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Where the dolls dance in the window!
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CharliePhono
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Where the dolls dance in the window!
Was having a listening session tonight when I noticed this neat dealer label.
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travisgreyfox
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Re: Where the dolls dance in the window!
I wonder what that is referring to? Cool, nonetheless.
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CharliePhono
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Re: Where the dolls dance in the window!
I wondered as well. There was the popular tune in the 20s, "The Doll Dance." Perhaps they had animatronic/mechanical figures in their display window?travisgreyfox wrote:I wonder what that is referring to? Cool, nonetheless.
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JerryVan
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Re: Where the dolls dance in the window!
CharliePhono wrote:I wondered as well. There was the popular tune in the 20s, "The Doll Dance." Perhaps they had animatronic/mechanical figures in their display window?travisgreyfox wrote:I wonder what that is referring to? Cool, nonetheless.
My buddy told me about places like that he saw in Amsterdam years ago. Maybe it's like that
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Re: Where the dolls dance in the window!
I've been to Amsterdam and have seen those "windows"... I'm sure it was something different...JerryVan wrote:CharliePhono wrote:I wondered as well. There was the popular tune in the 20s, "The Doll Dance." Perhaps they had animatronic/mechanical figures in their display window?travisgreyfox wrote:I wonder what that is referring to? Cool, nonetheless.
My buddy told me about places like that he saw in Amsterdam years ago. Maybe it's like that
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Thomas Alva Edison - Comment to his assistant, Samuel Insull.
"No one needs a Victrola XX, a Perfected Graphophone Type G, or whatever you call those noisy things."
My Wife