The Trad

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29 June 2013

Briar Vintage in Philadelphia

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62 North 3rd Street, Philadelphia, 215-627-1990 Neckwear ranges from $16-$60 depending on age/condition/rarity 1920s/30s cot...
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26 June 2013

The Last Season of Mad Men

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Art Director's Club of NY Advisory Board, 1971 Don and Peggy start their own shop.  Both win gold medals at the 1971 Art Direc...
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18 June 2013

Samuelsohn Color

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Samuelsohn NYC Showroom, Topcon Super RE w/ Fugi Pro 400H
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Samuelsohn B&W

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Samuelsohn NYC Showroom, Topcon Super RE w/ TMax 400
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16 June 2013

Those Other Fathers

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Tell me were you ever ever frightened in the afternoons of life Sitting in your home with closing eyelids being someones else's wif...
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"You Don't Take the Last of a Man's Anything"

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I came home on leave and took a beer from the fridge. Couple minutes later, I heard him come in the front door, walk into the kitchen, open...
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15 June 2013

About 25 Years Ago - Lene & Penny

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Jet black hair, black leather mini-skirt and turtleneck.  She wore zipper silver studs. She stood in line at the General Anthony Wayne mov...
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07 June 2013

Manhattan MILF

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04 June 2013

Hardmeyer's Cock

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From, ' The Swiss Poster' by Bruno Margadant, 1983 A Swiss dealer convinced me to buy this, Robert Hardmeyer's Cock.  I wa...
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03 June 2013

"Is this the only protection you have?"

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Swiss Poster, 1948     Shortly after my divorce I became obsessed with Swiss posters.  They were massive things, usually 50"x35...
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02 June 2013

On A Road: Panty Hose for Men

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North Michigan Avenue, 1993 Walsh and I cut through Henri Bendel on our way to a little Vietnamese place where you could get two entre...
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29 May 2013

Notes from William Friedkin

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"Well, I told you already I was arrogant ...   I was called into a meeting with the heads of Paramount and with the heads of Univer...
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28 May 2013

Which Is It?

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At six or seven, I got a little teary eyed after watching a Matador's freshly killed bull being dragged out of the stadium by horses. ...
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27 May 2013

Happy - You Don't Know Shit From Shinola - Memorial Day

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Always a problem... shit from Shinola (shine-oh-la) I heard it growing up but,  being an Army Brat,  I was exposed to a lotta confusing...
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26 May 2013

'O-Dark-Thirty'

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'Morning Prep' by Robert Bates, USMC Ron Capps, retired Army and Foreign Service officer and currently director of the Veteran...
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24 May 2013

The College Graduation Party

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College Graduation Party, St Augustine Beach, 1984 (photo by M.E.) From Left: Teen, Kennedy, Tintin, Troyer, Dr. Van Lueven,  Ledbetter ...
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21 May 2013

Straight Guy's Guide to Interior Design

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Fabulous over the couch
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19 May 2013

You Can Buy Me A Beer

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Basic Training, Ft Jackson, 19 May 1976 How do I get outta here? The minute the photographer (maroon polyester sport coat & grey...
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18 May 2013

On the Shore

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The Delays are that Summer kind of band full of wind -- A Summer Wind -- Loaded with hope and bubble gum. Back when you were crisp... and ...
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17 May 2013

Friday Nights & Afropop

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Daara J from Senegal 1989 - I remember the drive home from work on Friday nights in an '86 maroon Jetta with a dying heater that ...
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