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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There used to be a newspaper published in Richwood, West Virginia, called the West Virginia Hillbilly. I think it ceased publication when it's founder, editor and chief contributor passed away. But he was proud to say that they send more copies of the West Virginia Hillbilly to New York than the...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    No, I was only referring to the people who lived on my block. The more sophisticated sorts lived on the other side of town.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    The idea of what a pretty girl looks like hasn't changed at all. Never has, really, or not much, as long as they're about 21.
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    Jodhpurs / Breeches

    Notice that the Marine Corps officer is also wearing boots. Horse marine? Those puttees persisted in the US Army for another ten or fifteen years, same as in the British and French armies. The Japanese wore them until the end of the war, Soviets, too, if they couldn't get proper Russian-style...
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    Vintage roadside

    Violent, angry thugs? That's undoubtedly because they weren't the types who built plastic models. Model airplane cement had a superior, uh, fragrance, though you had to be careful not to glue your nose to something in a moment of inattention. Germany and England were both very car oriented and...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    There was a Maidenform factory in my hometown, long since closed. I did know, of course, what the "lifts and separates" expression was referring to, though not because of the factory. Dick Tracy doesn't appear in the local paper, nor does Gasoline Alley, two of my old favorites. Pogo is long...
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    Vintage roadside

    Chances are, we have the highest per-capita number of storage units in the world. It's ironic, though, that Germany was the first to build super highways, at least by the standards of the day.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Is the expression "lifts and separates" still used to try to sell something? Don't remember what it referred to. Maybe something to do with shocks absorbers or something. Regarding the population bomb and other disasters waiting to happen, there seem to be two schools of thought. One believes...
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    Vintage roadside

    I always thought that the "Deluxe" model was the basic model, given the tendency of marketing types to talk "up" names.
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    The 80s, myth and reality?

    Twenty-one is a great age to be alive, no matter which decade it is. Near as I recall it was, anyway.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It is certainly true that our population has doubled in my lifetime but at the same time, we have become more urbanized, essentially de-populating much of the country. That's not to say there are no problems. Solutions have a way of creating their own problems, too. The shorter average lifespan...
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    The 80s, myth and reality?

    I don't know about the part about a short life. Not everyone got killed. And as for "children," well, we keep raising the age of childhood. Right now it seems to be hovering around the age of 21. My father was drafted when he was 28. I don't think the average age was necessarily all that low...
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    The 80s, myth and reality?

    Retailers of reproduction clothing and equipment are frequently frustrated by customers who don't realize the variations that original material existed in and complain about products that are available. There are other things, too. As I've probably mentioned before, when thinking of historical...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    I take it you've never driven across the country.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Technically, none of those terms could be used in American after the revolution. We no more had a Victorian age than Russia.
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    In doing a little research on another topic I just post on, I saw the term "golden age," (or era) which of course exists here, if only in our minds. But such and such an age is used a lot. The bronze age, the space age, the digital era and so on. But remember when a few cars were available with...
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    Show us your Guns!

    Real guns have frequently shown up in sci-fi movies or others based on comic books (like The Shadow), suitably modified to look space-age, even as far back as the 1940s. Most are instantly recognizable, if you know much about guns. The Mauser C-96 and its copies (Astra). And that reminds me of...
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    Deco Deliveries

    How quickly something that looks futuristic becomes the past.
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    I'm from Princeton, West Virginia. The railroad was the Virginian.

    I'm from Princeton, West Virginia. The railroad was the Virginian.
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    Who Did You Just See Live?

    We saw the Vienna Boys Choir two weeks ago. They're okay for a bunch of kids.

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