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  1. RondoHatton

    Question: Frisco, this week last year: What event/s?

    Question: What vintage event/s took place in Frisco about this week last year?
  2. RondoHatton

    Duke Ellington featured on reverse of new quarter honoring District of Columbia

    http://edition.cnn.com/2009/US/02/24/duke.ellington.coin/ Duke Ellington featured on reverse of new quarter honoring District of Columbia WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States Mint launched a new coin Tuesday featuring jazz legend Duke Ellington, making him the first African-American to...
  3. RondoHatton

    Queen Mary in financial trouble again

    From the Los Angeles Times: Queen Mary in financial trouble again 9:48 AM, January 17, 2009 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/01/queen-mary-in-f.html Save the Queen LLC, the development company that took over the Queen Mary's lease in November 2007, is facing financial...
  4. RondoHatton

    Dan Dees shoes is gone

    Dan Dees shoe repair shop was a time machine. Had a pre-war or immediately post-war looking storefront. Neon sign and lots of stainless steel. Cat's paw soles and heels. A great, old, animated window display of a shoemaker hammering a heel on a last. As a child I had shoes resoled there, and...
  5. RondoHatton

    On The Beach

    The most poignant film of the cold war, IMHO, beyond Fail Safe. The end of the world with no Bruckheimer special effects, just character-driven drama about the horror of the inevitable doom. Choke back tears time with this dark weeper. Fred Astaire goes out in, dare I say it, style. Given the...
  7. RondoHatton

    Hail & Farewell, CBS Sunday Morning 2007

    Sentimental slob that I am, I always try to watch the CBS Sunday Morning program at year's end to catch the obits of the year's passings, as observed by the CBS writing staff. Did it bother anyone else that Bud Ekins demise went un heralded? Did I blink and miss it? That "Evel" Knievel (even he...
  8. RondoHatton

    KTLA goes "Retro" for 54 hours on Thanksgiving Weekend!

    Are you in the Los Angeles broadcast area? Hear again the voice of Clete Roberts! http://blogs.ktla.com/news_custom_bill/ "...Now the entire 60-hour Retro Special will be a massive marathon of everything from TV's earliest sitcoms, to KTLA's first local programming, to TV's very first...
  9. RondoHatton

    Freewheelin Rascals

    This cheered me up somehow - loop from boingboing, portion of "Rascals" "Freewheelin". Hey, everyone in the loop is wearing a hat!
  10. RondoHatton

    Fruit Of The Loom Peoples Republic TV Spot

    The Constant Oracle (TV), always on in the background, caught my eye with a TV commercial for Fruit Of The Loom which just did not sit right with me, and perhaps some of you may have reacted the same? The gist of the ad is, how wonderful it would all be to shuck business attire, suits...
  11. RondoHatton

    "costumers blowout sale"?

    Bartenders: Is it kosher to post a sale not mine? Went yesterday to a "costumers blowout sale" in the San Fernando Valley. Included Ladies gowns from the set of "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062362/) silk and slips too different sizes, vendor when asked said 65 - 85...
  13. RondoHatton

    Do Estate Sale Ghosts Ever Want Their Things Back?

    Did the late Mr. Curtis Harrington (09/17/1926-05/06/2007), Director of Horror Films, want his handkerchief back? A man of exquisite tastes, I was priveleged to attend his recent estate sale, affording only 3 lovely small silk scarves I intended for pocket squares. Being a warm late September...
  14. RondoHatton

    Time to share: obosolete style Vanson Swedish motorcycle jacket

    Have worn one of these Vansons (save summers) over a decade, many miles. Drat, no longer made, and my size all sold out. Get the Pecards! Well, more normal size people on the Lounge can take advantage of this source (and at $375.00 USD, less than I paid!): "A great cold weather jacket...
  15. RondoHatton

    he is gone now

    Tony in Tarzana suggested I start a thread. Bartenders, merge, delete, or what have you as you see fit. I can type with both hands now - he is gone. Something told me to get up and check on him in the middle of the night. He was on the cage floor - a fatal sign for parrots. A bit of life was...
  16. RondoHatton

    Could this book ever be made as a film?

    Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
  17. RondoHatton

    Wall Street Journal's new owner - Rupert Murdoch

    First came the thrilling news no more trademark engraving illustration in lieu of a more "USA Today" look. Now it will be no more than an arm of Fox news. Gail Wynand couldn't shine a light on RuMur. http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22174034-664,00.html
  19. RondoHatton

    Can you ID this signature?

    It is on an oil painting of a landscape. Mine eyes have seen the glory, but are straining to read this and spell or pronounce. More pics to come later. Thank you!
  20. RondoHatton

    Seltzer Siphon?

    Has anyone a line on seltzer ("2¢ plain") in siphon bottles in the Los Angeles area? Mr. Julian Diamond is well I hear, but out of business; Galco old world soda in Eagle Rock no longer has any; Seltzer Sisters (http://www.seltzersisters.com/) is in the Bay area, and may, repeat, may expand to...
  21. RondoHatton

    Estate Sale Last Day

    11048 Blix Street, West Toluca Lake district of North Hollywood 91602-1717... ...20's house to be torn down - fixtures, all up for grabs I heard? Some women's clothes, and lots of paper ephemera, pre-war, wartime & postwar photos, biz forms, train tickets, what have you... and lots of mold...
  22. RondoHatton

    What have you LOST?

    What have you lost? What has slipped through your fingers? Due to oversight, accident, distraction, evacuation? Family feud, drama, divorce, moving, loan? Here are 4 which come to mind. If you have a line on the Desmonds shirt or a doppelganger, let me know ASAP please! 1) A men's smoking...
  23. RondoHatton

    Hollywood: Old Spaghetti Factory closes

    Attended the last lunch yesterday. Admit to not having been here since appx. junior high school. Still it is sad to see a Hollywood restaurant open for over 30 years close. Velvet whorehouse atmosphere is getting scarce, I suppose. An auction to be held June 23rd. Had better head over and enjoy...

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