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    When you are forced to live vintage style...

    Here's my concept of roughing it, courtesy of the great Haddon Sundblom...
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    Viktor Schreckengost Dies at 101

    He was quite the well-known designer back in the 193Os, and I hunted for years (and in the pre-ebay world) for a cool little globe-shaped teapot he designed, but when the streamlined asesthetic fell out of favor, so did a lot of its designers, many of whom continued working for years afterward...
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    Shag Me, Baby - Need Rug Advice

    Shag carpet dates... Shag carpets are a lot older than most people realize. Now that I need it, I can't find it but somewhere in my files I have a shag carpet ad--and it's called shag even then--from 1946. I'll see if I can find it tonight and get it posted. Meanwhile, here's a 194os...
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    Steak 'N' Shake

    These days I live in Chicago, but I grew up in Central Illinois, in several small towns along the Steak & Shake trail that led from Danville to Galesburg, and it never occurred to me that I would someday end up living in a city without a single one. The difference between S&S and Johnnny Rockets...
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    Golden age prop repro

    I love that movie, although I haven't seen it in years. Richard Conte's moody, intimate nightclub, with its streamlined walls of horizontally-raked brick, was awesome, just the place I want to go to for drinks.
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    Films for Homes

    errata... The above post is an excellent demonstration of what happens when one tries to write and carry on a telephone conversation at the same time. Or, at least, it's what happens when I try to do both simultaneously. Obviously, I was speaking not of Kay Thompson, but of the of the lovely...
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    Films for Homes

    For biggest, shiniest, white-enamel-&-nickel kitchen ever, watch My Man Godfrey. Also, check out Ernst Lubitsch's Trouble in Paradise from 1932, one of the funniest (and most amoral) films ever made. Every character but one is up to something or other, but they're all goodlooking...
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    Sweeney Todd

    I won't be seeing Sweeney Todd and I haven't read Steyn's book, but blaming modern musicals' poor box office on dark subject matter seems a stretch, especially when you consider that, every week, tens of millions of people pay their hard-earned money to see non-musicals featuring extended scenes...
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    Slightly Sinister Children of the Golden Era

    Cybil Shepard started her career early, as one of the Breck Girls and I think that's a young Alice Cooper eying those Pork & Beans. Thanks for the link to Plan 59, Doctor Strange. I first found it back when it had another name, but I love the place.
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    Strike Up A Conversation

    Seth, when I first saw your other thread, I didn't have time to reply and when I got back to the forum, it had taken on a life of its own and didn't need my input. Even so, I can relate to both topics. I'm the historian for a National Historic Landmark here in the city, and as such, I've...
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    Winter Moody Blues?

    Brad used exactly the phrase I've always about myself: I'm wired backwards. I get just as depressed as anybody else with the change in weather, but like Brad & Amateisgal, that all hits me just as everybody else is gearing up for summer at the beach. I don't like heat, but combine it with sunny...
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    NRA t-shirt

    Last minute addition... I'm another member who just saw this today, but that logo has always been a favorite of mine, so I'll take 2 XL. Thanks.
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    Classic American TV Commercials

    I have no idea how to make links, nor really, any clue how to find it anyway, but I remember another all-singing, all-dancing glittering Busby Berkely pastiche from the late 6Os for Contac cold pills. Another budget-blaster, I'm sure. My other favorite was an ad for some headache remedy that...
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    Show us your vintage home!

    Big Man, those rooms--and those photgraphs-- are wonderful, but I'm an interior designer, and if these get out into the world at large, they could put me out of business. Today, a lot of people are turned off by the fakery of the Tuscany-by-way-of T. J. Maxx look, or the slick...
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    Personal Libraries

    I really like the looks of Brian Sheridan's library, but unfortunately, I don't have an unbroken wall space big enough to keep all my books--mostly architecture & interior design books--together in one spot. The real problem with art-type books, though, is that their coated paper makes them a...
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    Share your own art here :)

    Here's a corner of one set of grandparents' gloomy old Victorian farmhouse outside of Danville, Illinois, circa 1960, with its no-frills 194Os furnishings still intact. The walls were covered in a 192Os oatmeal cartridge paper embossed in a damask pattern that had faded to a uniform brown, and...
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    Art Exhibit: Golden Age Artist Edward Hopper

    To me, Hopper's real subject is not, despite the frequncy of solitary figures in his paintings and comments thereon, loneliness or alienation, but light and its effects: the brilliance of full sun; the hard yellow flare of a porch light on a humid summer night; the glowing, moody pools of light...
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    Saddle Oxfords

    This thread was already a few weeks old when I first spotted it, but I still managed to pick up 2 pair of those sweet saddle bucks at the begining of the thread, and they're great. I could hardly believe the price. But I had to come back to add this note because this afternoon, it was...
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    Old Dutch Chases Dirt - But Do You? How?

    The great decorator Mario Buatta has the right idea: "Dust is a protective layer for fine furniture."
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    Most Memorable Scenes

    I can't say exactly why, but one of my favorite scenes--no more than a few shots, really--is in The Maltese Falcon, when, because of a glitch in the hand-off of something or other, and because no one in the movie trusts anyone else out of eyesight, all the main characters end up spending a long...

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