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    Martha Washington Candy Stores

    Not having heard of the chain, I was baffled when I was first hearing references in radio comedy programs: 1930-- "Cliff and Lolly, The Nuts of Harmony"-- a Negro dialect character, played by Cliff Arquette, is asked if he knows who George Washington is. "Yeah, he's de man what's wife makes...
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    Martha Washington Candy Stores

    A little late for Presidents Day. I'll bet someone here knows something about them... not mentioning any names... I learned just a little after I found not one, not two, not three, but FOUR jokes about them in old time radio programs. When I'm in a better net-communicating situation...
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    Zooey Deschanel on SNl

    In the thread "The Artist" there's a link to a review of that SNL, which in turn includes links to some of the segments at NBC.com Maybe Zooey should do a "Screen Song"-type follow-the-bouncing-ball short one of these days?
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    Bow Ties

    clarinetplayer, have you checked out the many music-themed prints at MaineBows.com?
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    Modern Products with Vintage Style Packaging

    I don't have very much need for the 7-11 store around the corner, and a few years ago, when it irked me that they couldn't trouble themselves to say Thank You when I did buy something, I tried their competitor across the street. It was an independent convenience store. In there I happened onto...
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    How do you play "Ask Me Another"?

    Yes, Starucca Viaduct was a dumb one. Maybe that was the night my food poisoning was setting in? I shared the basics from this thread with a vintage friend, and she tells me she's just ordered one of the books for me... I used to bug my mom with trivia questions-- I figured she had a...
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    Vintage Date???

    A club? Are you sure it wasn't just an Abercrombie & Fitch?
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    What are you listening to?

    Among the very first OTR shows I heard, was a SUSPENSE with Frank Lovejoy as a control tower operator trying to "talk down" a disoriented and panicky pilot of a small plane.
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    The Artist

    Was there a streetcar anywhere in the film? Seems like there should have been, for the place and time. And considering the influence of "Singin' in the Rain"... which certainly has a streetcar.
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    Everyday Women of the Golden Era

    Is that where the "snood" comes in... to confine long hair, for instance when working near machinery? When I was a kid we had two Afghan hounds, and my mom knitted a snood for each one-- to keep their long ears from dragging in their food bowls!
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    Disney's Carousel of Progress

    Circa 1981 I watched a production number that went: "Showbiz is... (da-da da-da da-da-da) Showbiz is... (da-da da-da da-DAH!)" I wonder if that's on YT... not that I really want to see or hear it again...
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    What are you listening to?

    I heard a Boswells version of When the Little Red Roses... ...and I mentioned the song to some of the local vintage performers... I didn't run into any who knew of it.
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    How do you play "Ask Me Another"?

    Bismark, not the herring and not a doughnut?
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    How do you play "Ask Me Another"?

    I'll throw out Starucca Viaduct for the longest rail bridge. Flagler's Key West Extension was a SERIES of bridges. Did Ask Me Another come in a flimsy-paper WWII edition?
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    Bombers B-52

    "Battle Hymm" is on my list of "Movies Where You'd Have No Idea Martha Hyer Could Be As HOT As She Was In 'The Carpetbaggers'"
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    How do you play "Ask Me Another"?

    I had the same Peter Confusion but I looked it up recently-- I had seen a 1960s photo of a "TISHMAN" high-rise office building and I remembered Stan Freberg's version, where Manhattan is purchased by "Peter Tishman." The real answer is Minuet. (On the back of what packet?) I suppose in 1927...
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    Bombers B-52

    I used to watch some of these with my dad, who was a frustrated would-be pilot. I know there were at least two features which incorporated real footage of an F-86 going out of control and crashing on a runway. If I had to guess I'd say Strategic Air Command and X-15...
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    How do you play "Ask Me Another"?

    I would say Chaplin rather than Lupino Lane I think Coral is the calcium remains of deceased marine organisms There was a New York Central (later Amtrak) train named for poet James Whitcomb Riley of Indiana. I don't know if Whittier was from there or not! (I'll skip the ones where I...
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    The nicest comment I ever heard

    I was sitting on a bench at a shopping center, wearing my Jaxson Safari (more-or-less a Panama, in case "Safari" makes you think of a Pith Helmet.) A guy about 30 said "Oh, a derby hat! It reminds me of the old gangsters, like Al Capone! You know, he died of syphillis... all that money he had...
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    Who Did You Just See Live?

    Kelly McCune and Border Radio. They play a lot of gigs around L.A. A new member is John Lambdin, multi-instrumentalist who used to perform with the Ditty Bops.

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