IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT…. PART 1
RECENTLY PERUSING A 1955 R&T road test of the Renault 4CV evoked vivid memories of my first car being a scaled-down version of Dad’s 1955 Ford Fairlane Sunliner. Why this … Continue reading
SO WHAT’S THE FARE?
BEING A BORN-AGAIN CALIFORNIAN, I hardly ever ride in a taxicab. However, I have enjoyed sharing tidbits about them here at SimanaitisSays and recently came upon another interesting facet: Namely, … Continue reading
EXISTENTIALISM, NOIR, AND THE BIG SLEEP
I AM SAVORING MY WAY through The Annotated Big Sleep. See “As Hard-boiled as a Shamus’s Simile” and “On Chandler’s Greatness” and “Sleeping with Virginia Woolf, Dreaming About a Naked … Continue reading
DUAL PURPOSE? NO WAY IN H____!
WHEN ERNESTO, ETTORE, AND BINDO left their namesake company in 1947, their new firm was named Officine Specializzate Costruzione Automobili—Fratelli Maserati S.p.A. OSCA, for short, lasted only until 1967, but … Continue reading
THE BARD’S FLICKS PART 2
YESTERDAY, WE SHARED DETAILS of Henry V, Titus Andronicus, and Hamlet. Today in Part 2, Chimes at Midnight and A Midsummer’s Night Dream complete my top five, and I discover … Continue reading
THE BARD’S FLICKS PART 1
THERE IS NO SHORTAGE of cinematic treatment of Shakespeare’s plays. Indeed, Wikipedia observes that “The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare’s plays, … Continue reading
A MULTIPLE-TIME MACHINE
TIME MACHINES TYPICALLY TAKE YOU to the future or to the past, but this one has a multiple-feature: R&T’s February 1955 road test of the Morgan Plus Four describes the … Continue reading
CUISINE DU SUD-OUEST
SORTING THROUGH THE cookbook shelves, I came upon this little gem from Auberge D’Chez Eux, a Parisian restaurant having earlier made a SimanaitisSays appearance. Its Traditions et cuisine de Sud-Ouest … Continue reading
A GLANCE ACROSS THE PACIFIC IN 1955 PART 2
YESTERDAY, THE TOPIC WAS the Japanese Automobile Industry, circa 1955. Today’s Part 2 continues with a well known marque as well as a few rather less familiar. As in Part … Continue reading
A GLANCE ACROSS THE PACIFIC IN 1955 PART 1
“AMERICANS,” TOM PROBST WROTE in Road & Track, January 1955, “are often surprised to learn that Japan has a thriving auto industry and that the narrow streets of Tokyo are … Continue reading
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