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    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    You know, we might be surprised at what other people on the block might have. Sometimes I'm even surprised at what we have at home. Someone a couple of blocks up the street, a Toyota in the driveway, overgrown flower beds and the like, has a Porsche 911 tucked away in their garage. If he ever...
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    Wearing hats: Then vs. now

    My father always wore a hat, except when working, when he wore a baseball cap. I never thought much about it then and I don't spend anytime thinking about it now, either. It was just so natural that you wouldn't have given it a second thought. It wasn't high fashion or anything like that. It was...
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    The 80s, myth and reality?

    It is something how watching television affects your view of things. Turn it off. Base your opinions and judgements on what you see with your own eyes. Don't follow the lives of the rich and famous. And for that matter, don't be a busybody and follow the lives of your neighbors, either.
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    The 80s, myth and reality?

    You're not serious, are you?
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    Safari Express rifle pic thread

    The rifle won't shoot any better with a fancy scope but you might.
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    White RAF Roll Neck Sweaters

    The style among the British for jerseys was hip-length, and rather longer than they are typically worn by Americans. Typically, but not always, a belt was worn over the jersey when worn as an outer garment. That was not the practice in the Royal Navy, apparently. Any idea if that style sweater...
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    The Adventurer's Gear Thread

    Somewhere I have a photo of one of my uncles in almost the same pose, sitting in a chair outside a log house (Not a cabin, mind you!). He is holding a child. The shirt was different but the breeches, the wrap leggings and even the cigar are all there.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    The hardest thing to accept is the fact that it has been that way--change--for hundreds of years.
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    On Thanksgiving Day at relatives, I met a man from Croatia who was complaining about how tourism along the coast of Croatia and how that was no way to base an economy. He gave Greece as an example. But it's hard to think of a good thing to base the economy on, given how fickle consumers are and...
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    RIP Land Rover Defender

    I was in one Duluth Trading company's stores yesterday and they had a WWII Jeep and trailer right inside the front door. I think the older Banana Republic stores did, too. It's really a basic vehicle. Bare bones, you might say. I don't think it was the first attempt at a light utility vehicle...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    It would appear that we have developed a lifestyle based around driving rather than around walking. One of my nephews and his wife, both lawyers, live in the city and work in the city. They only have a small apartment and just one car. But they take the subway to work. His parents lived...
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    Forgotten Advertising Characters of the Era

    I thought he appeared in ads for Kelly Springfield tires. "When it's time to retire."
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    Forgotten Advertising Characters of the Era

    I don't know if the Jolly Green Giant still appears on canned vegetables or not but somewhere west of Minneapolis, out New Ulm way, you used to pass a sign that said you were entering the Valley of the Jolly Green Giant. I remember the valley part of the advertising better than the giant: good...
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    For Remembrance Day - Colourized Photos First World War

    I believe the tartan for the A&SH is--or was--different from the Black Watch tartan. While it's very likely the colorization of the tartans in the first photo (of the men in the railroad car) is wrong and too light, it's also possible that the colors may have faded. Notice also how all the...
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    Old gas stations

    I always thought that one of the interesting features of some of the older cars was how a man could hide behind the front seat and surprise the driver. Can't do that with today's cars.
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    I'm probably the only one here who doesn't have a cellphone. The whole pager thing came and went before I had one of those, too.
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    Old gas stations

    I once had, for a few wonderful years, a 1965 Land-Rover. One of the distinguishing features of Land-Rovers of that era was the spare tire (tyre?) on the hood (bonnet?). Once I happened to have a flat and had to drive it with the flat in the back, with the spare on the road. Without the spare on...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    There are high quality American-made products out there still but they are expensive. We have become spoiled by low priced imported products. Ironically, there was a time when imported products were considered superior to domestic products, although I have my doubts as to whether or not that was...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    While what you say is true, who here remembers first hand the 1920s? I was born in the 1940s but my memories really only start in the 1950s. By then, the trains didn't stop in my hometown anymore. But nobody talked about how they missed the passenger trains. In fact, nobody talked about the old...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    Everything was new at one time. There was a time when there were no soda fountains, drive-ins, hot dogs, lunch counters, diners, penny loafers, cigarettes, or Playboy bunnies. Yet most of them are older than we might think. Most were long in developing into what we think of as a classic thing...

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