Recent content by Gary D.

Each era seems to have its own music identifying that time. The mid-1930s to early post-war years had the likes of Glenn Miller and the Dorseys. I can't say if the early 1950s (by then, swing had died out) had anything special in the way of music, until Bill Hailey and the Comets came along in...

I'm glad this car survived! At least it's done better than the 1957 Plymouth Belvedere (not of the 1940s, of course), but I've had an interest in it since reading when it was 'planted' in downtown Oklahoma City. I graduated in '57 and was born in that city. Anyway, I half considered going back...

Believe me, this is no book. I'm a very slow reader and it took me between 15-30 minutes to read Fitzgerald's story. I googled Fitzgerald Benjamin Button and downloaded the story.

I enjoy reading books set in the 1930s and early 1940s--generally World War II thrillers, but there are two books (usually combined into one volume) that I'd like to add to my collection: When Worlds Collide and After Worlds Collide. Don't go by the 1951 film, which I thought was ludicrous. I...

I'm also very interested in this period. Yes, I would prefer the actors to speak with a German accent--I know they are supposed to be speaking German. One of the criticisms my British correspondents had about The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was that everyone spoke in perfect, upper-class English...

This is my third or fourth post, so far. I stumbled upon this site when trying to describe the private investigator in my 1930s book--did he wear a fedora?--and so from there. I was a frequent poster to another, out-of-country, site, but I found there was a lot of chatting about local affairs...

I am interested in this period and have read something of Count Claus von Stauffenberg. Cruise is 47!--hard to believe--so he's actually older than the heroic colonel, who was, I believe, in his late 30s when he died. I probably won't see the film because I'm not, to put it politely, a Tom...

The Day of the Locust remains a must-see, and it really captures the period. For a while I didn't know that the little brat Sutherland's character stomps to death was a boy--I was thinking it was a girl--until someone pointed it out to me. The Thirteenth Floor--another movie that at least, in...

I saw a trailer for this film, thought it looked interesting, went on line and downloaded the short story. I think I read it in about fifteen minutes. F. Scott Fitzgerald doesn't explain how a woman can give birth to a fully grown old man. I'm wondering how the movie does it. This sounded...

I believe the grill and front end of the 1939 LaSalle was a work of art. The LaSalle was so popular that it infringed on Cadillac's sales; probably the reason the LaSalle's last year was 1940. That being said, do you happen to know where I can download a picture of a 1929 or 1930 black...