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PERSON of INTEREST could be a high-end competitor for PEOPLE magazine... and it wouldn't be so cluttered (each issue would be about one person.)- Espee
- Post #141
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Bow Ties
I previously noted that some Burlington stores around L.A. have Haspel bows. A very few have shown up in... er... either Marshalls or TJMaxx. And the Burlington in Torrance has bows which are packaged like the Haspels but have no obvious brandname showing-- a paper inside the plastic sleeve...- Espee
- Post #498
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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It seems to be a Mexican-American habit to say "I barely got here" meaning "I arrived just minutes ago"... but it causes me to picture a highway bridge collapsing just after the person's vehicle crossed it, or other such mayhem which he/she narrowly escaped. In the running for the worst...- Espee
- Post #133
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Bickersons/Drene Time.
I'm something of a fan, but I've never ordered a set of the recordings (I just enjoy what the "OTR shows" put on the air.) It was in the movie version of M*A*S*H* where the passionate moans of Sally Kellerman and _?_ were broadcast over the camp's loudspeakers and the chaplain asks, "Is that... -
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"the thing of it is, is that..." I think should have one less "is" !!! Some TV news people love "actually" for anything out of the ordinary. "The car went out of control and actually went through the front window of a barber shop." I try to use it only to emphasis a fact versus an earlier...- Espee
- Post #118
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Ghost signs
In the early '90s in L.A. (maybe Koreatown?) I saw the faint but familar lettering and emblem of CARNATION painted on a wall. And it wasn't for milk, cream, or ice cream, but for Carnation Mush.- Espee
- Post #29
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Wow time flies! I guess it's been over 20 years I've been noticing some people say "supposably" for "supposedly"... but maybe it's not all that incorrect. Something which is able to be supposed. I get nervous around people who say "I seen" because from listening to TV and radio news, I know...- Espee
- Post #109
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Do I have what it takes?
Watch out, you may accidentally end up in the Junior version of "Guys and Dolls" (I saw it advertised coming to a local stage.)- Espee
- Post #17
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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What are you so dressed up for?
To attend a "Sgt. Pepper" show at the Orange County Fair, I wore a paisley necktie. I seemed to have the only tie on the entire grounds. Well of course it was "fun time" and in the middle of summer. When I happened to stand next to a golf cart, people started asking me which gate led to which...- Espee
- Post #39
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Show us your TIES
What stuck in my mind from Zachary All commercials was the recitation of featured sizes, including "portly regular, portly short..." Don't know what shows I was watching-- maybe Abbott & Costello and Universal monster movies...- Espee
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- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Bow Ties
I started wearing bow ties under the influence of Janet Klein (chanteuse.) I'd noticed that she occasionally provides bow tie-adjustment for fellows in need of it, before or after her shows. But I was just thinking the other day, to this point I've apparently never done mine badly enough!- Espee
- Post #487
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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I may eventually resort to violence when I've heard "small little" one too many times-- "the property has a small little lake on it..." Somehow that's offensive, while "big huge" and "tiny little" are acceptable to me (as a method of emphasis.)- Espee
- Post #66
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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My father was born in West Virginia and spent his teen years in southeastern Kentucky. Through the years a few people have asked me if I came from the south-- in particular when I apparently said "accident" something like "axy-dent." Nowadays I notice my older sister saying "I have to pay the...- Espee
- Post #43
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Bow Ties
A freshening-up of the Penney's Mens Dept. includes a large photo of a man in a bow tie. So now I'm seeing bow ties displayed in some Penney's where I hadn't seen any before. In one they were 50% off (from regular $36.00 or so) and in another (Westminster CA I think it was) they were 80% off...- Espee
- Post #478
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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List of Contemporary Bands that Play Music of the Golden Era!
The Bonebrake Syncopators, featuring D.J. Bonebrake on vibes, play jazz, be-bop, and western swing. I saw them at McCabe's in Santa Monica. To my ear, it was songs of the 20s and 30s, played in a 40s style. They are about to make their first appearance at the Cicada Club in L.A... -
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List of Contemporary Bands that Play Music of the Golden Era!
La Puente has a nicer sound to it, but that takes place over the line in "City of Industry" (Workman Temple Homestead Museum, homesteadmuseum.org) -
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List of Contemporary Bands that Play Music of the Golden Era!
Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys (rockabilly.) I have their CD "Turntable Matinee" and every song is original, but sounds like mid-1950s to early-1960s. I've seen them live a couple times... they do mix in a cover here and there-- "I Don't Care (Just as Long as You Love Me)" [Buck Owens] can be... -
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World's Most economical pocket square...
And the shops that sold the ones you're talking about: certainly almost all of them are out of business now!- Espee
- Post #5
- Forum: General Attire & Accoutrements
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Can you date the fedoras and suits in this photo?
As a couple others have suggested, it might not be from any production at all-- just stock western characters who may have done a series of poses with the locomotive. A deputy, a dandy, a gunslinger, an engineer, the new schoolmarm, and the not-trying-to-be-true-to-period cheesecake starlet...
