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Post by mudcrab on Jan 4, 2013 20:35:29 GMT -5
Have to admit I was a little confused about this sign in 'the deed', especially when a similar one can be seen at Ike's store in 'The Scholar' So I did some research, and this is the explanation en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Recovery_Administrationagain show just how much time and effort went into getting things right for this TV show |
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Post by mudcrab on Jan 4, 2013 20:36:18 GMT -5
here is the other sign
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Post by Lou on Feb 28, 2019 21:38:24 GMT -5
I knew I would find the answer here. I love this forum!!
Thank you for sharing.
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Post by tommyc on Mar 6, 2019 0:21:06 GMT -5
Thanks for finding this old post! When I saw that sign in the episodes, I just assumed it was for what we now know as the NRA. Cool to know it stood for something completely different.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2019 14:49:18 GMT -5
Thanks for finding this old post! When I saw that sign in the episodes, I just assumed it was for what we now know as the NRA. Cool to know it stood for something completely different. It's funny how we interpret things differently today, at one time the word 'gay' stood for something completely different. |
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 6, 2019 21:17:14 GMT -5
Thanks for finding this old post! When I saw that sign in the episodes, I just assumed it was for what we now know as the NRA. Cool to know it stood for something completely different. It's funny how we interpret things differently today, at one time the word 'gay' stood for something completely different. Yes -- and I really miss being able to use the word 'gay' as originally intended. Can't think of another word to replace it perfectly. |
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Post by nedandres on Mar 7, 2019 11:03:41 GMT -5
It changes how people view it when we sing songs with the word “gay” in it. I find it sad.🙁
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 7, 2019 11:55:34 GMT -5
It changes how people view it when we sing songs with the word “gay” in it. I find it sad.🙁 I'm reminded of a book I read when in junior high school -- I mention it here because of the last sentence, below... "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay" is a book by actress Cornelia Otis Skinner and journalist Emily Kimbrough, published in 1942. The book presents a description of their European tour in the 1920s, when they were fresh out of college from Bryn Mawr. Skinner wrote of Kimbrough, "To know Emily is to enhance one's days with gaiety, charm and occasional terror". The book was popular with readers, spending five weeks atop the New York Times Non-Fiction Best Seller list in the winter of 1943. The book was made into a motion picture in 1944, and in 1946 it was dramatized as a 3-act comedy play by Jean Kerr. In 1950 the book served as the basis for a CBS television comedy series. The series initially had the same name as the book, but after two weeks it was retitled "The Girls" In 1960 a 2-act musical comedy version of the book was created. During the World War2, Hugh Trevor-Roper discovered that this book was used as a codebook by German intelligence. |
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 7, 2019 11:57:40 GMT -5
It changes how people view it when we sing songs with the word “gay” in it. I find it sad.🙁 I suppose it's changed another word I love -- "gaiety"... |
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Post by patriciaanne on Mar 10, 2019 10:45:17 GMT -5
Thanks for finding this old post! When I saw that sign in the episodes, I just assumed it was for what we now know as the NRA. Cool to know it stood for something completely different. Although it's rather odd they would choose that acronym since the other NRA (National Rifle Association) has been around since 1871. |
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