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  1. Fletch

    Here's an idea: A-2 Briefcase

    Great responses so far fellows! :D I originally modeled this on a Filson briefcase I gave my dad a few Xmases ago, made of canvas with cowhide furnishings. I'll have to check it and see if there are any rigid parts or if it's totally softsided. I'm wondering now if the great big pouch on the...
  2. Fletch

    Here's an idea: A-2 Briefcase

  3. Fletch

    Here's an idea: A-2 Briefcase

    My equipment consists entirely of a #3 hard pencil and some plain white printer paper. I'll see if I can't scan what I have so far. The plain back panel could be a site for nose art or insignia, but having it visible would mean wearing the front pockets against your body.
  4. Fletch

    Here's an idea: A-2 Briefcase

    You'd be looking at a high-end, full-custom product, then, rather than a repurposing or "upcycling" of a doggy or unwearable A-2. The high-end product would depend on whether jacket makers have remnant materials around, and how many hours it would take to build. But you could conceivably do a...
  5. Fletch

    Here's an idea: A-2 Briefcase

    Anybody ever consider having a damaged or cheap knockoff A-2 jacket recycled into a briefcase? Anyone ever done it? I have some ideas I've put into a sketch: - 2pc front panel with pockets left in place - 1pc back panel and outer pouch that snaps closed with a flattened-out, snapdown collar -...
  7. Fletch

    Making saxophones in 1924: lost film found

    This is, AFAIK, the first industrial film about making musical instruments. Until recently, it was thought to have been lost (or at least well hidden - we saxophone historians can be a jealous bunch). The Buescher Band Instrument Co., of Elkhart, Indiana, helped start a boom in saxophone sales...
  8. Fletch

    1936 Chevrolet Assembly Line

    Keep in mind that these workers were, as yet, non-unionized, working in what amounted to a private police state. In just a year, after the massive UAW sit-down strike of 1937, that would begin to change - and yet GM continued to make great cars.
  9. Fletch

    Musician's hats

    That hat was clearly the "object of his affection."
  10. Fletch

    Musician's hats

    Singer-songwriter-bandleader Pinky Tomlin in 1935.
  11. Fletch

    Van Boven 15 Dark Brown Fedora with Cavanagh Edge 7 1/8

    I used to shop at Van Boven's in the Nickels Arcade in Ann Arbor. This was in the mid '80s, when there was no longer a Detroit store, nor any dress hat stock that I recall.
  13. Fletch

    POV Jeff: Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW in 2 1/2 minutes

    The place: West 9th Street, Greenwich Village. The time: summer, 1954. You are L.B. Jeffries, globetrotting photojournalist, confined to a wheelchair after a disagreement with a race car. To pass the interminable days, you take to casually surveiling your neighborhood via your camera. Here...
  14. Fletch

    Jennifer Connelly in "The Rocketeer"

    There's real stereotyping against what Jane Russell used to call "full-figured gals." They're only considered for bombshell roles. And the strapping oneself down doesn't cut it - a woman has to make it permanent and go public about it.
  15. Fletch

    Reproduction Vintage Neckties?

    I can see this happening more easily than hats. But there will always be naysayers. You know what I'd do? I'd repro good designs in nonexistent color schemes. I can't tell you how many ties I've owned that had great patterns, geometrics, etc., but were difficult to wear because the colors were...
  16. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Just played a 78 I'd had lying around for awhile - a 2000-series Bluebird with the Emilio Cáceres orquesta tejano playing a tango version of The Last Roundup. That isn't online yet anywhere, but here is another side from the same session. Keep in mind, this is 1934 in San Antonio and a local...
  17. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    80° at supper time in Iowa in March is a Heat Wave. Jack Payne and His Band from London in 1934. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4JWosnEynM
  19. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    You do look a bit like Ava Gardner. ;) Taking an abrupt transition SCREEEEECH!, anybody here like Ozzie Nelson's band? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fkND9TU2dY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RFXEjx6oVs
  20. Fletch

    Loungers' Pets

    Suchadoggie! :D
  21. Fletch

    Big Band concerts back in the day

    I imagine Glenn wouldn't have let them think anything of it.
  22. Fletch

    The Underappreciated

    Newspapers in general are underappreciated. Right up to the Times-Post-Times class. I really think we are losing more than we know with the receding of the daily sheet.
  23. Fletch

    Big Band concerts back in the day

    "Concerts" might not have been the name then. Typically a big band was a dance organization, playing ballrooms, hotel dining rooms, and dances at large venues, and/or a "show band," playing theaters on a vaudeville or (later) movie bill. Night club bands usually did both - dance music and a...

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