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  1. scotrace

    How Did I Miss Annette Hanshaw??

    I have loved the music of the 20s & 30s since I was a teen, but I just ran across this singer, Annette Hanshaw, in a random social media post about her. Born in 1901, her parents owned a music store, where she sang the new sheet music numbers. She wanted to be a painter and studied art for two...
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    You know, I peeked at a Hemmings a few months ago to look at truck prices expecting to find obscene bargains, and was really shocked. You could get a 46 Chevy 1/2 ton not that long ago for about $5,000 in great shape. Now they're $30,000 plus. Who is buying them? I've seen the market for just...
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    I embarked on the restoration of a '52 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 2-door sedan in the 90s. It was wrecked (several times), had been rolled, had a slightly twisted frame and a missing front clip. Over about three years of spare time and a whole lot of household cash I had NO business spending, I got it...
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    End of Manual-Transmission Era - Honda Accord

    I will miss shifting. Last car I had with a stick was a Chevy with a six speed. Awfully fun to drive and very efficient. I rode in a VW Passat in 09, and that was the thing I wanted ever after. I got one a year and a half ago and that will be pretty much what I look for from here on out...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Ratched- I didn't care about the enormous plot holes. As Worf pointed out, the whole hospital, spit shined as it was, was preposterously without mayhem. Patients allowed to roam freely, serial killer asked to join a party, all rubbish. And the legless-armless man story is stupid. There's not...
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    Alright... Alright! What's Covid-19 making you binge watch????

    Addicting, though. I think we've exhausted all the seasons and spinoffs, thank GOD.
  8. scotrace

    Alright... Alright! What's Covid-19 making you binge watch????

    Addicting, though. I think we've exhausted all the seasons and spinoffs, thank GOD.
  9. scotrace

    Alright... Alright! What's Covid-19 making you binge watch????

    "Im a morbidly obese 46 year old woman in Ohio with a criminal record, three children by three fathers, zero cash and my electricity has been shut off. I'm engaged to a drop dead handsome 22 year old man in Tunisia who I met online and have known only virtually and for only three months. He's...
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    Alright... Alright! What's Covid-19 making you binge watch????

    We've been watching "90 Day Fiance" for weeks and I've never seen anything that made me want to throw a brick at the TV more. People are dolts.
  11. scotrace

    Gramophones, Phonographs, Victrolas....

    Thanks for showing something new! I've never seen one before.
  13. scotrace

    Golden Era Anathema

    Sock garters.
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    "Ratched" on Netflix: For the Vintage

    My Missus and I have been looking forward to this one, because we're big fans of Ryan Murphy when he's good, and we figured the restraint of eight episodes would keep him from the wild time-wasting plot diversions of American Horror Story. Also, Sarah Paulson could be my wife's twin sister...
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    This "sucks"... the Hoover And Other Vintage Vacuum Cleaners

    And now, to add further to this completely dead thread. ;) I now have a 1949 Kirby 509, rebuilt in 1972. It came to me with a broken fan, which I replaced. Once you get the height adjustment right, it works very well, though as with most of these old bag vacuums, it's a pain to empty, even with...
  16. scotrace

    Esquire’s Complete Golden Age Illustrations:

    This is THE STUFF. Thank you Flanderian, and welcome to The Fedora Lounge.
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    Men who can cook.

    The cookbooks at my house now number more than 150, and I have published nearly 400 weekly newspaper columns on food, cooking, and foodie culture. And you know what? I made a brioche last night that is a disastrous crumbly mess.
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    Golden Era songs with off-color subjects.

    I'd like to direct all those on social media who are acting as shocked as an Our Gang school principal about current popular lyrics to this thread.
  20. scotrace

    The 100 Best Silent Films

    I know nothing of this publication, but I think it's a pretty good list. Note their parameters: Not the most influential, but the best. Keaton gets a lot of the list. Two of my favorites are here, The Passion of Joan of Arc and Flesh and the Devil...
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    Ben Silver for Spring - White Flannel Trousers & More

    Bumping an old thread: Just picked up a silk/linen Ben Silver sport jacket in olive for FIFTEEN DOLLARS. Fits perfectly and is at the dry cleaners getting a pressing now. And it took 13 years of regular searching to find it anywhere but the store for $800. I've been to the store in Charleston...
  22. scotrace

    The Pinup Thread

    Sometimes we miss which specific forum we're dealing with, but yes, the Front Parlor section is open to both men and women.
  23. scotrace

    Outtakes

    There is no good take of this. When it takes three years to get a promised A-1 and it's three sizes too small and nowhere near the submitted measurements and the maker says "too bad" and you're stuck with it and wouldn't order a stick of gum from that vendor ever again and are mystified when...

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