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About Me

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I love the early 1900's. There's just no class, no romance, no beauty in detail, in today's everyday life. It's very sad. So I prefer an old fashioned lifestyle, and boy do I ever! Last year, my husband and I opened our very own vintage clothing store here in downtown Redlands right before our beautiful 1920's/30's wedding. We are absolute yard saling, swap meeting, treasure-digging junkies who have made our passion for the past our everyday life. We crusade to bring back hats and gloves and bowties, petticoats and rolled stockings and garters. I am also fascinated with our paper trail through the past- old photographs, postcards, etc.
Before we opened the store, I worked full-time in Archaeology,going out in the field to excavate or survey. Now I do it on an on-call basis. I was the site photographer for a Native American excavation in Marina del Rey for 10 months in 2005. Photography and Archaeology were my two main areas of study so it was perfect to combine them. Both are about the thrill of discovery. There's nothing like bringing something to light again that's been buried for decades or centuries. Or capturing a moment forever... I grew up in the San Fernando Valley/L.A. are and enjoy visiting the nightlife there, but I am loving living in Redlands with all it's old Victorian houses and small-town atmosphere....and great people to boot! If you're ever in town don't forget to visit Hobo's Vintage in historic downtown!
I'm selling some vintage clothing treasures on ebay now, check back repeatedly for more and more! Click here - The Lady Hobo

My Interests

Marquis. Old Stuff. Vintage Clothes! Tap Dancing. Flappers. Playing my accordion. Burlesque and Vaudeville. Collecting old postcards, photographs, and sheet music. Learning about restoring old houses. Listening to records, live music, Archaeology, outdoor adventures like hiking and camping, cats (I have 5 of them!), silent movies, The Moon, photography, oil painting, self-portraits, historical reenactments, Old Hollywood, all dancing, learning to sew, pomegranites, chocolate chip cookies, Food and Desserts, Recycling, German, traveling, Ebay. I can't stand second-hand smoke and foul language.

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Music:

HOBO JAZZ, Marquis Howell, Janet Klein, Annette Hanshaw, Ruth Etting, The Boswell Sisters, Cab Calloway, Blanche Calloway, The Mills Brothers, Fats Waller, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitgerald, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Hoagy Carmicheal, Jack Teagarden, Dawn Davis, Billy Holiday, Emmett Miller, Patti Page, Johnny Mercer, Dean Martin, Josh White, Jelly Roll Morton, Marlene Dietrich, Patsy Cline, Louis Prima and Keely Smith, Bobby Darin, Jolie Holland, Van Morrison, The Fleetwoods, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Led Zep, Bjork, Tom Waits, ...and so much more

Movies:

Silent movies! Some favorites so far are The Kid and My Best Gal- I love Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin movies, Buster Keaton, Marlene Dietrich. Musicals- My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, etc. At The Jazz Band Ball. Anything with dancing and singing footage from the 20's. Some tried and true, more modern favorites are the old Star Wars trilogy, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Neverending Story, The Princess Bride, Moulin Rouge, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Joe vs. the Volcano, Chocolat, Zoolander, Four Weddings And a Funeral, and The Lord of the Rings

Television:

If These Walls Could Talk, Antiques Roadshow, CSI (Vegas only)

Books:

Yes, please! And the older, and more aged, the better...

My ever-fascinating dictionary, Walden Pond, Shakespeare, The Awakening, The Lord of the Rings, The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Biographies on Old Hollywood Stars, Etc.

Heroes:

My fellow:

And girls that "roll their own stockings:"

My Blog

My forthcoming Tap dancing burlesque Act:

I'm going to do a Tap Dance in the show (as long as I don't chicken out and have it ready in time)! It's going to be great with girls from Kitten de Ville's three classes putting on their own unique ...
Posted by Nicolette on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 12:10:00 PST

Latest Treasure Find: Negatives from the 20's

Sheer serendipity! Amazing! At the last Pasadena City College, Marquis and I came across a vendor who had two boxes of photograph and negatives straight out of the 20's! You could still smell the che...
Posted by Nicolette on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:22:00 PST

So I illustrated a kids Native American coloring book...

So I do Archaeology, right? Well, my B.A. is actually in Fine Arts and I went back to school only after that for Archaeology. So an old boss of mine called me up and asked if I could do the drawings f...
Posted by Nicolette on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 11:22:00 PST

Wedding Photos!!

And now I am happy to present some of my favorite photos of our wedding as taken by "Photonerds" Emily and Tamsen: ...
Posted by Nicolette on Sat, 20 May 2006 09:58:00 PST

Hobo's Vintage: Store in Redlands

Spreading the word: Ladies and gents....So my fiance, Marquis, has been approved to get his own store. Having worked in vintage clothing for years, he's been waiting for the day to get his very own, a...
Posted by Nicolette on Tue, 03 Jan 2006 02:56:00 PST

A Halloween Proposal

I'd like to share a Magical and Fantastic event that occured at the Hobo Jazz show at The Derby on Halloween night (hence the costumes). Near the end of their performance Marquis gestured for me to co...
Posted by Nicolette on Wed, 02 Nov 2005 12:59:00 PST

It's not Only a Paper Moon...

So goes the old song:It's Only A Paper MoonElla FitzgeraldSay, it's only a paper moon,Sailing over a cardboard sea,But it wouldn't be make believe,If you believed in me.Yes, it's only a canvas sky,Han...
Posted by Nicolette on Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:10:00 PST

Know The Flapper

I just wanted to share information on what a Flapper really was all about, as there is a lot more to the concept than just wearing a flapper dress and doing the Charleston. It's a whole amazing cultur...
Posted by Nicolette on Sat, 03 Sep 2005 01:24:00 PST