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  1. "Skeet" McD

    The season is on....

    here in Massachusetts, and my very best wishes to all of you who may be headed out with dog and gun. This will be a bittersweet season at best: our old dog, Dan, is 12 and has just been diagnosed with a liver tumor: it will be his end, but exactly when is anyone's guess. Chances are he will have...
  2. "Skeet" McD

    WJAZ reply card, 1925

    Dear Friends, My dear friend and musical colleague Ralph Richey spent HIS youth (in the 1960s) the way I did: grubbing around for neat stuff when it was still fairly thick on the ground...because no one else was interested. He was attempting to bring order to the resulting hoard (better late...
  3. "Skeet" McD

    FANTASTIC Film: "Bank Holiday"

    Shown here in the US on TCM 2 days ago, I recorded it and settled in to watch it last night. Released in 1938, much of it is shot on location in London and the seacoast. Here is the last summer of peace, in detail—and they clearly knew it; one of the first shots is of a newspaper hoarding...
  4. "Skeet" McD

    Help from a Brazilian FLer, Perhaps?

    As you'll see...this is something of a "last resort" kind of request: I'm a singer, and will be doing a concert in Rio in June. I'd like (as a surprise) to do a 19th Century Brazilian song as an encore, and "the" song seems to be Quem Sabe? by Carlos Antonio Gomes. Even in the computer...
  5. "Skeet" McD

    If you do only one thing today...READ THIS THREAD

    There's something quite remarkable over in the Powder Room....if you want a life-brightener, check this out. It's also a grand tribute, from a new member, to what goes on here; I guarantee this will bring a smile to your face, and perhaps a bit of a tear to the eye...
  6. "Skeet" McD

    Knit Collar on an A-2?

    Hello All, Allow ignorance to stand rampant: I was speaking with my 90YO father today; he served with the AAF during WWII. I asked him "if he was issued a leather jacket" when he completed pilot training. He immediately said "yes, an A2 jacket" and said that it was issued when he arrived at...
  7. "Skeet" McD

    Recipes from Old New-England

    Just received, unexpectedly, the email newsletter of "Historic New England"...who--particularly sadly for a very early organization whose entire purpose is to preserve the past--felt that they had to ditch their original name of "The Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities."...
  8. "Skeet" McD

    FS: iPhone 3Gs leather case by Beyza...

    Bought this for my wife, who carried it for a week and decided she preferred a different style..."as received" (i.e., new) with the exception of small mark on back from swiveling on the belt clip. Here's the manufacturer's description...
  9. "Skeet" McD

    "Backwards" neckties in 1939?

    Just finished watching FIVE CAME BACK, a 1939 semi-potboiler about an airliner forced down in the Amazon...you can imagine the rest. But there's one thing you probably can't imagine (at least I couldn't): as the characters are introduced one by one, I noticed that one of the men had his necktie...
  10. "Skeet" McD

    Films you EXPECTED to be horrible...but weren't!

    OK, Fedord Spaniard: I know a good idea when I see one....see you, and raise you! Let's go the reverse route: movies you couldn't bring yourself to see, because you were afraid they'd be awful: but that turned out, when you finally did see them, to be....great! I'll go first: 1984. Loved...
  11. "Skeet" McD

    From the Airwaves to your Parlor Piano: Sheet music with a radio connection?

    I just posted this image over on the "Shaving" barstool...but seeing as it's as relevant here, thought you might enjoy it as well: I've collected sheet music for years (I'm a singer), but most of it from earlier in the 20C than this. I couldn't pass up the graphic however. It lives next to...
  12. "Skeet" McD

    Let's see your Casseroles!

    The casserole really came into its own during the Depression...you could make just a little bit of meat s t r e t c h a really long way, and cook a full nutritionally balanced meal in one pot and save on fuel. Anyone have some on the shelf? Feel free to show the original servingware...
  13. "Skeet" McD

    Shotgunning/Sporting Jewelry?

    Hello, lads.... As the moniker suggests, I'm interested in the shotgunning sports and do most of my shooting "in period." I just scored this nice tieclip showing what appears to be a model 1912 pumpgun mounted with a Cutts compensator: http://gallery.me.com/finiancircle#100014/DSCF1693 I...
  14. "Skeet" McD

    New WPG M1916 wool pullover shirt, size 50

    Just received this shirt today...it is properly sized and fits--but I'm intending to use it as a 1920s hunting shirt, so it may be asked to go over another shirt and is BOUND to get soaked sooner or later....and I'm thinking I should order up another size. I can't speak to its authenticity...
  15. "Skeet" McD

    Baseball hatbands?

    Hello all, From the early part of the 20C into at least the 60s--i.e., when men going to a baseball game could be expected to be wearing a hat--hatbands seem to have been available with the team name or logo on them; you can see them in photos. There also appear to have been cheap...
  16. "Skeet" McD

    "Web" style buckles....replacement belts?

    Greetings, all: as it says, I'm new around here...and I don't think I can (yet) post the pictures that would make all of this...so much easier. At any rate, I hope my description will be enough to allow you to figure out what my problem is--and perhaps offer some advice. I have two fairly...

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