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  1. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    'Allo, Squire Gene Sarazen takes a swing at the 1932 British Open, which he won.
  2. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Floating Power Chrysler Motors exhibit at the 1932 Detroit Auto Show, as much for the cars as the chapeaux.
  3. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Are you being served? Millinery department, Lowe & Moorhouse Ltd., Newcastle, England, 1932.
  4. Fletch

    Bob's Air Mail Service Station: A Man, a Plan, and a Really Big Fokker

    The plane with my gm's ring never made California. I want to say it was the 16th or 17th of the month, but can't access the clippings right now. It might not have made the databases because there were no fatalities. And yes Vic, she did teach at HBHS.
  5. Fletch

    Shirt collar oddities - Boardwalk Empire Shirt Collars

    What's the dope on those Goodfellas type collars with no tie gap? Was that a real mob thing once?
  7. Fletch

    Eastman thunderbird A-1

    Funny, it's an A-1 if it's all leather, and still an A-1 if all wool. But if you do woolen body and leather sleeves, it's really a varsity or baseball jacket. JMHO, but it's...funny.
  8. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Checkered plus twos with my suities Great big airplane full of beauties They come runnin' as fast as they can 'Cause every gal's crazy for a sharp dressed man
  9. Fletch

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Big Bang Theory. Sheldon gets 11 kitty cats and names them after Manhattan Project scientists. I am become Fluffy, destroyer of worlds.
  10. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    More Fokking around as Tony Fokker helps a lovely passenger alight from his giant F-32, 1930.
  11. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, ca. 1935. Well turned out aviation fans inspect KLM's new Fokker F-36 airliner. Click to enlarge
  13. Fletch

    Bob's Air Mail Service Station: A Man, a Plan, and a Really Big Fokker

    A personal angle... December, 1930. Grampa Fletch is in Boone, IA, selling newspaper ads. He has been corresponding for several months with the soon-to-be Gramma Fletch, whom he first met at her parents' home in Des Moines, and they have finally agreed to marry. Trouble is, she's teaching...
  14. Fletch

    Bob's Air Mail Service Station: A Man, a Plan, and a Really Big Fokker

    Was Fokker still doing business in Germany this late? Or is this a topic of particular German interest for some other reason?
  15. Fletch

    Bob's Air Mail Service Station: A Man, a Plan, and a Really Big Fokker

    I saw the first pic on Flickr, then started Googling like crazy. The search took me to Motor magazine (actually a site quoting it), aerofiles.net. airliners.net, some bulletin board that had to do with skyscrapers(!), and several short tidbits here and there.
  16. Fletch

    Bob's Air Mail Service Station: A Man, a Plan, and a Really Big Fokker

    oops, double posting... Good excuse for one last pic of The Happy Landing. The Ford Tudor's license plate dates this to 1938.
  17. Fletch

    Bob's Air Mail Service Station: A Man, a Plan, and a Really Big Fokker

    Wooden wings...yup. All Fokker Trimotors were grounded after the Knute Rockne crash in '31. That plane had laminate cracks in the wing spars. Just one more reason for the move to all-metal airliners to continue.
  19. Fletch

    Bob's Air Mail Service Station: A Man, a Plan, and a Really Big Fokker

    Wouldn't it have? Tony Fokker himself had to sell his F-32, which he'd fitted out as luxurious flying living quarters. It ended up scrap, with the fuselage going to West Virginia as a house trailer. That too was destroyed in the historic floods of 1937.
  20. Fletch

    Bob's Air Mail Service Station: A Man, a Plan, and a Really Big Fokker

    Western Air Express was awfully proud of its two new four-engine, 32-passenger Fokker F-32s, as the above pictures from their 1930 roll-out will indicate. But the big planes had been born under a dark star. The prototype had crashed during a demo flight. In sleeper berth service on the...
  21. Fletch

    Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

    I'll see you Wonderful and raise you Remarkable. (Warning! Not for lazing around.) 1929. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Caxm5RosGcQ "Creamer and Handman"? Really now.
  22. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Several hours late, I give you Good Morning, Glory. A California rarity by Tom Coakley and Ork in 1933. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkWn_7ET52Q
  23. Fletch

    Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?

    The Raymond Scott Quintette in 1937 with a piece of atmosphere called Dead End Blues. Surely inspired by the East River tenement streets so beloved of filmmakers, it could evoke a lazyish, going-nowhere feeling in just about any setting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpjttIbV1cg
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