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Posted by randybc2003 on Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:20 PM
I an a fan of the Old West, and mostly mildly PG. I probably accept it if John Wane or Jimmy Stewart accepted It. After all, Ann Margaret threw a shirt into J. Wane's face and told him to "BOIL IT!". Jimmy S. ran the "Cheyane Social Club" w/ S. Jones.
Of two clubs in the area, one has one "mistress awaiting her lover" in the 2nd. floor of an old brick hotel. This 1/2" x 1/2" in a room at least 40' by 40 feet. The other has a billboard (of a close-up) of a swimmer wearing a white bikini, and the question is ask "Got Milk?" [:-^] When we display the layout, the billboard can be turned around to show a cruse ship on the ocean. [C):-)][C):-)]
The other day I was talking with two guys deciding on structures re a section under construction. A church WAS planned, and there was ribbing about a "cat-house". They were going to put the church right next to the tracks. When I was ask about the other, I said "right oposite the CHURCH. That way you know which is the RIGHT side and the WRONG side of the Tracks" [(-D] One guy adimtted "I didn't see that one comming!"
You are the Brass Hat/Robber Barron. Put down what you like, and be a little mindfull of possible visitors. It's YOUR RAILROAD. Run it the way YOU want to!
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:45 AM
according to recent studies, my model railroad police force is the best in the basement. So they keep my fictional town G rated.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:41 AM
On my first (of two) pair of modules I have a small quiet stream, and wanted to have a scene with swimmers in it. I got some Preiser swimming figures (with bathing suits on) and placed them on the riverbank, but wanted some in the water so I cut two of them in the middle (a male and a female) and glued them on top of the Envirotex water. Looked good. Now what to do with their lower body parts that were left over? I placed them in position behind a bush near the back of the modules, one on top of another. They can only be seen by the public if I point them out.

I've been asked several times by adults where I get all of the scale figures. I tell them I have them made, and one is being made right here - pointing to the feet sticking out behind the bush! Always gets a laugh!

Hidden behind a covered bridge near this scene is a Campbell figure of a nude lady covering herself up as if she had been skinny dipping. Again this is only visible if I point it out.

A friend has a farm scene on his module, and behind a bush in one scene is a farmer getting to know one of his sheep very well!

All in fun!

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Posted by twhite on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 11:18 AM
Well, let's see--I'm planning on having some skinny-dippers in the Yuba River, when I get it scenicked in, simply because skinny-dipping in the Yuba River is an old and honorable custom where I was born and raised in the Sierra Nevada. And although my layout doesn't have much room for it, if I AM able to model a portion of Nevada City, CA during WWII, I'll have to admit that the town had 22 bars and a very discreet house of ill-repute on Spring Street (the Madam was a pillar of the local Episcopal Chuch. When I was a Sophomore in High School, a friend of mine and I went over to try and sell her an ad in the HIgh School Yearbook. Everyone thought it was funny until it got back to my mother, who had a Cow!). I don't know whether or not I'll have room to model that particular edifice, but if I do, it's just going to look like another one of Nevada City's famous Victorian mansions. So let's just say my model railroad, after I get all the scenery in (does anyone EVER get ALL of the scenery in?) will be slightly PG-13. Rowdy, but not salacious.
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Posted by Fergmiester on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 10:43 AM
Good! Very Good sometimes!!

As a Cub and Scout Leader and a Father of two. Except the odd occasional stream of profanity (I forget that I'm not on the ship, sometimes[:-^]). My layout is rated PG for the simple reason I don't know who might show up. I may have a pub tucked away in a corner, but it won't be conspicuous. besides the law office to some would be considered more offensive!

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Posted by FThunder11 on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 7:45 AM
PG-Rated, Ya gotta have things like bars!!! It gives the layout life.
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Posted by krump on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 3:09 AM
no nudity, some sunbathers, and yes - as Snake noted, there will be a little white country church in the hills.

as far as the bad boys and girls ... reform school, penitentiary, courthouse, police station, sheriffs, game/ park warden, bank robbery, train robbery, probation/parole office, grafitti on walls and railcars, purse snatching, chain gang ... essentially modelling what I know - a career hazard if you like.

cheers,

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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 2:22 AM
My future layout will also be strickly G rated. Not because of little kids who may visit. ( Heck, they'll see and learn enough between their friends at school and life in general). Like many have already stated, I also want to recreate the innocent atmosphere that I remember when I was a kid with my first LIONEL setup during Christmas. Can't wait to fini***hat extra room for the trains!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:07 AM
[:D][angel][angel][:-^]

In my former club we had a big layout. In a forrest was a clearance with a couple................[:-^][:D] It was created as a joke from us adults.

I must stand on tiptoe to see the scene and im 6ft 2 in tall. And none of our youthmembers knew this scene.
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Posted by fec153 on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 7:19 PM
none of the above. no scenery! no skin either. i'm bashful.[:o)][;)][angel][angel][:-^]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 7:14 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Oklahoma Train Nut

NO WAY. I am 12 years old and I have 2 younger brothers. my layout will represent a small town in the 50's and I would like to have a nice, pleasent, happy atmosphere. I have briefly come in contact with such things, and I regret it.


Same here. I am thinking about modeling either the 1950s or the modern era, but there certainly won't be anything explicit or vulgar on the layout. Me and one of my friends were just talking today about how you can't even watch a good movie without something of that nature in it.[V]
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:28 PM
Unless you can find something above G-rated in a vast expanse of styrofoam, no, my layout is fine [:p]
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Posted by vsmith on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:12 PM
Based on Jetrocks 1950's -60's nightclub list....

Looking at this list I surprised at just how different the take on the name is today vs yesteryear. Today some of these names would be right at home in L.A.'s vibrant Club scene and I would NOT want to go into anything today with some of these names...

Gay bars:
* Achilles Heel (Piano bar nightly)
* Branding Iron
* The Corker
* Day and Night Bar
* Fore 'n' Aft Club (holy smokes is this a red flag!)
* The Loading Chute (see above)
* Mister Patches
* The Playroom
* Restless Guns
* Velvet Hammer
* Velvet Slipper

The 1967 List:

* The Body Shop (red flag if theres a guy on the marque!)
* The Gay Lantern (oh boy need I say anything?)
* Gay Ninety's Room
* The Gilded Cage ( La Cage la Faux? [sp] )
* The Recess Room
* The Diddly

Stripper bars:
* Branding Iron
* Can-Can Club
* Fore 'n' Aft Club
* Mel-o-dee Club
* Moderne Club
* Pall Mall
* Panther Room
* The Playroom
* Red Fox
* Restless Guns
* Shangri-La Club
* Trophy Room
* Tropicana
* Velvet Hammer
* Velvet Slipper

The 1967 List:
* A Go-Go Club
* The Body Shop ( there really IS one here called this)
* Circus Tent
* Cleopatra
* Doll House
* Doubleplay
* Joker Club
* Lefty's Playboy
* The Pink Slip
* Ton's Playgirl Club ("easy to find, hard to leave")
* The Playmate Lounge
* The Recess Room

Western/Cowboy/Sportsmans Bars:
* Branding Iron
* The Glacier
* Howdy Club
* Mark Twain Club
* Restless Guns
* Trophy Room
* Western Cafe

The 1967 List:

* Club Maverick
* Cow Town
* The Golden Horse
* Outpost

Dance Hall clubs:
* Can-Can Club
* Moderne Club
* Panther Room
* The Playroom
* Red Fox
* Shangri-La Club
* Star Cafe
* Stardust Room
* Stark Club (yes, Stark, not Stork)
* Top Hat
* Tropicana
* Velvet Slipper

The 1967 List:

* A Go-Go Club
* Club Mai Tai
* Crown Club
* Joker Club
* KoKoMo Inn
* Lunar Station
* The New Mo Mo Club
* Music Inn

Chinese restaurants in Arcadia: (if you live here you know I aint joking)
* Happy Time Pete's
* Hinkey Dinkey Cafe
* The Coral Reef
* Mister Patches
* Square Deal Cafe
* Star Cafe
* Tan-Tan Cafe
* Top Hat

The 1967 List:
* The Berry Patch
* Circus Tent
* Detour In
* Doll House
* The Gold Slipper
* The Golden Horse
* Lunar Station
* Pied Piper

Classic Jazz Bars:
* King of Clubs
* Club 4
* Club 16
* Club 21
* Club 26
* Club 65
* Club Delta
* Panther Room
* The Playroom
* Red Fox
* Stardust Room

The 1967 List:
* The Blue Bird
* Crown Club
* Joker Club
* KoKoMo Inn
* Mecca Club

Just Get Hammered Bars:
* The Chukker
* The Corker
* Day and Night Bar
* Happy Time Pete's
* Zombie Hut

The 1967 List:
* Joker Club
* Lefty's Playboy
* Poor Vic's
* The Recess Room
* Tiki Cocktail Lounge
* Tiny's Cocktail Lounge


and my favorites:

* Poor Vic's ( might just use this)
&
* Zombie Hut

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Posted by green_elite_cab on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:11 PM
the closest thing i have to anything naughty n my layou tout is a WW2 B-24 bomber modeled in a model mueseum after "The Dragon and Its Tail" i've even seen a real B-24 from teh Collins foundation with one side painted as the plane i mentioned. since it was buzzing my town at a low enough altude for me to see the pilot, i'm thank full the side with teh girl was facing the woods....... it visted my local airport. it seems parents either didn't know or didn't care, but the Dragon and its tail is a famous b-24 so i guess it escapes this one. after all, its educational. she wasn't drawn that great anyway, lol

also, never bring your kids to the USAF mueseum in ohio. that was interesting.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:49 PM
I always thought my layout would be like an R Rated comedy. With Bizzare and wild, sometimes insane but almost always humorous scenes scattered around the layout.

A few examples.

Red Lights in all the sleeping cars

"Honest Carr's Used Johns"- Great Deals on Reliable Family Toilets. (Picture a lot with neatly lined up toilets being examined by Value seaking couples)

The movie "American Pie" playing at the drive in movie. (Not quite in sink with my late 60s time frame. But a movie that would be X-rated given the time frame.)

The "High-Flyer's Night club. Where all the patrons are presumably stoned as everyone is Naked and standing on the cealing. (Just picture an entire room turned upside down)

A red light district. I am still out if I want to sugar coat it or get vivid imagry.

And this Idea I am stealing off of a layout I saw on a video. (Title escapes me at the moment) Prophylactic-Pyrotecnics. "Fireworks for that special someone"

Just some of my zaney ideas.

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Posted by on30francisco on Tuesday, September 21, 2004 4:26 PM
Mine is basically G to PG rated but I do have some scenes depicting intoxicated men by a saloon, a hobo camp, and a "lady of the evening." I never thought of putting adult scenes on my layout but I have nothing against people that do.
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Posted by Jetrock on Sunday, February 29, 2004 2:05 AM
Okay, here's a question--if you use mashed-up nudie magazines in the papier-mache' for your scenery, what is the rating of your layout? I guess it depends on how thick a layer of plaster you put over them...

If you want a list of real bars, vsmith, here's a list of real bars that existed in Sacramento in 1961 and 1967, rudely lifted from my friend Dave Smith's "Sacramento: City of a Beer" webpage (www.nokilli.com/sacto/)--I'm going to model the King of Clubs. Not all are winners, but there might be some food for thought here...

The 1961 List:

* Achilles Heel (Piano bar nightly)
* Branding Iron
* Can-Can Club
* The Chukker
* King of Clubs
* Club 4
* Club 16
* Club 21
* Club 26
* Club 65
* Club Delta
* The Corker
* Day and Night Bar
* Donner Club
* Fore 'n' Aft Club
* The Glacier
* Happy Time Pete's
* Hawaiian Hut
* Hinkey Dinkey Cafe
* Howdy Club
* The Loading Chute
* The Coral Reef
* Mark Twain Club
* Mel-o-dee Club
* Mister Patches
* Moderne Club
* Movie Club
* Pall Mall
* Panther Room
* The Playroom
* Red Fox
* Restless Guns
* Shangri-La Club
* Square Deal Cafe
* Star Cafe
* Stardust Room
* Stark Club (yes, Stark, not Stork)
* Surf Room
* Tan-Tan Cafe
* Top Hat
* Trophy Room
* Tropicana
* Velvet Hammer
* Velvet Slipper
* Western Cafe
* White House
* Zombie Hut

The 1967 List:

* A Go-Go Club
* Antonina's
* The Berry Patch
* The Blue Bird
* The Body Shop
* Circus Tent
* Cleopatra
* Club Mai Tai
* Club Maverick
* Cow Town
* Crown Club
* Detour In
* Doll House
* Doubleplay
* The Gay Lantern
* Gay Ninety's Room
* The Gilded Cage ("variety entertainment, comics, girl dancers, singers, floor shows")
* The Gold Slipper
* The Golden Horse
* Joker Club
* KoKoMo Inn
* Kolonial Klub
* Lanai Walnut Room
* Lefty's Playboy
* Lunar Station
* Mecca Club
* Mr. Ed's (organ bar)
* The New Mo Mo Club
* Music Inn
* Outpost
* Pagoda Cocktail Lounge
* Pal's Club
* Piccadilly
* Pied Piper
* The Pink Slip
* Ton's Playgirl Club ("easy to find, hard to leave")
* The Playmate Lounge
* Poor Vic's
* The Recess Room
* The Red Knight
* TNT Club
* The Diddly
* Tiki Cocktail Lounge
* Tiny's Cocktail Lounge
* Tower Lounge
* Travelers Lounge and Club
* The Turf ("where strangers make friends")
* Zorba the Greek

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, February 27, 2004 11:22 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by trainjunky29


Dear vsmith,
Ordinarily I agree with you, but here...come on.... If some of us want our model railroads to be a fantasy and escape, well, we have a word for that: freelanced.

No hard feelings,
Daniel

P.S. Have a happy February 29, vsmith, and everyone.


Well go for it, I never said it was a bad thing, just that i found the realism of certain era's (warts and all), more interesting than an "Ozzie and Harriet" version of it. To be sure i dont intend on glorifying an era from the past, there are many aspects of the past I detest and refuse to even consider as part of the history of my layout (Racism, McCarthyism, J Edgar Hoover in a dress, well, maybe that one...)

Afterall, its your layout, do with it what you will. i want to have fun and that includes being a little off center with my sense of humor... and addrerssing the more interesting historical features of a small desert town in the 50's would have. So as the layout progresses the hidden jokes and surprises will be included, and woe to the poor schuck who gets too close to Madame Orr's House or to the Bisto Illegal where Ol' Janx is half off at happy hour..

(Dont worry too much about the NC-17 rating, like most movies that recieve it very few actually deserve it, so it will be more the Pirates of the Caribean version of a Shady Ladies establishment[;)])


I know I roaming a bit, had dinner and had the nearest Earth equivelent to a Pan Galactic GargleBlaster IOW a Georges Special at Mijares Mexican Restaraunt here in Pasadena, time to go kick back and watch the groove tube..BTW how else do you expect me to survive watching "Joan of Arcadia" [xx(] Later Vic

BTW #2 our Christmas Tree is still up, it doesnt come down until Easter.
[:D]

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 11:21 PM
You forgot to include the option "I have no scenery" in the poll.

I never though about it, but when I get around to the scenery, I might use a few double entendres. I find that kind of thing amusing, and I don’t have to worry about kids (I’m 17) except my sister, and she is only two years younger.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:41 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Snake

G rated!! How many of you have a church on your layout? I will have one as the center of the town.




Dear Snake,
I will have a cathedral just as soon as I can find 1:48 marble and granite, and just as soon as the model railroad club on my model railroad sells their land. Until then, somenthing plasticville-esque will have to do.

Dear jetrock,
You must be a teacher. "Pulchritude," "prurient," "ardent lecher;" if it weren't for my habbit of reading the dictionary, I would have been increscently befuddled as your soliloquoy progressed. So far my layout is at most PG.

Dear vsmith,
Ordinarily I agree with you, but here...come on.... If some of us want our model railroads to be a fantasy and escape, well, we have a word for that: freelanced. If it weren't for that wonderful word, I would have no justification for planning on structures modeled after many different railroads. And so, if we want to create a world free of sexual content, crime, and worst of all, intercity trucking [:)], then just let us have our fun with book stores that sell no less than 57 different railway periodicals and movie theaters that are always showing Dougleheaded Freight on the Cumbres and Toltec, Rotary Snowplows on the Cumbres and Toltec, Pentrex's Big Boys, and slide shows of Uncle Ed's most recent trip to Tehachapi Loop. Besides, just think of what my wholesome 1940's-50's era model people would think if I created some prurient establishment between the respectable institutions of the UP ticket office and the model train store [:)]. But, given the contrasts between your layout and my planned layout, I think I have just come up with a new slogan: "We'll get you to Kneading or the Chicken L'Orange is free [:)]."

Keep in mind that I am currently listening to Christmas music--even though it's Lent.

No hard feelings,
Daniel

P.S. Have a happy February 29, vsmith, and everyone.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 9:52 PM
My layout's gonna be G. I don't have kids, I'm 13. My layout is just going to Western RR's in the 40's and 50's and It'll be a a pleasant atmosphere. NO sexual conduct for me , thanks
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HO birds
Posted by bruce22 on Friday, February 27, 2004 9:17 PM
I mean really, who cares!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 8:15 PM
Vsmith, any of the HHGTTG options would be an excellent choice. [:p] Don't forget to have a sign out front advertising specials for Ol' Janx and Gargle Blasters.
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Posted by vsmith on Friday, February 27, 2004 4:51 PM
Speaking of saloon's I need a name for my saloon. Any Ideas?

I was going to go with "Borracho Bar and Grill" but have been thinking of using one of the 3 famous bars mentioned in the THHGTTG.

Here are my choices from the Guide:

1. Slit's Throat Emporium

2. The Bistro Illegal

3. The Evildrome Booze-a-rama.

I kinda like the way #3 rolls of the tongue, BTW Milliway's is already taken, its going to be the only restaraunt in town ( has a great view ).

Any other ideas, they should be clever and/or funny. All are welcome to contribute though.

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Posted by vsmith on Friday, February 27, 2004 4:33 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Snake

G rated!! How many of you have a church on your layout? I will have one as the center of the town.




Yep, right there between the bordello and the saloon.[:D][;)][}:)][:p][alien][X-)][%-)][D)][(-D][:-,]

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 3:13 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by Snake

G rated!! How many of you have a church on your layout? I will have one as the center of the town.




There's one in the town on my layout.

And Jetrock, I am familiar with what you're talking about. I have some old Railroad magazines from the 60's-70's and one issue from 1955. The ones from the early 60's don't have a whole lot of girl pictures in them, but in the issues from the 70's almost half the photos are of girls. I'm sure that the whole contorversy surrunding this cost them a lot of readers and lead to the magazne's demise.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:44 AM
G rated!! How many of you have a church on your layout? I will have one as the center of the town.

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Posted by Jetrock on Friday, February 27, 2004 3:16 AM
If one wanted to add a cheesecakey touch without going beyond the boundaries of a PG rating, and one modeled the Sixties or Seventies, one could simply include a photographer miniature and a young-woman miniature (perhaps in a mini-skirt, but clothed) near the railroad tracks--RAILROAD MAGAZINE regularly featured shots of young women (clothed) with trains in the background, which was often a subject of much controversy on their letters page.
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:28 PM
Weird, I never even thought about it...

I'm a teacher too and I'm constantly amazed at how R and X rated even Jr. High can be.

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