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    Borgward?

    @Stanley Doble : The Goggomobil wasnt a car from the Borgward Corporation, it was built by Glas. Glas was another relatively small german car manufacturer. Glas went bankrupt in the late 1960ies and the company was bought up by BMW. @All other: While nearly noone of you have ever driven a...
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    Upper Class Taste On Beauty And WORKING CLASS Taste On Beauty?

    I second Fading Fast. No man wants an anorexic, too skinny woman! That phenomen of size zero and below is a competition amongst upper-class-woman, because "competition" is an important value within the upper-class. When men reduce women only to their body... What do they want? anorexic...
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    Nazi V2 archival documents found

    I am german. These documents have nothing to do with V2-rockets. They are a map-exercise to teach military strategy to new wehrmacht-officers.
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    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    I listened to "Swinging Hamburg" on the "Hamburger Lokalradio" http://www.swinginghamburg.de/?rubrik=presse&content=jazz-im-radio You can listen to them at FM 96.0 Mhz (if you live in or near Hamburg) or via livestream on the internet.
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    The Do-It-Yourself Dude

    The wristwatch suggests that this man fought in europe WWI. Wristwatches became popular in military at those times. Before WWI, wristwatches did exist, but they were considered unmanly. Wristwatches were for ladys and the wristband wasnt leather - it was gold or silver or something like that.
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    What are the Oldest Objects you Own?

    A mathematical book from 1790 about geometry with old illustrations.
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    Spring is almost here...

    57° F today here in Hamburg. Yesterday and the day before very similar. Drawback: Had 2014's first mosquito bite this monday.
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    German magazine scans 1930s

    It is interesting how the meaning of a word changes over the decades. "Sportanzug" nowadays means tracksuit in german and hip-hoppers et. al. wear them.
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    Pre-1950s British/European sportswear and leisurewear

    My grandfather riding a triumph motorcycle, could be a "TM 500"
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    Forbidden items in my home...

    Thats cows look mad. Mad couch...
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    If you went back to the Golden Era, what would you notice first?

    I live in a house that was built in 1932. If it was 1940, i would miss the heating central heating system. There would be a stove in every room. The windows wouldnt be insulating glass and plastic frame, they would be real wood - but with only one single glass. I would freeze like hell, because...
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    Old gas stations

    There is an old gas station here in hamburg, it opened 1954. It was a quite normal gas station for many years. Then it was converted into a place where used cars where sold. After that, it was an empty ruin which nobody cared about. In 2010, it was restored and now it is a place where friends of...
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    Is there any hope for a tall man?

    Thats what i feared.
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    Is there any hope for a tall man?

    I am not quiet slim, not fat either. I'd say moderate. Dont know my waist and chest size. That 37 inch inseam is measured on a suit made to 2013s fashion. For jeans, my inseam is only 36 inch and my waist is 34 inches. Edit: I just found a list of actors with my size. When it comes to slim or...
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    Is there any hope for a tall man?

    My trousers inseam is 37 inches and my jacket arm length is 27.5 inches - measured on a modern suit i bought this year.
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    Is there any hope for a tall man?

    Hello loungers! I like the style of vintage suits and i look around sometimes on ebay and alike but with no luck. My drawback in the vintage suits section is my size. I am 6 feet 4⅜ inches tall. That makes it even hard to find nowadays clothing for me! I'd prefer 1930s suits... Does any of...
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    Show us your Vintage Office Supplies.

    Mechanical pocket-calculator: The Curta was invented in 1948: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta
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    What seperates "golden era" from "midcentury"?

    An important point! One has to look not only at design, but on behavior and etiquette, too. In manners, the british invasion seems to be the end of the golden era, with support from "the pill". That was quite similar in europe. As far as i know it from history-books...
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    What seperates "golden era" from "midcentury"?

    That picture is from 1951. I Bought it out of the nachlass of a german carpenter. My first guess was 1930s, but the stools and the door-handles on the swingdoor pointed toward 1950s. Beside that, anything else could be right out of the 1930s (that was my first guess...). I'd like to know...
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    What seperates "golden era" from "midcentury"?

    Not much was 'golden' in germanys mid-20th century. I'd say the very first years of the "Wirtschaftswunder", before kidney-tables were common-place, are the "golden era" in germany.

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