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    Some Art Deco china

    I'm in the middle of decorating the front room, so all the china has been removed and dusted down. Before I put it all back up I've taken a few photos so I can share the small collection: 1 - A Susie Cooper teapot, tea cup, saucer and side plate in pink Dresden Spray: 2 - Part of a Susie...
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    Cheap Japanese selvedge jeans in the UK

    Uniqlo - a Japanese based company with 11 branches in London and the southeast - have some Japanese made selvedge jeans on their website for a very reasonable £39.99, in either black or blue. I've only seen pictures and haven't held any in my hands, but they look as though they may have a...
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    Audi Type C sports car replica.

    Audi are to release a child size pedal powered replica of their 1932 Type C sports car. From the Audi UK press release: A lovely little car, but £6800 / €10038 / $13750!
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    WW2 German board games to be auctioned

    Full story here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6955249.stm
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    On The Road: The Original Scroll

    Penguin Books are to publish the unedited first draft of Jack Kerouac's classic On The Road. The US hardback edition is due on 16th August, while the UK hardback edition is due on 6th September, 50 years - almost exactly to the day - after the New York Times gave the book a lengthy, and very...
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    The New Picadilly Cafe to close in September.

    The formica heaven that is the New Picadilly Cafe in Soho, London, is to finally close on either the 22nd or 23rd September this year. The cafe is the last remaining classic 1950s Italian cafe in Soho. It opened in 1951 and has barely changed since; the tables, chairs, light fittings etc...
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    Limited edition Charles and Ray Eames Plywood Elephant, available soon...

    From the Vitra website: It's bound to be hideously expensive, but isn't it a lovely little thing?
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    Thread for London nostalgics...

    Rather than take up any more space in the American Crew... pomade thread I've started this thread to wallow in some collective nostalgia for the retro/vintage/club scene in London in the early 1980s. I know the inimitable GOK was around town then, and if any other Brit Loungers of a certain age...
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    Name That Tune

    I don't know if this has been done before, but here's a little game for us to play. Someone posts some lyrics to a song and the first person to guess the lyrics then has to post lyrics to a new song etc. etc. Let's keep the songs pre-1960, and try to make them reasonably well known. Post as many...
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    Show us your TWEEDS...

    I couldn't find a general tweed jacket thread so I thought I may as well start one to show this jacket that I bought yesterday at a vintage menswear shop called Old Hat in west London. Front: Back (nice bi-swing back here) Closeup of the fantastic multicoloured fabric: Label: I can't...
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    Ramsbury At War and the 101st Airborne Division

    I came across this interesting site dedicated to the Wiltshire village of Ramsbury and the surrounding area where the 101st Airborne Division were based before and after D-Day. http://www.ramsburyatwar.com/ The site owner has written a book, also called Ramsbury At War, which was used for...
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    Ahmet Ertegun RIP

    Ahmet Ertegun, co-founder with his brother Nesuhi of Atlantic Records, has died aged 83 after falling at a Rolling Stones concert and suffering a head injury that led to a coma. Report from Reuters l-r Ahmet Ertegun, Duke Ellington, William P. Gottlieb, Nesuhi Ertegun
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    Harris Tweed article in the Guardian

    Today's Guardian newspaper carries a short article about the new owner of the majority of the Harris tweed industry, which I thought our tweed fans might find interesting:
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    Completely O/T - Velvet Underground acetate on eBay

    I know the Velvet Underground have nothing to do with the general subject matter of the Lounge, but this is a great story. An acetate of Andy Warhol's first mix of the first Velvet Underground album surfaced in 2002 and was bought for a mere 75 cents in a New York yard sale. It's very different...
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    A Damon Runyon question...

    Now one day I am reading a collection of stories written by a guy named Mr. Damon Runyon, which is all about the goings on around and about Broadway. It is a surprise to find in one of said stories an example of a past tense, which occurrence I am led to believe is rarer than a day on which...
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    Apparently there's a rockabilly revival in London...

    I know rockabilly isn't to everyones taste, but I also know some of the Loungers might be interested in this article in the current edition of London listings magazine Time Out. As you'd expect from a mainstream mag they haven't got all the details quite right :eusa_doh: They talk to a young...
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    British Security Coordination

    There's an interesting article in the Weekend magazine with todays Guardian newspaper about a covert British operation in the US in 1940-41 known as British Security Coordination. At a time when there was widespread support for Nazi Germany among American industrialists (Henry Ford, Irénée...
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    The Spanish Civil War

    Today, Monday 17th July 2006, marks the 70th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, in many ways a precursor to the Second World War. There are still many misunderstandings about the Civil War, and there has been some interest in the subject recently in the Lounge, so the anniversary...
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    25 Most Played songs in your iTunes library

    Inspired by one of ortega76's posts in the Music? thread in the Golden Era folder, let's see what music gets played most on your computer. Copy and paste your 25 Most Played songs from your iTunes library (or any other MP3 management app of course) Here are mine - all 60s and 70s soul, except...
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    Mods and Modernists

    I'm currently re-reading a book called The Soul Stylists by British writer Paolo Hewitt, which is made up of interviews and essays detailing 60 years of those British youth cults that share the twin obsessions of clothes and Black American music. While much of this has little to do with the...

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