“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
Nobody knows what you like better than you! I’m not a decorator just a regular gal who’s been collecting antiques and collectibles in her house for the last twenty-five years. I just purged those last 25 years of collecting and it feels good. I picked up ten decorating books at the thrift store a few days ago. I studied them for a few nights. It occurred to me, with all 10 books and a pair of scissors what great rooms we could master in just a few minutes.
Awesome photo was taken by Michael Albans AP
VIRGINIA CITY, Mont. (AP) — The Gypsy sat for decades in a restaurant amid the Old West kitsch that fills this former gold rush town, her unblinking gaze greeting the tourists who shuffled in from the creaking wooden sidewalk outside.
Some mistook her for Zoltar, the fortune-telling machine featured in the Tom Hanks movie “Big.” Others took one look at those piercing eyes and got the heebie-jeebies so bad they couldn’t get away fast enough.
But until a few years ago, nobody, not even her owner, knew the nonfunctioning machine gathering dust in Bob’s Place was an undiscovered treasure sitting in plain sight in this ghost town-turned-themed tourist attraction.
The 100-year-old fortune teller was an extremely rare find. Instead of dispensing a card like Zoltar, the Gypsy would actually speak your fortune from a hidden record player. When you dropped a nickel in the slot, her eyes would flash, her teeth would chatter and her voice would come floating from a tube extending out of the eight-foot-tall box.
Word got out when the Montana Heritage Commission began restoring the Gypsy more than five years ago, and collectors realized the machine was one of two or three “verbal” fortune tellers left in the world.
One of those collectors, magician David Copperfield, said he thinks she is even rarer than that.
“I think it’s only one of one,” Copperfield said in a recent telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Duesenberg became one of the most popular in America, owned by the rich and famous, among them Clark Gable, Gary Cooper (Each owning one of the two very rare SSJ 125″ short-wheelbase convertibles) and the Duke of Windsor. Duesenberg advertising claimed that it was the best car in the world, and their world-beating performance and extreme opulence tend to back that up. There was a gradual evolution up to the 1937 model, that preserved the “stately lines” while moving into a more integrated mode of styling. The final evolution of the Duesenberg engine were ram-air intakes added to some of the last supercharged models to produce 400 horsepower and are referred to as ‘SSJ’ (also a name never used by the factory). Of the 481 Model Js and SJs produced between 1928 and 1937, 384 are still extant, 4 of them now owned by Jay Leno. Duesenberg ceased
Model X Duesenbergs are very rare. According to Randy Ema, the country’s top Duesenberg authority, only 13 Model X’s were built. They fit in between the Duesenberg Model A and the famous Models J and SJ, which were built from 1929 to 1937. Only four known X’s survive.
On July 30, 1923, Duse became the first woman (and Italian) to be featured on the cover of the nascent Timemagazine
http://wikicars.org/en/Duesenbergproduction in 1937 after Cord’s financial empire collapsed.
We were guest at Mr. Lonnie L. Hammargren’s Home!
When the reviews are bad I tell my staff that they can join me as I cry all the way to the bank.
Liberace
Hammargren, first licensed in 1971, is a neurosurgeon who is known for operating on several notable boxers injured in boxing matches in Las Vegas including the attending physician to work on Deuk Koo Kim as he battled for his life after fighting Ray Mancini] Lonnie spent several years as a Nasa flight surgeon. Following Roy Horn‘s near-fatal Tiger Attack in 2003, Dr. Hammargren spoke up to correct misinformation in the press about the procedure Horn had received.
Man, I really like Vegas.
Elvis Presley
Thanks so much for the opportunity to see your collection Mr Maloof!
So many treasures at the estate of Phil Maloof, over 1,800 works of art! Oil paintings to statues and fountains . Stained glass Windows, deep red curtains surrounding exquisite artwork, fighter planes hanging from the ceiling with props that really work. Music streaming from organs few had the privilege to hear. Wow what a day! Photographs line the walls, photographs of so many legends . I zoomed in on a photo of Lucille Ball , records of Elvis wallpapers another wall. So little time to focus, I could spend days here. It’s really really hot outside but “Uncle Phil” leads on out to the courtyard where so many statues await. These are life-size and bigger, Wow! Then on to the paintings, so many paintings. Uncle Phil has an eye for them, so exquisite, some quaint, some even funny. Such an assortment of quality . We finally end up in the garages looking at cars. Soo many cars. These cars represent a bygone era reminiscent of true Hollywood. I can picture women in the prime of their beauty and fame such as Clara Bow, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe and Mae West riding around in these!
Hey Thanks “Uncle Phil” …. and you too thanks for reading my blog and have a great day 🙂
Uncle Phil Maloof
Beginning in 1979, Phil started collecting theatre organs and parts. The famous Roxy Theatre Kimball Organ console was the first organ console he acquired. The massive job to install it,(along with piecing together the many parts previously obtained), required the work of many builders. Unfortunately, upon commissioning them, he encountered several of unprincipled characters who created much difficulty and hardship. As in every story there would be no Victory without these conflicts and challenges and ultimately this did not deter him from his goal.
| Through the passage of time, theatre organs have truly become an important part of our history. They were designed in the 1920’s to be the accompaniment for silent films. They have an orchestral sound of just about every instrument and a superb fullness and quality that is unmatched by any one instrument. This was very advantageous to the silent film industry as the sound built drama and suspense to what would have been flat and lifeless. There were approximately 6,000 theatre organs built and in the 1950’s with the advent of “Talkies” (sound film), and with the introduction of television, the film industry no longer needed them. As time went by, with seldom use, these magnificent instruments fell into disrepair. |
http://www.unclephilmaloof.com/theaterorgans.html Read the whole story on Uncle Phil Maloof website! 🙂 Thanks “Uncle Phil”
We had the great fortune to have a tour of Phil Maloof’s house. I was not prepared to film this, sorry the video is not the best!
I don’t know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton
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The history of the board game Monopoly can be traced back to the early 20th century. The earliest known design was by the American Elizabeth Magie created in 1903. A series of board games were developed from 1906 through the 1930s that involved the buying and selling of land and the development of that land. By 1934, a board game had been created much like the version of Monopoly sold by Parker Brothers and its parent companies through the rest of the 20th century, and into the 21st. Several people, mostly in the Midwestern United States and near the East Coast, contributed to the game’s design and evolution.
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The tones of gray, pale turquoise and pink will prevail. Christian Dior
Turquoise first came into popular high fashion in the US during the early 1890s, but Persian turquoise was the focus of the demand at that time, and only a few deposits of high quality turquoise were known in the US. In the following years, a number of high quality deposits previously worked by Native Americans were “rediscovered”, and shortly after 1900 and Americans began to recognize that American turquoise from the Western US was the equal of any in the world. Interest again began to peak around 1908-1910, and a considerable amount of American turquoise was mined, especially in Nevada. The majority of the Turquoise jewelry produced prior to 1910 was made by well-known jewelry manufacturing companies like Tiffany’s, and was produced in the standard Victorian styles of those times. http://www.squidoo.com/turquoise-jewelry
Stand by I will be posting my Fall items soon! 🙂
Jane Austen (1775–12-16 – 1817–07-18) was an English novelist who recorded the domestic manners of the landed gentry. She is known for her classically understated style and sly, ironic humour.
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