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Military 'woolly pully' sweaters
With an actual issue jersey heavy wool, the cleaning instructions on the label are those new-fangled symbols that I can never decipher. I've never had any of my heavy sweaters cleaned, actually. These days, I tend to wear fleece instead anyway. It wears better, is cheaper, is easier to wash and...- BlueTrain
- Post #732
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Terms Which Have Disappeared
One of the ironies of the TV show Seinfeld, which I rarely watched, was that the only character on the show who was supposed to be a professional comic was the straight man for all his friends. "Crazy mixed-up kids" probably got that way from using goof balls, a term I heard a lot. Still don't...- BlueTrain
- Post #5,213
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Lost art of proper relaxation
It seems like even fifty years ago, tailors and seamstresses were from overseas, usually Greece or Italy, it seems. So maybe nobody ever wanted to do those things. And even a hundred years ago in a few books, the shoemaker or cobbler was invariably Italian. That was even true in my hometown in...- BlueTrain
- Post #137
- Forum: Skills and Smarts
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Favorite Uniforms
I was stationed in Germany when I was in the army and that can be a cold, damp place. We still had wool shirts for field use and the heavier cargo pants, too, instead of fatigues for the winter. The rest of the time it was fatigues. One pair of field pants were the old style without cargo... -
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Favorite Uniforms
I've never examined a paratrooper's uniform but they looked fairly tough and practical to me. Nothing like actually using them to get the best impression. It might have been that whoever chose the cloth that was used was influenced by the recommendations of explorers and sportsmen. There was an... -
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Stars And Their Cars
There are instances of personal vendettas being carried out in Hollywood because a perceived slight. Supposedly Hearst, the newspaper and magazine publisher, was infuriated with the film "Citizen Kane," which was supposedly a thinly disguised film about him. He did everything he could to get...- BlueTrain
- Post #275
- Forum: The Golden Era
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RIP Land Rover Defender
Unlikely, although the Humvee was produced in large numbers. The problem these days is that nobody wants a simple basic little vehicle like the original Jeep or Kubelwagen. The "Jeep" (it was a Ford and sounded like a Pinto) that was in use in the 60s, the M151, was pretty simple and very much...- BlueTrain
- Post #106
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Old gas stations
I don't recall seeing any old cars when I was little, in the 1950s. But by old, I mean no older than, say, mid-1930s. No one had an old Ford jalopy or anything like that. But then, ten long years later, my wife's father had a Ford Model A in his basement (next to the airplane). I think it was a...- BlueTrain
- Post #2,155
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Old gas stations
That is one ancient truck (the bread truck) in the photo. It also reminds me of a textbook or encyclopedia illustration of one of the stages of urban decay, what with houses converted to store fronts and the like. Or it could be a weird photo book with photos taken in a lot of places but with a...- BlueTrain
- Post #2,132
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Old gas stations
Now, when was the last time you saw a man carrying a black lunchbox like that?- BlueTrain
- Post #2,129
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Old gas stations
Too many of these pictures remind me of home. And why I left.- BlueTrain
- Post #2,121
- Forum: The Golden Era
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RIP Land Rover Defender
Not to change the subject or anything, but what do you suppose the Land-Rovers in British service will be replaced with?- BlueTrain
- Post #102
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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RIP Land Rover Defender
I've seen AC cars and I've even sat in a Bristol but what is an AC Bristol? One starts to wonder about all those old cars found in barns after a while, especially the ones with Rolls Royce's. However, my late father-in-law had an ancient Ford Ranch Wagon (from late 1950s), a first version...- BlueTrain
- Post #101
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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RIP Land Rover Defender
Too nice! Dodge made a so-called command car during WWII, which was basically a Dodge truck set up as a passenger car. I've never seen one in person. There were other variations on the same vehicle, including an ambulance, one with a different style bed and even one with six wheels, presumably...- BlueTrain
- Post #99
- Forum: The Great Outdoors
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Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"
I think that in most places, the Army Blue uniform largely is reserved for formal occasions, same as the Army Green uniform came to be. When I was still in the states, I did wear the AG uniform as an everyday office uniform (khakis in the summertime, including with shorts). But overseas, the... -
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Basic Training (Boot Camp) During WWII
The joke from adolescent science fiction book about some officer academy was that was where you learned to eat ice cream with a fork. I went through basic training at Fort Knox 23 years after my father went through basic in the same place and about 37 years before my son did the same thing. In...
