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Post War Machines What a wonderful find! I had a post war machine a few years ago, similar to yours in the Chippendale style. It had been modified to take a GE VR cartridge. It also had been adapted to play 33 and 45 RPM records as well as 78s. As these were expensive machines, dealers would...

Driving home tonight, from my job at a bank, flipped to XM 5, which is the 50's channel and found this playing. Their version was by the 5 Royales. However the lyrics are the same in this version from Youtube. As an aside, when I was doing more record collecting I loved old party records. Ruth...

59 Cadillac When I was 17 my father passed away. I had a 1959 Cadillac limousine that he didn't like. My sister and my two nephews arrived for the funeral. The nephews were 3 and 6 years old. They were having a great time playing in uncle's big black car. I didn't want them to get hurt with the...

Oil Changes Jerry, you may want to pick up some non-flamable brake cleaner and cork gasket at an auto supply store. When I changed the oil on my Ironrite, I cleaned out the gearbox area with the brake cleaner as is disolves the old oil. Just don't spray it on any painted areas as it may take...

Safe Journies What a wonderful trip you'll have. Back around 1981 I moved from San Francisco to Kansas City as well. That time was in my 1966 Fleetwood Brougham. Car was fully loaded, including my Russian Wolfhound. Your trip brings back some fun memories. Plus Kansas City is just great. If I...

Good Ironing is Dry Ironing Due to space limitations, I had to sell my Ironrite a few years ago. So, now loving the Rowenta Steam Press. After a year, it's still going strong. I received a very nice service manual a couple of years ago from one of the members here. Also included was some...

Thanks! I've been watching for this for a long time. It looks like they're staying close to the original version of it, as much as they can for current time. The Opposite Sex is very much a favorite of mine. And I was surprised how "adult" the play was when they ran it on PBS. The 1939 movie...

Disco 104 in San Franscisco, Launderess Not a place, but a radio station, 24/7 disco music! Was just wonderful when I first moved there in 1978. One of my favorites was Grace Jones, "I need a man" first heard that at DOK West in Garden Grove California. But the link I chose I think hits a...

Romance, rebelion and household appliances. One of those odd things I recalled seeing years ago on Nick at Nite when they used to run really good reruns. And here it is on Youtube. The link is to Part 1, there are two parts. May the farce be with you. And watch out for those Westinghouse...

Boxer Friendly Model And here's my Roomba Schedular model, with optional Boxer accessory. Mainly I use my Simplicity S-18 for vacuuming and then the Hover Floormate to wash the floor. The Roomba doesn't do a bad job and is great for cleaning under the beds and such. The house is all tile with...

Floormate - Dogs Years ago I had one of those floor-o-matics and it did a great job, wish I would have kept it. The house here is all tile and I wore out the first Floormate and am on to the second one. The larger Spinscrub with tools. The tools leave a bit to be desired. A poor design can...

Light up a cigarette and grab a glass! In the late-1970s Ms. Davis did a one women show and she came to Phoenix Arizona. About an hour of her films and then one hour of her Q & A with the audience. Not knowing anything about seating in a theater, I got row BB, 2nd row from the stage. This would...

Bigger Kirby Here's a close up of the Kirby logo. It would look great on black fabric. Greg, I have a #1+, the + is for the embroidery feature. A #1 is sewing only, no embroidery. I think my machine is from around 1997 and this is what Viking patterned the Designer 1 from. You may be able to...

Machines Easily Arranged! Pete, just be prepared to spend a few bucks on the machines. Fred has a couple of wonderful machines there. Most of the newer embroidery machines will sew as well. Just stay away from the real cheap ones, they don't do well and just lead to frustration. Am thinking of...

With a little help from Husqvarna! Santa is going to bring me an Elna 945 serger. Finally getting my cover stitch. Also got the rooms switched around here, so I may have more time for digitizing some of this stuff. Would love to try to make of those Airway bags in cross stitch.

TV Stand Death March What a timely thread. Last night we went to Circuit City to pick up the new Simpsons DVD and to look at a tv stand that was on sale. Not very crowded for just before Christmas. Looked around to find the stand and finally found a salesperson to assist. He didn't know which...

Something for sewing spandex Already got the washer and dryer from Santa, so with luck a 5 thread serger that does a cover stitch. And I'm with you Carol, am looking at GPS as well. Thanks to Jason's link to that GPS site, it got me to this at Costco online a Garmin Nuvi 650. Nice big screen...

And now the movie Saw a blip about the movie today and found this on Youtube. Looks to be interesting. The Mamma Mia here was a lot of fun, very over the top and very loud. Will look forward to the movie.

YSP-4000 Painting got done and decided to brave Frys here. They had the smaller YSP-800 (might have been 900) set up in a busy traffic aisle. Could not hear it very well, I think the volume control may have been locked. In one of the demo rooms they had the Yamaha YSP-4000. The 4 salespeople...

Took a break from painting the room (now for the fifth time, don't ask!). I appreciate the replies and suggestions! Thanks! I may brave Frys here or Best Buy later and see if they have that Yamaha hooked up. On one of the reviews it mentioned that due to the nature of how it senses the room, in...