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    Golden Age radio - Paper Tape Archive

    Here’s a fascinating resource – a digitized collection of radio recordings (mostly) spanning the years 1947 to 1954. Back in 1947 a resident of Billings, Montana, bought one of the first commercially available tape recorders and set to recording his radio. Over the subsequent years he filled...
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    Show us your photography

    Quigley Brown - stunning composition, great use of colour. I love it! Here's a couple of mine. First, the Murray Porter Band playing a storming blues set in Vancouver’s historic Chinatown. Murray (seated) is one of the leading lights of the Res Bluez’ – First Nations blues – movement, seen...
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    Help with silver cocktail shaker

    One thing about cleaning silver - especially plate - is that it is really easy to remove too much silver whilst polishing. Clearly, I would recommend minimizing polishing as much as possible, and then with a silver product. Brasso, for instance, is too harsh. Another hint: if you polish with a...
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    Why I won't be buying a Lucky Brand Jacket

    Is the example in the link historically accurate, or are the chest pockets too low? Something about it looks odd, but it might be just my lack of vintage workwear (OK, clothing) throwing me off.
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    Trench Coat - the 'Ultimate' Thread!

    I once saw a Burberry dark blue trench in Vancouver's Value Village at $140. It fitted me, but I didn't buy it. Perhaps it was a fair price on a garment that retails for $2,000 after taxes, but it still struck me as expensive. I was broke at the time. The coat was beautifully made, if a little...
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    Shave of the Day

    This morning: Preparation: shower! Shaving soap: Proraso Brush: Vulfix #404 “Grosvenor” Razor: WWII era Uk-made Gillette NEW (below) Blade: Gillette 7 O'Clock Super Platinum No aftershave but two hard sprays of L'Occitane Vetyver. My hand wavered over the Knize Ten but I’d already put out...
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    A few good books

    Not only is it a stunning collection, but all of the books are within the theme. It is not a random assortment of good looking books. I've been reading books from the library recently, having slowed down my used book purchasing - but, crikey, looking at these pictures I might have a relapse.
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    The thirties in the seventies

    All Creatures Great and Small - you always knew that when you saw Christopher Timothy rolling up his sleeve and soaping his arm right at the outset of the show you knew were in for a treat. Fantastic shots of Yorkshire, mind.
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    Staged TV

    I think the only television I watched this month has been the (reality show) Wartime Farm, which suffers from being far more contrived than the precursor, Victorian Farm. My wife watches these awful Real Housewifes of shows. You could not come up with a better idea to denigrate women - they...
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    What gives you that vintage feeling?

    Starting the day by shaving with a vintage razor (not a straight, but either a Gem or an open comb Gillette). It never fails to amaze me that something designed a hundred years ago or so perfectly fits the hand, whereas computer designed modern equipment is just a bunch of straight lines...
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    Who makes the best Trench Coat?

    Can't help but think that Burberry is going to be too warm in summer months. (And I have to say, it isn't to my taste - I like a longer, more Bogart look.) I went the thrift store route and ended up with a '70s/'80's London Fog Maincoat, which fits me like a glove. It was $25 well spent.
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    What pens are we carrying today?

    I have a Parker 51 that lives in the pocket of whatever jacket I'm wearing at any time. I've got a 51 stub right next to me on my desk as I type. . . I thought 51's were over-hyped until I started writing with one. Back to the beginner pen question, I'd like to say that, in my experience, the...
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    Never on Sunday

    I grew up in provincial England (between Nottingham and Derby). I remember Sunday closing - and that many of the smaller stores shut on a Wednesday afternoon, also. For the life of me, I don't see where the extra business has come from. A friend's father who ran a plumber's merchant told me...
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    anti-hat article | The Guardian UK

    I would have more respect for Freeman as a writer if she hadn't covered all possible sides. She really is a self-serving rascal. We go from "mannered hats, fussy hats, look-at-me hats," in Par. 5 to the conclusion that "Fedoras, panamas and top hats are, in certain circumstances, acceptable...

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