Recent content by Swing Motorman

This has all been quite helpful. Thank you, gents! I welcome more comments if anyone has some. Right now, I'm envisioning a couple potential plans: - Find a suitable light-colored (off-white, white, very light gray) linen or summer-weight suit, and use with new black/white spectators. -...

Hello ladies and gents. Your wayward trolley operator finally got on the right track back to the Lounge (err, I mean, got life in order and found some time!) I'm looking for outfit advice for an upcoming event/presentation. I need to introduce a 1947 trolley car at its dedication, by...

I'm with you guys on the Subarus. Excellent in everything except speed and maybe hauling power. Unless it's an old bus or on rails, I'll take the "Subie" every time. The Olds brings back fond memories. I remember one of those that my family stored for an overseas relative to use when in the...

Day 1: In Which I Don't Come Home "Come on, darned roses..." I muttered, unsnagging my coat from another invasive thorn bush. It was ice cold and snowy in the northern Pennsylvania forests, and I just wanted to get home with the little Christmas tree I had cut. About a half-mile of trails...

Time to put my idea into practice. This is part story, part game, but I'd prefer to keep some control over where the story goes. So here are the rules for this thread: - Discussion welcome! I'm here to learn about the past as well as have fun writing. Please correct my many mistakes...

Golly, I get busy with other matters for a few days and this thread explodes! This is great stuff, Lizzie, you've made up my mind to attempt this. In a separate thread for clarity, but still, your story has been great and I need to finish reading it soon.

OK, I see part of the idea worked, that I dug up stuff I don't know. But I was wondering more about the idea, not so much the story details, which are just placeholders above. Would any of you consider writing such an interactive story? Personally, Lizzie, I'd love to read such a thing from...

I'd greatly appreciate some feedback on this idea, especially from the bartenders and longtime Loungers. After reading various threads here before a long car ride, I thought of a sort of interactive story/history thread style that might really add to the Lounge. I'd been reading Lizzie's...

If I may chime in, ladies... :yo: First, welcome to Megan, and well done on making a lovely entrance! And to fgradowski as well, you both wear your favorites well and take fine pictures. I second Scarlett's comment, it'd be nice if this thread was busier. Speaking as a less knowledgable...

Mine is a proud moment with a couple funny details. Here's the full photo, taken by a friend: Yeah, I had to crop another friend's gorgeous '49 Plymouth out, but the streetcar is the cool part. It's NJ Transit car 6 at the Rockhill Trolley Museum. It was the morning of the car's...

Vanishing indeed, but thankfully not completely. Philadelphia still has the Market-Frankford line, though this genuine classic El will bend your mind (and the definition of El) a little bit! It parallels surface streetcars through a shared center city tunnel. But it's indeed elevated on...

Larger antiques stores or consignment shops might be a good source of turntables, too. It was one such modernized barn store where I got a good GE portable player (I'm thinking '80s, but it has some old-fashioned charm). They had a lot available, so I could pick and choose what works for me...

Interesting thread and interesting timing! I had some Hat Psych 101 homework this past weekend, but with rather different kinds of hats: Pershing cap vs. 8-point cap vs. Bell-top cap. Strange, sure, but at the trolley museum, it's a regular dilemma for me. Ordinarily, I take the Pershing or...

Good finds, VintageBee! I've had quite a few lucky finds in thrift shop record bins, and Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night" is one of the albums I gleefully brought home from Goodwill. I think I'm past 30 records bought from thrift shops, and all are clearly playable. Thank goodness they're...

Setting the Record Right on Rails and Roads *puts on his best nonprofit-education-group-volunteer voice and coolly explains*:blabla: I talk about this stuff most weekends anyway, might as well do so here! To Stanley Doble, you're missing a myriad of factors here, ranging from the underlying...