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    O'Keefe & Merritt

    For many years O'Keefe & Merritt was an appliance manufacturer here in Los Angeles. SEE THE FORMER O'KEEFE & MERRITT PLANT IN LOS ANGELES This is my grandmother's 1937 stove, which until 1987 was in her Highland Park house. It was used again briefly in the mid-nineties, but otherwise has...
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    This is Pacific Electric

    Booklet published in 1952 for the Pacific Electric Railway's Golden Jubilee. . . . . . .
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    Terrorism in the "Golden Era"

    An example of how the past had its own problems, not all that different from our own... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128216755 "We like to think of those days as innocent, softened by the selective memory of nostalgia, but prewar New York City was perhaps as dangerous...
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    Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

    I'm so anxious to see this! -Dave A persuasive depiction of the tempestuous affair of two 20th-century titans, Jan Kounen’s “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky” comes closer than most films to capturing the selfish competitive passion of egomaniacal geniuses locked in erotic combat. Arrogant...
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    John Rabe

    Saw this yesterday in Pasadena, and so very glad I did. I'm not fond of war films, as I detest the necessary evil of war with every bone of my body, but it's so much more than that, it's a human film. In fact, I was impressed at its realistic depiction of war, not glorifying or waxing over the...
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    Rich Conaty and his Nash in the New York Times

    Many of you may already know of Rich from his radio program "The Big Broadcast", though I actually discovered him a couple years ago 'cause he drives a gorgeous '50 Nash Ambassador... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/automobiles/collectibles/07EGO.html
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    Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society

    The Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society (PERyHS) is a non-profit association dedicated to the preservation of the memory of the Pacific Electric Railway. The goals of the PERyHS are: to preserve and maintain historical documents, visual images, oral histories, and historical studies; to...
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    Leopold Stokowski: The Maverick Conductor

    Leopold Anthony Stokowski, one of the true conducting luminaries of the twentieth century, was born in London in 1882. His father was Polish, his mother Irish, but he was raised as an Englishman. His famous, vaguely foreign, accent somehow appeared later in his life. The young Stokowski was a...
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    A Prairie Home Companion Live in HD!

    On Thursday, February 4, 2010, a live performance of A Prairie Home Companion will be beamed into select theaters nationwide. Go to www.prairiehome.org for theaters and ticket information. <object width="873" height="525"><param name="movie"...
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    The Last Station

    Saw this today in Pasadena, excellent beyond words. Profound acting and deep emotion, it had tears running down my cheeks. -Dave The complicated marriage between Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sofya has been turned into a showcase for tasty acting by Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren. He...
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    The Early Golden Age of Hollywood

    Happened upon this old film, and just love it! Amazing for how much Hollywood has changed, it remains the same... Old news reel footage, set to "Hollywood Stomp" by Victoria Spivey. <object width="660" height="525"><param name="movie"...
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    Crown Coach, the Royalty of Pupil Transportation and Fire Apparatus

    If you grew up in California, Oregon, or Washington between 1950 and 1990, chances are pretty good that you rode to school in a school bus made by the Crown Coach Corporation of Los Angeles, California. And chances are also pretty good that if there was a fire, medical emergency, or auto...
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    "Ask the Man Who Owns One"

    Packard was a brand of luxury automobile built by the Packard Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, and later by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation of South Bend, Indiana. The first Packard automobiles were produced in 1899 and the brand went off the market in 1958. Packards were advertised...
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    The Young Victoria

    Saw this last night in Pasadena, fantastic film! -Dave If Queen Victoria, in the great beyond, had a say in the matter, you could imagine her waving an imperious hand during the casting process for The Young Victoria, demanding that she be played by "that clever girl from The Devil Wears...
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    Gaylord Carter, Silent Movie Organist

    <object width="660" height="525"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/qOWOVJiV9cI&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x5d1719&color2=0xcd311b&border=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed...
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    Me and Orson Welles

    Came across this purely by accident, but it looks fascinating. -Dave UK trailer for this story set in the world of theatre of 1937 NYC about a young aspiring actor (Zac Efron) who is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles' historic...
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    Virginia Davis, "Alice" in Early Disney Shorts

    Walt Disney was a struggling young cartoon filmmaker in Kansas City, Mo., in 1923 when he came up with the idea of having a young girl interact with animated characters in a series of silent comedy shorts. But who would play the girl? He found the answer in an advertisement for Warneker's...
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    Clifton's Cafeteria in Los Angeles

    On Broadway downtown -- amid a jumble of shops selling gold necklaces and sports socks and electric guitars, amid exhaust and noise and has-been theaters, amid hipsters, the down and out and the just plain out of it -- an authentic piece of history goes about the business it began during the...
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    Primo Scala and His Accordian Band

    I discovered this music purely by fluke yesterday afternoon at Canterbury's in Pasadena, and you know what? I love it! -Dave <object width="445" height="364"><param name="movie"...
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    Is this suit "vintage" enough?

    So there I am in Hobo's the other day, and here's this suit. It looks nice enough, and surprise, it's my size even! What the hell, can't beat the price. :)

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