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  1. Fletch

    WTB: A-2 repro from Eastman, Buzz Rickson, Aero Leather, Real Mccoy

    Jorge, please check your private message box. I have a Real McQueen you may like.
  2. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    one more for the Strand PA... Here's a cakewalk from 1899 as played in 1934. Nostalgia '30s style. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJO7J6APJ4E
  3. Fletch

    the best bands that play American swing are unfortunatly not American

    America is a big spread-out mercantile nation. We mostly only support classical music as an arts institution, because it's European and good for you. We do jazz largely in the universities, where it has to be very pure and vie for status as art. Anything else has to be mass marketable - to...
  4. Fletch

    The Social Meanings of Hats

    I don't associate hats to class. More to other affiliations - age, ethnicity, religion, cultural affiliations.
  5. Fletch

    Get a laugh 1948 style

    Don McNeill's Breakfast Club ventures into video for a special DuMont simulcast with the ABC network (who didn't have their own TV station on the air just yet). Owing to schedue conflicts, McNeill must announce he's running for president while his announcer Don Dowd gives the plug for Swift's...
  7. Fletch

    Destination Tokyo - 1932 style

    The original spec 37J1, ca. 1927, was for a brown capeskin jacket like the Army's A-1 (adopted at about the same time), except with pockets at mid-chest, instead of waist level as the A-1 had. Charles Lindbergh with the Navy High Hats aerobatic team, 1929 The 1932 cloth jacket was actually...
  8. Fletch

    Your mid-life crisis

    The Lounge is my midlife crisis. That and trying to disentangle myself from the psychic force field of New York and start life on my own terms.
  9. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Here's one I posted 2 years ago: Claude Hopkins, his piano and band, in Minor Mania, 1934. Suavely subdued swing with smooth, swift solo spots (Claude's music lent itself to a lot of "s" words). Never did get to the flipside of that Royal Blue Columbia, a pre-hit version of Irving Berlin's...
  10. Fletch

    The first Aussie made car = the GM Holden 1947

    It's a baby Buick! lol
  11. Fletch

    Your Name in Lights: The Vaudeville Marquee

    You don't know the comic dancers Barto and Mann, but once upon a time, you would have. 4'11" Dewey Barto and 6'6" George Mann got together as a Mutt and Jeff impression (I kid you not!) for a 1926 comic strip revue. They tramped the hustings thru 1942, bearing witness to the golden sunset of...
  13. Fletch

    What did you dream about last night?

    Trains. Long distance trains. Some of which go very strange places. Another recurrent theme.
  14. Fletch

    Midnight in Paris

    Yes, Gil was a stammering schlemazel (someone things happen to) with little free will or ability to step back from himself. Only at the end, when he walks off with the record stall woman, do you see possibility for him.
  15. Fletch

    Black Clothing Is Cooler Than White In The Heat Of Summer?!?

    I think it's like putting cow $#!! on a sprain. The smell, heat, flies, etc., make you forget you feel the pain. Not that you smell or draw flies when you drink tea, of course. The idea is to promote perspiration, which would fail miserably with me. I perspire 24/7/365 anyway.
  16. Fletch

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Dali felt real. Hemingway felt Audio-Animatronic. Of course the real Hem was a machine, but at least he was a human one. Notice that TV Catalunya had a hand in the production? Does this explain the presence of all the Spaniards? Only Picasso was really needful to the storyline. Dali was color...
  17. Fletch

    Allen Edmonds Sanford Brown Cap Toe 10.5 D

    PM on the way.
  19. Fletch

    Musician's hats

    Yes you can wear a grey homburg with your tuxedo... ...if you are B.A. Rolfe, leader of the Lucky Strike Orchestra and a big cheese in the heyday of radio. Looks as tho he has the brim slightly steamed down in front, which was a collegiate style for a hot minute around that time.
  20. Fletch

    Black Clothing Is Cooler Than White In The Heat Of Summer?!?

    I will keep wearing white in the heat anyway, for the same reason I drink iced tea instead of hot. It's psychological.
  21. Fletch

    The general decline in standards today

    That's not in doubt. What rankles me is the people who respond to that state of affairs by going around loaded for bear - assuming everyone else they encounter is going to be a mediocre buck-squeezing cultist-of-the-individual, taking anyone down a peg who shows any sign of self-regard...
  22. Fletch

    Mother-in-Law's Scathing E-mail Goes Viral

    Obnoxious self-righteousness is quite fashionable these days, so long as you can spin it as blunt honesty. Politeness is honored mostly in the breach. It's much more assertive to b!tch about others' lack of it than to embody it in word and custom.
  23. Fletch

    Minnesota ripe for the picking?

    I've been seriously considering relocating to da Cities, which I find very agreeable. How's the supply of vintage duds?

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