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  1. Chas

    Oldest person you ever knew?

    Oldest person I know? Dal Richards. He's 94, has led bands since 1938. He lost an eye as a boy and as a result he couldn't serve in the military; he once had Roy Rogers and Trigger stride onto the dance floor of the Starlight Roof at The Hotel Vancouver just as he was giving the downbeat for...
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    WWI - The war in the air

    My mother grew up on a farm in Cloverdale, British Columbia and her neighbours were Collishaw family. For some years they flew aircraft from a makeshift runway on their farm (well before there was Transport Canada) and according to mum bootleggers from Seattle would come to call and Ray sold...
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    Dying (and burying) the old-fashioned way

    I also wanted to donate my body to a medical school, was it was respectfully declined. So many people do this that there is a backlog of cadavers for them to work on. I would love to have a New-Orleans-style "Second Line" but that won't happen either. Box me up and torch me.
  4. Chas

    The Powder Room is Now Ladies Only. But I LIKE Talking To Ladies!

    I'm cool with that. I like the idea of gender-specific spaces. How about a men's only lounge?
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Shiny rounded turds. When I was a kid we used to sit around and call out the makes of the cars driving past; "Chevy!!" "Buick!" and so on. Can't do that anymore. They're all the same. No flavor. I knew I was getting old when the new grad nurses that are coming to work with me are young...
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    The Return of Vintage DI S E A S E S

    Anti vaxxers? Score another point for celebrity culture and the suspension of reason. That's pretty popular nowadays; you see it in the creationists who argue for high school science classes to be giving equal time to theology. But that is another thread for another time. It's all about...
  8. Chas

    What's the meaning behind your Avatar ?

    Flip Phillips playing on 52nd Street some time in the late 1940's. Pic taken from the Gotlieb Collection, photos of the golden age of jazz, library of congress.
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    What musical instrument do you play..?

    I started on the piano, I'd love to take it up again someday. Tenor sax: I own a 1937 Conn 30M, a 1929 Conn New Wonder "Chu Berry" in nickel plate. Alto Sax: a 1947 Buescher Aristocrat. Guitar: a Fender acoustic and a Timber Ridge acoustic which is a wonderful copy of a Martin D28. I can...
  10. Chas

    Is Swearing a Vice?

    I have too much respect for profanity to over use it. When used correctly, it's a highly effective form of communication. I recommend the doco "The F Word". brilliant. If you cut out the profanity, you cut out Catullus, Henry Miller, D H Lawrence et. al. Who in their right mind wants to do...
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    The Return of Vintage DI S E A S E S

    that OP makes me laugh...."vintage" diseases..... ayi, caramba. Yes, disease never really goes away- syphilis is still around, and there's a penicillin-resistant strain of gonorrhea kicking around. Don't forget the old H1N1. Another flu pandemic is a possibility and with today's...
  13. Chas

    WWII Espionage

    Anything on Nancy Wake, as has been mentioned. A recent bio was published, I believe. There is also a documentary on Camp X, though for the life of me I can't find it online. It was made in 2001, IIRC and some original spies who trained there were interviewed. As part of their training they...
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    DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

    One of the last links to the world of music and dance of the 1930s, 40s & 50's passed away this week in Vancouver BC; Jeni LeGon, tap dance star, protegee of Bill Bojangles Robinson and legend of tap. I was fortunate indeed to have spent some time with her and interviewed her on my radio show...
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    A victory for decorum.

    What slippery slope? I don't see one.
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    Could you survive?

    I'm sure I'd be OK. I've always been an improvisor and adept at self reinvention. Back in the day lots of ppl made and lost fortunes and being a changeling was very doable. Nowadays you gotta have a golden certificate and three letters after your name for everything you want to do. My...
  17. Chas

    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    So I guess the great Milt Hinton was a cultist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lyOWuc0T4E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L0HDXlvTZ4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkwuH1AYlIQ The great Thelma Terry was also a slap bassist.
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    meditations on doing yesterday's music today

    Actually, you can blame the Gap ad that was popular during the early days of the swing revival. Most ppl who got caught up in the swing revival thought that dancing to swing music was about aerials, dips and that sort of thing. I can't tell you how many times I came close to getting a shoe...
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    The Antipodean thread

    I was out at Phillip Island last w/e; the black swans are nesting and some even had their cygnets come out for a swim. It's a great time for birdwatching at present.
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    Your favourite commercials

    I like the Kiwis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u91WGac2mbI And the French. http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=fvwrel&v=nojWJ6-XmeQ You didn't say "spoof ads" didn't count. It was the early 80s. You had to be there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7r6XXI_oX0 Finest...
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    does it ever bother you that vintage clothing is a deceased person's clothing?

    In my mind that only increases it's value. Think of it- this car was the last thing that guy will ever see for all eternity. It's actually kinda cool. That again is pretty cool - this flat has a story to tell. We're all standing on graves, really. If you live anywhere where people have...
  23. Chas

    Heino !!! The "Lawrence Welk of Germany"!

    You asked me what I thought of Lawrence Welk, an I answered your question. If you don't think that you'll like the answer, don't ask the question. Since when does an opinion = an insult? Maybe in your universe, but not in mine. No, an insult is "anybody who likes LW is a moron." Which is not...

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