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My favorite swing dancers, other than Frankie Manning and Norma Miller--


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When I was in Sea Scouts in the 1950s our dress uniforms were US Navy enlisted dress blues, surplus from Treasure Island, with the Sea Scout "bug" sown over the stars. The "tan pajamas" (1505s) I wore in the Air Force were a hell of a lot more practical :-)

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Earl

Very interesting! How does this work?--the laces go around the leg? Or do you mean the upper part of the trousers has a a corset-like feature?

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Enjoyed the jitterbug and swing dance photos Lorendoc and GW (Frankie Manning is 102!).

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CAPTION: Sally Butterfly Dancing the jitterbug with PFC A. DeFlaminis at the Hollywood Canteen, 1944.

I haven't been able to find anything out about Sally Butterfly, if indeed that's her name. (Or PFC DeFlaminis, for that matter.)

Awhile ago I was looking for examples of jitterbug dancing online. I found this great MGM short that's a humorous instructional
and historical piece about the dance. It culminates in some great dance moves.

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The blond dancer in the Marine uniform (:previous:) does a jitterbug dance with Charlotte Greenwood in the 1943 color film "The Gang's All Here."
In that film he's credited as Charles Saggau. That film also has swing dancing in Benny Goodman's number "Minnie's in the Money."

There's also a great dance number in the 1943 b&w film "The Powers Girl," where they do a jitterbug number in the pouring rain!

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Frankie Manning died in NY in 2009 a month shy of his 95th birthday, dancing practically until the end.

This reminds me of the hardcore shows of the early '80s. During big ones, say at the Olympic Auditorium, you'd have multiple slam pits. Didn't quite find a shot of that, but here's a 1983 Black Flag Olympic gig that conveys a similar feel, despite the (forty+ years and) vast ideological divide between the two camps:

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Thank you CBD, I'm one of the ones who did not know that:

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An organ grinder and his monkey visits Berendo street in Los Feliz, 1926.

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courtesy Marjorie Monteleone Romer

"The organ grinder would let children play with his monkey. It was always good for a squeal and a laugh.
Little Marjorie Monteleone clutched the monkey in the front yard of her home at 1909 N. Berendo Street in 1926.
Even the Ralph’s Grocery delivery man stopped his truck long enough to be amused by the monkey.
He may even have slipped him a banana." -lfia





Here's lil' Marjorie's home and front yard today. (note how the tree has grown)

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And here's the house across the street that's visible in the vintage photograph.

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...and changed from a Queen palm into a carrotwood (or something. Help me odinthor)

Yes, I'm scratching my head on this one. Looking at the trunk and surface roots, my first thought was . . . Magnolia; but it would have to be the time of year when Mags are semi-dormant and look pretty sparse. The trunk looks Carrotwood-y; but the leaves are more Camphor Tree-y. :shrug: I guess I'll stick with sad Magnolia! The tree with branches extending into the upper left corner of the "across the street" pic definitely has that Magnolia-in-the-sparse-season look.

Whew, that makes more sense than my first thought, which was that the trousers' bell-bottoms were somehow kept secured to the leg so that they wouldn't flap around.

Well I never said I was an arborist. ;)

Me either Boss. My second son was nuts about trees. They could have been dinosaurs arranged along the boulevards and he couldn't have been any more thrilled. Anything I know about trees was from research I did to satisfy his questions.


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I'm glad I'm not the only one who went somewhere that's else. I think maybe, prompted by Blaster, I looked at too many Olivia pin-ups (considering the visual I got).

I wish I had more information to go with this photograph. (I found it a few weeks ago on ebay / it's no longer listed)

"Young lady dressed up, Los Angeles."

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perhaps she's modeling a satin bridesmaid dress....maybe prom....or perhaps she made the dress herself.

I like the deep niche above the fireplace. I don't recall seeing one quite like it.
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I just happened upon this amazing old postcard on ebay.

"1911 Los Angeles, California - REAL PHOTO Apartment Bldg, Hotel, Devon Inn"

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turned for easier reading

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link to the photograph in ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1911-Los-Ang...IAAOSwImRYZZJ3

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Everything about this is stylistically atrocious, in a fun way. The satin, the bustier, the ruffles, the antimacassars.... Obviously shot by an LA counterpart of Diane Arbus