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Vintage Phones
I'm reminded of some photos I saw lately, which looked circa 1900 to me, and the imprint on the back gave the name of the studio, its address (on Broadway in N.Y.C.), the cross-streets, and the phrase "TELEPHONE CONNECTION." Ha! No number... in those days you'd tell the operator the name of...- Espee
- Post #656
- Forum: The Display Case
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Shopping in Thrift/Antique Shops (Let's Hear Your Story)
I once found a Bailey wide-brimmed fedora in my big size (7 5/8) in a Goodwill. But it had a smudge on the crown-- and it was white. If some other color, I would have tried cleaning it. But white, even clean, I would have bought only to give to someone of different tastes. -
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New SoCal bricks-n-mortar hat store
It helps to see, on the card, that the "Ontario" location is really in Montclair-- which is a little closer (or farther, depending!) And it saves anyone from hiking the entire Ontario Mills property for something which isn't there. -
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Partial punchline of a lost joke
That's supposed to be "ordnance" as in "ammo and bombs" rather than "ordinance" as in "regulation." I did an Edit but it didn't take... By the way, my mother and grandmother always said "ordnance deh-po" but "railroad dee-po." (Depot is French for a storage place.)- Espee
- Post #3
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Boswell Sisters, Andrew Sisters, Dining Sisters and what else?
My mom objected when she noticed (in the McGuires version) the line "and lots of wavy hair like Liberace," claiming "that's not the ORIGINAL version!" But I see it was published in 1954. Was Liberace mentioned in the Chordettes record? -
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Partial punchline of a lost joke
My widowed grandmother took war jobs at several U.S. Ordinance Depots around the country. She was on the prudish side, according to my mom, but she started coming home and telling rather wild jokes she had heard on the job. She even brought home, I guess it would be mimeographed, joke sheets...- Espee
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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70 years of sifting through military surplus (Oxman's, Santa Fe CA)
Just to clarify "Santa Fe California," the store is in Santa Fe Springs (not many have heard of it) and not in Rancho Santa Fe (not many can afford it.) -
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The Streetcar/Trolley/Tram/Electric Railway Thread
Maine to Kansas City entirely by electric interurbans? No. Not even in the 1920s. There'd be a lot of (long) gaps along the way. In 1985 during San Francisco's Historic Trolley Festival, I rode a very old Portland car which did not have air brakes. Therefore, when the car was stopped at an...- Espee
- Post #10
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Bow Ties
I appreciated hearing "dapper" the first few times, but then I started wishing people had a secondary word they could mix in once in a while. Then I heard this in a radio show from about 1940-- "Gracie, doesn't George look dapper?" -- "Oh, no, he's much too old to wear dappers!" (Maybe...- Espee
- Post #511
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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vintage first names no longer in use today or not popular anymore
I know of a Paul who's 52 and one around 49.... but I'd think there would be a bunch around 47 and a bit below, named for Paul McCartney.- Espee
- Post #105
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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vintage first names no longer in use today or not popular anymore
But there's nothing Hazel wouldn't have done to take care of Mista B and his family!- Espee
- Post #77
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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vintage first names no longer in use today or not popular anymore
Among relatives born in the teens and twenties: George Elmer, Julian, Cleo, Mary Carolyn (goes by Carolyn; hates being called "Caroline" or Mary), Evelyn. Older relatives: Samuel, Agnes Clyde (went by Clyde), George Dewey (went by Dewey), Ruby, Coy, James, Alice Sylvia (changed to Alyce)...- Espee
- Post #76
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Bow Ties
One of the displays in the Avila Adobe near downtown L.A. is a history of the early water system. There is a contemporary quote that the large wooden water pipes were carrying many fish and snakes, "which are said to be of superior quality." There is a cartoon drawing of fish and snakes...- Espee
- Post #500
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Ghost signs
Colton California early 1990s (just before demolition)- Espee
- Post #35
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Have you ever had a stranger photograph you...when you were dressed vintage?
I decided I could take photos of pretty women anywhere in Southern California, if I a) learned to do a faux foreign tourist accent and b) made a pretense of incorporating a "distinctive local color" background-- like, oh heck, how about that Circle K store, or whatever's handy... But I never...- Espee
- Post #12
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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We're not THAT stupid ... Are we?
At the humor site "Regretsy" there is a continuing campaign, "This Is Not Steampunk" -
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The Aleutian Island Campaign
My late father was a bit of a "buff" on the Aleutians battles having been stationed there as a truck driver. But he was old enough that he didn't go in the Army until late '44 when the draft was expanded. Later he expressed interest in "one of those cruises to Alaska" but my mom told him he'd... -
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Vintage Ambient Classical (Bryars' Sinking of the Titanic)
I have that CD. I'm fascinated by a couple of places where you hear conversations, but you can only make out the cadences and probably British accents. You can "invent" the subject matter... I didn't like some of the "dripping water" sounds because they started sounding like a ping-pong game... -
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Ghost signs
Yes, some brand of mush was being advertised in Santa Ana. But I'm getting dizzy looking at the overlapping words!- Espee
- Post #32
- Forum: The Golden Era
