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« Reply #285 on: August 03, 2008, 08:14:58 PM » |
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 I have a Puckett recording on a collection called White Country Blues. He actually uses the epithet "darkie". Well.....carry me back to ol' Virginny! I remember cranking up any of a number of Victrolas and rocking out to "Mississippi Mud", "Smoky Joe" and other such gems which were simply shitcanned over the decades. Back then it was just sort of humorous. Now, I'd give my left nut for some of those old platters. I always have a good time in VA. It's a beautiful state. I like the South and the culture. The only thing I can't get used to is your pace of life. Speaking of the pace, JFK once quipped that Washington DC was a city of "Northern charm and Southern efficiency"!  OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #286 on: August 03, 2008, 08:19:43 PM » |
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I have a Puckett recording on a collection called White Country Blues. He actually uses the epithet "darkie". Well.....carry me back to ol' Virginny! I remember cranking up any of a number of Victrolas and rocking out to "Mississippi Mud", "Smoky Joe" and other such gems which were simply shitcanned over the decades. Back then it was just sort of humorous. Now, I'd give my left nut for some of those old platters. I always have a good time in VA. It's a beautiful state. I like the South and the culture. The only thing I can't get used to is your pace of life. Speaking of the pace, JFK once quipped that Washington DC was a city of "Northern charm and Southern efficiency"! OswaldTheOsprey  too funny i love the south, but fear i am too uptight to ever fit in there |
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« Reply #287 on: August 03, 2008, 08:30:33 PM » |
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I have a Puckett recording on a collection called White Country Blues. He actually uses the epithet "darkie". Well.....carry me back to ol' Virginny! I remember cranking up any of a number of Victrolas and rocking out to "Mississippi Mud", "Smoky Joe" and other such gems which were simply shitcanned over the decades. Back then it was just sort of humorous. Now, I'd give my left nut for some of those old platters. I always have a good time in VA. It's a beautiful state. I like the South and the culture. The only thing I can't get used to is your pace of life. Speaking of the pace, JFK once quipped that Washington DC was a city of "Northern charm and Southern efficiency"! OswaldTheOsprey too funny i love the south, but fear i am too uptight to ever fit in there The South is like everywhere else-good points and bad points. Of course, I live in a Birmingham suburb which is not Manhattan but not Mayberry either!  OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #288 on: August 03, 2008, 10:08:57 PM » |
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I have a Puckett recording on a collection called White Country Blues. He actually uses the epithet "darkie". Well.....carry me back to ol' Virginny! I remember cranking up any of a number of Victrolas and rocking out to "Mississippi Mud", "Smoky Joe" and other such gems which were simply shitcanned over the decades. Back then it was just sort of humorous. Now, I'd give my left nut for some of those old platters. I always have a good time in VA. It's a beautiful state. I like the South and the culture. The only thing I can't get used to is your pace of life. Just two observations, if I may. Virginia is Mid-Atlantic, and the pace of life around here is balls-to-the-wall. It's that way anywhere people are moving and shaking and trying to fit in some down/social time once "bidness" has been tended to. I like to think that we're a nice balance between the screaming assholes of NYC and the slack-jawed retards in Miami, but without the snow or the Cubans.  |
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« Reply #289 on: August 04, 2008, 12:21:00 AM » |
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 1919: Sixteen year old vaudevillian Bob Hope. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #290 on: August 04, 2008, 06:30:33 PM » |
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 Monday, Nov. 30, 1925: Gathered to select the 1925 All-American Football squad, a number of famous coaches take time out to meet the one and only Babe Ruth. From left, Glenn S. "Pop" Warner, Stanford University; Knute K. Rockne, University of Notre Dame; Ruth, Christy Walsh, pioneering sports agent, Thomas A.D. "Tad" Jones, Yale University; and Fielding H. "Hurry Up" Yost, University of Michigan. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #291 on: August 06, 2008, 09:08:13 PM » |
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 James Cagney and Jean Harlow in the 1931 gangster film "The Public Enemy". OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #292 on: August 06, 2008, 09:21:27 PM » |
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 Elegant poster for "Mata Hari" starring Great Garbo. A 1931 MGM film. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #293 on: August 06, 2008, 09:30:01 PM » |
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1919: Sixteen year old vaudevillian Bob Hope. OswaldTheOsprey That is really cool, man. Thanks for sharing. |
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« Reply #294 on: August 06, 2008, 09:59:14 PM » |
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1919: Sixteen year old vaudevillian Bob Hope. OswaldTheOsprey That is really cool, man. Thanks for sharing. You are welcome. My pleasure. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #295 on: August 06, 2008, 10:06:17 PM » |
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 (From left) Ray Milland, Gary Cooper, and Robert Preston in Beau Geste (1939)I love the old colonial films. |
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« Reply #296 on: August 06, 2008, 11:43:15 PM » |
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Gary Cooper made more than one colonial picture Mr. D-this is Cooper in "Lives Of A Bengal Lancer" from 1935.  OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #297 on: August 06, 2008, 11:48:53 PM » |
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 A truly delightful film: 1950's "Harvey" with James Stewart. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #298 on: August 07, 2008, 12:54:51 AM » |
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 The White House Friday, Oct. 17, 1924: Members of the Coolidge Theatrical League visit Pres. Coolidge to pledge their support to his reelection campaign. In the front row, from left, are Mrs. Coolidge, John Drew, Broadway legend and great-great uncle of Drew Barrymore, Pres. Coolidge and the one and only Al Jolson. OswaldTheOsprey |
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« Reply #299 on: August 07, 2008, 02:24:48 AM » |
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The White House Friday, Oct. 17, 1924: Members of the Coolidge Theatrical League visit Pres. Coolidge to pledge their support to his reelection campaign. In the front row, from left, are Mrs. Coolidge, John Drew, Broadway legend and great-great uncle of Drew Barrymore, Pres. Coolidge and the one and only Al Jolson. OswaldTheOsprey Coolidge was a great man, and a great president. He didn't do a lot, but at the time, that's exactly what needed to be done. |
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