Our own vintage town

[StetsonHomburg]

Would this town have any use for a pompous Classical Archaeologist and gourmet? In a pinch I could arrange a poorly organised trip into the jungles of Mesoamerica, losing two thirds of the company but returning with some terrific stories.

:kick: "I have no Reply" lol

 

[Shangas]

Would this town have any use for a pompous Classical Archaeologist and gourmet? In a pinch I could arrange a poorly organised trip into the jungles of Mesoamerica, losing two thirds of the company but returning with some terrific stories.

Does said explorer speak with a crisp, semi-military upperclass British accent? Is he at least 50 years old with white hair and a handlebar moustache? Does he look dashing in khaki and a coffee-tanned pith helmet and will he provide his own shotgun?

Yes?

Sure we'll take him...

 

[LordBest]

Well, I'm halfway to fifty and I do own a pith helmet. Not sure I'm at the dashing stage yet, still stuck with 'odd looking'. No luck with the handlebar moustache, though I'm working on the accent as people tell me to 'go back to England' already, I might as well go all out.

Does said explorer speak with a crisp, semi-military upperclass British accent? Is he at least 50 years old with white hair and a handlebar moustache? Does he look dashing in khaki and a coffee-tanned pith helmet and will he provide his own shotgun?

Yes?

Sure we'll take him...

 

[YesterdayGirl]

Should there be need for a tour guide, to keep those pesky tourists under control, I'm your gal. (I'm a tour guide at the Churchill War Rooms), by night I quite fancy being a cigarette girl, I'm sure there will be sufficient need for one or two of those. For the day job I intend to speak with the cut glass English accent of a 1940s BBC Broadcaster, by night I shall become what is known as a 'Cockney sparrow'.

Slightly letting my imagination run away with me here.

 

[Fletch]

Has anybody mentioned a ballroom?

My model: The Col in Davenport, IA, where everybody from Bix to Duke to Lombardo to yours truly has played.

then

now

 

[Mr Vim]

That... is an impressive ballroom Fletch. But do we need something that size?
As I write this, I'm wondering, what sort of population are we talking about for this town?

 

[Honey Bee]

As I just came into towne....may I please have a Whiskey Sour? It's rather arid here today.
Will there be different boroughs for the different eras ? Or shall we be just one big happy family?

 

[Fletch]

That... is an impressive ballroom Fletch. But do we need something that size?

Any smaller and we can make do with a wooden, arched-roof firetrap of a dancehall, about a mile and a half out of town on a two-lane road, perhaps with picnic grounds and a man-made lake on the premises.

 

[Shangas]

As I just came into towne....may I please have a Whiskey Sour? It's rather arid here today.
Will there be different boroughs for the different eras ? Or shall we be just one big happy family?

I imagine that the structures would vary across the eras from the 1890s-1940s in appearance. Same with clothing and cars and other accessories.

 

[StetsonHomburg]

As I just came into towne....may I please have a Whiskey Sour? It's rather arid here today.
Will there be different boroughs for the different eras ? Or shall we be just one big happy family?

Sorry no Cocktails or Martini's ... only straight from the bottle hard liquor.

 

[Diamondback]

Then gimme the booze, and I'll provide the other ingredients and mix the pretty lady her drink of choice.

 

[Derek WC]

I'm a pretty good singer, I could opperate a night club for our most distinguished citizens... wait, that's everybody.

 

[Shangas]

If I had the sheet-music, I could play a whole heap of vintage jazz songs on the piano. Given time I could be the local pianist at the nightclub...

 

[Derek WC]

That'd be great, because I'd be singing a lot of 20's music, and without a piano, it's not 20's.

 

[StetsonHomburg]

Then gimme the booze, and I'll provide the other ingredients and mix the pretty lady her drink of choice.

Over my dead body! lol How about you give me the other ingredients and
I'll give the pretty dame a drink lol

 

[Diamondback]

Over my dead body! lol How about you give me the other ingredients and
I'll give the pretty dame a drink lol

Either can be easily arranged... but as long as The Job Gets Done and the lady gets something to wet her whistle with, that's what counts, right? lol

 

[StetsonHomburg]

Either can be easily arranged... but as long as The Job Gets Done and the lady gets something to wet her whistle with, that's what counts, right? lol

lol I guess... lol

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I rather like the idea of a dance hall. I was just telling the lady friend today that I'd like to take her dancing.

 

[Mr Vim]

So my friend wants to know if we want about the bars, she is just designing one, so I initially told her the Jazz bar, which she has done before (and it looks great) but then I told her to wait and that I'd ask everyone, so what then?

 

[Fletch]

Sorry no Cocktails or Martini's ... only straight from the bottle hard liquor.

Beer and setups only, then? It's sure authentic to a lot of locales...but I'd vote for liquor-by-the drink. Mixology should have a home in Fedoraville.