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    Remnants of Florida’s Early Years: Behind the Walls of a Sports Bar

    PICTURE THE FRESH, CLEAN WALLS of a modern interior space. It’s hard to imagine they would hide anything special, but in the case of a former sports bar in St. Petersburg, Florida, some of them concealed a world of history, hidden for decades. When the walls came down during recent construction...
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    Halloween Pics

    Around the hood today with our Springer
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    Found: 15 Wallets From the 1940s

    https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stolen-wallet-stash-bathroom?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3efa8d880e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_07_12_Not_Chicago&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f36db9c480-3efa8d880e-63338701&ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_07_12_2019_Not_Chicago)&mc_cid=3efa8d880e&mc_ei...
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    THE COLOUR KHAKI

    This article doesn't break new ground, but it does add some color (tee-hee) to the origin of "khaki." Toast Magazine: THE COLOUR KHAKI / STYLE & STORIES 1st February 2018 Khaki is a hard colour to define. Sometimes it’s a near relation to olive green, but elsewhere it veers towards brown...
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    Brooks Brothers 200th Anniversary Book

    [Cross-post with the "What Are You Reading" Thread] My copy of this just came today: I have not read one word of text yet. All I did was open it up and flip through it quickly. Based on that, the book has a ton of beautiful Trad / Ivy pictures (see below). Also, the cover shot looks...
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    Favorite Use of a Song in a Golden Era Movie

    There are some songs that just pop in a movie - they advance the plot, define a character, set a tone, evoke the right mood or, heck, they just work 'cause they are done so darn well. Some of my favorites are: (My least original thought ever, but it's that good that I still love it): The...
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    Golden Era Nightclubs, Dating Apps & Let's Just Say it, Hooking Up

    I looked around a bit and couldn't find quite the right thread to tuck this one into, so thought I'd start one (but bartenders, if I missed the obvious - which I do a lot - please just move this post to the appropriate thread). And with that, below is a picture from and a link to an article on...
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    Discovery in a Chicago theater of a 1930s clutch purse

    From MarketWatch What the contents of this Depression-era purse might tell us about women Published: Mar 23, 2017 7:01 a.m. ET The recent discovery in a Chicago theater of a 1930s clutch purse is a revealing time-capsule By RACHELKONING BEALS NEWS EDITOR How much have women changed in 80...
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    Vintage Things That Have APPEARED In Your Lifetime

    In the planing phase since 1910 - 1910!!!! - the first section of NYC Second Avenue Subway opened today and we rode on the first ride out of the 72nd street station (four blocks from our home). Pictures from day one below. I have never, ever been in a cleaner NYC subway station (and probably...
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    What Is Your Favorite Book of 2016?

    What book did you enjoy the most this year? / What book do you reflect back on the most? / What book do you wish more people would read so that you could talk to them about it? (Doesn't have to have been published this year - only that you read it for the first time this year.) For me, it was...
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    What Are Your Favorite Books To Reread? / How Many Times? / Why?

    For a variation on a theme, what are - not necessarily your favorite books - but the book(s) you return to time and again and why? What is it that keeps drawing you back: the story, the characters, the dialogue, the "feel" or "atmosphere," the ideology or something else? I'll kick it off...
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    Movies that had Great Initial Success and, then, Chirp, Chirp, Chirp

    I know we have a thread for under-appreciated masterpieces and one for now-classic movies that initially flopped, but how about those movies that were initial successes - those that achieved both popular and critical acclaim upon release - but time has not been kind to and they, since, have...
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    Show Us Your Neat Blankets / Throws / Etc.

    I searched for awhile and couldn't find a similar thread, but bet one exists. I'll gladly more this post there is someone just lets me know where "there" is. Otherwise, it could be a fun thread to have as I'm sure there are some neat and vintage blankets / Throws / Etc. out there In an impulse...
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    Dinner and Dancing

    I thought a thread on this might be fun (Bartenders: if there is one, please feel free to move this post there or eliminate it altogether - no hard feelings). Based on TV shows, movies, books from the period (in addition to speaking with several people I've known from the Golden Era and...
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    Storm Pictures

    One of the things I love most about storms in the city is how they have a time-travel element to them. If you are familiar with photos of NYC in the snow from the '30s and '40s, you can feel their echo in present day snow storms. This morning, my girlfriend and I went out to our favorite diner...
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    He Married The Wrong Woman

    How many times do you watch a movie and, at the end, the male lead chooses the wrong woman? Not that often, but when it does happen, it drives me crazy. Three movies where it happens are: - "Gentlemen's Agreement" where Gregory Peck marries the uptight Dorothy McGuire instead of the fun...
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    Vintage London Underground Posters

    From Atlas Obscura I tried to find an old thread that this would fit into, but didn't find one that really worked. Hence a new thread, but really just wanted everyone to have a chance to see these incredible vintage posters from London's Underground...
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    Shocking Stories About Your Golden Era Relatives

    My grandmother passed away when I was eight (after a year long, brutal battle with cancer). At that point, I knew she had had a hard life - her WASP family "disowned" her when she married the son of a German immigrant, he then died in the depression and left her in debt with a failing business...
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    High-profile / classic movies one's never seen

    (Beta tested in the "What Was the Last Movie You Watched" thread) I will admit (with some embarrassment) that I've never seen all of "West Side Story" as I am always bored out of my mind when I try. It's not because it's a stylized musical - I love "The Sound of Music" and like "Singin' in...
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    He Chose the Wrong Woman

    In several movies, the male lead ends up with the woman that the writer or director - or more likely the production code - thought he should be with, but sometimes, another women in the movie - who was only supposed to be a foil for the female lead - turns out, in my opinion, being the woman you...

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