The Kitty Packard Pictorial is the lovechild of an LA gal suffering from an apparent glitch in the Space-Time Continuum. (Not that I don’t love our iPods and Crackberry’s … but freshly pressed 78s and coded telegrams are much more fun.)
The Pictorial was created as a very necessary means of self-expression, as well as to provide a platform through which we could fuse past with present—looking at the world each day through Black and White (And Technicolor!) glasses. The aim is to create a sense of then in our everyday nows through movies, photos, music, essays, news articles, books, art and anything else that happens to strike my fanciful whim. (what are blogs for, after all, if not to indulge one’s fanciful whims!)
Oh, and about the name? I’m just bonkers for those big, splashy Pictorial magazines from the 1920s and 30s and and wanted to have one of my very own. (And if you can guess where the Packard comes from then you, my friend, are the bees knees!)
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Dear Kitty,
I invite you to take a look at my interviews with entertainer and historian Max Morath about the Ragtime Era and the Great American Songbook –
http://adventuresinmusic.biz/Archives/Interviews/maxmorath.html
http://adventuresinmusic.biz/Archives/Interviews/maxmorath2.htm
If you enjoy them, please share them with your readers.
Many good wishes,
Comment by Chris Wright August 3, 2009 @ 4:55 pm-Chris Wright, Founder
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Just discovered your blog. I’m looking forward to spending a bit of time here.
Comment by rokawalsh September 28, 2009 @ 5:51 pm