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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    It has always seemed ironic to me that someone makes a big deal out of saluting the flag or otherwise "paying respect," whatever that might be taken to mean, and yet we don't actually require anyone to actually do anything like serve in the armed forces. Doing something like saluting the flag or...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    From reading the article, it also sounds like our cherished traditions aren't really all that old. It also sounds like we're being forced to appreciate our freedoms.
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    Tie clip / tie bar

    Since Hugh Hefner recently passed away (probably with a smile on his face), this thread reminds me of a comment about the whole Playboy thing, that it was relic from the days of tie tacks and cuff links. I don't agree with the comment but I do recall the ads in the magazine for things like that...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    We know some people who decorate excessively for Christmas and nothing like anyone else that I know ever did, with some exceptions. When I was little, the Christmas tree that we always had seemed huge but I have absolutely no memory of where it came from or very little of it being set up in the...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    When my wife and I were shopping for engagement and wedding rings at a jewelry store in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1978. I'd never heard the expression before.
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    Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"

    Enlisted men never work pinks and greens, of course. They wore olive drab, at least in the winter. In fact, that's all they wore in the winter, although the coat was not worn in the field after the 1930s, if it ever was even then. The original initial issue was quite small, too. Two sets of...
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    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    "Good for all ailments man or beast and as an added bonus, it makes your coat sleek and shiny.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    My wife watched some or all of it but I didn't, not any more than I could help (because her TV is always on). I knew it would bring up too many painful memories. Moreover, no one lives live with multiple viewpoints, nor do we rarely have well-observed hindsight, not when we need it the most...
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    Vintage roadside

    These abandoned buildings look so sad to me. For some reason the picture reminded me of the movie "This property is condemned." Places that have seen better days, to say the least.
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    Army may bring back "Pinks and Greens"

    I personally think the Army Green uniform looked the best of any since before 1940. The styling dates to the 1940s, in the form of the tan TW uniform. Blues go back to before WWII also, although there were some minor differences in styling. I was in the army for three years and never saw a blue...
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    Sprezzatura vs trying too hard.

    Nothing is like it used to be and never was. Although you can be stylish and well-dressed, if you aren't dressed like everyone else, more or less, you aren't really in style. But your suit isn't at all old-fashioned. Not to me, anyway, but one doesn't see many light colored suits anymore. A tan...
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    Old gas stations

    A high school dance is where the girls dance with each other and the guys stand around outside smoking.
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    Old gas stations

    "Lubritorium." That's a word you don't hear very often, like scriptorium. Can't be Latin, could it?
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    Old gas stations

    I specifically remember billboard advertising for the 64 1/2 Ford. I even remember where that billboard was. But I wouldn't recognize one if I saw one. The only thing about the advertisement that I recall was the 64 1/2 part, which was unusual.
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    Silver Shirts, US pro-Nazi 1930s group, uniform description and info...

    Things are always changing and that's about the only thing you can count on.
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    Silver Shirts, US pro-Nazi 1930s group, uniform description and info...

    My late father-in-law was an engineer. He didn't have Asperger's Syndrome but I agree that he saw the world as an engineering problem, sometimes even when there was no problem. I think it's a characteristic of engineers, perhaps understandably. But he never worked in a factory and so never...
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    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    Labor unions seem to be no longer on the increase and the other social reasons for revolution have certainly not disappeared. And as for "colony envy," that sounds too Freudian for me. But you can't deny they wanted to conquer other lands for their own economic advantage. It's all about land...
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    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    That may or may not be a Jewish name but I have a CD of a German folk music group with the name of Goldberg. I'm not so sure I agree with those ideas about Germany and Japan. Both countries were very militaristic and in the case of Japan (but not Germany), the military ran things. They, Japan...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    There is a little general store just outside Shepherdstown, West Virginia, that has a fully-equipped turn of the century (that is, 1900) woodworking shop. I don't know what they made there but I was told that everything still works. Everything runs off one of those overhead power take-offs, only...
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    Vintage Things That Will NOT Disappear In Your Lifetime

    The cover of one catalog I have, which came all the way from Fjällräven in Sweden, says "Cold at last!" It's all a state of mind. We have family in Minnesota who laugh at us down here in Virginia. The pictures of the radiator in the shoe shop reminds me of the little shoe shop in my home town...

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