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  1. Fletch

    Keeping secrets while a craft dies out

    It's been done, too, out of misplaced loyalty to a master or a trade. How many say "I want this to end with me"? Few do, I imagine. It's just that there is a tradition that you don't question, and part of that is that there are times to let it die. Lounger 59Lark got crosswise of that tradition...
  2. Fletch

    50 Unexplainable Photos

    That sousaphone pic has to be a promotional piece, possibly for C.G. Conn, who built the first and best such horns and was always publicizing them in interesting ways.
  3. Fletch

    Keeping secrets while a craft dies out

    That's similar to the craft apprenticeship, but one important difference is that the apprentice is allowed to practice to the extent s/he is able. Traditional apprenticeships hold one back for the sake of hierarchy, loyalty and ritual. Imagine not being able to sing a supporting role or play a...
  4. Fletch

    What are you listening to?

    Happy Birthday Pops! Paul Whiteman, born March 28, 1890 ... and His Orchestra Here is probably the biggest and best collection of Whiteman's music on the web, dating from 1920-'42. Start with Whispering, which put Paul on the map. After that hear all the people Paul put on the map - Bing...
  5. Fletch

    Keeping secrets while a craft dies out

    I guess I get the practice-practice-practice part. We musicians are used to that. What we usually don't do, and I don't get, is the backstabbing that bendingoak refers to. The only place you see that level of undercutting and secrecy in the music game is - hey, wait a minute - among...
  7. Fletch

    Keeping secrets while a craft dies out

    Funny, though - I've played jazz professionally for years but I never begrudged an aspiring young musician a few pointers. If you snubbed him, in fact, it would get around that you're not a nice cat. How long is it going to take the newbie to get to your level? You know he's not going to be at...
  8. Fletch

    Keeping secrets while a craft dies out

    This article from 1999, interviewing Michael Harris, then of Paul's Hatworks, picks up on a theme that always interests me: the phenomenon of hatmaking as a dying craft that still keeps secrets. In 1999 there were probably no online resources for men's hatmaking. The market had been drying up...
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  9. Fletch

    50 Unexplainable Photos

    Things to remember about the past: a.) Death and danger were part of everyday life. b.) Subtextual meaning was not.
  10. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    You and I seriously need to call a conclave. Pick a venue in greater DSM with a hat rack and some decent brew and we'll address these issues in earnest. It'll have to wait till after my orals up here at Ames (mid-April), but PM me.
  11. Fletch

    Elizabeth Taylor Passes Away at 79.

    Yikes, has she had laces put in her scalp or what? Every 6 months, you just take up the slack and tie 'er off. Not to be cruel or anything.
  13. Fletch

    Hows this for a ball cap.

    Why I do not want this cap a. I don't wear anything pimpalicious. Even my nappa leather trench coat is pretty restrained. b. This is the headwear equivalent of the tuxedo t-shirt.
  14. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    May I be the devil's advocate for a bit? You're out of tempo. People today who are nice and social don't wait for time to be together physically and share intimately. They're too in touch with the tempo of the lives people generally lead. They would no sooner ask their friends to give up FB or...
  15. Fletch

    Time Warp Towns

    Yellow light time? Discussions of the Walmonster very often turn political, because they involve money and power and their very immediate effects on local folks. Perhaps best to keep to the effects and leave out our opinions as to causes?
  16. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    Why do I think you might be the one doing the laughing? No reason really, it's just an impression I get, somehow.
  17. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    Of course nowadays you at least can get someone to listen to you.
  19. Fletch

    This generation of kids...

    I usually mention civil liberties in there. It was a lot easier to find yourself in a situation where you had essentially no rights - whether it be at work, in the military, in police custody, or just going up against people with money, position, or public opinion on their side.
  20. Fletch

    FS ELC Pearl Harbor A-2 Size 46 MINT!

    Yes! It's also lightweight, which is hard to get unless you cough up the coin.
  21. Fletch

    Driving golden era cars in the modern era

    Last summer, the A's-R-Us Ford club did a run of the Dixie Highway thru eastern Illinois. A tv show called Heartland Highways talked to a few of the drivers, who said that only one car had dropped out due to mechanical problems. Not bad for cars approaching, or over, 80yo! That says something...
  22. Fletch

    Time Warp Towns

    I associate time warp towns with neglect. Anymore, it's about the best form of historic preservation and certainly the most cost-effective. In NY's Hudson Valley, where I lived for quite awhile, the town of Hudson and the city of Troy are known for retaining much of their older character. But...
  23. Fletch

    FS ELC Pearl Harbor A-2 Size 46 MINT!

    What means this <<-->> ??? BTW gents, no affil with seller (except we're both VLJ'ers), but I can personally endorse the Pearl jackets. They tend to get passed over because of the pricey retail and genus of hide. But I really enjoy mine. It looks and feels like the era - or maybe a little...

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