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Jim

jimkenline

About Me

Click for details... Great old theater... Come to Uptown before it's one big condo! Update; Ha! Condoization has stalled! When's the next Show?Haven't had a Bluegrass show since April, but it's still a nice place to go.It's the annual Oxford American Music Issue. Very eclectic Very Cool. div.layoutbutton { border: 2px solid rgb(130,232,254); background-color: rgb(35,166,254); width: 143px; text-align: right; padding: 4px 0px;

My Interests

Click on any of the pictures. They're all links.This guy has a very well designed site. Free backgrounds and art. Links too He makes some good stuff, if, like me you like the era.I like Fonts. Nick has some great ones, retro to modern. He has free ones, TYPE OASIS-CLICK HERE but give his pay site a look see. Font designers gotta eat too.Cool 1940s clip art- Free samples.Tack-O-Rama Retro Fonts-These Cobb Shinn Stock Cuts Are Cool.I'm not a graphic artist, but I play one on TV. This guy's stuff is quality. I have some of it. Look; if your in a band and you need handbills to advertise gigs; if you're havin' a garage sale; if you lost your your cat! Today you can make all this stuff yourself! Technology ain't always bad. Dang Liberals distributing surplus Food 1940. Color photos from the depression taken by FSA photographers. Rosie The RiveterWPA Posters

Music:

Great Cards ! Great Posters! Artwork by Robert Crumb ( Mr. Natural Fritz The Cat The Album Cover For Big Brother's "Cheap Thrills" etc. etc.) Click on the posters! Here are the cards in book form, with a CD culled from Robert Crumb's collectionThese posters are reprints, not recreations. People try to sell all these posters on Ebay for about 3 time what they cost here. I've got the one that's pictured.Roots Music listening roomIf you like the Carter Family click HERE for surprise Get the woodblock print HERE! (I believe in giving credit where credit is due.)Joe Bussard is the king of 78 rpm collectors. Here's a good article about Joe and record collecting.Desperate Man BluesAlso an Australian made film about JoeThe Documentary

Movies:

A Great Site On Silent Film Stars

Heroes:

The First Union Regiment Raised For The Civil war.The 17th Michigan(my GG Grandfather's regiment) mustering out; Grass Lake Michigan 1865.17th Michigan Monument Fox's Gap, South Mountain Battlefield MarylandGettysburg PA 1897. Veterans of the 1st Minnesota Vols laying where they fell during the charge on July 2nd, 1863.

My Blog

The Gangster Chronicles

  Minneapolis Racket boss Isadore "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld AKA "Fergie Bloom" celebrating his aquittal for the murder of journalist  Walter Liggett  January, 1936. This is how I got ...
Posted by Jim on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 09:06:00 PST

My Brave Boy Sleeps in His Faded Coat Of Blue

  The  South Mountain battlefield in Maryland contacted me. They want to put my GG Grandfather's Photo on the wall of the museum. I said, "sure"  Maybe I'll go there some day....
Posted by Jim on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 07:59:00 PST