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<h2 class="c3">High Old Time</h2><img src="cafe910a.jpg"
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<p class="c4">More winter sun on an afternoon
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<h3 class="c5">7th Edition of the 'La Bougie du
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<p>by Ric Erickson</p>
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<p class="noindent"><b>Paris:– Monday, 1. March 2004:–</b> As
much as everybody likes a good blather about the weather,
it is very unpredictable and there isn't a dern thing
anybody can do about it.</p> <div style="width:300px;height:250px;float:right;clear:right;margin:1em 0 1em 1em;">
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<p>Of course I have a forecast for the next couple of days,
but in the interests of all the uninterested, it will not
be based on science or the usual TV–weather news
versus Le Parisien's newspaper version.</p>
<p>Instead, it will be a synopsis of hunches. Tomorrow may
be mostly sunny, and after the temperature revives from
below<img src="effl910c.jpg" alt="photo: sign, l'agneau on y croit" align="right" height="99" width="130" vspace="2" hspace="2" /> freezing it may
actually get as high as eight degrees. You guess is as good
as mine about any winds.</p><i>Lamb – one can believe
in them, unlike the weather.</i>
<p>Wednesday might be mostly sunny too. When it isn't, it
will be partly cloudy. One or the other, the high
temperature might be nine degrees. Thursday looks like it
will be very tricky, except for being nine degrees sometime
in the afternoon. Officially it should be mostly sunny, but
I dunno.</p>
<p class="c8">Café Life</p>
<b>High Old Time</b>
<p class="noindent">The Paris Kazoo Club is not going to have a long and
illustrious history unless it can find enough kazoos to
equip the band of merry Daguerréo– typistas.
It goes without saying – so why say it? – that
kazoos do not sprout like daffodils in Paris.</p>
<p>The owner of a toy shop in the Rue Brézin didn't
have any, and didn't especially look like he'd ever heard
of them. The local Monoprix doesn't have any toys or
musical instruments. The big Hamm music shop in the Rue de
Rennes moved to the Rue Saint–Placide, and then its
spot was taken over by the graphic supplier, Créa
– which had been next–door to Hamm in the Rue
de Rennes.</p>
<p>Anyhow, no kazoos next to the paint brushes. Uncle
Den–Den has been getting odd stuff from a shop in the
Rue Campagne–Première called 'Old Time,' so I
decided it was worth a drop–in.</p>
<p>On seeing it I realized that I have passed it dozens of
times without noticing that it is a true original. On the
first<img src="cafe910d.jpg" alt="photo: boutique old time"
align="left" height="235" width="175" vspace="2" hspace="5" /> look last Wednesday I thought I had stepped back in
time to the late '50s, when bigger cities used to have
'joke shops.'</p>
<p>In fact, stepping into 'Old Time' is like being back in
the 1950s. Its owner, Christophe L., has collected almost
every bit of plastic kitsch ever made, plus original movie
posters and movie star photos – some
autographed.</p><i>The 'Old Time' shop in the Rue
Campagne– Première.</i>
<p>Christophe L. knew what a kazoo is, but didn't have any.
Instead, while taking care of a paying client, his
assistant Jacques fired up the house 1948 Wurlitzer 1100.
Powered up, it couldn't make its 78 rpm speed without a
squirt of oil – but then it was okay.</p>
<p>Imagine! Instead of finding a kazoo I got to hear
'Stagger Lee' by Lloyd Price and 'Blue Suede Shoes' by Carl
Perkins. This model Wurlitzer was the first to have a
pre–amp and a super light–weight tone arm. All
its lights lit up and the warmer it got, the better it
sounded. Even if it were for sale, you couldn't afford
it.</p>
<p>It isn't easy to describe the contents of a shop
containing 10,000 items from the '40s and '50s, so I won't
try. Nor will descriptions of Christohe L. and Jacques do
them credit. Suffice, perhaps, to mention that if you need
any particular Laurel and Hardy – or John Wayne
photo, it is available at 'Old Time.'</p>
<p>Open from Tuesday to Saturday, from 12:00 to 19:00. At
5. Rue Campagne– Première, Paris 14.
Métro: Vavin. InfoTel–Fax.: 01 40 47 74
46.</p>
<b>Subscription of the Century</b>
<p class="noindent">Yesterday was this century's first 29. February. In
theory, there are only 24 of them left until 2100. To mark
the event, 'La Bougie du Sapeur' published its 7th daily
edition since 1980. It includes a subscription form for the
rest of the century, for 100€.</p>
<p>This year's edition is also 'a special' because of its
Sunday issue–date with a corresponding Sunday
supplement – titled No 1 – for not a sou more
than four euros. The next Sunday edition will go on sale in
28 years, in 2032. The paper wonders if its editorial team
can keep up with this infernal tempo.</p>
<p>Officially the paper – 24 pages, in
spot–color, with the Sunday supplement in full color
– is called 'Périodique.' This doesn't mean it
contains no hard news. Page 18 brings everyone up to date
with the Spanish Civil War for example. It appears to have
been written by the paper's sports editor, and publisher,
Jacques Debuisson.</p>
<p>The 'Sapeur' is overflowing with important information
too. For example, it gives the definition for 'synonyme,'
as the word you use when you can't spell the word you want
to use. There is also a proposal to reverse
pre–election polling results, giving only the numbers
for the losers.<img src="cafe910b.jpg" alt="photo: front page, la bougie du sapeaur" align="right"
height="245" width="165" vspace="3" hspace="5" /></p>
<p>The paper also has a serial story, titled 'Frank Faure's
Doubles.' In the last issue the hero, Thierry de Vaux, was
on a train going to Alicante, when one of the passengers in
his compartment disappears while in a tunnel. In a second
tunnel, the missing passenger is replaced by a double. To
sum up this issue's Chapter III, it ends with the quote,
"Monsieur le Duc, il n'y a pas une seconde a perdre..." To
be continued in the issue of 29. February 2008, when
Chapter IV will appear.</p><i>A rare Sunday edition of 'La
Bougie du Sapeur' was on sale yesterday.</i>
<p>In French newspaperland, readers have a 'right to
respond,' which they can exercise when they think the
editors might have made a factual error. Yesterday's issue
of 'Sapeur' notes that the 'right to respond' concerning
articles in issue six, will be published in issue
eight.</p>
<p>Also promised for issue eight, coming in 2008, is a
report concerning the items ingested by Jacques Chirac
during his visit to the Salon de l'Agriculture on
Saturday.</p>
<p>The Président is already a record–holder
with 32 different drinks – 21 containing alcohol
– 18 varieties of charcuterie, 15 milk products,
12,855 hand–shakes and 685 bisous, plus several
rump–pats, mostly on sheep and cows, but not
all.</p>
<b>Hats On</b>
<p class="noindent">Although McDonald's has a big stand at the Salon de
l'Agriculture – because their products contain a lot
of French stuff – it shouldn't be overlooked that
there are inedible products on display at the salon
too.</p>
<p>I think it was in hall 2 that I saw brand–new
buggies, meant to be towed by horses or donkeys. It isn't
often that you see these, old or new, and I was very happy
to note that their manufacturers have kept up with the
times, by adding disk–brakes. Otherwise they were
pure, but new, buggies.</p>
<p>In the same hall, for the first time, I saw stands for
makers of belts. One brand, <a href="http://www.ceinture-tucker.com/">Tucker</a>, was even
proposing to make them to size, on the spot. Prices were
reasonable too.</p>
<p>Another stand caught my attention because it proposed
hats. With hat shops being as rare as kazoos in Paris,
finding hats at the Salon de l'Agriculture was a major
surprise.<p><br /><i>Continued on <a href="/2004/910/910cafe.html?page=2" target="_self">page 2...</a></i></td>
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