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Post by lagatta on Jul 14, 2009 13:22:51 GMT
I knew it was a lot older than that, as I remember it from childhood. Checked - 1957. That makes sense, as European economies had not fully recovered from the destruction of the Second World War then.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2009 13:39:11 GMT
I guess we hippies in the '60's were still milking it for whatever bargains could still be had because there's no way I would recall seeing it in 1957 as I was a mere child. Maybe I'm thinking $15.00 or $50.00USD. Whichever,it was an immensely popular book.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2009 15:23:05 GMT
I used the book in 1969.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 14, 2009 15:53:23 GMT
I was tiny in 1957 as well, but it is one of those vague memories from early childhood, probably a few years after publication.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 14, 2009 16:51:41 GMT
Although 1969 was not all that long ago, $5 was still money then. You damned sure wouldn't have used it to buy one single coffee, for instance.
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Post by rikita on Jul 14, 2009 21:24:09 GMT
there are parts of europe where i would still be able to travel for five dollars a day, i think... or at least could a few years ago, not sure what it is like now... i'd need a tent though i guess...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2009 22:23:45 GMT
Not all that long ago, Bixa? Do 40 years mean nothing to you? Has time no hold on you?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2009 1:26:07 GMT
ushers in movie theaters
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 15, 2009 3:03:00 GMT
Bixa is timeless. A bit like a Rolex.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 15, 2009 3:30:57 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 12, 2009 15:25:47 GMT
Here's an ugly bit of history that I remember quite well: I was reminded of it and of this memory thread when I saw Nic's opening of discussion on To Kill a Mockingbird, and Malcolm Gladwell's take on the book.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2009 15:30:33 GMT
In my youth, in the Paris metro before automatic turnstiles, there were ticket punchers at every platform entrance.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2009 15:57:34 GMT
The unintelligible "voice" in the NYC subway PA system,it's too intelligible now,it's scary.
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Post by patricklondon on Sept 12, 2009 18:20:33 GMT
Ah yes, "clippies" (or bus conductresses, as would then have been considered the proper term), who would pull a cardboard ticket off the rack hanging at their waist and punch a little hole in it to show it was paid for. Later on there was a machine where the conductor/tress would turn a handle to print out the ticket.
And going back to an earlier part of the thread, they used to play the national anthem at the end of every evening's performance in the cinemas (complete with a projected film of the Queen saluting at the Trooping the Colour parade - these were the days when she still rode side-saddle for the whole event). And every night there would be a dash to get out as soon as the end credits of the big film started rolling, in case there was a strict patriot at the end of the row who would stand to attention, thus blocking the exit.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 14, 2009 3:06:09 GMT
You get slapped with the lese majeste law in Thailand if you don't stand up for the national anthem played before every screening...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2009 6:01:52 GMT
Three of us were mortified the other day talking with the new Portuguese employee around the coffee machine. He is 22 years old. Somebody said something about the "old days", and I commented "Nathanael wasn't even born when we started" (since we other three have been there at least 30 years). But he absolutely killed us when he added, "my father was only 15 years old when you started here."
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 15, 2009 15:04:16 GMT
I would like to know if there is any particular time pattern for styles to come around again. When my son was in high school there was a renewed interest in that lightweight cotton fabric from India that comes in pastel plaid and fades in the wash. When I told him that it was popular when I was in high school and was called "bleeding Madras", he sneered, insisting that it had to be something different.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 16, 2009 3:58:41 GMT
I still like paisley. It must have been popular some time. I think I'd even wear it as a shirt if I could get it here and take to a tailor.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 16, 2009 5:13:14 GMT
I miss Madras shirts. Paisley, not so much. But when I think of Madras I think of really fine lightweight cotton that becomes softer and more comfortable with repeated washings and when I think of paisley, I think of early '70s polyester- probably paired with striped bellbottoms
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Post by lagatta on Sept 17, 2009 11:33:01 GMT
Yeah, Madras is an excellent fabric for hot weather. When I was in Perugia in 2006, I bought one of those wraparound cotton skirts in Indian cotton, in a pretty print. It was very hot right then, and a lot of women were wearing them casually. The background is maroon, but the print is almost paisley (which derives from embroidery patterns from that part of the world) and includes blue, gold, green, brighter red and other colours. Skirts like that were popular among us hippie types in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and predated polyester paisley shirts. A lot of young people of the "altermondialista", "no-global" type are wearng stuff like that again, though of course there are differences in the look. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisley_(design)Unfortunately I don't wear it much here, because it is a bit long not to get one of the loose ends caught in my bicycle wheels, and for me casual summer wear means being on my bicycle as much as possible. My favourite summer bicycle skirts are Indian as well, but knee length and gored.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 17, 2009 14:30:38 GMT
I would love to find a madras wraparound skirt. Fabulous material and design of utmost comfort . I have some seersucker capris that I would put in the same category of comfort and design.(Although,we referred to them as "pedal pushers "or "clamdiggers").
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Post by spindrift on Sept 17, 2009 16:25:40 GMT
Madras skirts and shirts? I don't know about them! pictures please.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 19:57:05 GMT
Old enough to remember that the still hot looking man I saw at the Post Office this afternoon was the same person I danced my very first slow dance with.(The song was "HEY JOE")
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2009 19:58:31 GMT
Ah, now we know why you have made this New York trip!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2009 13:51:07 GMT
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Post by BigIain on Sept 30, 2009 19:55:53 GMT
May have been done, but who is old enough to have had a car with a manual choke for starting?
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Post by aloysius on Sept 30, 2009 20:14:39 GMT
I've used those.
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Post by BigIain on Sept 30, 2009 21:42:00 GMT
Hi Aloysius, fond memories of an old Ford which was very tempremental on damp mornings. The choke needed to be adjusted many times during the first few miles of my drive to work.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 30, 2009 21:51:41 GMT
I had a '60s Mercedes with a manual choke and they were selling Hondas in Canada with manual choke controls long after they'd been relegated to extinction in the more temperate parts of the world. I actually prefer a cable controlled choke as the automatic type not infrequently get sticky or otherwise give trouble.
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Post by BigIain on Oct 4, 2009 20:20:16 GMT
I also remember how cars used to rust around the sills too.
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