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  1. David Conwill

    The GREAT BRITISH DUFFEL COAT thread

    No worries. Grinnell isn't well known even here in the States. If I ever get to Iowa, I'll visit.
  2. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    To create an implication of purity and cleanliness? You'd have to be awful selective as to which station you stopped at if you were dressed like that.
  3. David Conwill

    He Married The Wrong Woman

    The one that jumps out at me is Scotty ignoring Midge all through Vertigo. Barbara Bel Geddes was a real looker in the mid-'50s and I've always had a soft spot for quirky artist types like Midge. I'll also agree on The Big Sleep. Dorothy Malone in 1945...
  4. David Conwill

    Fountain Pen

    I started out with Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pens and loved them. I've never heard of the Metropolitan, but I'd say that I would trust Pilot, given my experience with the Varsities. In fact, I've been contemplating picking up some Varsities, since in my current job I don't have much call...
  5. David Conwill

    The GREAT BRITISH DUFFEL COAT thread

    I played baseball until I was 12 or 13 but never had any talent for it--I was a career right fielder who couldn't throw and couldn't hit. Only as an adult do I have the kind of coordination and stamina that would have been necessary for athletic prowess as a youngster. I am, in fact, a...
  7. David Conwill

    The GREAT BRITISH DUFFEL COAT thread

    My paternal grandfather played basketball for Grinnell College in 1937-'38 (probably '36-'37 as well) and semi-professional baseball up through 1940. My maternal grandfather was a high-school (American) football star who was supposedly offered a chance to play for the Chicago Bears in the early...
  8. David Conwill

    The GREAT BRITISH DUFFEL COAT thread

    The duffle/duffel bit has tripped me up as well. Something I never realized until they caught my fancy recently! I do wish my grandfather (a college athlete in the '30s who died 25 years ago today) was around to ask.
  9. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    I've posted a few gas stations from around where I live in this thread, and that has turned into a project to document these and use them as inspiration for decorating my garage with locally themed petroliana and roadside Americana. This is my latest discovery--a 1959 appraisal photo showing the...
  10. David Conwill

    Rockland, ME -- 1941

    Wonderful! Thanks, Lizzie.
  11. David Conwill

    Rockland, ME -- 1941

    I wish the original images were still here!
  13. David Conwill

    The GREAT BRITISH DUFFEL COAT thread

    Speculation is all well and good, but there was a time when this site was excellent for going beyond that and getting the hard facts of our cultural history. Yes, I can easily envision football players in duffel coats during a chilly November game (and I always have) but to know the when and how...
  14. David Conwill

    The GREAT BRITISH DUFFEL COAT thread

    My parents referred to duffel coats as "benchwarmer" coats. Can anybody explain how they got this name? I'm wondering if it was tied to collegiate culture somehow?
  15. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    I can't help but think of Bud Crayne in Henry Gregor Felsen's Hot Rod.
  16. David Conwill

    Show us your vehicles

    A tiny update on my Royal Enfield, Gunpowder: I have swapped out the turn indicators for something a bit more vintage looking (someday perhaps I'll go whole-hog and install vintage Guide B-31 pieces), installed a faux-vintage taillamp (Model T-style housing with a '37 Ford lens), and traded my...
  17. David Conwill

    Life Magazine photographer Nina Leen

    I'm a huge fan of Nina Leen. She took some great photos of 1940s teenagers.
  19. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    Yes, I could go for a Giant Hamburg and a root beer right now.
  20. David Conwill

    Now Forming! the Campaign Hat Corps

    I wouldn't have much of anything to say to that man. And I still think he looks ridiculous.
  21. David Conwill

    Now Forming! the Campaign Hat Corps

    That is EXACTLY how a campaign hat is supposed to look. None of this glass-flat-brim, too-small, tilted-forward-on-your-head business. Bravo!
  22. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    Until recently, I thought keeping a car on stands in the winter months was pretty noncontroversial, but one of our readers recently wrote in about a friend who lost his car to a garage fire because it couldn't be rolled out quickly. I might be more inclined to just deal with flat spots in the...
  23. David Conwill

    Old gas stations

    Is there a resource, someplace, to view old Consumers Union Reports? And perhaps the earlier Consumers' Research Bulletin? Those would be outstanding resources.

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