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  1. Matt Crunk

    Let's Retire These Movie/TV Plots!

    AMEN! I used to love vampire stories - books, films, you name it . . . read Dracula multiple times as a teen (my favorite book) but this was all back before the undead were so hip and trendy. Once pop culture gets hold of something, it (pardon the pun) sucks the life blood right out it...
  2. Matt Crunk

    Just Who Can Wear a Uniform?

    I think the photos are great and see no disrespect at all in them. I myself used to wear my father's Navy whites from WWII, or at least the shirt, when I was in high school (and could still fit in it). I also wore his Pea Coat for years untill I outgrew it - as he was still in his teens when...
  3. Matt Crunk

    Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds

    I also want to add that Tarantino's ending was a stroke of pure genius. Because we already knew how it all turned out historically, we were expecting the plan to fail somehow - same as in Valkyrie - but were along for the ride anyway - and when it actually succeeds, it's all the more...
  4. Matt Crunk

    Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds

    I have to disagree. Tarantino's only goal was to make a Tarantino movie. Every movie he's ever made has been his tributes to the films he likes and to filmmaking in general, especially genre films. This is his spaghetti western dressed up in WWII clothing. It borrows it's name from the US...
  5. Matt Crunk

    Rings

    I have several masonic rings that belonged to my father. I'm not a Mason and have no interest in fraternal orders, so I don't wear them of course.
  7. Matt Crunk

    The fall of the phone

    Maybe we need to start a thread "Show us your vintage telephones". I actually have a vintage 50's era payphone that was a Christmas present from my wife. It was refurbished by a local restorer and looks and works like new. It hangs on the wall in my kitchen right now but I have contemplated...
  8. Matt Crunk

    Size standards changed for US clothing?

    I have also noticed that in jeans - 20 years ago when I wore a 32" waist, I also wore a 32" inseam. Now that I wear a 40" waist, I now have to get a 30" inseam or they are too long. Why is this? My height has not changed, nor do I suspect has my actual inseam measurement.
  9. Matt Crunk

    Size standards changed for US clothing?

    When I was a teenager, I weighed about 160 lbs and wore a size 32 waist pants and a size 42 jacket. In tee shirts and other shirts that are sized that way, I wore a size Large or sometimes an XL shirt. Today, in my early 40's, I weigh about 230 lbs, wear a size 40 waist, and usually a size...
  10. Matt Crunk

    Golden Era Aircraft

    Not exactly what most people think of as a "golden era" airplane, but the first version took flight in 1944, so I guess it qualifies: The Pitts Special aerobatic biplane. IMHO the most classic and beautiful aerobatic bipe to ever take to the sky.
  11. Matt Crunk

    What Are You Reading

    Lately I've been reading through several collections of pulp and hard-boiled crime shorts from the 20's to the 60's.
  13. Matt Crunk

    It's my face - isn't it?

    I have experienced the same thing with my tattoos. Because I have sleeves of tattoos, some people feel it's an invitation to come up and touch my arms without even asking permission. (it's not) No one ever comments on my facial hair. I guess that's because it's always changing. I...
  14. Matt Crunk

    Show Us Your Tattoos

    I sincerely hope you are joking.
  15. Matt Crunk

    Show Us Your Tattoos

    Betty Broadbend was a very popular tattooed lady pre-WWII, that worked as a circus and side-show performer. Cindy Ray, however, was a tattoo artist, not a performer. I have dozens of vintage photos in my private collection of unknown ladies with tattoo work from the 40's, 50's and 60's..
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    Show Us Your Tattoos

    I have to disagree here. While tattooing was obviously not as popular with women back in the pre-WWII days, heavily tattooed women, while rare, did exist outside the realm of side-shows. They just kept them covered from public view more often than not. So in a sense, you're both correct.
  17. Matt Crunk

    Manny's Music, W 48th St. closing!

    A real pity. Having never visited New York, I never had a chance to go there in person, but their reputation was world-wide. I remember calling them up once back in the late 80's to help me date and appraise a vintage Fender Stratocaster I'd just purchased. Very nice and helpful people.
  19. Matt Crunk

    What do you do for Living?

    I've always worked as an artist in some capacity . . . staff artist/designer for the screenprinting industry tee shirt airbrusher advertising executive (co-owned an agency) freelance illustrator and graphic designer magazine/periodical publisher a professional musician and for the...
  20. Matt Crunk

    Comments You Get When You Dress Vintage

    A few months ago I had to appear in court as a witness against a salesman who'd pocketed some of the money I'd paid in cash to a local TV station for advertising. I took the opportunity to dress up a little and went in my Sean Jean single-breasted gray pinstripe with peaked lapels - very...
  21. Matt Crunk

    Whatever happened to "coat and tie required"?

    How is requiring a coat and tie discriminating against any group but the chronically casual? If you can afford to eat in such a restaurant, then surely you can afford the attire. A decent jacket and tie would cost you less than $20 at your local Goodwill. I remember some of those "Coat and...
  22. Matt Crunk

    Where did your user name come from??

    Matt Crunk is my REAL given name. Actually it's William Matthew, but I've always gone by Matt. William is after my father, who went by Bill, and Matthew is after Marshal Matt (Matthew) Dillon on Gunsmoke, because my mother was a huge fan of the TV show. Crunk is a variation/derivative of the...
  23. Matt Crunk

    A Prairie Home Companion....Again!

    My fondest memories of Prairie Home Companion was the summer of 1987 -the year I turned 21. I was newly divorced, having married way too early, and had just bought my first sailboat, a 24 footer. I practically lived at the local sailing club that summer. Every Saturday evening like clockwork I...

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