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    Question for why you're here?

    I'm here trying to capture my lost adulthood.
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    old neighborhood bars

    I wish I could find a bar that was quiet enough for a conversation! As it is they are usually blaring music at jet-airplane decibel levels--it's like trying to talk in a flock of squawking parrots. It would also be nice to find a bar where people didn't dress in underwear. The whole...
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    what if you could travel back in time but could never return?

    The medicine that keeps me alive wasn't invented until relatively recently. Unless I took a lifetime supply with me, or a means of manufacturing it from raw ingredients, I'd quickly succumb and probably die within a few years. If I could bring the medicine...? I'm tempted by the thought of...
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    Snow White

    I am fishbelly white and burn easily, and I live in Florida, on the "Sun Coast"! I have found that the sunblock I like best is Coppertone's WaterBabies. (Here's a link: http://www.coppertone.com/detail_wb_50spectra.aspx ) I use this sunblock every day under my makeup, and have never had my...
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    Formal Wear Primer

    The Hatter has one of those; it is really striking!
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    Your most non-vintage preference or attributes ...

    I can't dance or drive stick shift--I'm too uncoordinated. I like some hip-hop and rap, especially The Beastie Boys and Ta-Shma. I often use hip, geeky nerdcore expressions like "giinormous" and "It's got electrolytes!" My inclusivist social attitudes (like hanging around in racially...
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    Song lyrics you messed up as a kid

    I heard Babylon, too, and had this great mental image of a guy with a rocket zooming down the streets of ancient Babylon causing everybody to stare.
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    Perhaps a silly question: Ladies' hats indoors?

    That's what seems logical to me, especially with brimless hats...I was always perturbed by the teacher telling me I wasn't allowed to wear a hat in class, cause that's supposed to be a rule for boys!
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    Perhaps a silly question: Ladies' hats indoors?

    When I was a little girl in school in the 80's, the teachers had a hard-and-fast rule against wearing hats, any kind of hats, indoors. But it seems to me that ladies' hats would have to have been worn inside during the Golden Age, or the hairdos would have been ruined! Who's right on this bit of...
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    Cad lifestyle vindicated..."it's in my genes darl"

    Among people with odd attractions to past decades? Not as infrequently as one might think; there are some weird correlations going on out there.
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    At last some good news on the extraterrestrial front.

    You can see about 6000 stars with the naked eye...
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    Cad lifestyle vindicated..."it's in my genes darl"

    I think cads are overrated; I was married to one for a while, and behind all the wit and self-promotion was just a rather insecure, sad little man who deserted me at the moment I needed him most. Now I am with Walrus*, a true gentleman, who is loyal and romantic and believes in things like...
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    Warning for those w/ small kids

    Mouthwash is another alcohol-containing product that ought to be kept out of toddlers' reach--especially since it tastes good!
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    Hello, I'm new in town

    (belated) Thank you all for the welcome! Soon after I found this enclave, everything became hectic for a while, but I'm back now (though no longer in Seattle).
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    Custom Passport Replicas

    Oh man...I wish I had a time machine; I can think of someone who'd like some good replica documents....
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    Why are we doing this?

    Why? Hmmmm... I guess the better question is "Why not?" People like what they like. In my case, it's for reasons no one else needs to understand. Luckily I have a small group of vintage friends who completely get it. We can all look out-of-time together.
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    Powder Room Pets?

    This is my darling Gideon. He is an Umbrella Cockatoo (Cacatua alba), a member of a species that originated in the islands of Indonesia. His species' history includes such things as having been a favorite of emperors and becoming an agricultural pest in Australia. He is thirteen, which makes...
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    Hello, I'm new in town

    Hello! I just found this site! I am a mid-thirties/early-forties woman in Seattle, WA. (Both my age and era are represented in that statement!) I am glad to have a place to learn things...I have a pretty good sense of style for kids' clothes and hair from that era, but I still need to learn...

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