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    Youtube gold

    I've found several great old complete films available on Youtube. I'm probably the last person on the planet to find out youtube has them. I just finished watching one of my all-time favorite films, "Detective Story" with Kirk Douglas in the lead. I saw it in the theater when it came out back in...
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    World's longest radio serial ??

    I just picked up some more old radio programs on mp3/cd from the Radio Lady, and among my selection was one called: "Passage of the Tangmar." It was listed as having 52 episodes on this single c d, so I assumed there were 52, half-hour separate episodes; not so! The "episode" is 52 12minute...
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    Don't bother covering when sneezing

    As I sat at home this rainy afternoon writing Christmas cards ( fewer and fewer each year, eh? ) I caught an early dose of the 12-25 virus; aka, Christmas Spirit. Some years it doesn't appear until just a few days before Christmas, but this year it hit me right in the middle of addressing a card...
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    Good Evening Los Angeles, this is.........

    For those of us who live in and/or near Los Angeles, there's a station on AM that plays one-hour of old radio programs each weekday night from 9:00-10:00. The station is powerful enough to reach pretty far out. It's 1260 AM During the rest of the day and on the weekends they play mostly...
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    Cover me, I'm goin' in!!

    Well I've finally worked up the nerve to ask for advice from the forum on where to learn to dance to some of the music we all like to hear. I don't aim to knock Fred Astair off of his perch or anything like that, just some sort of semi-coordinated kind of attempt on the dance floor that people...
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    Allow me to present a toast(er)

    Picked this little jewel up at a 2nd hand store a while back. It makes toast much quicker than a modern one, and has the advantage of being able to customize your order by using one side for lightly toasted to the other side for the "Oh my God, it's charcoal" lovers. And, it's a lot easier to...
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    "Elementary my dear Watson!"

    One of my favorite things to do ( I guess I'm just easy to please ) is to listen to old radio programs in my car as a wander about with no particular destination in mind. I have several thousand old radio programs on MP3 CD's. Lately I've been listening to the old radio shows of Sherlock Holmes...
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    Out damn spot!!

    I have a late forties non-structured gaberdine men's jacket made be MacGregor that is in excellent condition save a small spot in the back near the bottom. It appears to have been the result of a bleach or Clorox spill. It's only about the size of a nickle, but when I'm wearing it I feel like...
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    "when you're hot, you're hot" !!

    I picked up another fedora today at an antique mall for $25.00, including the original hatbox. It's a Dobbs, Leisure Flex, model fifteen. It has a Cavanaugh edge on a 2 1/2" brim with a 2" hat band. It was inside the box and appeared to have never been worn as it was "unbashed" with no mark of...
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    "Bond,.......Fedora Bond"

    Just picked up a really nice cherry fedora at a swap meet this morning. It's a Bond "Fifteen" and is dark chocolate brown. It's high crowned with a rolled brim. The only thing amiss is the sweatband had begun to harden and flake at the outer edges a bit but is still wearable. It had been...
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    What are doing at 7:55 AM Sunday, December 7th 2008 ?

    Personally, I'll be giving a prayer for all of our men and women, both military and civilian, who perished at Pearl Harbor sixty-seven years ago. Hope I'm not alone. Bless 'em all Frankie Lamb
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    Literary Leap Frog anyone?

    What say you to a game of Literary Leapfrog. I'll start off with a short paragraph and whomever feels like adding a paragraph until something resembling a story results. "The Bullet and the sound of the gun's report crashed through the glass window at the same time, and before the first piece...
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    It ain't my "style"

    Can anyone who lives in the general area of San Fernando Valley recommend a good barber; one who can cut hair in the forties/fifties style? I don't want to go through anymore "Mondo the Magnificents" who call themselves "stylists" instead of "barber", and charge a fee equal to my car payment...
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    Help, I need a needler !

    I live in the Santa Clarita area of Los Angeles and I'm looking for a competent but not ultra-pricey tailor. I've used up most of the locals with varied results. Specifically, I have a late thirties/early forties suit that needs the pants shortened and the same with the coat sleeves; nothing...
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    "Barton Fink" the later years.

    I finally got around to watching "Barton Fink." For some reason I've never been able to get around to seeing it, but it was on last night and it blew me away. Great period stuff, from the desk fan, ash-tray/match holder, to the clothes the actors wear. The period is of course, early 1942...
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    Where did it go?

    Has anyone out there been to Hollywood Hatters recently? I've dialed their phone number twice and received an incorrect dialing message. I spoke with operator Information and verified the number I dialed is the correct one, including area code as: 323-525-1912 I have no desire to drive all...
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    Is it a hit, or is it a miss??

    I just bought a very clean, near mint fedora today. I did a little checking and found out it's a Resistol. The leather hat-band has the owners initials ( MFC ) stamped in it along with "Desmonds Southern California", and "Pace-Setter". In addition, it has "Self Conforming" written in script...
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    Period correct question

    Maybe someone could give me advice concerning a 30'-40's look man's casual jacket. The kind I have in mind is what we'd call a "windbreaker" today; a short jacket that either buttoned or zipped up the front, and had a couple of flap-pockets in the front instead of the modern slit type. I think...
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    Los Angeles to New York; via yacht

    Does anyone remember back somewhere in the early 1950's ( yes children, there really was an early 1950's ) when a cartoonist ( True magazine??) and some of his friends "sailed" across the U.S. in a more or less straight line, in a 36 foot yacht? No, there was no big flood, at least not that...
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    So lucky it scares me!

    After finding a mint pair of Geo.E.Keith wingtips in a thrift store yesterday for $30:00, I popped into a different thrift shop this morning, and guess what I found; a mint ( read no mark on top, bottom, or inside ) pair of dark brown alligator cap toe shoes in my exact size ( 8 ). The price...

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