The spoiler box contains a colour picture of the boots and a link to the museum site where I pinched it from. There is a short description of them (at first glance, it looks like the link is embedded in the picture, but the box and picture backgrounds are very similar; the space I put between picture and link is still there).
Perfect costuming for “Tommy”… IF the movie were set in 1921, like the story on the album.
There’s even a song in there, “1921”… that says
“Got a feeling ’21
Is going to be a good year
Especially if you and me
See it in together…”
I was humming it a lot 18 months ago…
but the rest of the lyrics make no sense outside the context of the album, and that part of the story is rather depressing, besides… so I’m not posting it.
…
But getting back to this picture… I’ll always be a vintage clothing dealer at heart, I guess… and I love 1921 clothes.
Not terribly wearable or practical, but gorgeous.
Ladies in beautifully elegant silk dresses, just as fashion transitioned from post WWI ankle-length tea frocks to shockingly mid-calf styles…
Right before flappers and even shorter skirts… though NEVER as short as the costumes in later movies about the era, like “The Great Gatsby.”
…
Finally coming out of corsets… over the next few years, working towards the rebellious extreme of no waist at all.
The best women’s hats ever.
….
But I doubt whether any of you menfolk want to go back to dressing like this gentleman, no matter how dashing. LOL
If people from the turn of the 20th century were alive to see how we dress now (especially in Seattle) they would conclude that we are low class, or at least poor. They would probably pity us. Maybe a future generation will look back on us in the same way.
Getty Images says this is from 1921.
Other research through the ‘net by me indicates it was possibly taken on Thursday, June 16, 1921; which is “hat” day at this race meet.
But then, what other way can you look properly at Elhound John? Or Rodger Dogtree, either.
This image is from the film, but the arrival of the original album of the same name… the epic rock opera, “Tommy”, by The Hoowl, on which the film is based, felt like a major event in my life…
…
It was half a dozen years before the film version.
I’d just started seeing my soon-to-be (but now, late ex) husband, at the very start of our 25-year friendship and business partnership… a story waaay too complicated for here….
I can’t say it’s my favorite music ever… but hearing any of it will forever evoke that time and place, when my whole world was changing.
…
We were very young… It was a double album, so a big expense to either of us, at the time…
But he bought it, and we played it endlessly… over and over,
absorbed in not only the music, but the lyrics, and the story, itself.
It wove pictures, created fantastic characters, told an absorbing tale in the way no previous rock album had ever attempted.
…
I’ve forgotten some, but at that time, I think I knew every word to every song.
I can’t say I could ever howl any of them…. people run away if any member of the Sunshine family even tries to howl or sing “Happy Birthday”…
But the music ran through my day like a whole albumful of earworms.
…
Who could forget the trials of that poor young boy, Tommy, struck psychosomatically blind, deaf and mute by witnessing things his mind wouldn’t accept…
mistreated by relatives and others… ... pushed into withdrawal from the world…
Until he discovers pinball… whereupon “He plays by intuition“….and becomes the best player ever.
…
I have to admit that when the movie came out, I didn’t want to see it.
They had added so many characters, trying to erase my mental imagery.
Much as I loved Elhound John, and Teeny Terrier, and all… they were supposed to be imaginary.
If I saw anydog as Tommy, it would have to be Roger Dogtree.
…
But over the years, I’ve watched many clips, and enjoyed them…
and finally wanted to see the whole thing, but it wasn’t available.
If it’s back in town, it’s time!
Who’s coming?!
…
If you have (still have?)(can still squeeze into?) or can beg or borrow anything psychedelic that you’ve been dying for an occasion to wear, now’s your chance….
but you certainly don’t have to.
You can lose yourself in the music and the tale, let your mind swirl in the spectacle… and just enjoy!
Graham flour is a type of coarsely ground wheat flour promoted by temperance preacher Slyvester Graham (July 5, 1794, — Sept. 11, 1851) in the U.S.. He did not invent it, but he promoted it as part of a “pure (my choice of word)” food base for his diet of which the crackers were a part. The crackers took their name from him, and it came to represent the now finely ground wheat flour used in today’s crackers too.
Here is a muffin recipe.
From: The New Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book
By: Ruth Hutchinson
Illustrated by: Tim Palmer
Published by: HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK 1958
Earlier edition published as: The Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book (1948)
Library of Congress catalog card number 58-8873
“GRAHAM MUFFINS” Credited to: (no credit given)
2 cups graham flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
Sift the dry ingredients, mix with the egg and the milk, beat the batter well
until blended, and bake in greased muffin pans at 375° for 25 minutes. Makes 12.
Notes from me:
Bake on the second oven rack (top rack is first).
Keep an eye on them from the 20 minute mark. They won’t burn at 25 minutes if they were done at 20, but they will be dry.
This is a great, sparkly poster. Love it.
I saw the movie some time ago and I did enjoy it.
dennisinseattle
Member
1 year ago
Stel, nice of you to accommodate Elhound’s excessive height with an extra-tall pinball machine.
When I was a short kid playing pinball, I could have used those boots.
When I was that age, game were ten cents, 3 for a quarter. But we could go to Seaside Heights where there were arcades full of retired machines, 5 cents a play and just as much fun.
A human guy, doing his best to look like the inimitable Elhound John.
But without basset ears! Nice try anyway.
The spoiler box contains a colour picture of the boots and a link to the museum site where I pinched it from. There is a short description of them (at first glance, it looks like the link is embedded in the picture, but the box and picture backgrounds are very similar; the space I put between picture and link is still there).
MUSEUM LINK
Epic hair!
The late 80’s… a time when women paid to have hair like their mothers worst 1950’s nightmares.
When Bonnie looks at this video now, does she beam with pride, or want to hide under the bed?
I hope the former… but I know I’ve got a few “what the @#$% was I thinking?” pics.
….
Great song, though.
I understand that Sir John was reticent to play the part but when he was told that he could keep the boots he decided to do it.
I heard it was the whole get-up (especially the rhinestone glasses!)!! hee hee
But, you’re probably right…..I know I couldn’t pass up those boots!
But Elhound needed 4 boots!
One happy hound!
Perfect costuming for “Tommy”… IF the movie were set in 1921, like the story on the album.
There’s even a song in there, “1921”… that says
“Got a feeling ’21
Is going to be a good year
Especially if you and me
See it in together…”
I was humming it a lot 18 months ago…
but the rest of the lyrics make no sense outside the context of the album, and that part of the story is rather depressing, besides… so I’m not posting it.
…
But getting back to this picture… I’ll always be a vintage clothing dealer at heart, I guess… and I love 1921 clothes.
Not terribly wearable or practical, but gorgeous.
Ladies in beautifully elegant silk dresses, just as fashion transitioned from post WWI ankle-length tea frocks to shockingly mid-calf styles…
Right before flappers and even shorter skirts… though NEVER as short as the costumes in later movies about the era, like “The Great Gatsby.”
…
Finally coming out of corsets… over the next few years, working towards the rebellious extreme of no waist at all.
The best women’s hats ever.
….
But I doubt whether any of you menfolk want to go back to dressing like this gentleman, no matter how dashing. LOL
Ties, stiff celluloid collars, starched shirts, pointed shoes, tall hats, heavy wool coats.. yeah, right.
…
Actually, we’re all spoiled by the easy fit, easy care, fashions of today… even me.
There’s no going back, except maybe briefly, for fun, if you’re into it.
If people from the turn of the 20th century were alive to see how we dress now (especially in Seattle) they would conclude that we are low class, or at least poor. They would probably pity us. Maybe a future generation will look back on us in the same way.
Even in the 60s, rock bands (including the Beatles) wore suits for their performances.
Getty Images says this is from 1921.
Other research through the ‘net by me indicates it was possibly taken on Thursday, June 16, 1921; which is “hat” day at this race meet.
Wow… it’s “Tommy“!!
As glittery as glittery can be!
So beautiful!
But then, what other way can you look properly at Elhound John? Or Rodger Dogtree, either.
This image is from the film, but the arrival of the original album of the same name… the epic rock opera, “Tommy”, by The Hoowl, on which the film is based, felt like a major event in my life…
…
It was half a dozen years before the film version.
I’d just started seeing my soon-to-be (but now, late ex) husband, at the very start of our 25-year friendship and business partnership… a story waaay too complicated for here….
I can’t say it’s my favorite music ever… but hearing any of it will forever evoke that time and place, when my whole world was changing.
…
We were very young… It was a double album, so a big expense to either of us, at the time…
But he bought it, and we played it endlessly… over and over,
absorbed in not only the music, but the lyrics, and the story, itself.
It wove pictures, created fantastic characters, told an absorbing tale in the way no previous rock album had ever attempted.
…
I’ve forgotten some, but at that time, I think I knew every word to every song.
I can’t say I could ever howl any of them…. people run away if any member of the Sunshine family even tries to howl or sing “Happy Birthday”…
But the music ran through my day like a whole albumful of earworms.
…
Who could forget the trials of that poor young boy, Tommy, struck psychosomatically blind, deaf and mute by witnessing things his mind wouldn’t accept…
mistreated by relatives and others… ... pushed into withdrawal from the world…
Until he discovers pinball… whereupon “He plays by intuition“….and becomes the best player ever.
…
I have to admit that when the movie came out, I didn’t want to see it.
They had added so many characters, trying to erase my mental imagery.
Much as I loved Elhound John, and Teeny Terrier, and all… they were supposed to be imaginary.
If I saw anydog as Tommy, it would have to be Roger Dogtree.
…
But over the years, I’ve watched many clips, and enjoyed them…
and finally wanted to see the whole thing, but it wasn’t available.
If it’s back in town, it’s time!
Who’s coming?!
…
If you have (still have?)(can still squeeze into?) or can beg or borrow anything psychedelic that you’ve been dying for an occasion to wear, now’s your chance….
but you certainly don’t have to.
You can lose yourself in the music and the tale, let your mind swirl in the spectacle… and just enjoy!
Susan, you are a romantic at heart. Never lose that.
Susan can you hear me?
I have avoided the film for similar reasons, but if is coming to the Bassetplex, I will join you there.
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Graham flour is a type of coarsely ground wheat flour promoted by temperance preacher Slyvester Graham (July 5, 1794, — Sept. 11, 1851) in the U.S.. He did not invent it, but he promoted it as part of a “pure (my choice of word)” food base for his diet of which the crackers were a part. The crackers took their name from him, and it came to represent the now finely ground wheat flour used in today’s crackers too.
Here is a muffin recipe.
From: The New Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book
By: Ruth Hutchinson
Illustrated by: Tim Palmer
Published by: HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK 1958
Earlier edition published as: The Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book (1948)
Library of Congress catalog card number 58-8873
“GRAHAM MUFFINS” Credited to: (no credit given)
2 cups graham flour
1/2 cup sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup milk
Sift the dry ingredients, mix with the egg and the milk, beat the batter well
until blended, and bake in greased muffin pans at 375° for 25 minutes. Makes 12.
Notes from me:
Bake on the second oven rack (top rack is first).
Keep an eye on them from the 20 minute mark. They won’t burn at 25 minutes if they were done at 20, but they will be dry.
Graham crackers are my go to snack.
This is a great, sparkly poster. Love it.
I saw the movie some time ago and I did enjoy it.
Stel, nice of you to accommodate Elhound’s excessive height with an extra-tall pinball machine.
When I was a short kid playing pinball, I could have used those boots.
When I was that age, game were ten cents, 3 for a quarter. But we could go to Seaside Heights where there were arcades full of retired machines, 5 cents a play and just as much fun.