Cousin Hepcat
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Hi All, this is my first post. All I can say is... WOW! Man, this is Great! I've been doing web searches for others interested in the 1930s-40s in general, pretty extensive I thought, with no luck, then finally a coworker pointed me here... man this is such a great idea, who's idea was this?
I got home and have been browsing around here and there checking out pics, and... wow... You all sure know a lot about 30s-40s style hats, suits, cuffs, and reet pleats! Amazing. I want to learn EVERYTHING. Where do I start? Is there a Beginner's Guide FAQ to 30s-40s hats & suits? I have just one actual matched suit, which I got when I graduated for job interviews (had it on when I got home today, so snapped a shot), and I'm... (sniff)... HATLESS... I hope hats aren't required for admission at the lounge door- Come on, give a guy a break already...
You all sure are a sharp dressing sharp looking crowd from your avatar pics, like movie stars- hey, what you need is an ugly mug in there to make the rest of you look even betta, get me?
Man, wish this was a real lounge and I could run down and hang out with everyone right now...
Me being from No'th Car-o-Lina, listening to swing band and jazz music and always talking about "This kinda thing wouldve never happened in the 40s..." (as coworkers roll there eyes, "Oh boy, here he goes again...") makes one "Kinda Different". But I've gotten quick with my response to one of the most-often phrases heard jokingly from coworkers & friends, "jazz sucks": "That's OK, just cause you've got NO CLASS, I ain't mad AT cha..." (unless it's a Sunday, then it's "Well, bless your soul, son, I'll pray for you"...)
Nice to see there's others out there with the same affliction too!
Where did it start for you all?? For me... The records. One time when I was up to visit my granddad (a bandleader in the 1920s), he gave me his brother's (a bass player in a swing band) Tommy Dorsey 78s and I was hooked. Started saving up milk money back home in elementary school & buying 78s at a thrift shop down the street. He'd help me out & get them from his friends when I came up; used to tell me, "if I believed in reincarnation..."
Can I just say, that if I could live in any one movie, it would have to be Its a Wonderful Life... (or To Have And To Have Not. Or, Bringing Up Baby, or most any of the Capra-corn movies, or...) and Whoa, the dressed-to-kill Ladies from that era! "MURDER!" All-REET man, take me there!
The axe (horn) in my pic, I can't really "play" her, but I'm getting there, "woodchopping" as they call it... teaching myself pretty much from scratch in free time, slow going, but fun. She's the same make, model & VINTAGE tenor sax used by my Very Biggest tenor sax idol ever! - Man I set out to buy a "cheap axe to learn on", and the guy at the shop said "we got one was in a staircase-related mishap, but rebuilt & refinished her real nice, lost the antique monetary value but a great bargain"... air-tight and just right, my prayers had come true! I told God, I owe him big time for this one, this never could happen by chance in a million years... named her Lauren, after Lauren Bacall; can't decide which Lauren is prettiest. Greatest tone ever, mechanics tighter than some new horns, though still have lots to learn. (But I can play the heck out of a radio
Anyone else out there from NC? maybe even the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area?
So glad to have found this place - Did I forget to mention, this place is GREAT?! Hope to hear back from you all about the hats and suits "starter info", Lots more to talk about sometime soon (- 40s recipies! - Anyone here ever decked out a house 30s-40s style? - Do y'all ever wear your 40s style clothes & hairdo's to work or in general public, or do you "keep it a secret" except for gatherings of folks & swing dances/concerts where you know people have same tastes?), Take it easy,
- Bobby
"Cousin Hepcat"
I got home and have been browsing around here and there checking out pics, and... wow... You all sure know a lot about 30s-40s style hats, suits, cuffs, and reet pleats! Amazing. I want to learn EVERYTHING. Where do I start? Is there a Beginner's Guide FAQ to 30s-40s hats & suits? I have just one actual matched suit, which I got when I graduated for job interviews (had it on when I got home today, so snapped a shot), and I'm... (sniff)... HATLESS... I hope hats aren't required for admission at the lounge door- Come on, give a guy a break already...
You all sure are a sharp dressing sharp looking crowd from your avatar pics, like movie stars- hey, what you need is an ugly mug in there to make the rest of you look even betta, get me?
Man, wish this was a real lounge and I could run down and hang out with everyone right now... Me being from No'th Car-o-Lina, listening to swing band and jazz music and always talking about "This kinda thing wouldve never happened in the 40s..." (as coworkers roll there eyes, "Oh boy, here he goes again...") makes one "Kinda Different". But I've gotten quick with my response to one of the most-often phrases heard jokingly from coworkers & friends, "jazz sucks": "That's OK, just cause you've got NO CLASS, I ain't mad AT cha..." (unless it's a Sunday, then it's "Well, bless your soul, son, I'll pray for you"...)
Nice to see there's others out there with the same affliction too!
Where did it start for you all?? For me... The records. One time when I was up to visit my granddad (a bandleader in the 1920s), he gave me his brother's (a bass player in a swing band) Tommy Dorsey 78s and I was hooked. Started saving up milk money back home in elementary school & buying 78s at a thrift shop down the street. He'd help me out & get them from his friends when I came up; used to tell me, "if I believed in reincarnation..."
Can I just say, that if I could live in any one movie, it would have to be Its a Wonderful Life... (or To Have And To Have Not. Or, Bringing Up Baby, or most any of the Capra-corn movies, or...) and Whoa, the dressed-to-kill Ladies from that era! "MURDER!" All-REET man, take me there!
The axe (horn) in my pic, I can't really "play" her, but I'm getting there, "woodchopping" as they call it... teaching myself pretty much from scratch in free time, slow going, but fun. She's the same make, model & VINTAGE tenor sax used by my Very Biggest tenor sax idol ever! - Man I set out to buy a "cheap axe to learn on", and the guy at the shop said "we got one was in a staircase-related mishap, but rebuilt & refinished her real nice, lost the antique monetary value but a great bargain"... air-tight and just right, my prayers had come true! I told God, I owe him big time for this one, this never could happen by chance in a million years... named her Lauren, after Lauren Bacall; can't decide which Lauren is prettiest. Greatest tone ever, mechanics tighter than some new horns, though still have lots to learn. (But I can play the heck out of a radio
Anyone else out there from NC? maybe even the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area?
So glad to have found this place - Did I forget to mention, this place is GREAT?! Hope to hear back from you all about the hats and suits "starter info", Lots more to talk about sometime soon (- 40s recipies! - Anyone here ever decked out a house 30s-40s style? - Do y'all ever wear your 40s style clothes & hairdo's to work or in general public, or do you "keep it a secret" except for gatherings of folks & swing dances/concerts where you know people have same tastes?), Take it easy,
- Bobby
"Cousin Hepcat"
