I run a blog on tumblr as Bucky Barnes, and I'm often asked to tell stories from the 'good old days,' and bar fights have come up a couple times. Given that it's Marvel-universe, I'm not super concerned with getting every little detail right, but I would prefer to use historically correct information when possible. I ran some searches in google on ( Read more... )

I've tried many Google searches for things like restaurants and cafes in London in the 1970s (or '60s or '80s just to get closer), food prices in the UK at this time, and an inflation calculator, which kind of spat out decontextualized and unhelpful numbers. I have also looked through older tagged posts in this community. None of that was terribly ( Read more... )

setting: Chicago, Illinois circa 1924 or 1925; the character in question was born in London, November of 1907 ( Read more... )

Setting: rural England, first or second world war ( Read more... )

I'm working a fiction piece set in 1981 Detroit, and i'm looking for descriptive information about two pubs, the Traffic Jam and Snug, and the Old Miami from around that time. I've got a little stuff from their facebooks, and the web, but found very little. Unfortunately, searchable newspaper archives don't seem to go back that far. Eventually ( Read more... )

I'm not really sure how to look for this, but I figured someone here might know ( Read more... )

I'm pretty familiar with the British tradition of pubs having colorful names taken from decorative signs put up for the illiterate. However, I have not been able to find much on the French equivalent; my online searches keep finding references for the British - and mostly English - tradition. I suspect the fact that I didn't find what I want is ( Read more... )

Setting: late 19th century Oslo ( Read more... )

Hey, I'm looking for general information about working in a Waffle House style restaurant - sit down but still fast food.

The story will be set in New Jersey (USA) and is roughly modern day.

I've googled various permutations of "[name of every fast food restaurant]" and "what it's like to work at", "working conditions", "set up", "clean up", etc. and ( Read more... )

This isn't a question of what common dishes in the US were actually invented or tailored to American tastes, but how those dishes vary in the US ( Read more... )