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    Disney's Carousel of Progress

    I remember the electric fan placed to blow across a chunk of ice in a pan... I don't keep close track of Disney (and I didn't check the links) but I believe an employee died at Anaheim, crushed by the carousel mechanism.
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    What are you wearing today??

    At least I know the term for that now-- "roped shoulders." Not long ago, I was just about to buy my first-ever double-breasted jacket in a thrift store (all the ones that ever fit me, have had moth holes) and then I noticed the funny bit at the shoulder seam. I couldn't recall seeing such a...
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    Attack of the Giant Boater

    ---------------------------------------- Turned up nose... Turned down hose... Never had no other beaus... Has anybody seen my gal? (Lewis, Brown and Henderson)
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    Attack of the Giant Boater

    I've seen giant hats in the sky, but "I'm muzzled by Army brass." ("Plan 9 From Outer Space")
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    Deco vs Nouveau

    Not real close to the topic, but I'm reminded of a Bob and Ray routine where Wally Ballou tours an Antique Factory, which specializes in the George Washington Period. His guide tells him, "We make those the right size and shape to be a TV cabinet, but we tell people the colonists stored dishes...
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    Titanic to Be Re-Released in 3D for 100th Anniversary

    A few of Melies' films can be seen in 3-D, because he had two cameras side-by-side in order to make a second print he could release in the US at the same time as the French one. He had been the victim of pirates who were exhibiting copies in the US before he was ready to supply his own.
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    Home Delivery of Ice, Milk, Laundry, etc.

    Remember when Groucho sings, "Any rags any bones any bot-tles to-day?" I don't remember which movie.
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    What are you wearing today??

    I think Swing Motorman is wearing bulky clothes mainly to conceal That Holiday Pound he put on. (a joke stolen, in part, from a Frasier episode)
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    Home Delivery of Ice, Milk, Laundry, etc.

    I got to have donuts from the Helms truck maybe once a month. The wooden drawers added to the bakery smells, I think. The truck stopped two doors down, two or three times a week! I was jealous of that kid. But my mom said since the lady didn't drive, that's how they got their bread...
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    What are you listening to?

    Cliff and Lolly, The Nuts of Harmony (there seems to be just one incomplete radio program, dated 1930.) Cliff was Cliff Arquette. "How are the new long skirts, like Prohibition?" "I don't know." "They've both covered up a lot of old familiar joints."
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    Titanic to Be Re-Released in 3D for 100th Anniversary

    How do you convert a movie to 3-D? Is that like electronically-processed (fake) stereo? Filter out Celine Dion and I'll see it (for the first time.)
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    Handwriting Improvement.

    I love it when it goes well for me... but that's rarely more than six words in a row. The need to adjust this letter, depending on what letter follows... yikes. I go to write "flower" and I turn the F into an L!
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    Titanic to Be Re-Released in 3D for 100th Anniversary

    I saw "Treasure of the Four Crowns" way back when. I thought the effect could be put to good use with Victoria Abril, although she wasn't particularly curvy. Instead it was a baby's bottom, grapes being dumped into a basket, and arrows, hatchets, and other weapons coming at the camera.
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    1939 All Day Broadcast? Help!

    A long time ago I got the 1939 on 45 minutes-to-a-side cassettes. One early morning (in early September) I listened to 600-645 and then I got ready to go to work. The next day I did 645-730 WHILE getting ready for work. Next day, 730-815 in the car on the way to work... Arthur Godfrey was...
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    The "Pleasing Phrase" Thread

    I'm told my great-grandfather, seeing the passage of a wedding party, would say "Some other fool's gone and done it."
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    Do you ladies remove your hats?

    It's something of a different situation in a theater... at the Old Town Music Hall in El Segundo Calif., before movies you will see a collection of old and not-quite-so-old slides admonishing patrons about various things. "Ladies-- If Someone is Bothering You, Report it to the Special Officer"...
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    The nicest comment I ever heard

    Who knows maybe "Dapper Motherf....." will be the title of a hot song some day soon. I won't guess who will do it, but I'm sure it will " feat. " some guest artist (they always do.)
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    How Do You Wear Your Hat?

    "Rakish" even!
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    How Do You Wear Your Hat?

    There's one fellow I see around town, who wears his at such a jaunty angle I've wondered if some jaunty pins are holding it on.
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    Show us your waistcoats/Vests?

    Vests, which I wear occasionally, help keep my burgers-and-desserts tendencies in check. "You might want to wear the dark blue one-- but remember when you bought it, and two weeks later it didn't fit so good anymore? So watch it..." I feel I can wear a cap, or maybe a Panama/Safari, with a...

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