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    Custom Made Linen Suit, Panama Hat, linen-leather Spectators?

    I second Flat Foot Flooey's recommendation of Magnoli Clothiers. I had him make up his Nassau Suit design out of off-white Irish Linen for me to attend some friends' hot-climate daytime wedding a couple of years ago. You can see me wearing it on the avatar to the left. Just make sure you have...
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    Man Cave/Vintage Lounge - Thoughts, anyone? (Heavy with photos)

    At least here in San Francisco, there are still quite a few private men's, (and women's), clubs. Just off the top of my head are the Pacific Union Club, the Olympic Club, the Bohemian Club, and the University Club. These are all upper class clubs. Some have reciprocity with some of the London...
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    The Ne'er-do-well

    Up until 1939, Ian Fleming was employed as a stockbroker in the City. In the spring of that year, he was informed while at lunch with Rear Admiral Godfrey, that he was now a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. Admiral Godfrey was Director of Naval Intelligence and Ian's sudden...
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    The Ne'er-do-well

    If the description of Ne'er-do-well includes that of being a professional house guest, then I believe David Niven spent a year in that occupation between resigning his commission in the HLI and arriving in Hollywood. Obviously not a long time career. Another form of Ne'er-do-well would be a...
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    Deco vs Nouveau

    One thing to bear in mind is that most houses built in the 1920s and 30s were neither done in the style of Art Nouveau nor Art Deco. Instead, most were built in some form of Revival style, (Cape Cod, Colonial, Tudor, Spanish Colonial, usw.), or they were a vernacular form of Craftsman...
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    Man Cave/Vintage Lounge - Thoughts, anyone? (Heavy with photos)

    The concept and practice of the 'man-cave' was well established by the turn of the last century in the German-speaking countries. If you look at house-plans for the upper-middle-class or higher from that time, you will usually find a room denoted as 'Herrenzimmer' or Zimmer des Herren. This...
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    Golden Age Farming

    My grandfather used tractors on his Salinas Valley ranch as early as 1922 and also continued using a pair of Clydesdales until the late 1940s. It depended on the job. Mechanization came early to California agriculture. First steam tractors in the 1870s, and after 1900, gasoline. And a lot of...
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    The Streetcar/Trolley/Tram/Electric Railway Thread

    Propeller Planes wrote: "Thankfully, one PCC car also is preserved and operates here in Australia, PCC 1014, ex San Francisco, operates at the Sydney Tramway Museum,..." Well, that's only fair. San Francisco's Market Street Railway operates one of Melbourne's classic W-Class trams...
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    Anyone use or own Wooden Skis?

    My first pair of downhill skis were made of wood with lever-and-cable bindings. I was four years old. My dad had been skiing since the late 1940s and started me early. Graduated later to Head Standards and then to Head 320s. These are still the skis I use.
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    Favorite Novelty Christmas Songs

    One from 1948: All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth by Spike Jones and His City Slickers.
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    1930's Glamour

    I would also recommend the Warner Bros. cartoon, Page Miss Glory, 1936. The dream sequence that makes up the majority of the cartoon is an art deco extravaganza.
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    The nicest comment I ever heard

    A few years back, I was waiting for a bus downtown. I was wearing a pair of chestnut AE Fairfaxs, carmel-coloured trousers, seersucker shirt, dark red paisley four-in-hand tie, blue silk sportcoat, and topped off by a straw planter's hat I had bought from Art back when he had the store out in...
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    To Enjoy Champagne, Treat It Like Beer

    Call the fried pork rinds lardons and there you go!
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    POWs in America

    Out in Contra Costa County north east of San Francisco is the former Byron Hot Springs Resort. Built in 1913, it was leased by the US Government in 1941 to become a high-value POW interrogation center known as Camp Tracy. Both German and Japanese POWs were questioned there and a great deal of...
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    A Resurgence of Hats

    Tadich also has hooks under the bar for ladies purses. Le Central on Bush has a hat/coat rack at both the front and the back of the bar room. The new Austrian place on Polk, Leopold's, has plenty of hat hooks on the walls and booth ends. The door staff at Bix always offer to take your hat and...
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    Can Clothing Be Discussed Wisely?

    "Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society” -Sam Clemens.
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    Everything But The Squeal

    Here's the redaction of a 16th C. Italian recipe for grilled chicken livers that our neighbor downstairs tried out when we went camping together back in July: 1 lb livers (I used chicken livers, which I halved) 4 parts powder douce 2 parts salt 1 part fennel seed pork caul fat Mix spices...
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    Royal Geographic Society or "The Great Game"

    My first recommendation would be the book, The Great Game, by Peter Hopkirk. It covers the entire era from the 1790s up to the Great War. Given the breadth of time, scope of area, and the often extreme individuality of the participants, (at least on the British side), there is no set list of...
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    Cold War Radio

    I became introduced to the joys of international shortwave radio broadcasts while stationed in Germany in the early '80s. The BBC was my primary listening both for news and pleasure. I was amused by Radio Moscow in that they broadcast in both American English and British English and their...
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    Destruction of American History: DON'T DO IT.

    Something similar happened to the Blacker House in Pasadena. This was one of Greene and Greene's 'Ultimate Bungalows' in which they had designed everything from the furniture to the light fixtures. Back in the 1980s, a collectors yard sale was held...

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