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  1. vitanola

    Greatest Songs of All Time

    Well, Rolling Stone magazine (for the first time since 2004) issued an updated list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". One would, of course, expect an immense amount of presentism in any list drawn up by a group of people so heavily steeped in current popular culture, but there is not...
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    The Centenary of Radio

    The centenary of the generally accepted (thanks to the publicity departments of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and the Radio Corporation) inauguration of radio broadcasting is fast approaching. On November 2nd 1920 Station KDKA broadcast the Harding-Cox election returns...
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    Then and now

    The SPNEA has a remarkable archive of interior shots which are available on their website. I found it interesting to compare some of these with images available on Zillow and Trulia. It either shows haw far that we have come, or it confirms that Max Nordau was right. 35!Commonwealth Avenue...
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    Let’s see your vintage calendars!

    For years I’ve enjoyed using old calendars which correspond to the current year. 2020 is mighty slim pickings, for it matches but four years in the last century: 1992, 1964, 1936, and 1908. The wall calendar in my office is an unused 1936 Dionne Quintuplets calendar.
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    Problems of Housing (1944)

    Yet another ERPI release by Encyclopedia Britannica Films, touching on the surveyed condition of our housing stock at the peak of the Era, and the modifications needed to improve sub-standard houses. Oh, and WALLPAPER. Nice wallpaper.
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    Democracy

    Another of those wonderful ERPI films, produced by Encyclopedia Britannica. This one, produced in 1945 in the immediat shadow of the Second World War explains "Democracy", as it was then understood in America.
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    Office Ettiquette

    This Encyclopedia Britannica educational film was produced in 1950. Even so, it is more representative of the business world of the 1930s and 1940s.
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    Stetson celebrates their 150th!

    http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/stetson-makes-comeback-as-it-celebrates-150th-anniversary/ Ethel Shutta along with the first iteration of the Goldwyn Girls honor of the 150th anniversary of this fine old business.
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    Anniversary Celebration!

    Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the release of the record album "Kiss" by the band of the same name, an event which changed history, if just a tiny bit and made the 1970's just a bit noisier and a great deal stranger, and overall a mite less pleasant. In celebration of this sterling...
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    Atticus Finch is right!

    Wonderful idea! I wonder. For the moment I'd choose the opening ten seconds of the Whiteman "Sweet Sue". The fanfare is a bit bombastic and more than a little out-of-date, as am I, but it is mercifully brief, as I am not. http://youtu.be/X2RpJBv0lFs What would you choose?
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    Let us celebrate!

    National Kazoo Day (the 28th of January) http://youtu.be/99iG2WtGe98
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    Who Doesn't Like The Dorsey Brothers?

    Here in one of my favorite "sides" featuring those boys from Scranton: http://youtu.be/zNwqTEp_oGw What's yours?
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    Thanksgiving dinner, 1929

    "The Consumerist" has an interesting article regarding Thanksgiving dinner: http://consumerist.com/2013/11/27/lets-prepare-thanksgiving-dinner-from-1929/
  16. vitanola

    I sometimes wonder...

    If some folks consider the number 666 to be evil, would 25.8069758 then be the root of all evil?
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    Example of a cozy 1928 Bungalow interior

    Here are some interior photos taken of an Iowa City, IA bungalow shortly after its completion in 1928. Note the bare plaster walls. IN the days of three-coat wet plaster it was recommended that plaster walls be allowed to "season" for a year or two before being covered with paper or enamel...
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    I took my Mother to the Doctor's this morning...

    No particular problems, just edema in the lower extremities, not unusual for a lass of 88 summers, but after we checked in, one of the medical assistants led us to the examining room, and whilst we were settling in, she noticed my overshoes (ordinary Tingley "rubbers"). She said "What a great...
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    Ouch!

    I was moving a crate of records, sorting through so that I could give some duplicates to a new collector, and found a disc that I did not recall owning, an M (mint) copy of the Kentucky Grasshoppers on Banner playing "Makin' Freinds", probabaly the best version of that Jack Teagarden number. I...
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    Finally! My new shop!

    The last time that we went home we finished up the long-delayed exterior work on the little radio shop and phonograph room that I built in the back yard of the house that I'm restoring . The radio shop, 24' long by 10' wide, 10' high side-walls. I've installed a ceiling at 7' to make a...
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    REMEMBER? Pearl Harbor

    No mention today, 12/6 I wonder weather there will be much to-do tomorrow?
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    "My Custom Tailor" disaster- so far

    Back in August I was measured by an employee of MCT at one of their roadshow stops. I ordered two four-piece suits of conservative (that is early 1920's) "Stout" cut (moderately narrow lapels, natural shoulder, somewhat form-fitting three-button box-back jacket, flat-front trousers, straight...

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