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  1. Alex Oviatt

    Great Vintage Blog

    I have really been enjoying watching Niklas from Vintagebursche: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyoebFUS5vWgpGSUoegGYNA He is entertaining and informative and speaks great English! Any other fans?
  2. Alex Oviatt

    When in Pasadena.....

    ...go to The Bloke! Great, beautifully curated shop for trad gents: https://thebloke.com Any SoCal Fedorites tried this yet?
  3. Alex Oviatt

    1929 Brunswick Radiola 17

    I just inherited my grandfather's 1929 wireless/gramaphone that is a Bruswick Radiola 17 from 1929 in a beautiful walnut cabinet. I love it--have not plugged it in yet although I am told that it is in perfect working order. Any other collectors of these out there? I must buy some new...
  4. Alex Oviatt

    Perry Mason's shirt--only in Los Angeles!

    [/IMG] Was just in a local thrift shop and found this. In 1969, Raymond Burr had just been on "It Takes a Thief" and was about to go on the Red Skelton Hout TV show. I don't know much about the shirtmaker except that they did a lot of custom work in Hollywood--Burt Reynolds' Machin shirt...
  5. Alex Oviatt

    Zooey Deschanel on SNl

    Did anyone catch this a few weeks back? There was a great sketch with Jean Dujardin but the best bit, IMO, was a film noir send up where Zooey (looking the part!) finds herself in a fast-talking wise-cracking film noir--it is really fun! I couldn't find it on Youtube or I would have posted it!
  7. Alex Oviatt

    Interesting cocktail website

    There is a great website that I ran across that has several good posts on cocktails (Moscow Mules, etc.) including today's post on the Savoy Cocktail Book: http://leslieblythemiller.wordpress.com/ Interesting stuff!
  8. Alex Oviatt

    Lounger Spotted?

    Some mornings, on my commute in to work I take surface streets instead of the freeway. Occasionally, if my timing is right, I see a man waiting for a bus on Huntington Drive in South Pasadena wearing a hat. Not just any hat, but beautiful, proper Fedora Lounge quality hats. Today’s panama was...
  9. Alex Oviatt

    Buffalo Soldiers

    I just attended a talk by the author of this book--great stories, really interesting and important part of WWII lore: Buffalo Soldier pens survivor's memoir Ivan J. Houston served in the U.S. Army's all-Negro 92nd Division, which helped bring an end to World War II in Europe...
  10. Alex Oviatt

    Los Angeles Magazine

    I noticed in the current issue of Los Angeles Magazine an article on hats and where to get them in LA. Most of the places they mentioned were for fashion hats, but they did mention Hollywood Hatters and Baron's........ http://www.lamag.com/issue.aspx
  11. Alex Oviatt

    Fictional characters defined by their hats

    There are counless instances in literature where caracters are closely associated with their headwear (think Sherlock Holmes, for example) but this struck me forcibly when I recently reread one of my favorite books, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. In the first few pages, key...
  13. Alex Oviatt

    Inventing LA: The Chandler Family Legacy

    Did anyone happen to catch this? A really remarkable documentary with an excellent book (Angels City Press) to go with it: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/inventing-la/
  14. Alex Oviatt

    Vintage Sports Fan

    My favorite time of year--baseball season overlaps college football. I love the fact that much of the sports merchandise that one can buy is retro in its look--not only team brands but vintage jerseys, caps from Orvis, J. Peterman, etc. Today I will wear my father's 1951 vintage USC hat in...
  15. Alex Oviatt

    Glenn Miller Double Feature

    Sun Valley Serenade and Orchestra Wives--now there is a great pair of films. Watch then both together if you can. Great music--of course--but great clothes also. Not just on the stars like John Payne, but on all the band members. Glenn Miller wears his own clothes in them. Tex Beneke looks...
  16. Alex Oviatt

    Baron Hats

    I recently had my old Bates Trilby steamed and blocked at Baron's in Burbank, CA--they did an amazing job, looks like the day I bought it. Bates offered to do it for free, but you have to send it back to their shop in Jermyn Street and the postage to the U.K. alone would be more than the hat...
  17. Alex Oviatt

    Books that embody their time: Angels on Toast by Dawn Powell

    October 20, 1940 Business in Bars By ROBERT VAN GELDER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ANGELS ON TOAST By Dawn Powell. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This novel, wittily written...

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