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Post by london777 on Aug 1, 2018 13:56:35 GMT
1) I did see an older movie recently where a doctor in a hospital lit up a cigarette and also offered one to his patient! 2) And I seem to recall another older movie with someone smoking on an airplane! 3) Now, even movies from as recently as the 90's or early 00's showing smoking in restaurants seem a bit trapped in time.  1) Saw that a couple of nights ago and laughed. Especially common in field hospital scenes where I guess acquiring cancer is the least of their worries. 2) Very common when I started flying. The logic was that it relaxed nervous flyers. 3) Most restaurants still allow smoking where I live on "Devil's Island". The better ones have non-smoking areas. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 14:24:01 GMT
HOTEL PAGEBOYS Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round  yep that's Harrison in his first role as "Bellhop Pager" |
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Post by teleadm on Aug 1, 2018 17:43:52 GMT
 This kind of fast food places, pic is from That Touch of Mink 1962, with Doris Day. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 18:40:04 GMT
teleadm That's an image of an Automat ^^^^^ they were in New York and Philadelphia. The coffee was terrific ! You gave a teller your money and she returned it as small change .. nickels ( 5 cent pieces) and you fed the slots until the little door opened and released your food. Pie was only 15 cents .. pumpkin and coconut custard pie were to die for ! Coffee, hot chocolate and milk were dispensed into your cup via a silver lion's mouth. All of this was kid heaven ! All gone now except for the one on display in Washington DC at the Smithsonian. 
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 1, 2018 19:00:25 GMT
A telegraph key in a rail station in the old West. Can't find a photo unfortunately.
My grandfather was a telegrapher for a Wall Street firm long ago. He was nearby when the famous bombing took place in 1920.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 19:23:39 GMT
bravomailer My dad used to take me into the city and to see the Wall Street area on Sunday when it was pretty much deserted... as a kid I was incredibly impressed by the scars on the walls from that bombing.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 1, 2018 19:46:31 GMT
Ticker tape machines.
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 1, 2018 20:26:02 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 20:30:06 GMT
 There's one in The Sting too but image not located <yet> |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 20:32:47 GMT
Bayonets  Gary Cooper - Sgt York |
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Aug 1, 2018 20:37:07 GMT
Bayonets Gary Cooper - Sgt York Very cool but we actually still have those. They aren't as long as they used to be though. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 20:39:00 GMT
ok then.. loooooooooooooong bayonets !  wasn't sure if they were still used and had hoped not … taylorfirst1 |
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Post by vegalyra on Aug 1, 2018 21:07:25 GMT
I see at least 4 things that aren't used anymore or are not likely used with as much frequency in this photo. Most of this stuff was used in movies quite a bit...  Typewriter Paging system/Intercom Rotary telephone Pad and pencil for short hand dictation |
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 1, 2018 21:31:57 GMT
bravomailer My dad used to take me into the city and to see the Wall Street area on Sunday when it was pretty much deserted... as a kid I was incredibly impressed by the scars on the walls from that bombing.
Wall Street on a Sunday is like a scene from a post-apocalyptic movie – eerily empty. The bombing, I believe, remains unsolved. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 21:38:50 GMT
bravomailer my dad always just said the mysterious word "anarchists" when I asked. I seem to remember the scars were just across the street from where Washington gave his Farewell Address.
Things echo in an empty NYC Street on a Sunday !
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 1, 2018 22:32:46 GMT
bravomailer my dad always just said the mysterious word "anarchists" when I asked. I seem to remember the scars were just across the street from where Washington gave his Farewell Address.
Things echo in an empty NYC Street on a Sunday ! |
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Post by ZolotoyRetriever on Aug 1, 2018 22:38:17 GMT
One clothing item of note that you'll see in classic films is the wearing of knickerbockers by young boys/youths. It was only when they became young men (approximately at puberty or shortly thereafter) that the knickerbockers were traded in for long pants. Sort of a rite of passage, as it were.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 1, 2018 22:38:26 GMT
ZolotoyRetriever The Wall Street bombing occurred at 12:01 pm on September 16, 1920, in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another eight died later of wounds sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds. The bombing was never solved, although investigators and historians believe the Wall Street bombing was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year. The attack was related to postwar social unrest, labor struggles, and anti-capitalist agitation in the United States. The Wall Street bomb killed more people than the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, which was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to that point. The death toll was exceeded in the Bath School disaster in 1927. Wiki Link for more
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Post by bravomailer on Aug 1, 2018 22:50:22 GMT
One clothing item of note that you'll see in classic films is the wearing of knickerbockers by young boys/youths. It was only when they became young men (approximately at puberty or shortly thereafter) that the knickerbockers were traded in for long pants. Sort of a rite of passage, as it were. The rite of passage is poignantly depicted in Titanic – the one with Clifton Webb and Barbara Stanwyck. Having given up his seat in a lifeboat, their son stands beside Webb as the ship is about to go down and says, "Look father, I'm wearing long pants." |
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Post by Doghouse6 on Aug 1, 2018 22:56:14 GMT
ok then.. loooooooooooooong bayonets ! wasn't sure if they were still used and had hoped not … taylorfirst1 Compliments on the quick fix. I guess that makes them...  I know, I know.  |
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