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Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?
And do they ever! That's the amazing Spencer Clark playing the bass sax like it's a tenor, and Emile Christian, who was from New Orleans but passed as French, on trombone. -
Music suggestions 20's 30's big band & jazz?
$#!! Surely one of the bandsmen, who tried taking the printed key an octave lower to avoid the high notes, and ran smack into the low notes. -
How Many Fedoras did you see today?
This week in Ames, IA, I saw exactly one, on an old, bearded dude who looked pretty scruffed out. I'm thinking, "This is me at 70." -
Helicopter Parenting Raises Dependent Children
Anecdotes about coddling need to be taken with several grains of salt. There's a lot of resentment floating around on the part of people who were abused or neglected as children, and who think all the concern about child abuse or neglect is a sign of social degeneracy. We ought never...- Fletch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Guy who built his own Irvin(?) - Anyone remember?
CTTOI it might have been a B-3 he made. I know he wasn't in business (or not yet). I wanted to ask him about making (ha!) a B-2.- Fletch
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Modern copy of a 1930s French belt back
Very nice indeed. It'd be good to know the name of that tailor.- Fletch
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- Forum: Vintage Finds and Deals
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Shorpy All Stars
What could have been Mr. Bias' grubstake? $10 a week? $15 at the outs? I see he wore Cuban heels. After a life of cowpunching it would have been hard to get used to anything else. -
The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.
Add one to the long list of Things You Can't Do in a 3 Piece Suit Anymore...[huh] -
What are you listening to?
Thanks. Posting 3 vids in a row would have been wearing out my welcome. -
What are you listening to?
My Canary Has Circles Under His Eyes ...is one of those 20s and 30s tunes that got played more often after the Era than during. Here's the Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band from Australia doing it about 1972. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK6XladfJfQ And here's how it sounded in 1931 played by, of... -
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Guy who built his own Irvin(?) - Anyone remember?
About 2 years ago, on VLJ but maybe here too, I read some postings by a guy who had taught himself to do leather work by building his own Irvin repro. (Or was it a B-3?) Anyway, does anyone know what happened to him?- Fletch
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Shorpy All Stars
Notice his head is turned slightly to one side but his hat still faces forward. -
The Age of Entitlement
CATTCHA™ [________] [ ] Please prove you're not a human- Fletch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Age of Entitlement
Ya think Web 3.0 is going to be any better?- Fletch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Age of Entitlement
Don't know, but the 3 of them grew up together in Harrison City, pop. 155, in coal-diggin', steel-pourin', deer-huntin', Stillers-rootin' SW PA. So they're not too far removed from their own tank-top, snuff-and-mullet years.- Fletch
- Post #83
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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"Wives with Beehives" coming to TLC
We don't see Time Warp Husbands because they defy too many stereotypes too subtly for the general public to even comprehend. It would be, I dunno, stirring the pot with a fly swatter. The reaction I imagine would be "OK, a guy with an old car and some cool clothes. He's probably a...- Fletch
- Post #62
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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First Belted back suit I've made
Yes. A roped shoulder would have been contemporary with this style, and taking a look at some modern peak SBs, fashionable today, too. The natural shoulder gives it a more 20s air. -
Fit question: New Aero A-2: 42-18775-P
That's standard Aero fit. They've improved it a bit. It used to include about 1 1/2" of droop on each shoulder.- Fletch
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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What are you listening to?
Wise@$$es aren't the ones who cause the mayhem. Those are just @$$es.
