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  1. martinsantos

    Mobile Phones?

    I still use a land line... The only way to still use my old (from late 40s, beggining 50s) telephone. That's the only phone that don't make me nervous when rings!! ;)
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    Unpopular music opinions

    First you would have to call rap as "music"! ;)
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    from CNN's front page: "Vintage Health Advice ~ 1915"

    Health advices are very interesting. They change from heaven to hell and back to heaven in few years. My wife's grandmother ate bacon until she stopped cooking, at 80 y. o. Died in 2007, aged 97. Eggs and olive oil were pure poison in 70s - now they are recommended. I remember on old...
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    John Barry

    R.I.P. My preferred soundtrack by him still is Somewhere in Time.
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    Show us your vehicles

    I'm happy that the old trolley frm Rio is in good hands! Rio (and São Paulo) sometimes looks like wanting to destroy everything that was really good and sentimental. Did the trolley came with the internal advertisement? One of the most famous (and popular) poets at 10s made his living...
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    Mobile Phones?

    In several moments I turn silent the phone. When getting lunch or dinner with others, with clients, etc. People sometimes become with bad manners or without sense. Last week I couldn't answer, because I was dinning. A client called in one hour ELEVEN times.
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    How Old Are The Members of The Fedora Lounge?

    Well, I'm born one day after Elvis' death... But this has anything with my dislike about Elvis music!
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    Cameras and photography

    Contax is a great camera. I use a Contax II, from 1937, with Sonnar f2. Very well worn, it's almost idestrutible. And great results. Did you read anything by Lancelot Vinning, a pro photographer in UK between 1904 and mid-60s? He was just fnatic about Contax, and one of the very first to...
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    You Big Softy! - Your Favourite Soft Drinks

    1- tonic water 2- normal coke 3- a few local soft drinks, like Convenção and others...
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    What Are You Reading

    And Chandler used to "canibalize" his short stories into the novels. It's really a low production. Hammett too, just a hundred stories and a few novels. I know Goodis, very good! "Shoot the pianist", and a few others (don't remember the titles in English!). Can I suggest one too? Cornell...
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    What Are You Reading

    Simenon is great, specially with Maigret's stories. Interessing that the newer stories are so much less conplex than the first ones. Homicides ussually are simple stories, and so are Maigret's. Liked too Ross McDonald, but sometimes he try so much to copy Chandler's style. He is a huge...
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    Show us your vehicles

    Very nice the streetcar and the work or restoration! It must be funny to drive such an engine like this. PS: Welcome to the Lounge!
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    How much time do you spend in the hat lounge compared to the other lounge rooms

    Always give a look in the hat section... Always someting interesting to see. But I like too the other rooms - where I usually post. I realli don't know much about hats, except that I like to use one.
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    Vintage professions you'd like to see come back.....

    Fine set! Liked a lot!
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    What are you listening to?

    Certainly, Lizzie! Opera was only elaborated (and highly passional!) music. In a time when a high amount of people played instruments. The "classical" then becomes familiar and understandeable. Caruso came to São Paulo in 20s. It was a big event - and a lot of immigrants came to see the...
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    What are you listening to?

    Sometimes is hard to understand this today, but from the ending of XIXth Century to almost the middle of XXth Century opera was very very popular, specially between italians and descendants. Verdi was a symbol of Italian unification and nationalism. And a lot of these people knew (and sung...
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    Crit on new Sinatra Bio

    That's the trouble. When I readed Billie Holliday's "biography" I was very impressed. As after few years I was chocked discovering that so few there is true.
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    Attorneys and Barristers of the Lounge

    :D :eusa_clap Great Holmes. I wonder what he would say if lived in a world of Crtl+C and Crtl+V... (OK, some texts are repetitive - but can't see this in criminal procedings).
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    New South Wales Police Museum Collection

    The guy at downstairs doesn't look like a criminal... Make me think about what he could be done. A very interesting photography, by the way.
  23. martinsantos

    New South Wales Police Museum Collection

    Some of the guys look like policemen. Others (like Mr Sidney Kelly), if policemen, would be fine caracters of some Hammett's short stories... The way Kelly looked inside the camera tells very well about the kind of guy we are talking about.

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