Today I find myself touring the coast in my 1954 Hudson Italia. Many people don't know this car's slightly Bohemian connection or history (which I share here).
1937 Hudson Terraplane
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This nice five window microcar is a one-off custom-built coupe created by George S. Brauks, a St. Louis, Missouri foundry pattern maker and carriage builder. The front of the car is a 1937 Hudson Terraplane 2 door coupe. The rear part seems to be a 1936 DeSoto. The entire car was narrowed lengthwise on the centerline to create a narrow body width. The picture is slightly photoshopped; the rusty spots are repainted.
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Christmas in Downtown Detroit Christmas display in J.L. Hudson store Christmas Trim Shop at the J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. Various figurines, Christmas trees, ornaments, and holiday decor are featured throughout the retail shop. Children’s Toy and Accessories Department, located inside The Basement Store of the J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. Toy displays are visible throughout the department; visible in the foreground is a display of, ”Gifts for Girls, $1.00 - $3.98,” which includes small handbags, baskets, and tea sets. Western-themed ties and other boys’ accessories are visible on varying displays; Howdy Doody and Little Yankee shoes are on display in the left background. Christmas time in downtown Detroit 1960's J.L. Hudson's Christmas tree...lights...outside... Christmas display in J.L. Hudson outside the downtown store Basement Store Cafeteria inside The J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. A series of mounted chairs are visible surrounded the individual counters; decorative tile, and ornamental designs are visible throughout the cafeteria. J.L. Hudson Shoppers Children viewing the display at J.L. Hudson's J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. Various styles of fountain pens are featured in the display cases, and atop the sales counters. J.L. Hudson's Barbershop J.L. Hudson's Men's Department J.L. Hudson's Holidays Fabric Department at The J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. A large McCall Pattern book is displayed upright and open, to pattern number, ”2907.” Santa Claus at J.L. Hudson Department Store
An outfit featuring the unique striped Hudson's Bay Coat designed with Canadian Designers Smythe.
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Every household living in or near a large city during most of the twentieth century, had a favorite department store where they shopped. For my family, that department store was J.L. Hudson's in downtown Detroit. As a child I rode the bus into the City with my mother, and was her companion on all-day shopping excursions at the massive store. [I loved the elevator rides!] Their fabulous mechanically animated Christmas window displays are forever etched in my memory! And I'm sure my girlfriend and I felt really grown up when we went downtown to shop at Hudson's by ourselves as high school seniors. But the best memory of all was filling out my bridal registry at the grand flagship store. Over time, malls made shopping trips to downtown Detroit a thing of the past, but in spite of life's changes, Hudson's memories continue to remain alive. A few years ago I began corresponding with Angela, at Tea With Friends blog, about my Hudson's memories. Soon I was collecting store memorabilia, and meeting with Hudson's author and historian, Mike Hauser. When Angela published her book, Dainty Dining, a fabulous book highlighting several department stores and their tea rooms [including a chapter on Hudson's], I began researching Hudson's food service. As a tea lover, I wish I would have experienced the pleasure of dining at Hudson's Mezzanine Tea Room! I've read the Silver Grille book from Cleveland's Higbee's Department Store, and on a recent trip to Indianapolis, Indiana I purchased an L.S. Ayres Department Store Tea Room book. I concluded Hudson's needs a book about its Mezzanine Tea Room and Dining Restaurants. I recently met with Mike Hauser to brainstorm the possibility over a Maurice Salad! A project of this sort will require input from many, so this soft/preliminary announcement is being made on my blog since J.L. Hudson posts are some of my most visited posts. I would love hearing from former Hudson waitresses or kitchen employees who can provide recipes, photographs, and interesting experiences. Dining memories from the Mezzanine Tea Room, or one of Hudson's Dining Rooms would also be appreciated. I recently read a quote that sums up this endeavor: "The past asks only to be remembered." That's what I intend to do by putting memories in print as a lasting tribute to the 'Grand Dame of Woodward Avenue', as well as for the enjoyment of everyone who loved Hudson's!
Hudson's Bay Company Magazine? Beautiful but missing yellow. Hudson's Bay Company Scotch? No and I can't find this Scotch anywhere. Hudson's Bay Company Point Blanket? Cue the ballons. Surprised so few of you knew the inspiration for my 'RLR' line. You know what they say..."You don't have to have a point... to have a point. Have a pointless weekend.
Hudson, NY is one of the most charming towns to visit. Not far from the Catskills, it's the perfect weekend away along the Hudson River.
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Here is our 59th installment of this very successful feature to "Love Those Classic Movies!!!" This article is simply an enjoyment via beautiful pictures of our favorite golden age classic stars. Not a lot of writing at all or tid bits or extras just simply as it is stated, "in pictures!" Hope you enjoy the leading man Rock Hudson who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in; "Giant." This outstanding leading man also starred in motion picture and television classic such as; "Pillow Talk" "McMillan & Wife" "Magnificent Obsession" "All That Heaven Allows" "Written on the Wind" "A Farewell to Arms" "Man's Favorite Sport?" "Send Me No Flowers" "Seconds" "The Undefeated" "Darling Lili" & countless others. Rock Hudson & Mae West Marilyn Monroe & Rock Hudson Elizabeth Taylor & Rock Hudson Rock Hudson & Doris Day Rock Hudson & Jane Wyman Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, & Kim Novak Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson & Liza Minnelli Rock Hudson & John Wayne Rock Hudson & Gina Lollobrigida James Dean, Rock Hudson, & Elizabeth Taylor Rock Hudson & Lauren Bacall Rock Hudson & Bea Arthur
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Christmas in Downtown Detroit Christmas display in J.L. Hudson store Christmas Trim Shop at the J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. Various figurines, Christmas trees, ornaments, and holiday decor are featured throughout the retail shop. Children’s Toy and Accessories Department, located inside The Basement Store of the J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. Toy displays are visible throughout the department; visible in the foreground is a display of, ”Gifts for Girls, $1.00 - $3.98,” which includes small handbags, baskets, and tea sets. Western-themed ties and other boys’ accessories are visible on varying displays; Howdy Doody and Little Yankee shoes are on display in the left background. Christmas time in downtown Detroit 1960's J.L. Hudson's Christmas tree...lights...outside... Christmas display in J.L. Hudson outside the downtown store Basement Store Cafeteria inside The J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. A series of mounted chairs are visible surrounded the individual counters; decorative tile, and ornamental designs are visible throughout the cafeteria. J.L. Hudson Shoppers Children viewing the display at J.L. Hudson's J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. Various styles of fountain pens are featured in the display cases, and atop the sales counters. J.L. Hudson's Barbershop J.L. Hudson's Men's Department J.L. Hudson's Holidays Fabric Department at The J.L. Hudson Company Department Store. A large McCall Pattern book is displayed upright and open, to pattern number, ”2907.” Santa Claus at J.L. Hudson Department Store
(Photo via rowellphoto.com) Very few blankets hold the iconic status that Hudson’s Bay Point blankets do. These stripped blankets were created by the Hudson’s Bay Company in the Norther…
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Old snowshoes and a Hudson Bay Company blanket coat
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This sash is from the 17 th. century capote metis sash Robert Kennicott the American naturalist was at Portage La Loche in 1862. Later that year he had these pictures taken with the clothes he was wearing on his expedition. Robert Kennicott in 1862 In this "Carte de visite" Kennicott is wearing a double breasted capote (a knee length wool jacket with a hood) tied at the waist with an Assomption sash (metis sash) and a marten fur skin fire-bag. His pants are trimmed with ribbon on the outside seams and on the cuffs. He is wearing a toque on his head. The pants are tied just below the knee with garters ending in tassles. On his feet are beaded or embroidered moccasins. This type of clothing was worn by the French Canadians and French Canadian Metis of the North West. Adding colors The colors of the capote may have been light blue or grey with white buttons. The toque and the sash could be colored in shades of reds, blues and yellows and the pants a dark blue with a yellow accent. The garters may have been red and yellow and made of silk. Father Emile Petitot met Kennicott at Portage La Loche in 1862. Petitot commented on the clothes of Bernard Rogan Ross, the chief factor of Fort Simpson who had accompanied Kennicott to the Portage. My translation of Petitot's descriptions of Ross and Kennicott: "On July 22 there came from the other side of the Portage a factor of the Hudson's Bay Company dressed as follows: wool shirt of red and green squares of Scottish design bordered with yellow ribbon stuck in a pair of white pants with purplish red stripes. Around the waist an assomption sash. Just below the knees were garters embroidered with glass beads and adorned with tufts of red silk that hung like scalps. On the head a florentine toque of green velvet ringed with silk embroidery. No shoes, no boots but immaculate white Chipewyan moccasins embroidered with silk of many colours. This fantastic costume, very elegant, is characteristic of the "Grand Nord". It was well worn by a little Irish clerk, with black eyes and great sideburns, who came to meet Governor Dallas, that his Iroquois canoemen had brought to Portage La Loche. The chief factor of Fort Edmonton M. Christie accompanied him." "The Irishman was followed by a young American naturalist, very smart, petulant, who talked through his nose by the name of Kennicott. He also wore a costume of the "Grand Nord" on which he had embroidered in white ribbon a lizard, a butterfly, a turtle and a snake, the emblems of his livelihood. We might say that he looked like a clown of the new "Cirque". The lovers of science ,we say, are all original and a bit crazed but the naturalists that we meet in the remote areas of America seem to be a unique breed." ...from "The History of La Loche" Fire-bag: Kennicott describes his fire-bag on January 18, 1862. "It (the fire-bag used for carrying flints, steel, touchwood, pipe, knife, etc., etc., by all voyageurs, in place of pockets) is made of a fine, large marten skin, and is the bonniest one in the district." page 203 of the "Transactions of the Chicago Academy of Sciences" (volume 1) ...link Note: The use of a prime fur as clothing or accessory is unusual. Trade furs were too valuable to wear. HBC blanket capote Hurons de Jeune- Lorette ..white capote 1840 Quebec Tying a metis sash: two quotations Two ways to tie a sash: military style and metis style. 1."First I have to say that military sashes are different than civilian or metis sashes. I found this on-line somewhere regarding tying military sashes. It works good on that type but not so well on the metis style. Tying a Sash (military style) Hold the end (leaving the fringe lose) in the middle of the front Wrap the sash around the body (keeping it snug). The length of a sash usually allows it to make 2 1/2 wraps. When the wrapping end is about the desired length of hang, pull the end up from the bottom underneath and over the already wrapped sash kind of like cinching up a horse saddle. Then pull the hanging fringe from the middle of the front around to the overlap and give it a tug. It should give a very snug hold without the knot and it lies flat. When your finished, both hanging ends of the sash should be about even (this is were it takes a bit of trial and error in finding your starting point). By adjusting how much is left hanging in the front when you start you can even up the ends. The sash can then be slid around the body to position the hanging ends wherever you want. As for my metis sash I've taken to using a four-in-hand knot which can be tied in the front and moved to the side or back and has the advantage of being adjustable so it can be tightened if necessary. I've also seen people use a square knot." 2."There is some way to tie a sash in a flat knot, but I can never remember it. Instead, I just tie mine in front into a square knot. If you study paintings of guys wearing sashes (Rindisbacher and Kreighoff are good), and take a look at photos of Métis from the mid to late 1800s, you'll see them knotted in front, behind, and on either side. No rhyme or reason to it, just personal preference. And most look to be plain knots. Those guys wore the sash all day, every day ---it was their belt. Study those old paintings and photos, then tie it how and where it's comfortable for you." (read more... how to tie a sash.) ......weaving a metis sash information and videos Artist Paul Kane ...Scene in the North West...Portrait of John Henry Lefroy 1845-1846 John Lefroy, holding a rawhide gun case with red accents, is wearing a white capote with a dark hood with trim. A decorated bag hangs from his assomption sash. He is wearing a pair of mitts on a string with red and green cuffs, a pair of red leggings (over trousers), with garters just below the knee and moccasins with snowshoes. His companion, also on snowshoes, is wearing the same type of clothing and carrying a rifle in a bag. The two dogs harnessed to the toboggan are wearing bells on their backs and on their collars. Each has a small blanket on their back one red and one green. A Dene Metis from La Loche, Saskatchewan (1920) Boniface Janvier is wearing a metis sash with the ends tucked in (or lengths of rope) and metis garters tied just below the knees. He is carrying a rifle, snowshoes, a HBC blanket, an axe and a kettle. The jacket reaches to just above the knees and he is wearing a cap. He is possibly heading north of the Clearwater River to a cabin on his trap line for the winter. Knee garters or leg ties may simply have held the pant legs up so the cuffs would not drag on wet, icy, snowy or muddy ground below the moccasins. The leg ties on the Boniface Janvier photo above appear to be strips of cloth tied with a knot. This was painted by Peter Rindisbacher in the 1820's in the Red River area. It shows a man with a whip dressed in a blue capote elaborated decorated with multicoloured ribbons, an assomption sash, red leggings (and or trousers) with ornamented cuffs, garters below the knees, mitts joined by a red string and a type of head covering (either a cap or a toque). This capote may be in two pieces with a hooded short cape that reaches to just above the elbows and worn over the top of the capote. The man with a rifle in a case breaking trail in snowshoes is wearing a decorated hide buffalo robe with fur on the inside, a pair of blue pants with red cuffs, moccasins and a red hood with a feather. The passenger in the carriole is probably a 'man of importance' and great care will be taken to bring him safely to his destination. The three dogs pulling the sleigh are covered in small beaded red blankets with yellow accents. They have sets of bells around their necks and additional bells sticking out above their collars in a colourful display. a pair of metis garters........read more about metis textile "Leg ties or knee garters, as they were often called, were used by the Native Americans and adopted by the people of the frontier. They serve a practical use as well as being decorations. The garters held leggings in place and protected the kneecap.".....read more link.........a pair of decorated mitts...read more.....see a Red River Cree Metis coat from 1875 link.......read more on headgear.....hats, toques, scarves etc link..............http://www.northwestjournal.ca/ link........read about breechcloths and leggings ..............read about Leggings-Mitasses-Botas
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