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Three piece suits
Women in the workplace! That's the cause of it all. That and craven middle management. Time was, an overactive bladder in the morning meant a spot on the unemployment line by noon. Now everybody's humanity is catered to. Faugh! No wonder we don't Make Things in this country any more! -
The Television Ghost
"This Television Ghost...Stalks Up and Down the Wave of W2XAB..." That right there tells me it's the real thing. But nothing more. Just a random clipping washed up on the side of the information superhighway. That's always the way, isn't it.- Fletch
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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The Television Ghost
Jumpin' butter balls!!11! He sure was. As creepy as I'd imagined him. First, thank you for remembering this thread! Second, where did you find this??? Looks like the New York Times. Was there anything more on the TV operation along with it? You know, W2XAB itself is an unquiet ghost. It went...- Fletch
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What are you listening to?
Possibly. He was a multi-instrumentalist in his big band days, playing banjo and trumpet at least. -
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What are you listening to?
Who Cares If It's Bix What A Day / Alabammy Snow - Mason-Dixon Orch., 1929. 2 very enjoyable cuts, by Frank Trumbauer's ten-tet out of the Paul Whiteman organization, that nobody's probably sat down and just dug in 3/4 of a century. Owing to the phenomenon of "Bixing," they are fit only to be... -
I need this car...
You'd be surprised - in the 30s whitewalls were virtually unheard of. You hardly even saw them in magazine ads!- Fletch
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Three piece suits
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I need this car...
Consider too the '36 Pontiac - not as popular with the rodders. First year for the Silver Streak style. This guy is restoring his coupe and blogging about it.- Fletch
- Post #6
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Three piece suits
3pcs are out there. They're beginning to infiltrate TV news, I notice. There are affordable ones, but they lack good cut. They're the slim-cut imitation designer look, or the boxy, low-end Italian style that never seems to go away. The hardest suit to find with a vest is a DB. Even in the 30s... -
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Youtube Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911
Fun! Now who wants to help out with the top five of 1936? Or 1961?- Fletch
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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What are you listening to?
1937 House Party is an iTunes playlist I made for the party we had when the City Council decided not to tear the place down. Shuffle play... Things Are Looking Up - Isham Jones & Orch. That slow choir-like sound of his early 30s band. It's Swell of You - Teddy Wilson & Orch. Helen Ward, Hodges... -
This generation of kids...
Depends whose real world they will be getting into. And there, we get back into the generation wars again.- Fletch
- Post #683
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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New York Times discovers typewriters
Thank you! I'd use it for my sig, except record guys (and they're almost all guys) can get seriously nasty when insulted.- Fletch
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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This generation of kids...
All right John - are you hinting that out and out cruelty is actually less cruel? Is it necessary? Ought it to be tolerated?- Fletch
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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This generation of kids...
The perfect is the enemy of the good. -Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique, 1764 First prize is a Cadillac El Dorado. Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired. Get the picture? You laughing now? -David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross, 1992- Fletch
- Post #677
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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New York Times discovers typewriters
At least The Times is changing its focus on vintage ways and goods from creepy, mole-like urban obsessives to happy-go-lucky hipsters. Altho I doubt we're going to see a funky wind-up-phonograph hootenanny in the foreseeable future - as far as consumerism goes, the dorkiest writer is still...- Fletch
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Langlitz: Why not horsehide?
It's been my conviction for quite awhile now that US anti-horse-processing laws have very little to do with animal welfare and much more to do with animal rights - ie, a human conceit held by ideologues who don't care about cruelty to animals nearly as much as they do about humans "using" them...- Fletch
- Post #47
- Forum: Outerwear and Workwear
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Keeping secrets while a craft dies out
Not sure all on the craft side would agree with the "too dear" part. Sometimes it seems like the dearer, the better.
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