This or That

[V.C. Brunswick]

Dean Martin

Hotel Del Coronado or the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island?

Grand Hotel (1887)

Hotel del Coronado(1888)

 

[vitanola]

Grand Hotel.

We still stay occasionally, though at certain timother year the atmosphere becomes a bit, er-, THICK.

We had a governor who liked it, though, and would drive there in his Oldsmobile...

Radio News or Science and Invention?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Science and Invention

A frequent contributor to Science and Invention in the 1920s and 30s was mentalist Joseph Dunninger. Many of his articles on magic tricks and illusions (much of which was ghostwritten by Walter Gibson, creator of The Shadow) were later compiled into a book entitled Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic.

Jesse Crawford or Fats Waller (on organ)?

[video=youtube;TreP_Up9nck]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TreP_Up9nck[/video]

ironically a Fats Waller composition lol
[video=youtube;dj7uZyJQ8Iw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj7uZyJQ8Iw&feature=related[/video]

 

[jamespowers]

Dean Martin

Hotel Del Coronado or the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island?

Grand Hotel (1887)

Hotel del Coronado(1888)

Definitelty the Del Coronado.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The Grand Hotel was the setting of the movie Somewhere In Time and the Del's most notable film appearance was in The Stunt Man (1980). Interestingly, Somewhere In Time was adapted from a novel by Richard Matheson with the Del (in 1896) being the original setting of the novel, not the Grand Hotel in 1912 in the movie version.

 

[jamespowers]

The Grand Hotel was the setting of the movie Somewhere In Time and the Del's most notable film appearance was in The Stunt Man (1980). Interestingly, Somewhere In Time was adapted from a novel by Richard Matheson with the Del (in 1896) being the original setting of the novel, not the Grand Hotel in 1912 in the movie version.

They used the wrong hotel then.

 

[Lincsong]

Dean Martin

Hotel Del Coronado or the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island?

Grand Hotel (1887)

Hotel del Coronado(1888)

Grand Hotel Mackinac

Mark Hopkins or the Fairmont Hotel (San Francisco)

 

[vitanola]

Jesse Crawford or Fats Waller (on organ)?



Waller.

"Louisiana Sugar Babies"
[video=youtube_share;I-lXEmH4Bok]http://youtu.be/I-lXEmH4Bok[/video]
OR
"Shilkret's Rhyth-Melodists"?
[video=youtube_share;HVCuq-utwlo]http://youtu.be/HVCuq-utwlo[/video]

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The Grand Hotel was the setting of the movie Somewhere In Time and the Del's most notable film appearance was in The Stunt Man (1980). Interestingly, Somewhere In Time was adapted from a novel by Richard Matheson with the Del (in 1896) being the original setting of the novel, not the Grand Hotel in 1912 in the movie version.

A scene from The Stunt Man showing the Del Coronado.
Warning: Contains some brief nudity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9YPNAU6CTA

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Shilkret's Rhyth-Melodists
Mark Hopkins Hotel
formerly the home of Anson Weeks and his Orchestra

Good-Night Moon (1932)
Jack Denny or Ben Selvin?

[video=youtube;OCqGBuX2Qd8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCqGBuX2Qd8&feature=related[/video]

[video=youtube;4n6qfNJ-hBA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n6qfNJ-hBA[/video]

 

[vitanola]

Selvin, still.

Benny Bell or Ruth Wallace?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Ruth Wallis
Dr. Demento used to constantly play Benny Bell's Shaving Cream song which would drive me round the bend along with Barnes & Barnes's Fish Heads.

Shelby Cobra 427 or '67 Shelby Cobra GT-500?

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Al Jolson or Harry Richman?

Harry Richman -- I'm On The Crest Of A Wave (1928)

[video=youtube;x9Zh9FnOtGQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9Zh9FnOtGQ[/video]

 

[vitanola]

Jolson, though Richman can be pretty compelling. a trifle wooden as an actor, though.

William Penn, La Palina, or Creamo?

 

[LoveMyHats2]

William Penn, (classic)

Clippers/Barber or...Hair Saloon?

( And yeah...."Boo")! lol!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Welcome back, LMH2! Haven't seen you here in a long time!

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Welcome back, LMH2! Haven't seen you here in a long time!

Long story short, was in the hospital recovering from a heart attack and a four story fall from a outer ledge on a building job site. But like a bad penny....(heheheh)!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Wow! Thank goodness you're okay. It's wonderful to see you here again, though!

Long story short, was in the hospital recovering from a heart attack and a four story fall from a outer ledge on a building job site. But like a bad penny....(heheheh)!

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Wow! Thank goodness you're okay. It's wonderful to see you here again, though!

Thanks. I am still a bit on "the mending side" yet. I can tell you, the entire ordeal sure makes me be so much more thankful for everything, even being able to use a "crapper" instead of a bed pan! lol!

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Clippers/Barber Shop

Los Angeles
1. Tommy's Burgers or Pink's Hot Dogs?

2. Antique Flea Markets: Rose Bowl or Long Beach Vet's Stadium?