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  1. Fletch

    20th Century Popular Culture - A fascinating article on the subject

    How could you leave out Moose Skowron, who looked like the kind of guy who'd wood-chip your dog if it peed on his shrubs.
  2. Fletch

    J. A. Dubow W33-038ac1755(11631) A2 - 368th FS Patch

    There was no limit to the scrawniness of young Depression kids, as you've no doubt found out to your benefit over the years ;)
  3. Fletch

    20th Century Popular Culture - A fascinating article on the subject

    Another take on pop culture is that it is, and only is, culture from the common era of mass consumption: tv, rock, youth, etc. About 20 years ago I interviewed at Bowling Green State U. in Ohio about their graduate program in pop culture studies, which included an extensive recording archive...
  4. Fletch

    20th Century Popular Culture - A fascinating article on the subject

    The 1930s analogy would be looking at an ant farm, not being able to see anything but ants running around like cockroaches, then going off to write about ants as if they were just small, black cockroaches.
  5. Fletch

    20th Century Popular Culture - A fascinating article on the subject

    I absolutely agree, but I would also point out that precious few of those small town folk ever came to influence the opinionmakers in that day - and even then only one at a time, typically thru in-migration to urban circles and solidarity with urban causes.
  7. Fletch

    20th Century Popular Culture - A fascinating article on the subject

    Typically, there's room for one culture and one counterculture. Anything more and you're into scholarly arcana territory. Siegel comes close enough just trying to trace the trajectory of the Yankees of letters, the New York Intellectuals.
  8. Fletch

    20th Century Popular Culture - A fascinating article on the subject

    I will say only that the writer knew his thesis, and his remit, well enough to ignore what Lizzie points out about the 1930s - that there was, briefly anyway, some permeability in the barrier between high culture and pop culture. Quite a few twists and turns in the piece. More an intellectual...
  9. Fletch

    FS/FT: Lost Worlds B-2 (NOT B-3!) Jacket, size 44

    Update! Nonfunctioning light duty snap at the neckband has been replaced with a heavy duty snap that works.
  10. Fletch

    LostWorlds Easy Ryder

    LWs aren't for everybody. Maybe you're just... A LITTLE GIRRRLYMAN! lol not really, just following up on Stu's ad copy.
  11. Fletch

    FS/FT: Lost Worlds B-2 (NOT B-3!) Jacket, size 44

    The rare early 1930s design by Les Irvin, inspiration for the famous RAF Irvin jackets. In like-new condition. 4oz horse, high & deep mouton collar, 26oz alpaca/wool liner. $900 or trade for rivet-zip Good Wear A-2 ('32 Security, '38 Acme, '39 Werber). Pictures and measures here Email or...
  13. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Studies in Fox Trot Rhythm Henry Hall's BBC Dance Orchestra in 1934 with a couple of "out there" modernist performances such as you occasionally heard in the '30s, but that never quite gave birth to a style. Probably too exciting for interesting times. East Wind Wild Ride
  14. Fletch

    The 8 Most Incredible Things Built in a Day

    Yea Iowa! :) Every state west of New York had The Mud then. We just did something about it. Not that we were first.
  15. Fletch

    M-69 Transport Coat

    The high concept that just popped into my head is: Van Helsing vs. the Abominable Snowman.
  16. Fletch

    M-69 Transport Coat

    With the zippers, it has a real dieselpunk vibe.
  17. Fletch

    Need some Grosgrain

    Careful. Retail grade grosgrain ribbon is all-poly and won't stretch when wetted. That makes it all but useless for hat banding.
  19. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Yeah, there were swinging bands - think Isham Jones, Glen Gray, Ray Noble, who played both sides of the hot/sweet spectrum - and swing bands, which were still, perforce, all Black, and were called hot bands. Garber was actually selling platters in 1933-'34 (hard to do then), after taking over a...
  20. Fletch

    Here's an idea: A-2 Briefcase

    Neat, but I'm going for simplicity over design. My bag is not "inspired" by A-2s, but directly patterned on them. It could even be made from one. For one thing, there won't be buckles. They're a pain when you're wearing the bag and want to open it. And there aren't any buckles on an A-2. And...
  21. Fletch

    Making saxophones in 1924: lost film found

    Use your imagination! ;)
  22. Fletch

    The Good Neighbor Policy; Latin music in the 30's and 40's....

    I'll just link back to a post I made to WAYLT? a week or 2 ago about Emilio Cáceres, and point you to yet another of his few recordings, the decidedly non-Latin Jig in G. The guy had it goin' on!
  23. Fletch

    Article: "No Cane, No Gain".

    Corporal punishment is too tempting to humans' thirst for power. To anyone in authority, abusing it can start to look like an act of righteousness in the twinkling of an eye. And that doesn't even include those who prescribe it constantly and universally, such as some religiously couched...

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