Found an interesting The Men’s Store shirt from Sears and appears to be NOS. It still has the printed laundry markings, but calls it a cape collar.
Still serviceable with a collar bar so I suppose it’s spearpoint-like.
Unfortunately it is 100% polyester so it gets a little warm. It looks...
How interesting. Most ties of the period have vertical sewn tags or the labels are too small or square-shaped to comfortably hold the tie tail.
I wonder if this can help date a tie or if there was a point before these sewn horizontal tie holders became universal.
I still use the old rabbit ears to pull in the digital broadcasts through the converter box on the TV.
Still have some dropouts when the cars are passing by. No loud static, though the sound still continues when the picture freezes. Reception is better at night like usual.
I might need to get...
Channel 3/4 or LINE has been moved to SOURCE INPUT.
Of course then it becomes a matter of how well you’ve labeled things.
I’ve been trying to repair this old Philco Predicta and the converter box still instructs to select the Channel 3 or 4 so the set can understand the signal.
I was trying to explain the “wee paws for station identification” joke the other day. I suppose terrestrial radio doesn’t use the phrase as much anymore and the station call letters are slipped into the sentence “This is 105.1 FM KXCX”.
I was trying to find an actual example of the phrase being...
I rewatched 12 Angry Men and noticed the continuous towel dispenser in the public bathroom; the type that was a cloth towel mounted in an endless loop.
I’ve always wondered if they were particularly hygienic or if they were washed often.
Apparently they are still sold today though I’ve never...
There’s a whole branch of linguistics dedicated to how words can change to their opposite meaning over time.
Terrific, awful, and decimate come to mind. Inflammable was confusing.
There’s many types of meaning changes, but the semantic change page lists auto-antonym or contronym for words that...
Technically a picture of Lincoln giving the Getty’s bird a dress does exist.
As I recall, it came from the old Photoshop contest site, Worth1000, coincidently enough.
They poked fun at it on an episode of Murdoch Mysteries, a Canadian detective drama set in Victorian times. Though the anachronistic inventions are somewhat eye-rolling: “You’ve sent a facsimile of an image through the air with the telegraph and paint by number instructions. Whatever shall you...
There’s a very vivid description in The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio about the mother using a hot iron to repair rubber girdles (a letter to Maidenform prompted an apology and the last of their stock).
Except they would fail periodically and important occasions were marked with last minute...
Did people actually say that? It tends to be construed as a stereotype like the Cockney “‘ello Guv’nor”.
The BBC Comic Relief special for Call the Midwife lampshaded it with one of the actors from the show spouting “reassuring posh 50s speak”. There’s something about having the ensemble cast...
Unfortunately automobile driving directions rarely follow straight through routes like that.
Unless you’re on one of Roosevelt’s famous point to point walks.
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