Poll: Where do Fedora Loungers live?

[ClassicMan1966]

I live right here in Fayetteville, NC.

Swinggal commented there are 20 Australians on the board. I'm a bit surprise that so many Australians have a interest in the time period of the 1930's and 1940's.

 

[swinggal]

Why?

 

[PistolPete1969]

Greetings from Good ol' Ohio, the Heart of it all, by way of Arizona with a brief sojourn in Toledo and the "left" coast.....LLLLOOONNNGG story.

Pete

 

[James71]

Why?

I agree.... why?

There are 21 million of us you know. Some of us are bound to be a bit atavistically screwed up.....

 

[swinggal]

What an odd thing for him to say...I don't get it. We were first settled in 1788...not like Australia began in 1950!

 

[miss_elise]

^^^ i think it's a bit like saying "i'm surprised there are so many americans that are interested in medieval and renaissance faires"

 

[James71]

My wife is an american who likes ren faires.



Im a bit surprised that with 15K members only 91 appear to be active at this given time, or many arent bothered voting.... or only log in occasionally..... or arent registered........or are just lurkers.........

ok dont mind me. I ramble at times......

 

[Mav]

^^^ i think it's a bit like saying "i'm surprised there are so many americans that are interested in medieval and renaissance faires"

I dunno; it always surprises me.

 

[Smithy]

Swinggal commented there are 20 Australians on the board. I'm a bit surprise that so many Australians have a interest in the time period of the 1930's and 1940's.

Australia? Hey, isn't that in Europe with mountains and stuff?

 

[lolly_loisides]

Australia? Hey, isn't that in Europe with mountains and stuff?

lol lol lol

 

[ClassicMan1966]

Why?

Australia seems like a frontier-style country with a Western flavor. When I think of the 1930's-1940's, I think of Europe and World War II along with the gangster era of Chicago during that time.

Didn't mean to short change the Australian members on the board, Miss Swing.

 

[swinggal]

That's ok. Sydney is a lot like parts of NYC and Melbourne is a very European city. Our big cities are very cosmopolitan and full of Art Deco and Federation history. We were also very much involved in WW1 and 2. American troops spent a lot of time here in WW2. Both world wars had a big impact on our culture and way of life as we lost so many men compared to our population size at the time.

That 'Western' frontier thing we may have had way back in the late 1800s, bit not now or for a long time. Movies like 'Australia' are joke. 'Pacific' had a whole episode about the Marines being on leave in Melbourne in the 40s and it was all filmed there too - so you get to see a bit of what life was like in Australia back then. Not much different to any other western country.

 

[Smithy]

I think Swinggal is right ClassicMan1966, movies have probably led to those ideas of Oz being like the wild west and frontier like.

Here's Sydney in the 1930s:

And 1930s Melbourne:

I blame Hoges, it's all his bloody fault!

 

[Puzzicato]

I blame Hoges, it's all his bloody fault!

lol

Try Sunday too far away (set 1955) or Caddie (set 1930s) for some different representations of Australiana! Both excellent films made in the 1970s new wave of Australian cinema.

And no one throws any shrimp on anything.

 

[Grant Fan]

Hello all greetings from sunny (and hot) Virginia Beach

 

[Undertow]

Films like Mad Max don't help the image either, regardless of how pitifully stupid that sounds. In fact, sometimes for fun (having never visited Oz), I picture Australia as a burnt out desert full of crazy men dressed in spiked football gear, running massive pig farms and motorcycle gangs. lol

Which by the by, I absolutely loved all 3 Mad Max films...just in case you're wondering. [huh]

Haha, but no, really, I would love to visit Australia. I went to high school with a girl from Sydney. She told me how nice it is over there - and then she left me in blasted Iowa and returned to Sydney. I envy her.

 

[Puzzicato]

Films like Mad Max don't help the image either, regardless of how pitifully stupid that sounds. In fact, sometimes for fun (having never visited Oz), I picture Australia as a burnt out desert full of crazy men dressed in spiked football gear, running massive pig farms and motorcycle gangs. lol

Which by the by, I absolutely loved all 3 Mad Max films...just in case you're wondering. [huh]

Haha, but no, really, I would love to visit Australia. I went to high school with a girl from Sydney. She told me how nice it is over there - and then she left me in blasted Iowa and returned to Sydney. I envy her.

Oh well that bit is true!

But I have to keep telling people over here, it's really not like in Home & Away. It actually rains alot in Sydney!

 

[csmiller]

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Hi all,

I live just outside of Binghamton, New York. The land of Carousels, the former IBM, the former Endicott Johnson shoe factories and hometown of the late great Rod Serling.

Grew up in Horseheads, New York. Anyone ever heard of it before??

Craig

 

[Spitfire]

Just north of Copenhagen, Denmark, northern part of western Europe.

 

[ClassicMan1966]

Thanks for the education, Swinggal and Smithy.