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    Ask a question, get an answer

    Hat Identification Needed I just finished watching the early '80's TV series "Oppenheimer" about J. Robert and the development of the atomic bomb. Overall, I was impressed with the period sets and wardrobe. In the final episode, there is a scene with a couple of hats and I'm curious to know...
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    Worst Hat Experience Ever--Buyers Beware!

    More info on this outfit is in this thread: http://thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=16721
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    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    Vintage Bike Ads The indespensable Lileks provides a series of vintage bicycle ads for our amusement: http://lileks.com/institute/funny/comicads/bikes/index.html
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    Inside Steve Jobs' abandoned Jackling mansion

    It may actually be moved to a new location: http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_12815512 Or, maybe not.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Watched "The Public Enemy" (1931) for the first time. The ending was a punch in the gut. And, I'll never hear "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" in quite the same way again.
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    They Say Em' From the Golden Era - Slang & Memorable Phrases

    Fillegadusha This word (or is it possibly more than one word) turns up in several WB cartoons from the 40's, and the only Google reference I can find is a link to a script from "THE CAMEL PROGRAM" in 1943. This particular word has been bugging me for some time. What does it mean? What is...
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    Arrow vintage (inspired) shirts

    I see that Kohls is carrying (on sale) some Arrow "Vintage Striped Camp Shirts:" http://www.kohls.com/kohlsStore/landingpages/arrow/mens/casualshirts/PRD~396993/Arrow+Vintage+Striped+Camp+Shirt.jsp...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Robot Monster. Greatest motion picture of all time. It puts "Plan 9" to shame. Only a true genius could come up with an alien "robot" in a gorilla suit and diving helmet. Best line: "You're so bossy you should be milked before you come home at night."
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    My New Old Car

    I'm curious - are those original seatbelts? Were seatbelts even an option then?
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    Question about the late 1960s-mid 1970s

    The '30s and '40s as Filtered Through the '70s Well, no one can say they didn't try. While perusing through some old Life magazines, an issue from 1971 caught my eye. The issue title is "Everybody's Just Wild About... Nostalgia," and covers the "sentimental craze for the past" by example...
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    Vintage Eyeglasses

    I'd appreciate a bit of advice. I don't intend to go the vintage frame route right now, but have been looking at the Shuron Regis': I'm trying to decide between these two lens styles. I really like the looks of the Regis I, but other than the frame it looks pretty similar to my...
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    Where did your user name come from??

    He was definitely one of a kind. Was that a clip from "URGH! A Music War?"
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    Private SNAFU Cartoons.....

    So true, Doctor. For example, Tex Avery was a genius, but try watching the entire Tex Avery collection straight through without getting annoyed at seeing the same gags reappearing over and over.
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    Warner Bros. cartoons about Germany, Japan and Italy...

    I think that it's only Volume 3 of the "Golden Collection" that has the Whoopie Goldberg disclaimer - at the beginning of every disc before the main menu! And you are correct: it cannot be skipped over (but it can be fast-forwarded). I believe the remaining sets just have a written disclaimer...
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    Private SNAFU Cartoons.....

    And, some of them were written by the none other than Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss).
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    My Finest ART DECO Item

    That is a really beautiful watch and may in fact be the coolest thing I have ever seen.
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    Historic Movie Palaces

    We had a fantastic 1920's theater, the Paramount, in Cedar Rapids: With the original Wurlitzer organ that accompanied silent movies: The disasterous flooding of one year ago next week destroyed much. I can't embed a direct link to the "after" photo, unfortunately...
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    Warner Bros. cartoons about Germany, Japan and Italy...

    "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs," and it is considered by most animation critics to be a Bob Clampett masterpiece. One of the Warner Brothers "Censored Eleven" cartoons that will probably never be released again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUpJ5a968u0
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    Show Us Your Handwriting - Vintage Penmanship!

    For the past couple of years I've been attempting to return to cursive through the Spencerian reprint workbooks from Mott Media. I'm still nowhere near my goal of being able to write quickly enough to keep up with taking meeting notes. Even though there are diagrams of the proper way to hold...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    Thanks, MrBern. Unfortunately, that's another generation that we are rapidly losing. I'm fortunate to have met and worked with some of them during my time in Houston.

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