The Golden Sixties (and cool chairs and a cool plane)
July 22, 2009, 12:04 am
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Hey all you nutzoid pithecanthropes! Long time since The IP blogged at ya. He scored some cool shit last week and wanted to share it wit you alls. First, how ’bout this wacky LP produced for Brunswick by the Jam Handy Organization:
The liner notes from the LP set the stage for this bizarre record (and it’s an ACTUAL stage):
On Tuesday, February 2nd, 1960 at the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Towers Hotel in Chicago, the Gold Crown line made its debut before an enthusiastic Brunswick sales organization.
In the finest Broadway tradition, the Gold Crown line was vocally and choreographically thrust into the limelight in a rousing, vivacious musical extravaganza entitled “The Golden Sixties”.
To recapture these dramatic moments, the musical highlights of “The Golden Sixties” have been reproduced for this special souvenir album.
And let The IP tell you that the record lives up to that synopsis. “Gee Whiz” and “Holy Cow”, as the Brunswick Players would say. They also say (and sing) things like “goils” instead of “girls” in what is an over-the-top imitation of the Honeymooners or some other bunch of Brooklyn characters. For some reason, the Brooklyn accent became the default comedic device for a lot of stuff like that which is on this LP. And this LP proves that it can be used even in Chicago (albeit in 1960)!
Check out the above set that the Brunswick Players used for the launch of the then new Golden Crown line. That’s crazy.
The above picture clearly shows the distinctive and aerodynamic design of Brunswick’s Golden Line bowling “system,” which included the totally cool score projection desk and ball return tray, not to mention some more “behind the scenes” ball return technology. Brunswick pioneered automatic ball return.
Special thanks to nogoodforme.com for the pic.
Part II: Chair Man of The Bored
At the same place where The IP scored his cool record shelving unit, The IP came acrost these two chairs made by the Gunlocke Company of Wayland, New York:
It turns out that Gunlocke is one of the more storied furniture companies in the USA. The IP is proud to be an owner of such fine chairs.
Part III: “WTF! Is that a 707?
As most of you pithecanthropes know, The IP lives near a county airport, so he is acclimated to the constant drone of various aircraft. But every once and a while he hears an aircraft sound that jerks him out of his seat to run out-of-doors with his cheap-ass-but-dependable digital camera and take a picture of what usually turns out to be an unordinary aircraft.
And so it was this past weekend when The IP heard the strange whoosh and whistle of…what is it?
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And that’s the question. The first pithecanthrope to reasonably identify that aircraft will win a special, collectible prize.
Good luck.
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DC-8?
Comment by Neederlander July 22, 2009 @ 5:43 amMy first thought was DC-8, but it doesn’t look long enough. Could be a 707…there’s still a few of them flying around privatly. They’re also still being used as freighters.
Comment by MoeSzyslak July 22, 2009 @ 10:23 amMoe is correct, but The IP needs more specifics before he gets the prize.
Comment by tancred62 July 22, 2009 @ 1:01 pmI love love love the chairs.
Comment by Marlone July 22, 2009 @ 4:09 pm707-120? I give up. I even showed the picture to a few pilots at PDK and they couldn’t tell me.
Stupid pilots.
Bad ass chairs by the way.
Comment by MoeSzyslak July 24, 2009 @ 10:18 amIt was a Tool for pilots.
That page claims the seven-oh-seven “… is credited as ushering in the Jet Age” but I dunno.
I ain’t no plane spotter.
Comment by Kenneth Buttercup July 25, 2009 @ 3:29 pm