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  1. PrettyBigGuy

    Need help finding a wedding reception location! Eek!

    Hey! My wife and I got married and had our reception aboard the Queen Mary last may. Since you were proposed to there, why not have your reception there too?! It was a bit pricey, but it is certainly a memeroable venue. If you are planning a smaller wedding, you can go with Sir Winston's like we...
  2. PrettyBigGuy

    30's make-up for King Kong

    Suuurrrre, MK and just what do YOU know about movie make-up?!:p :p :p ;) :p :p Nice re-touching, it looks like you've been practicing! PBG
  3. PrettyBigGuy

    This will be fun... Let's cast a remake of It's A Wonderful Life.

    They already did remake It's A Wonderful Life back in 1977 as a made-for-TV abomination called It Happened One Christmas! In a brilliant screenwriting move George's gender was changed to female so that now Harry Baily was saved by his big sister Mary (played by Marlo Thomas). Later in the film...
  4. PrettyBigGuy

    1946 Plymouth P-15 For sale.

    You should have good luck in Pomona, Root. A few years ago I brought my 1969 Dodge Coronet convertable there to sell. I arrived about a half hour before the gates opened (about 4:45am) and I got a good spot in the 3rd row. After many people came by and made me offers (some with flashlights...
  5. PrettyBigGuy

    WWII Squadron Patches (USAAF, USMC, RAF, etc.)

    Here's a couple of my favorites. Sorry the pics are so small! Thunderbirds 34th Bomber Squadron, 17th bomb Group One of the 4 squadrons that contributed members of the "Doolittle Raiders" Helle's Belles 316th Fighter Squadron, 324th Fighter Group When I get around to buying an A-2...
  7. PrettyBigGuy

    The Photographer

    As far as "Joe-snapshot" goes, I'd say yes, the digital camera has definitely made people better @ taking photographs, but only because they can take as many pics as they want until they get it how they want. But speaking as someone who works as an electronic retoucher in the printing...
  8. PrettyBigGuy

    WWII Birds and the Goose

    Great pics. My brother lives in the Portland area & has been tempting me for quite a while now with discriptions of his visits to that museum! I sadly moved to SoCal too late to see the H-4 in Long Beach, but I will get up to see it soon (I'm in the middle of buying a house so all trips are off...
  9. PrettyBigGuy

    HOW 'BOUT THOSE WHITE SOX???

    Yep, if you consider 87 years to be "a few".
  10. PrettyBigGuy

    HOW 'BOUT THOSE WHITE SOX???

    I'm with you, Vanessa! I'm also happy to see the Astros advance. The only team that I am more tired of than the Braves is the Yankees. And speaking of the Yankees and being tired, whomever wins the Yankees/Angels series is going to be awfully tired before they face the White Sox! Hopefully...
  11. PrettyBigGuy

    New B! Wear Cap

    Fine looking lid Daniel. Does it have a leather sweatband. and if so, can you post some pics of the inside? I have a NogginTops newsboy cap which I really like, but want to get one with a slightly longer bill and a fuller crown, so B! Wear sounds like just the place. PBG
  13. PrettyBigGuy

    Band of Brothers question

    I'll have to check the DVDs, but I think Scwimmer wears both an A-2 and a B-3. He's definately wearing a B-3 when he is commanding Easy Company when they are training in England prior to D-Day. Later in the series when he becomes the supply officer, just before the Bulge, he is wearing an A-2 (I...
  14. PrettyBigGuy

    Midwest Rollcall

    Mt. Prospect, Illinois. One of the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I was born and raised here, then I spent 4 years in East Lansing studying @ Michigan State. After that I spent 7 years in SoCal (where I met MK & several of the Bartenders here) but now I'm back in the midwest! PBG
  15. PrettyBigGuy

    Untiled Stuff in you Pockets Thread

    Wow, How many pockets do you have?! On any given day I usually have a hankerchief, pocketknife, zippo, keys, wallet and I try to carry about $1 in change. If I'm wearing a suit, I'll carry a hankerchief, a pen, keys, pocketwatch and I sometimes carry a money clip instead of my wallet.
  16. PrettyBigGuy

    Vintage lighting:

    I'm looking forward to buying some vintage/repr lamps in the near future (need to buy a house first). There was a shop on 2nd St in Long Beach, near my old place, that sold a ton a repro lighting. Lots of tiffany glass & Arts & Crafts stuff, which I really dig. I'm also a fan of the art deco...
  17. PrettyBigGuy

    Art Deco tobacco pipes

    Fantastic collection. I thought the aluminum pipes were cool but as I scrolled down, they just got better & better. That's why this section of The Fedora Lounge was changed from "Props" to "The Display Case", to encourage those of you out there with vintage & antique collections to share them...
  19. PrettyBigGuy

    Wow this is spooky... Check this out.

    I wasn't going to get involved in the whole pizza debate, not just because it's off topic, but because I recently finished 7 years in pizza Hell (aka Los Angeles) and ketchup-on-carpet is better than what they pass off as pizza there! I've never been to NYC, so I can't comment on the pizza there...
  20. PrettyBigGuy

    My Vintage Home

    No, I'm from the Chicago suburbs originally. I moved to SoCal in 1997 and lived in Hollywood/Los Feliz (where I met my wife) mostly. She got a great promotion to come back here and we couldn't pass it up (mostly because all of my family is here and the thought of being able to afford to buy a...
  21. PrettyBigGuy

    old fashioned packages

    If I remember correctly, Beeman's & Blackjack chewing gum still come in packs with the original graphics. There are other products too, Moxie soda pop comes to mind.
  22. PrettyBigGuy

    Screen Names...

    I went to college with a guy who had the biggest Napolean complex of anyone I ever met (he was about 5'5"). Since I am 6'5" and weighed about 240 lbs, he often would stop in the middle of a conversation, look up @ me and say, "Y'know, you're a pretty big guy!". For some reason it always stuck in...
  23. PrettyBigGuy

    My Vintage Home

    Nice digs Trickeration! My wife and I lived in Long Beach for a few years (we left for the midwest last fall) and we loved it! We were in the Belmont Heights area, Colorado & Ximeno. We still miss 2nd street and of course the Queen Mary! Before we decided to leave we went to a lot of open...

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