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  1. MikeKardec

    WWII aviation artist - favourite picture?

    Ha! Fantastic! I love it that he did some of our covers, he's a terrific artist!
  2. MikeKardec

    Brad Pitt's WWII Tank movie, "FURY"

    Yup. I assumed it was deactivated but I suspect there are some out there with the full destructive device permit or tax stamp or whatever. We heard rumors of an "artillery event" in eastern WA in the winter but couldn't get ourselves invited. There was also a Sherman that does avalanche...
  3. MikeKardec

    WWII aviation artist - favourite picture?

    I've always liked Jim Dietz, he illustrated three book covers that I art directed, not aviation more of a 1930s maritime/adventure flavor. Here are some really terrible reproductions ... I've got the transparencies somewhere, maybe the garage ...
  4. MikeKardec

    15 Old House Features that we were wrong to abandon...

    My grandmother lived in a big old Spanish style house in the Los Feliz area of LA, nearly underneath the Griffith Park Observatory. You entered the house via a porte-cochère which lead to a small hallway and then a central two story hall with a stairway and second floor rooms opening off a...
  5. MikeKardec

    Brad Pitt's WWII Tank movie, "FURY"

    It's a complex situation, getting everything set up to make a film. You look for tax incentives/cast and crew rebates, a place that will put up with whatever it is you want to do (with a war movie that can be a scary number of things like environmental impact surveys), where your starring cast...
  7. MikeKardec

    Do you consider the (early) James Bond movies part of the Golden Era?

    We definitely should remember that these various actors were hired to do a job and perform a pre-existing script. With the exception of Connery in the last of his Bond films I doubt they had much creative input. The choice to make the Bond films from the early 1970s until Casino Royale into...
  8. MikeKardec

    Brad Pitt's WWII Tank movie, "FURY"

    It is interesting that it took nearly 50 years before some actual WWII hardware started being used in WWII films. When it comes to the accuracy of costumes and props and vehicles, films made in the last 20 years seem to do a better job of it. I suspect that this is a budget issue, a good deal...
  9. MikeKardec

    Mr. Moto gets a boxed set

    I'll have to check these out. I loved the original novels though I assume these are very different. Mr. Moto, was always a secondary character in the novels. I've always wondered what Japanese people thought of the books. Before the war many Japanese in politics seemed very bent out of...
  10. MikeKardec

    Brad Pitt's WWII Tank movie, "FURY"

    Just saw the film and liked some of it and didn't like some of it. I very much liked the battle with the Tiger which was quite well done, though I thought that there was a bit too much of having the actors say what they were doing ... useless in my experience, the audience either gets it...
  11. MikeKardec

    The Death of the Hotel Message

    It seems to me that there was a period when the hotel lobby was dominant as a meeting place, even for people who weren't staying in the hotel. It also seems the same era was when a lot of single men lived in hotels full time. My uncle did, up til the 1950s. He was a reporter and worked hours...
  13. MikeKardec

    Vintage neon signs

    Even with CGI it's often a good idea to build a miniature which is composited in "behind" your main action ... sometimes there is even a computer generated deep background composited in behind that! A technique like that was used on Peter Jackson's King Kong. They built what they called...
  14. MikeKardec

    Prewar steamship fares

    It was probably me who asked the question. Thanks for the help! My Dad traveled to England, Japan, China, Singapore, Malaya, the Netherlands East Indies, "Arabia" (meaning Aden), Egypt and Panama all before 1930. He was briefly a merchant seaman. When he moved to Oklahoma a few years later...
  15. MikeKardec

    What are your favorite Vintage Restaurants?

    I'll have to check out some of those left coast locations but here's my vote ... Keene's Steakhouse, NYC Built in the 1880s, in what was then the theater district. Those things on the ceiling are clay "churchwarden" pipes, too fragile to be transported far. They still have on display...
  16. MikeKardec

    How would you earn a living?

    In the 1930s you had three markets for magazine fiction. The "literary" magazines which were occasionally prestigious and mostly paid you in free copies and bragging rights. Many were associated with colleges, some were not. The cream of the crop was "Story Magazine" which I believe was a...
  17. MikeKardec

    How would you earn a living?

    Now that we know what we could or could not afford we should probably start a thread on what we'd do with our free time!
  19. MikeKardec

    How would you earn a living?

    Believe me publishers don't do half of what they used to do for that 90%! Most of the middlemen are gone from the business. The use of warehouse space is blisteringly effective. Returns are much more predictable. What has changed is the expected profits on the corporate side. Truly, I have...
  20. MikeKardec

    How would you earn a living?

    So right, we have many wonderfully creative "financial products" that may occasionally cause trouble but also create an incredibly democratic economic environment with many options unavailable to people in earlier times. If a loan wasn't extended through family or an association or friend of...
  21. MikeKardec

    How would you earn a living?

    I'm guessing it's actually cheating to say "fortune teller" or "intelligence expert" ... any of us could use what we know of past history in overt ways. We might change the world completely but possibly not for the better! I think it would be hard for me to make a living in publishing...
  22. MikeKardec

    Vintage neon signs

    I always liked these roof top deals ... But, living in Hollywood the stuff could get pretty overwhelming at times ... One of the coolest things ever in neon was the recreation of Hollywood Blvd. in miniature for Steven Spielberg's "1941." The same place did miniatures for Coppola's "One...
  23. MikeKardec

    Vintage trains

    Beautiful!

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