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    1938: Advice to Theatre Managers

    I don't remember where I read (a couple decades ago) that classic era theater managers preferred 500 kids in the seats on a Saturday for Abbott & Costello (or some other comedy) to 500 kids for a Western. Because laughing leads to more peeing, and out by the restrooms, is the Snack Counter...
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    The Lindbergh Case: Your views?

    As an aside, while eating breakfast one morning in the 1980s, I realized I had experienced some sort of dream, that Hauptman's execution had just taken place. That night, or maybe the next, I went to bed and rewound whatever relaxing, lightweight old radio show I had already fallen asleep to...
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    The nicest comment I ever heard

    The stage spotlight in the Amish strip club is over 10,000 candlepower. I know because I helped them light the candles.
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    The Porch Life

    Garrison Keillor explained porch etiquette something like this: If you're on your porch and you see a neighbor coming along, YOU MUST invite him to sit and visit... and maybe have something to drink. HE MUST refuse, citing unfortunate circumstances such as errands or chores which are waiting...
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    What are your plans for Friday (12/21/12)?

    Shoulda gone to KFC... assuming you can still get "Chicken Littles" there.
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    What are your plans for Friday (12/21/12)?

    Janet Klein will be doing a few songs at the R Bar in L.A., where one of her Parlor Boys will be D.J.-ing with End-of-the-World hot jazz records.
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    The WWII generation and Doo Wop

    My mom (b.1925) pays scant attention to the tuxedoed doo-wop groups presented by... is it, T.J. Lupinsky? ... on public TV before, after, or usually instead of, the promised weekly Lawrence Welk Show.
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    L.A. Times on local vintage-inspired bands

    If ever I learn how to copy links (or anything) with iPhone. I know it can be done, because I once copied something accidentally, which then got pasted into all sorts of places-- accidentally.
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    L.A. Times on local vintage-inspired bands

    The print edition for Sunday 12/9 has an article on L.A.-based performers including Janet Klein, Vaud and the Villains, and Capt. Jeff and his Musical Chumbuckets. There is a longer version of the article on their site. And back around 12/6, there was, online, a Janet Klein-focused article...
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    Pre-owned? Translate this into English please.

    Did you happen to save the diaper you were wearing, the day you suggested to Truman that the armed forces should be de-segregated?
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    There's a Chevron station across from Los Angeles Union Station, with some of the highest prices in the county. I don't know why they invested in a high-mounted "arena scoreboard" light-up price sign-- if you've already pulled into a station before you see the high price, you might say "Oh...
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    Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

    Department store escalators with markings above, of What's Up There (or Down.) So you know whether to bother going. You're supposed to check the all-levels directory as you come in the store...
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    The 1940's Air Terminal Museum (Houston, Texas)

    They're doing some mods at the terminal of Long Beach (Calif.) Airport, and removal of carpets has uncovered 1941 WPA artwork.
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    Clean Jokes

    I heard Will Rogers say "Henry Ford was the first man to take a JOKE and make it PRACTICAL" and I've heard references to "Ford jokes," but this is the first time I've seen any of them (old ones.)
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    Rolling stones 50th anniversary tour

    Taking nominations for the strongest track created during the Stones' second 25 years...
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    What are you listening to?

    Vic and Sade (even though some episodes are a lot of talky-talk and axle grease.)
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    You Bet Your Life!

    The show turned up on Los Angeles Channel 5 right after Groucho received his Honorary Oscar in 1974. Supposedly someone called the management and said "Would ya save Groucho the trouble of running the shows on his projector?" A guy I knew at high school, two years older than I (and who lived...
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    You Bet Your Life!

    I saw an article in an advertising journal from the late 1950s, which said the sponsor emblems seen on the show's set weren't really there-- they were superimposed. At least by that era. So in syndication, they could, theoretically, be replaced. A little like the First Down indicators which...
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    1920's group, The Shifters- a Ponzi scheme

    I heard a Martin & Lewis radio show (early 1950s) which included the term "darb"... I intended to try figuring it out, but now I've forgotten the context. "Oh he's such a darb" maybe...
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    Bow Ties

    Penney's has some narrow ones from J. Farrar. I like to go minimal sometimes... inspired by old photos of situations where a man "couldn't not wear any tie at all" but wasn't dressing up. However, each one I saw from J. Farrar had a portion of the decoration in glitter. Sparkles, that is...

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