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Help with {date or identify} a hat please.....!
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"Elegance Defined by Art Deco Lines" - 'The Age' newspaper article
http://theage.domain.com.au/design-and-living/elegance-defined-by-deco-lines-20120217-1tci7.html- Shangas
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Movies you wished you had never watched.
I think the Harry Potter movies were pretty badly done. I mean, the things they did well, I think they did really well. But because they're fighting against time-restrictions, they cut out a lot of the stories, and that hurts the viewing pleasure. It's why I'm always skeptical of...- Shangas
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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when do you guys wear a panama?
When I (hopefully) get a Panama, it'll be for all the hot and/or humid days. Roughly 25-30+ degrees C. -
Art Deco Shanghai Reborn
You find that in all major cities. Shanghai in the 20s and 30s was no different. That first photo is beautiful. So is the last one. Not sure about the others, though. They look a bit depressing.- Shangas
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Art Deco Shanghai Reborn
Shanghai Shuffle - 1924 - Gene Rodermich and His Orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RsUzq8KbWE From Here to Shanghai - 1917 - Irving Berlin (Roll performed by Peter Wendling, 1917): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvtKc3gROV4 These songs capture the vibrance and mistique in which...- Shangas
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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My grandfather's car...
I'm glad that I'm not the only person who thought of this when I found out it was a Lagonda!- Shangas
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Art Deco Shanghai Reborn
Although the Settlement was officially neutral from the Japanese War, that didn't mean that just living within the Settlement boundaries meant you were safe. Many of Shanghai's iconic art deco buildings were damaged heavily during the war. In August, 1937, airplanes flying over downtown...- Shangas
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Kids movies with a decent golden age feel...
How about the new movie "HUGO"? It takes place in the Gare Montparnasse railroad station in Paris, in 1931. The famous train-wreck that happened at Gare Montparnasse in 1895. It features in the movie in a dream-sequence.- Shangas
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Kids movies with a decent golden age feel...
Hehehe. Glad to bring back memories for yah, VB. Bugsy was always one of my favourite movies. What I would do to get one of those awesome little pedal-cars. I used to dream about them when I was a kid. they were all specially-built for the movie, as of course, were the iconic splurge-guns.- Shangas
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Kids movies with a decent golden age feel...
*Ahem* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2uQQ9mMnOI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA_0cvd1EUM- Shangas
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- Forum: The Moving Picture
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Art Deco Shanghai Reborn
You're welcome. This is Shanghai from the air as it appeared ca. 1935: Same part of town, opposite direction, ca. 1930. Here you can see some of the buildings mentioned in the article. The tall one on the waterfront with the black pyramidal roof is the Cathay Hotel (the Peace Hotel...- Shangas
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Floppy Fedora from the 1920s?
I'd say 1930s. Starched collars were going out of fashion by the 20s. And it's pretty obviously a collared shirt there, with a loose, floppy collar. Floppy felts are nothing new, so I'd have a hard time dating the hat. -
Can You Help Me Date This?
Certainly not a tuxedo jacket! It is a frock-coat. Frock-coats were popular during the later-Victorian era up to the Edwardian era. They were pretty dead by the 20s, when lounge-suits (the modern suit) started replacing it. The shorter, fitted jacket that we have today became more popular... -
Take the "Time Travel Challenge!"
I bet she's got it all worked out and is just sitting there, waiting for us to finish giving our assinine responses before showing us all up for the chumps we are.- Shangas
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Art Deco Shanghai Reborn
Hi Blackthorn. Yes, the Nanshi District still exists. You can find it if you look on a map of Shanghai. It's the roughly oval-shaped part of town in the South, bordered by ring-roads all around. The roads that form a ring were the ones that followed the original city wall, when the Concessions...- Shangas
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Take the "Time Travel Challenge!"
Hi Lizzie, You say you have one month. How long would $50 (quite a sizeable sum ca. 1925) be expected to last a person back then? Would it be a month? Or less? That said... Residence - Apartment. Job - Secretary. I'm pretty well-organised and have very good typing-skills (an essential...- Shangas
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- Forum: The Observation Bar
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Art Deco Shanghai Reborn
Shanghai has existed for centuries. But the city we know today is largely thanks to Western influence. Previously, Shanghai was a medieval walled city. Its name means "On the Waterfront"...the 'water' in this case being the Huangpu River. Shanghai expanded starting in the 1840s. When the...- Shangas
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- Forum: The Golden Era
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Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds
Lovely shoes! I like the darker brown ones on the right.- Shangas
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- Forum: The Display Case
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