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What are you listening to?
Gumby already had a Hitler 'stache, so I didn't have much to lose. -
What are you listening to?
The King's Horses, a modest Brit-hit of 1930. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7QqAJnGnwE Oh Hallowe'en night, dressed as a Gumby, I offered trick-or-treaters a choice of brains (species: pumpkin), candy, or a song. This was the song, rendered in an 'orrible cockney dialect. Most of them... -
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What hat do you wear most (and why)?
Lately it's the caribou-grey Stetson Nostalgia, which, for quite awhile, I didn't like due to the brim width. But it had possibilities with its rakish air. So I swallowed hard, got out the compass and scissors, and pruned the brim back about 1/4" all around. After some serious sanding to round... -
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What Are You Reading
Waste (1924), by Robert Herrick. A social-realist novel that talks about a lot of the Big Issues in American life that we still talk about today (unless we're novelists - the social novel is good and dead), and that we still don't have any answers for.- Fletch
- Post #4,410
- Forum: The Reading Room
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Facebook anybody?
Wondering if going public with my vintage orientation on FB will stereotype me in any way. I don't necessarily want to fall in with the kind of folks who make up the gushing, purring, nostalgia fanship on YouTube. Right now I'm just an ordinary guy from Iowa who plays music.- Fletch
- Post #398
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are you listening to?
Great promo piece...notice how the band overpowers the announcer near the end? Probably the best they could do then. BTW, the first 3 players, Jacobs, Gibbons, and Starita, were all expatriate Americans from Massachusetts! -
The devolution of our society through fashion in just two pictures.
That looks mid-late '30s to me. But the '30s are prehistoric for modern folks, so the date needs to change. Then there's the unalikeness of the 2 subjects in every possible way, except probably "male" and "urban."- Fletch
- Post #5
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are you listening to?
Great one Vic...and from the "relateds," here's a real stepper: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HqZlgFMkkE -
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50 Unexplainable Photos
unexplainable? ...or maybe just a Sunday after church? F to B: 1930 Ford, 1933 Chevy, 1936 Chevy. Western Minnesota, date unknown. ganked from The Infomercantile, a fun site of history- Fletch
- Post #959
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Vtg 1949 Very Nice Wide Lapel DB Plaid Suit
We were a nation where food was a lot pricier and labor a lot cheaper. It wasn't for nothing that one of the Seven Deadly Sins was Gluttony.- Fletch
- Post #8
- Forum: Vintage Finds and Deals
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What are you listening to?
Ectoplasm - a CD of fascinating short takes (≤2 min) by the Raymond Scott Quintette of the late '40s. -
Destruction of American History: DON'T DO IT.
Without a doubt. But we went thru a time in this society, from the 50s to the 80s at least, when throwing away and tearing down were close to a religion - the backlash from a time, in the 30s and 40s, when you couldn't afford to throw anything away. My favorite sad story is about Bill Bryson's... -
For once vintage in a positive way on TV
My guess: they thought of him as a harmless eccentric, a sort of monk. He clearly didn't have anything to say about male roles, then or now - indeed he seemed to live outside them.- Fletch
- Post #24
- Forum: The Powder Room
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Destruction of American History: DON'T DO IT.
One thing to remember: before anything can become a collectible, somebody has to trash most of them. -
Destruction of American History: DON'T DO IT.
You know what we're up against here? Not exactly stupidity...maybe cupidity, given that the motive is profit...BUT. These particular items are not respected even by the collector fraternity. There is a different kind of collector mentality at work than many of us eclectic Lounger-types may be... -
Yet Another 'Holy Grail' '30s Suit Sells Well on eBay
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1936 assembly line footage
General Motors hired the Jam Handy Organization starting in the mid '30s to make some very high quality industrial films. One of the best was an early driving safety effort: We Drivers, from 1936. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWbWbS-fJzY The poor sap going 70 at night (about 3:30 in) was...- Fletch
- Post #10
- Forum: The Golden Era
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1936 assembly line footage
Safety glass came in late in the '20s, but for awhile, was only used in windshields. Other windows were tempered glass, which was safe as long as it was installed properly.- Fletch
- Post #6
- Forum: The Golden Era
