Fly On The Wall...

[Chas]

If you could hang out for a single event, what would it have been? For me, it would have been the cutting contest between Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. But pics speak volumes. A near runner-up for me would have been this highly informal jam session: Artie Shaw, Chick Webb and Duke Ellington.

Looks like everybody had some fun.

 

[rmrdaddy]

Tough one Chas.

The photo session for A Great Day in Harlem?

Here's a neat link that lets you look at the photo in quadrants too....
http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~horshak/greatday/page1.html

 

[Miss Dizzy Dame]

yeah this is a tough one!!! I'll have to think about this one...

 

[ScionPI2005]

I'd love to be on the set of some old time radio shows and movies. I love the meager collection of bloopers I've seen and heard from these entertainment mediums and would love to have more.

 

[Wally_Hood]

I would love to have been an unseen observer at the secret meetings in the underground network of offices beneath DC when representatives from the leading nations met and signed the unconstitutional treaties at the end of WWI that set in motion the theft of our national liberties and --

Is this the irrational world-wide conspiracy rant thread? I'm sorry- I'll pay better attention next time-

 

[dhermann1]

Fascinating pics. Chick Webb just has a bass drum, snare and on cymbal. Interesting crowd as well. Some faces that almost seem familiar. The big guy in the dark suit looming over Webb looks like the owner of the place or something like that. And the guy with the 35 mm camera. Who's he? And the guy with the big smile next to him. Everybody's smiling hugely. Yes, what a moment.
The second shot shows just how small Chick Webb was. I'm pretty sure they're both standing. Webb had TB in his bones, which is an extremely debilitating disease, and which ended his life at the age of 39, as I recall. A tough little man, tho.

 

[Foofoogal]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V–J_day_in_Times_Square

anywhere in USA on this day! It must of been electrifying..

 

[HadleyH]

I would like to know: Was it indigestion or was it a bullet?

What really happened on William Randolph Hearst yatch that day in 1924?

There were many guests including Charlie Chaplin, for a birthday party in honor of Tom Ince - a pioneer producer- silent film director . Well Tom died that day. The official version...and I'm quoting..."Tom glutted himself to death and died of accute indegestion..." the other version..." jelaous Wiliam Randolph Hearst believed her lover Marion Davies and Chaplin had slipped off together and were later discovered in flagrante on the lower deck, Hearst run for his revolver. In the confusion, Ince, not Chaplin took the bullet in his brain".

There was no inquest into the death and Mr Hearst provided Tom Ince's widow with a trust fund for life ..... everything hush hush...

Loved to have been a fly on the wall that day on the yatch

 

[Absinthe_1900]

Who shot William Desmond Taylor?

http://www.taylorology.com/

 

[Miss Dizzy Dame]

I would like to know: Was it indigestion or was it a bullet?

What really happened on William Randolph Hearst yatch that day in 1924?

There were many guests including Charlie Chaplin, for a birthday party in honor of Tom Ince - a pioneer producer- silent film director . Well Tom died that day. The official version...and I'm quoting..."Tom glutted himself to death and died of accute indegestion..." the other version..." jelaous Wiliam Randolph Hearst believed her lover Marion Davies and Chaplin had slipped off together and were later discovered in flagrante on the lower deck, Hearst run for his revolver. In the confusion, Ince, not Chaplin took the bullet in his brain".

There was no inquest into the death and Mr Hearst provided Tom Ince's widow with a trust fund for life ..... everything hush hush...

Loved to have been a fly on the wall that day on the yatch

Me too! Speaking of Charles Chaplin,I would have loved to see him in person filming!

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

Shoot I don't know--it would have been fun to see Glenn Miller play.

 

[JimWagner]

January 16, 1938, Carnegie Hall, to hear Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Harry James, et al perform "Sing, Sing, Sing" live.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I wouldn't mind being in the control room at CBS Studio One in New York on the night of October 30, 1938.

That Welles, what will he try next?

I also wouldn't mind being in the stands at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis on the afternoon of August 19, 1951.

Some things have to be seen to be believed.

 

[Carlisle Blues]

I would like to know who ate that piece of chocolate chip cheesecake I was saving for today?

...and listen to the missing 18 minutes....

 

[HadleyH]

Who shot William Desmond Taylor?

http://www.taylorology.com/

Any of these 4 people did. Take your pick.

Edward Sands

Charlotte Shelby

Henry Peavey

Margaret Gibson

...and the victim.-By the way...robbery was not the motive, his large diamond ring still shone on his finger.

 

[Foofoogal]

HadleyH
There was a movie about this story on IFC not too long ago. Interesting.

 

[MrNewportCustom]

December 25, 1934. Santa Anita, CA. Opening day of the Santa Anita Racetrack.

And then, again, in 1937, watching the filming of the Marx Brothers' "A Day at the Races." Especially the scene where the Brothers redirect parking traffic onto the track. I would have loved to have gotten a close-up look at the Rolls Royce Groucho hops onto the running board of.


Lee

 

[Widebrim]

1.) The sixth floor (warehouse) of the Texas School Book Depository, Dallas, about 12:30 pm on November 22, 1963. 2.) Room 1219 of the St. Francis Hotel, San Francisco, on the night of September 5, 1921.

 

[Chas]

JFK and Fatty Arbuckle, right?

 

[Widebrim]

JFK and Fatty Arbuckle, right?

That is correct.