with...
  14. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    Everybody's lives were horrific back then unless you were among the top 5%. At least by our standards. I remember a newspaper columnist in a Toronto paper in the sixties. He commented on a news story about an elderly woman who was removed from her home which was condemned by the city. They...
  15. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    The big problem back then was that each program had one sponsor. Listeners would blame the sponsor for anything they didn't like and flood their offices with outraged letters. The sponsor was not spending his money on advertising to drive away customers. So the onus would be on the program to...
  16. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    I think I have only seen one bit of film with Woolcott on it. He had a flat nasal voice with little or no expression which I believe is typical of parts of New England and the Midwest. I can see where the voice and appearance could be funny even when he intended to be serious. If The Man Who...
  17. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    That's right parts are available but much inferior to original German quality. I would use original parts, and fix them whenever possible, rather than buy new Mexican or Brazilian.
  19. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Vw is a real fun car, I had a lot of them and still have piles of parts. Amazing, but practically all parts are still available. There are specialists who will sell you anything from a hubcap to a 250HP engine. Simple and straight forward to work on. One caution, they were made at a time that...
  20. Stanley Doble

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    Bought this Packard today. It's a 1954 Patrician sedan, the one they were selling against Cadillac. 359 cu in Straight Eight, 212HP. Power steering, power brakes, and Ultramatic drive. Hope to get it home next week. Photos taken in seller's driveway. List price new, $3890. For comparison you...
  21. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    Funny thing about Allen, he always called his audience 'yucks' and similar names, and considered radio fans to be some kind of sub human lacking in intelligence taste and manners. On the other hand Alex Woolcott found the opposite was true. He had experience writing for newspapers and magazines...
  22. Stanley Doble

    What if Edward VIII never abdicated?

    You have to go back to original sources or at least contemporary sources. If you do that you will get quite a different view than if you only read someone else's opinion or conclusions. It can help to read books by different authors with different views of the same situation.
  23. Stanley Doble

    What did the film stars of the 1920s-1930s make of the 1950s-1960s?

    A lot of people feel nostalgia for their youth. George Burns for all his success, looked back on his days in vaudeville as the happiest of his life and often said all he ever wanted was to be a good song and dance man. That did not stop him from making Burns and Allen one of the biggest acts in...

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