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  1. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    A world of Payne awaits you ...Jack Payne, that is, and his BBC Dance Orchestra, in a selection of sides from 1931. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjyIA7qLzrw
  2. Fletch

    Dr. Seuss, Ad Man: the hidden past comes out

    As the 1930s fade from living memory, among the most overlooked figures of that more and more overlooked era are the "sellouts." The stories from that decade that live today are those of silent suffering and bold activism. It might seem trivial, even tasteless, to consider the talent and...
  3. Fletch

    How did one make Prohibition homebrew?

    12-15% is strong for beer - altho there are much stronger.
  4. Fletch

    Vintage Car Thread - Discussion and Parts Requests

    60s & 70s landyachts already have a certain following. Like dance band 78s. Not that that ought to mean a dang thing of course.
  5. Fletch

    They used to do this on television. Cavett and the Great Oscar Peterson...

    Of course Neil Simon, who wrote for Sid Caesar at the time, made the case that it wasn't affluence, but the audience being mostly confined to big eastern cities. Once sets started selling in Pittsburgh and Dayton and Davenport, Simon says, it was bye bye sophistication, and Caesar could no...
  7. Fletch

    Articles says men lose fashion sense at age 37....

    The 30s are when men start to put on The Gut. The late 30s are when 5% of us get religion, start biking 500 miles a week and dress only in spandex and Timberland. The other 95% become resigned and dress in shlumpy shirts and Dockers for the rest of their lives, except for one blue suit where...
  8. Fletch

    Considering shirt collar rebuilding...experiences?

    Sometimes it works. Mostly it creates a big ugly gap, and the crooked button placket down below only calls attention to it. I messed around with a junked shirt to try to figure out where extra material might come from. You'd need to make a new neckband (aka stand) for the new collar, then...
  9. Fletch

    Considering shirt collar rebuilding...experiences?

    Many of us into our difficult middle years find ourselves with a closet of perfectly good shirts whose collars we can't button. Tie-wearing, once done with a confident flair, becomes Hobson's choice: either look drunk with your collar open, or look and feel noticeably uncomfortable with it...
  10. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Pardon the Glove - The California Ramblers, 1927. An instrumental by Howdy Quicksell of the Jean Goldkette band, it was recorded by several outfits of the day (but not Goldkette's). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQdGviwiwHU
  11. Fletch

    "Unhappy Hipsters" Blog

    The idea that human nature is essentially corrupt is still pretty popular on this side of the Atlantic, Flicka.
  13. Fletch

    "Unhappy Hipsters" Blog

    Sometimes common sense means thinking for yourself, and other times it means not thinking at all.
  14. Fletch

    "Unhappy Hipsters" Blog

    Let the punishment fit the crime, I always say. It probably did, actually, where and when teaching was not a profession for ex-enlisted military. In that tradition, all punishments are severe.
  15. Fletch

    Pre War AAF Tropical dress uniform, Palm Beach fabric

    Can't edit here...It may be that the dress whites served a similar function at the time to those of the Navy, ie, the officer's daily duds in a tropical garrison. Pre-WW2, khaki blouse uniforms were limited to branches, notably aviators and submariners. Lt. Gen. Walter C. Short, Commander...
  16. Fletch

    Pre War AAF Tropical dress uniform, Palm Beach fabric

    "U.S. Army, officer, a General's aide, wearing white formal uniform, appropriate for summer and tropical duty." LIFE magazine, 1941. This was not a evening uniform, such as a mess jacket. Nor was it a service uniform. I have the feeling its uses were very specific, even in the pre-war Army. It...
  17. Fletch

    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    What if it's unavailable? There's where scholars, at least the unlettered kind, are crucial. As for the lettered kind, they're never going to give a wet slap anyway. The boundaries have been drawn on what's culture and what's not, and what's not takes decades to come back, if there's...
  19. Fletch

    "Unhappy Hipsters" Blog

    More to the point, fear is the only motivating factor many people believe in. Not just the dumb or the young, but those in authority whose greatest fear is of reasoned and principled adults.
  20. Fletch

    "Unhappy Hipsters" Blog

    Ironically enough, talking positively about corporal punishment might be acceptable here on the Lounge, but decrying it would be talking politics. Kind of like how it used to be ok to throw the first punch in school, but not the second!
  21. Fletch

    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    Any age is narcissistic when it comes to older styles (of anything). It tells me something that unless an old style has some social and class cachet, it is Over. Mozart is not Over, but much of Ellington is Over, and almost all of Bix. Sometimes even class is not enough. The same well heeled...
  22. Fletch

    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    Chas, Milt was an original. I've got records of him slapping as early as 1933. Guttersnipe, is it possible that being from San Francisco makes you more openminded about swing styles in jazz than a lot of players? Even good ones?
  23. Fletch

    BK Willis and Geiger M422-an excellent jacket!

    Great looking jacket. But aren't the sleeves wrong for the original W&G contract unless they're way too short? lol
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