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  1. Roquentin

    Lovely color photos of Dublin in 1961

    Not only is it great to see some colour photos, but what I really like is how many people are on bicycles.
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    Australian Leader Apologizes for Child Migrants

    I remember a passage in Bill Bryson's book on his travels Australia where this program is mentioned. Evidently some of the children taken didn't even realize that they were going to another country halfway across the world- they asked their handlers if they would be home in time for tea.
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    Classical Music as "Longhair Music"

    Hello, I was thinking this might be a more appropriate post for the music section but I'm not sure- it's not exactly about music per se, more the culture around it in about the 40s or 50s. Evidently, prior to the rise of the Beatles and other '60s British Invasion bands, the term "longhair...
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    Steampunk, Dieselpunk, etc.

    A friend of mine used to be interested in Steampunk style. I was never as taken with it but I did attempt a short story set in a Steampunk universe. It wasn't that great, to be frank. I'm probably more intrigued with Dieselpunk, as it stands, but again more as a fiction subgenre than as...
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    Let's Retire These Movie/TV Plots!

    For once I want to see everyone die except for the dog. On this topic, who here knows the site TV Tropes? It's literally chock-full of all the ploys used in TV, books, films, etc, from the oldest tricks in the book to the latest Hollywood bandwagons. It's hours of fun, but I should warn you-...
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    Gold(en Era) Mine!

    You can listen to them live from here, although you need itunes or winamp to do so. They're both free to download. It sounds good! http://www.kbrdradio.com/
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    Vintage Style Reference in Vernacular Photographs

    Griemersma, I like the haircut on the man with the tie at the bottom of that big crowd scene you posted. I just discovered this one. It's the Norwegian philosopher/mountaineer Peter Wessel Zapffe, managing to look roguish and bookish at the same time. This is 1930, by the way.
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    Vintage Style Reference in Vernacular Photographs

    This is one of my very favourite pictures on the Shorpy website, some students from a Washington, D.C. school in 1941. A substantial influence on how I like to dress, in fact.
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    The fall of the phone

    I have pretty terrible telephone anxiety when I'm using normal phones, let alone cell phones. This is one of the many reasons why I don't own one despite being in a demographic that almost uniformly seems to. Economics is another reason- why should I spend money on something I'd hate to use? And...
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    College wardrobe

    Maybe you're thinking something along the lines of Dylan Thomas? He almost looks like a proto-hippie to me. But then again it seems that a lot of dyed-in-the-wool bohemians wore suits. You don't get much more avant-garde than the Dadaists, and here all the men are wearing them:
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    Who Does Without TV?

    Most television lets me down. I've never been one to get engaged in whatever show is being talked about by everybody the next day. It seems too much work for questionable results. But even channels I used to like seem to have been dumbed down in recent years. Maybe I have my nostalgia goggles on...
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    New Ladies and Gents Step Forward

    I suppose I should do this before I forget. I've been looking at threads on this forum for a little while now but only just registered. I come as someone mildly interested in past cultural trends, including those of the '30s, '40s, and '50s, although I don't limit myself to one epoch. I'm not...
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    Where did your user name come from??

    After a very long period of deliberation I finally settled on the name of the protagonist in Nausea by Sartre, Antoine Roquentin. I got around to reading it a few months ago and I was not disappointed.
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    Childless in the Golden Era

    One of my favourite writers is Virginia Woolf, and although she was married for 29 years she never had children. Granted, she was part of a highly tolerant circle of artists and intellectuals. Has anyone else here read her To the Lighthouse? It takes place between 1909 and 1919, and I have a...

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