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    melting Pot? Space Age and Vintage should they mix?

    Mike, You listed some of my favorite types of music. I guess the whole "Space-age" theme works well for surf bands. The Space Cossacks were one of my favorites (and local for me, which was great). I think Ivan Pongracic is with The Madeira now. The Maderia
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    How popular was/is your name?

    It made the top 100 list in the 1940's. It dwindled down pretty hard in 1990. Barry
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    U. S. Wings sale

    I ordered an Indy Jacket in goat this afternoon. I'm looking forward to it. Barry
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    Lawsuit over "negligent dancing"

    That boutique has quite the selection of ponchos!
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    Strange questions about your town

    Sometimes people assume that I am politically connected because I live in the District. One person asked me for advice about some summer youth program that his son was involved with. He wanted to know if I thought that program would be a good start for his son. The kid wanted to run for...
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    What are you listening to?

    Cussin', Cryin' and Carryin' on... Ike and Tina Barry
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    Aero Horsehide stain transfer

    This happened to me with two jackets: A Black Highwayman and a Cordovan Cossack. Unfortunately, I put Pristine Clean on the Cossack thinking that would alleviate some of the transfer issues. It did not. I wrote about this on another forum. The color transfer really upset me. I can't tell...
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    New Panama by Art

    Art, I am glad everything wound up in the right hands. The fact that I found it was practically luck of the draw. I was in the hat shop and a salesman thought that the felt stiffner I wanted to purchase was upstairs in a storage room. I took the elevator upstairs and asked one of the...
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    Passover Noir

    Passover Noir Happy Pesach to all those celebrating!
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    Awesomely Bad Prose!

    Here's one from "Johnny Dynamite" a comic by Max Allen Collins & Terry Beatty. (AiT/PlanetLar 2003). "Yea, Dynamite is my legal name. John, but everybody calls me Johnny. I was born Jonathan Goorwitz, on the West Side of Chicago. Maxwell Street. Pop was a rag dealer. Ma sewed. I had two...
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    What Is The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen?

    One day a couple of years ago my father and I were driving down Georgia Avenue in DC. My father said "Hey, look at the guy on the motorcycle." I glanced over and there was a kid up ahead of us riding down the street on his motorcycle. At that moment he was laying on the seat. All the sudden...
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    PULP FICTION,... Old comic books

    I absolutely love graphic novels and comics. I'm not into the Superhero genre much but I love pulp, noir and true-crime based books. Darkhorse recently re-released It Rhymes With Lust. From Wikipedia: "Comics writer-artist Michael T. Gilbert wrote in liner notes for 2006 reprinting in The...
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    Going to Washington, DC in April - Hat store suggestions?

    Hats in the Belfry might have moved - it's no longer on Wisconsin Avenue. Propper Topper in Dupont has a larger selection of hats than the store in Georgetown. The Georgetown location has nice gifts and trinkets for the most part. Georgetown Hattery is located in Georgetown Park Mall. I...
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    What Is The Strangest Thing You've Ever Seen?

    I was in and out of the hospital about 7 years ago with a serious illness. After a major surgery I had a series of odd roommates. One older guy complained nonstop for a couple of hours. Then he looked over at me and said "Man, I am the *(@#! outta here!" He proceeded to pull out his...
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    92 yr old LindyHopper

    I saw him at a swing dance here in DC a while back. I thought he looked even younger in person. Barry
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    Why are the rich so cheap?

    Not all of those are corporate foundations. I'm guessing quite a few were private family foundations and independent foundations. I think Bill and Melinda Gates is a PFF. Also, the Jack Kent Cooke foundation (I'm only mentioning this because he was a local celebrity when I was growing up...
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    Why are the rich so cheap?

    The Top 100 Foundations by Asset Size There's a lot of old and new money there. There are many, many smaller foundations as well. Barry
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    It's a boy!

    Congrats! Barry
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    I never got to ask "So how'd I do?" until now (now with photos! Help date my Knox?)

    I picked up a Knox Cervo (which I have mentioned a few times) at the NYC Fedora Lounge get-together. The body of the hat including the edge looks almost identical to yours. I bought the hat at "Cheap" Jacks and paid considerably more than that. Mine had a brown sweat and different liner...
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    Rats!

    Here in DC there is a bit of a rat problem. There are two dumpsters and a number of recycling bins behind my building. My building abuts a large wooded area (govt. property). One Spring night I went to throw out some trash. I took a flashlight with me because the light near the loading dock...

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