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  1. martinsantos

    The Declining Popularity of the Necktie

    John, Just adding about the dressing codes in courts. Here in SP the dressing codes are very newer than I thought - started in very late 60s, beggining 70s. At those days appeared some using hippie clothing (and some women with mini/micro desses). A changing of tastes and times, I believe...
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    I remember when.....

    Espero que tenha gostado daqui! From the old japanese section (Liberdade) there are some bas-fond streets... And some XIXth Century buildings (and some older) claiming to be saved. Not really "dangerous" do walk around, but make me sad about this city. Did you know 15 de Novembro, São...
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    The Declining Popularity of the Necktie

    I saw what you tell about. A lot of my Law School colleagues went to those very large offices (more than 5 hundred lawyers). In these offices the use of tie by young lawyers was recriminated. Suits, etc, were only wore by the chiefs. Fun certainly is! I have worked a lot with police...
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    The Declining Popularity of the Necktie

    Well, I was feeling myself alone, too! :eusa_doh: At least we are two, now. I practice criminal law, only. And you?
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    The Declining Popularity of the Necktie

    Fully agree with John. Betz, I'm a lawyer too, here in São Paulo, Brazil. And I see exactly the same. Until few years ago there was a dressing code in Courts for lawyers. Men in suits with ties, women with dresses or skirts; now is more common to find lawyers with jeans and t-shirts than...
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    What Are You Reading

    My leisure time in WC... James Bond. But everything in these stories is terrible. The vilain trying to get Bond by train. The way Bond solves the situation is just a copy of a Conan Doyle short story. Sad to say, but - the movies are better. At least they take from your time only 2 hours...
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    Vintage televisions, anyone? Post pics here!

    In a little book about electronics, from 1932, a schematic of a Tv set. No picture tube, but a disc with lens and lamps and a motor. I would love to see the results of anyone who tried to make a Tv in those days... (probably it won't work today because the number os lines, etc).
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    What are you listening to?

    Just found this recording by Artie Shaw... The song is very impressive! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYSWdJ0UgH0
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    I remember when.....

    São Paulo downtown got a sad, violent decadence in 70s and 80s. Now it's getting up again. Funny that this decadance saved a lot of old buildings from XIXth centrury and from 10s to 50s. Because the place had no value, it would be bad business to take them out to construct new ones. So that...
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    The Man Who Designed America

    From the article I became most impressed about the locomotive. Thanks for sharing!
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    What are you listening to?

    Rachmaninoff, 2nd Concert for piano and Orch, with Cecile Licad and Claudio Abado. Side B, Rapsody on a Paganini's theme. One of the very best recordings of these pieces.
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    Unpopular music opinions

    Opera singers usually don't need these gadgets. Maybe because they have to sing in opera theaters, with a loud orchestra. At least I never heard about tech gadgets in opera recordings. Shellac recordings, of course, didn't give any chance to the artist. Or he/she sings well or... No good...
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    Does vintage make you look.... *older*?

    I tried a mustache to look older when I started to work alone. I was afraid that no one would contract me because my age (it would suggest lack of experience). I looked just a young man with a ridiculous mustache; and people contracted me ever with that thing in my face! So I took it out and...
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    Unpopular movie opinions...

    But this idea is wonderful! A myth, but a good one... We forget ever that movies stay in theater for several days - time enogh for musicians select what and how they will play. And some films stayed playing not for weeks or months, but for years. My grandmother saw "The perils of Pauline" in...
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    Unpopular movie opinions...

    About music to silent films... I knew in person a musician who played in a small theater at 20s and beginning of 30s (when silent where still running in the country!). Only two musicians really could read music sheets: himself and a music teacher (and by then a somewhat knew songwriter). The...
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    Mobile Phones?

    I'm using a lot my cell phone to write texts - more than talking. It's a kind of telegram by phone, to me. No one writes a letter with it. And you don't have to get long chatings - sometimes in places where is very difficult to talk and so on. A thing like "Come office 09:00 thursday" or "I...
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    What are you listening to?

    I will never understand why so few listen Billy May today. A solid, happy-sounding, imaginative orch. May arrangements are marvelous. Got several of those 10" LPs from Capitol - all very well worn. And, of course, it is the orchestra with Nat King Cole in what I think is Nat's very very best...
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    What Have You Acquired From Family?

    My family always saved a lot of things - so a lot came to me. Forniture (made by my grandfather, as one radio set) to books, some photo equipment, all photos, all records, and so on. Hauseweare, clothing, etc, I permited to be with my sisters... :D (just kidding. I'm the only one who...
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    Vintage televisions, anyone? Post pics here!

    :eusa_clap :D :D Of course the picture tube is the very high voltage (I wrote "Tv tube"); usually tubes works from 150 to 300V/DC. Saw once a high-end audio amplifier with almost 700V in the top of a pair of 6SN7, but this is the exception. But what I think scary about these Tv sets is...
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    Poll: Bela Lugosi's 40's, Poverty Row Films

    Be sure this is a travel that I'm dreaming about for a long time!! Not so easy to me - but I'm sure I'll do this, someday. :cool: Meanwhile, my passion for old films is asking me to learn to listen English better...

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