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I'm not sure the garment district was ever a retail hub -- it was where clothes were designed and made (still is, to a certain degree, but you're right that that activity has declined precipitously). The little shops you speak of are wholesale shops (and I think many of them always were). I'm...

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I owned a Fed IV only briefly (loved it, but lost it in a cab), and I was certain I'd not like the dimensional brim. I was convinced I would want to have it trimmed to be even all the way around, but once I got the hat, I never thought of it again. It's really not noticeable.

I know that many of my fellow Loungers are Cladrite Radio listeners (and I thank you!), so I hope it's okay to mention here that we've currently got a kind of fund drive underway to raise the money for the renewal of our annual contract with Live365, our streaming provider. I won't go into all...

I'm on the organizing committee for a very exciting series of events coming up in May of this year: Marxfest, a month-long celebration of all things Marx Brothers in the brothers’ hometown, NYC. You can check out the calendar of events at marxfest.com (some of the festival's most exciting...

I'm not the expert many here are, but the trousers were almost all too low-waisted, it seemed to me. And the music choices were lazy and anachronistic. I like Sinatra as much as the next guy or gal, but he's not the only recording artist who existed in the 1940s and '50s. Not to mention (ok...

You can read about my trip via the link below. It's a time capsule of a website (very much stuck in the mid-90s), I should warn you, and I was not yet much of a writer, but perhaps it's of interest. http://brettnews.com/amod/

In 1992, I traveled to all 48 contiguous states during a four-month, 22,000 road trip that saw me traversing the entire length of Route 66 from Lake Michigan in Chicago to the Santa Monica pier. And I did tons of research before that trip, as you might expect.

I stayed at the Boots Motor Court in 1992 (the sign then read "Boots Motel) -- I stayed in room #6, where Clark Gable once spent the night. I wish I could say I'd stayed at the Wagon Wheel on that same trip, but I didn't know about it until I stumbled upon it (too early in the day to stop for...

Lizzie, do you know of any sources for old television broadcasts (baseball or football)?

I pay $17 for a haircut, but a shave (with shavette) is an additional $23 -- way too rich for my blood. It's funny - back in the old days, a shoeshine cost two bits; now, even here in NYC, they run just three bucks. But a shave and a haircut, as cited in that old rhyme, used to cost the same...

There was a Casablanca TV series much earlier than that: 1955.

What did you use to clean it, if I may ask?

It'll cool off a bit next week, but I'm with you: urgh.

Tickets for Max Raabe's March 3 show at Carnegie Hall went on sale today. I've got mine -- second row orchestra, on the aisle. http://www.carnegiehall.org/Event.aspx?id=4294999840 It'll be our fifth or sixth time to see Mr. Raabe and his Palast Orchester, and I can't wait.