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  1. MrNewportCustom

    Senator Jack's brush with greatness

    Jack . . . Don't wash that hand until Scott touches it. lol Lee
  2. MrNewportCustom

    Senator Jack's brush with greatness

    I would have held out my hand and, while shaking his, would have said, "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mr. McCartney." Except for changing the name, I did that when I met Jay Leno (who seems to prefer that you call him by his first name), Louis Anderson, Johnny Bench and a few other...
  3. MrNewportCustom

    Health Conscious in the Golden Era?

    Perhaps a bit before the "Golden Era", but research John Harvey Kellogg, the Battle Creek Sanitarium and the origins of Corn Flakes. Lee
  4. MrNewportCustom

    CONTEST: Name my baby!

    Make it Rebecca.
  5. MrNewportCustom

    CONTEST: Name my baby!

    Rebecca Sara (or Sarah) Cari (my favorite spelling of such, but you can use whichever you prefer) Agnes. Congratulations, Betty and Betty's Beau. :)
  7. MrNewportCustom

    A Different Dingus

    Wow, Frankie, that is beautiful! A wonderful lamp, too! These MK Falcons are great! I love mine! :) Lee
  8. MrNewportCustom

    Loungers' Pets

    Meet Gwendolyn. My condolences for you on Sheb, Thunder. This little cutie wandered into the yard last week. She was a tad ferel, but she's taming down quickly. She's also eating like a pig!! She is currently about 1/4 the size of 'Tilla and nearly as fluffy. They already get...
  9. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    Thank you, docneg. You're right; nobody can touch Merle Oberon, but that was not my intent. I just wanted to touch the photograph of her. Lee
  10. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    This past Sunday, I did a photo shoot with a local photography group. We had access to a studio and "hot lights"; the kind used by the movie studios and by photographers of the golden era who took pictures of movie stars. In 1938, Robert Coburn of United Artists (Goldwyn) photographed Merle...
  11. MrNewportCustom

    Where were you on July 20, 1969?

    I was two days away from turning six and my family and I were eating dinner while my father watched the landing, live, on the news. When the broadcast was over, dad asked when dinner would be ready. We all laughed and told him that we'd cooked it, called him, set the table, called him, ate...
  13. MrNewportCustom

    Share your own art here :)

    I took some photos for a friend's flooring store. I got creative on a couple of them. Peaks and Valleys Rule of Thirds Lee
  14. MrNewportCustom

    Public Enemies

    I was assuming that, since I'd seen the FDIC sign during a bank robbery that took place early in the film (1933 being the year the story had begun in the movie), that the sign had been misplaced in time. Now I'm wondering when those signs started appearing in banks. As far as fictionalization...
  15. MrNewportCustom

    My Vintage Overcoat.

    Thank you, Jamespowers. I'll wear it a little less often in San Diego than I will where I live, which is closer to Los Angeles. And not often here, at that. :rolleyes: :D I will, I'm certain, bring it with me the several times I'll be visiting San Francisco in the next couple of years. It'll...
  16. MrNewportCustom

    My Vintage Overcoat.

    Thank you very much, rmrdaddy! That is some very interesting reading! Far more information than I'd expected and very much appreciated. Thank you again! :eusa_clap A little research regarding the union label reveals the coat to be from between 1949 and 1962. Perhaps someone more sartorialy...
  17. MrNewportCustom

    My Vintage Overcoat.

    On a trip to San Francisco for the July 4th weekend, I went to the Haight and found this overcoat in one of the many shops that line the street. I paid exactly $100.00 for it. It's in excellent condition. The yoke label The lapel label (next to the vertical wallet pocket) The...
  19. MrNewportCustom

    The Full Monty Python

    If he offers you an apple, RUN! Lee
  20. MrNewportCustom

    Food Memories

    Oh yeah! My father's sauerkraut. Neither before nor since have I found sauerkraut as good as my fathers. It was always crispy and its taste was perfection. Store-bought is always soggy and limp. I remember a time when I worked at a car wash, and my boss asked me to go around the corner to...
  21. MrNewportCustom

    What Are You Reading

    Just finished several readings (with more to come) of The San Francisco Book by Herb Caen and Max Yavno (1948) and am now starting IN-N-OUT BURGER: A Behind-the-Counter Look at the Fast-Food Chain that Breaks All the Rules by Stacy Perman (2009). From the back cover: "When fast-food...
  22. MrNewportCustom

    Public Enemies

    I saw it last night and I enjoyed the movie; probably because I didn't go for a history lesson. But I did notice a couple small gaffes: the FDIC sign in the bank, for instance. Since I'm no expert on vintage clothing, no comments there. I do have one complaint, though, and it's based on a...
  23. MrNewportCustom

    Food Memories

    The way my father cooked a T-bone steak. Fast, simple and memorably delicious! Lee

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