P51--- I think you missed the point of my post(in reply to Worf's). I fully agree with what you just wrote. Worf wrote that they would not put a non combat GI in a tank when they were in a repple depple full of infantrymen. My point is that infantrymen were at such a premium that they...
In WWII there is no way they would have brought an Infantryman over to Armor. Infantry units were suffering 150% casualty rates in the ETO, they needed all the people they could get themselves. So dragging some clerk out of the Reppel Deppel wasn't unrealistic. Remember also there were...
@Chas: Although I support the Bonus marchers(and labor, historical and current) I think we have to look at it from the perspective of the times. Many people were very afraid that the workers rights movement was part of something larger and more sinister---Events like the Russian Revolution...
police weren't even the worst problem for the striking workers----private detective agencies like Pinkerton and Baldwin-Felts. The would, in addition to normal goon activities, even resort to tactics such as attacking strikers with armored cars! Earlier in WV a minining company made a special...
The actual origin for the term redneck goes back further and does apply to farm workers---usually in MS and AL, though it wasn't known much out of the area at the time. Though "redneck miners" recieved national exposure via the news it did not lead to the adoption of redneck as a phrase for the...
Helping my buddy find a "hobo suit". He's wanting a 20's-40's men's two button jacket suit, vest would be good but not important.
He's 5'11, takes a 36/37 chest, has a 29-30 inch waist, a 31-32 inch inseam and is VERY skinny (no fat, no bulk). As it's for a hobo like appearance some...
I read a story that the director realized the streets on a town set they built were six feet two narrow. The man in charge said, lets knock down one side, widen the road, and then rebuild the facades. Cimino said no and insisted both sides be widened by 3 feet.
But my big theory is that...
I'm a hat novice so excuse any errors I may make below. Anyhow I wanted to post two movie hats I've always thought were pretty slick, but who most people don't talk about.
The first is Ernest Borgnine in "The Wild Bunch". I had always thought this was his WWI campaign hat, from the bank...
@Don: maybe people weren't bringing more stuff, during the 30's car and road technolgy went a long way and cross country, or at least long trips, were more feasible than they had been with Model A/T type cars (as well as with more areas now being open to travel).
I live just over the river in Louisville now though I was born in Vincennes and raised in Perry Co/St. Croix along the Ohio---btw I always felt that the river counties were basically more like an "Outer Kentucky" than part of Indiana---hills, very Southern culture/accents. Hell we even called...
I think country people used to have fairly cluttered houses---just because you saved so much. I know the old timers around here would have lots of bottles and tins saved since they would come in handy for storing other stuff. I think companies knew this and would decorate containers to get...
Oh yeah, to the person who earlier mentioned going to visit a 40's airbase---Might not be a good idea, I'm sure someone with no ID, no record of birth in the US or other documentation would have been of extreme interest around a secure military instilation during war-time, lol.
BradLaGrange
As to time capsules I have ran into one that was so unbelieveable I almost chalk it up to Twilight Zone. I had to get my dyslexia confirmed by an official test so I went to a doctors office in a building with other government medical stuff. This is about 2000/2001 I sat out in the...
I have to say that at 5'9 I prefer the woman to stand at my heigth or under. Walking around isn't the issue to me, its having to stand on MY tip-toes that is kind of emasculating. Not a big deal, I can't see me completley brush off someone taller than me, but it is one of the things I'd...
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