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  1. Fletch

    whats your favorite ethnic cuisines and whats the least liked ethnic cuisines?

    And what's more important, writers and musicians. About as close as you'll get is Aux Anciens Canadiens in Quebec City. And it's still just cozy and homey. Like a French bistro from the '60s located in the sub-Arctic zone, where they put cinnamon in the meatballs. (It's better than it sounds.)
  2. Fletch

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Ernie Kovacs' off-the-cuff noontime funtime, Kovacs on the Corner. NBC via WPTZ-Philadelphia, 1952. http://archive.org/embed/KovacsOnTheCorner1952
  3. Fletch

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

    Here's one 78 you will probably never find. Johnny Hamp and Ork stepping pretty with a tune by the "queen of tin pan alley," Bernice Petkere. From April, 1932, here's By a Rippling Stream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gICiE-OiFHE
  4. Fletch

    Any thoughts on a 'Suit Trading' thread?

    Fly, heh...more like a B-29. Especially if you wear sizes 44 and up. :rolleyes:
  5. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Joe Haymes and orchestra in 1934 with Johnny Mercer's swingy Saturday night anthem, The Bathtub Ran Over Again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR_meNodrng
  7. Fletch

    FS - Reproduction WWII US Army trench coat, size 48 - NEW

    Classically speaking, of course, the only thing you would ever layer over an A-2 is sheepskin, but I like your thinking.
  8. Fletch

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

    It's 1931, and the electronics industry needs trained men! Hear all about it in this transcribed program, and enjoy the cracking up-to-date melodies of Paul Specht's orchestra while you're at it. Radio and Television Institute Revue
  9. Fletch

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    I've been told this loads very slowly. I wish I could link to a better quality dub, but Fischinger's people are notorious about keeping his work out of the cloud. Even this file probably won't be here long.
  10. Fletch

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Allegretto (1936), a 2 1/2 minute abstract animation by Oskar Fischinger, the originator of "visual music." A riot of colors and shapes to orchestral jazz by hit songwriter Ralph Rainger.
  11. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    another Golden Era pet Mystery writer Harry Stephen Keeler and his Siamese, Inspector Jones, 1943.
  13. Fletch

    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    Not so much for the hats as for an unusually intimate view of people at a moment in time when large-format vernacular photography was very rare. Solar eclipse watchers on the 86th floor deck of the Empire State Building, August 31, 1932.
  14. Fletch

    Dame Vera Lynn - 96 today!

    Queen Elizabeth ought to have her for tea. They could trade war stories. Then QEII could give her a proclamation and a big hug.
  15. Fletch

    My boss decided it was time to buy a leather jacket

    It is not enough to have an expensive object. It must be known to be expensive, preferably without you telling anyone. That's why status brands command such prices, even when better quality and style can be had for less money. Not everyone you meet will appreciate quality or style, but all...
  16. Fletch

    How The Taxman Cleared the Dance Floor

    Let's not forget the sizable anti-dancing, anti-drinking, anti-smoking, anti-fun voting bloc in those days. Every state had its bluenoses, and they were organized. In Iowa, especially, their power was absolute outside the big rivertowns. My city of Ames didn't have Sunday movie shows till 1926...
  17. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    A Chi-Yorkie cross? Is that a Chorkie or a Yowawa? Anyway, you have made a little puppy dog VERY happy.
  19. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    In 1932, Lafayette meant: a) a city in Louisiana b) the man to whom the AEF said "...we are here" c) a line of low-priced Nash automobiles d) a manic early swing number played by Bennie Moten and his Orchestra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJJbzfYUF_Y (All answers are correct)
  20. Fletch

    How The Taxman Cleared the Dance Floor

    What strikes me as typical of the Era: the apparent lack of public protest about the tax. If there was a war on and you weren't running a labor union, you did NOT back-talk your government. I imagine James Petrillo of the American Federation of Musicians had some choice words about the dance...
  21. Fletch

    "What's with the hat?" A cautionary tale...

    The crown size may have been a bit unsettling to civilians. Perhaps they were concerned that you would smuggle small house pets into the office. ;)
  22. Fletch

    Return of Miller Hats

    To Hatco?
  23. Fletch

    Willis and Geiger A-2

    I do know Shaul Dover, now US-Authentic, did work for W&G. Never knew about Stu.

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