. Priceless jens. Good work.
Here's another...
UE tries out his negotiation skills as he attempts to aquire the parts he needs, to build the world's first portable tube-powered boombox!
Later, UE proudly shows off his invention, to the girl of his dreams...
Has he got the horn.
...by the bull!
Now hold still there donkey...so as I can pin this here tail on ya!
How`s about a caption JC?
Thats great Jens! hey J.C thats Johnie Knoxville from Jackass.He is one tough crazy M.F.,hes also from Lake Delton,just a few miles from my house.He's from Wisconsin so he is nuts......
jaredscottfla - 2008-01-30 22:17
classic
masterblaster84 - 2008-01-30 22:35
Hey Jens my grandfather told me about that store, it's where he bought his first boomer back in 1934 I think. He told me how he would go to the park on the weekends with his boomer, his favorite Glenn Miller tape and some cardboard where he would tear it up with some bumping break dancing. I'm surprised they are still in business selling boomers after all these years.
Great work Jens!
Wow a Conion C100F and an M90 back in the 1940's!
For some reason the M90 looker bigger than the Conion back then so maybe it shrunk since
ach du lieber mensch aergere mich nicht...
I Vill zend mi boyz ahfter you, das ist some ov da vorst zulu's ju vill meet...
Cool bikes.
There is a late 1940s movie --circa 1948 or '49-- that shows breakdancing. I'm not making this up. I have seen it with my own eyes, on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel. There are two black guys dancing right near the end of the movie, to a "big band" jazz accompaniment, and they do a dance routine that clearly includes EXACTLY quite a few of what would become known 35-45 years later as classic breakdance moves, winding up with spinning on their heads exactly the way kids would later do on cardboard or vinyl sheets on streetcorners. The only thing missing was the boombox!
Unfortunately I turned in during the middle of the movie, and never found out what it was called. Been keeping my eyes open for a repeat showing, but haven't seen it again (yet).
I'd be very curious to know what happened to that kind of dancing in the intervening years. Did this stuff simmer along completely out of sight in some obscure black-only jazz clubs, only to re-emerge later, or did it die out and then get revived when someone happened to watch that old movie and start playing with the same moves? Was anyone doing this in the 1950s and 1960s? If so, who and where? I've been curious ever since seeing that movie. It was like seeing a jet plane fly overhead in a 1930s movie or something - just a real shock!
Hee, Hee, LOL!!!!
Good pic Jens!
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Originally posted by enskanker:
ach du lieber mensch aergere mich nicht...
I Vill zend mi boyz ahfter you, das ist some ov da vorst zulu's ju vill meet...
and their fred flintstone approved
Nice links there, but alas, not the one I'm referring to. The one I saw includes "classic" BREAKDANCING. Most of those links show tap and jazz dancing that one might think could evolve into break dancing, but not really breakdancing. The 2 guys in the film I saw were actually breakdancing, although not quite as elaborately as some of the modern guys do it.
hey -dont insult those wooden bikes -
i made AND DRIVE a bike just like those --
except its got wheelbarrow tires and a 12 volt motor --goes good !!
will post the pics soon
hell those are nicer than my first bike .lol
here is my woody --
the driver is not me -- i have longer shorts and cooler shoes -
but the bike does 15-18 mph and gets several miles per charge --the suspension is in those big soft tires -- built it 12 years ago -- used it over 500 times -
and it has never not worked well
That old "breakdancing" is called the Charleston dance style, and it basically did inspire the kids in NYC back at that time to elaborate on it. I have seen a million and one breakdance films/documentries and have had the pleasure of meeting Pop Master Fabel of the Zulu Nation Kings. Even shook Afrika Bambatta's hand at club Roxy in NYC. (Famed for the filming location of Beat Street.) I do want to know what Arkay saw. It has piqued my intrest greatly. Try and find that clip if you can.
