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'War Plan Red' : America's plan to take on Great Britain
$57mm - in 1930 money - strictly for airfields? Did this include planes? We were so short on planes, especially bombers, that many squadrons were at half strength or less. Even then the mainstay of the bombing fleet was the Keystone Panther, a big wooden biplane barely capable of 100mph...- Fletch
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Midnight in Paris
You bet. But New York will never get out of Woody. There will always be that feeling that classic art and archetypal psychic conflicts are the center of life - that they are what really matter. That to me is an essentially New York way of seeing the world - the idea that even as you are living...- Fletch
- Post #50
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Amazing (price adjusted) Feather Weight Borsalino for sale...
7 5/8 does not go into a featherweight. I know; I've been looking a long time.- Fletch
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- Forum: Classifieds
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What Was The Last Movie You Watched?
Saw this surreally zany 1928 two-reeler last night - with the amazing Hot Club of San Francisco doing the accompaniment. (Sorry, only piano here.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6mbWW3tWf4- Fletch
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Why are A2 Jackets so big from shoulder seam to shoulder seam?
Yep, some find the A-2 of old confining compared to the action-backed G-1. Thus the trend to a bloopy "outerwear fit."- Fletch
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- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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The general decline in standards today
The difference is they don't know they're looking at freaks. The shows teach life lessons no one really wants to own up to.- Fletch
- Post #1,432
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Color photos of 1940's NYC from UK's Daily Mail
Indiana University has Charles Cushman's color film archive. I remember he did a fair bit of candid stuff with young ladies on the Chicago lakefront - but just as many shots of his wife Jean, whom he obviously cherished even after she shot him and herself in a failed murder-suicide. Article...- Fletch
- Post #12
- Forum: The Golden Era
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P-51 crash at Reno Air Races
Sad news: Officials in Reno are sorting things out and say the death toll now stands at 9. Previously it was thought only 3 had been killed. More sad news: a T-28 Trojan crashed today at an air show in Martinsburg, WV. No official information on dead or injured, but it is thought the pilot... -
Adjusting to small town life.
I don't know if anyone else notices this, but many smaller, poorer towns today have nothing but mass culture. Call it the "Budweiser effect" if you like: spending your dollar on heavily-promoted national brands has become a way to show your Americanism, whereas supporting local foods, crafts...- Fletch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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P-51 crash at Reno Air Races
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Dialects/Accents in the Movies
He was so patently a New Yorker, I easily bought him as an acculturated Irish immigrant.- Fletch
- Post #80
- Forum: The Moving Picture
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P-51 crash at Reno Air Races
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50 Unexplainable Photos
At last, the chance to show off my tie collection by wearing 3 at a time.- Fletch
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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What are you listening to?
At the very least she could have been a voice for jazz awareness and sensibility in the pop world. You have to wonder - if she'd chosen jazz, would she be alive today, poor, unknown, pretty, and happy? -
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What are you listening to?
Sterling Young: an old smoothie California fiddler Sterling Young (and isn't that a great name for show biz?) led a band that personified the "Business Men's Bounce" - a pleasant balance of swing and sweet music that never quite went too far in either direction. Few Western bands got to... -
What are you listening to?
Jimmie Grier - one of Hollywood's favorites Happy was I to find this link to an entire out of print Lp of 1935-'36 ET material by Jimmie's fat, sassy, sunny-sounding band. They played every Oscar night (and every other night) at the L.A. Biltmore and were the choice for many stars' parties as... -
What are you listening to?
strictly NYC* Two Left Feet / Fun in a Boiler Factory - Ralph Gordon & Orch., 1938. Effective swing novelties in the manner of, but not imitating, Raymond Scott. "Ralph" was really composer-arranger Gus Levene, later the conductor on many big name records, shows and films. *No You Can't (hear... -
50 Unexplainable Photos
Is anybody familiar with the book Other Pictures, by Thomas Walther? He is a German (IIRC) collector who's built a library of what he calls "happy accidents" in photography. The book covers the years 1910-'60 and includes classics like a hapless Navy rigger, several dozen feet in the air...- Fletch
- Post #679
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Leather helmets as winter headwear
You might want to look into the Eastman B-5. It has earcups built in. You could stuff them with your favorite sound absorbing medium. Or install speakers and partake of some swingin' tunes. :)
