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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 14h

let them get even more tarnished, burn some drippy candles down and leave the wax. can you tell I was recently in new orleans

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

please tell me it’s in the same vein as Alterations & Repairs

classic 1980s tailor shop sign with artwork of blonde woman in glasses with measuring tape around her neck sitting at sewing machine with “alterations & repairs” text

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

bring back non-religious group singing with a pipe organ humans love singing with a pipe organ

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

for a time in early 20th century north america, if group singing with a pipe organ in a church wasn’t your thing, you could group sing in a movie theatre with pipe organ, or a civic auditorium with a pipe organ, or a lodge hall with a pipe organ, or

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ugh I have a couple really cool early 1930s original photos of a chicago? department store interior, I think it’s the children’s section and the design is SO good (deco scottie dog rugs!!), and I have zero idea where I put them 😩 if I ever dig em up I’ll send you photos

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

(not thinking of anywhere specific it’s just been a non-problem problem for the last two decades. don’t ask what happened to the pipe organs you don’t want to know)

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

tens/hundreds of thousands? millions? of people saw these interiors before they were obliterated and yet! not even a deep fried newspaper halftone 😔

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

thinking about total loss of locally common knowledge within 100yrs vis à vis how goddamn many silent era movie theatres I can’t find a single auditorium photograph from

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

yes, the man who founded ATOS is also the reason that guy you used to know had a dick piercing he wouldn’t stop showing people

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

no problem! he was a truly fascinating dude

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

(jesse crawford haaaaated piston kachunk so bad that later in life he went so far as to basically record tracks a registration change at a time and then splice it back together 😵‍💫)

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

one more for the late nite nerds only: just after 6:50, before the last note of “Wabash Moon” is even finished ringing out, we hear audible piston KA-CHUNK milliseconds before Helen just starts godzilla stomping everything in her radius

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

the implication that she didn’t give a rat’s ass about what the men in the audience thought about anything ♥️

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

4/21 Wurlitzer at the NYC Paramount building recording studio!

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

(3/3) can’t emphasize enough that she was the *only one* playing in this hot (chicago!!) style who made it to record- look up her husband’s recordings to see what I mean lol. and it’s an actual miracle these transcription discs survived, they’re the best example of her whole deal. HBD Helen!!

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

(2/3) from a 1931 broadcast of the Royal Typewriter Hour. Helen shares the bill with the Royal Duotones orchestra, but we have the chance to hear some of her signature 🔥🔥🔥 playing on “Hello Beautiful” and “Tie a Little String…” is pure racy swagger 🥵 on.soundcloud.com/BAYYmao5SC9V...

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Helen Crawford, organist, "Royal Typewriter Hour," CBS Radio, February 15, 1931, Part 1

Announcer: Louis A. Witten Conductor, "The Royal Duotones:" Aldo Ricci Tenor: Paul Small THE ROYAL DUOTONES March: Le Père La Victoire (Father of Victory) -- Ganne HELEN CRAWFORD Hello, Beautiful

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Q: is it Helen Crawford’s birthday? A: it is Helen Crawford’s birthday! let’s celebrate by listening to one of this remarkable gal’s rare solo recordings… (CAUTION! HOT!!) (1/3)

black and white photo c. early 1930s of a white woman with dark wavy hair wearing a plaid dress with matching headband playing a three-manual theatre organ. caption reads “Helen Crawford at the console of the Wurlitzer in the NBC studio, Merchandise Mart bldg., Chicago”

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Sasha Talebi @sashat.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

behind every smooth-faced wife is a smooth-brained man

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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I’m afraid only moisturepunk strikes the exact correct balance of optimism and pessimism

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

ughghhgh incredible. the family dress up trunk is such an underappreciated early style source

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

also I would pay cold cash for gramps’ dress. I’m 5’9” it’d at least have a chance of fitting

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

deeply important to have Silly in the lineage

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

she did unfortunately, iirc the taxi she was in was hit by another car and she refused medical attention, then died at home of a blood clot :(

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

were these her actual words? embellishment? a reporter’s fabrication? we’ll never know! if there was ever a full-on interview with her I havent found it. Jesse probably would’ve forbidden it anyway 🙃

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Helen is still known for her “backwards dresses” but with a little more info the whole story feels a bit sad…

newspaper article. text reads: Mrs. Jesse Crawford Says She Is Backward When It Comes to Music.
Mrs. Jesse Crawford of the famous Broadway movie organist team of Crawford and Crawford explained yesterday that life was just a series of reverses for her.
"My gowns look as if they were made backwards. "she said. "That's because
all the decorations are on the back instead
of the front. I do that so the audience will see them as I play."
Mrs. Crawford prefers to be known as an accomplished organist rather than as a stunning dresser. That's why she wears simple dresses.
"It's good psychology,” said the musician.
"Now if I wore a lot of stunning dresses the women in the audience would think I was just sitting up there in front of the organ trying to show off. They would think my husband was doing all the playing. So I put all the decorations where the audience can see them, and give all my attention to the organ."

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

the true story is quite nerdy (ragtime concert!!) so I’ll let you craft your own narrative✨

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

oh, you haven’t seen this particular version of that well-known* photo? that’s why I’m here babes

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

count your days, friends. I’m back and I have Fresh Helen Crawford Research and I’m gonna be real annoying about it

low-res black and white newspaper image of a woman at a 4 manual theatre organ console, early 1930s

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

“this old thing is not truly mine, I am simply its current caretaker” is such a simple and healthy yet elusive mindset for so many

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

guys will be like “I know a place” and take you to the gravel lot behind the Scott Joplin House

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

and all the lights o’ town are shining bright and we’re all tight

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

when I was 18 and miserable I attempted adult night school in mississauga and spent many hours waiting for the bus in the freezing cold listening to this song and wishing I was anywhere but mississauga

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

sorry for continued cancon posting but “sudbury saturday night” is truly one of the drinking songs of all time and statistically no americans know it??

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Brandon @bedubble.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Snow looks so good when the backdrop is big brick buildings. Makes you feel like you’re living in Muppets Christmas Carol

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

being told to “manage my expectations” around having to deal with fraud alerts for every single atm transaction I make, including at my own bank, because my face skin is kind of fucked and I didn’t have time to run the sweater de-piller over my hat

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I was treated SO WEIRDLY at the bank the other day, theorizing because I dared to go there straight from my quasi grimy no makeup job

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the milfwaukee road @cartilagehead.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

the first time I ever heard “Barrett’s Privateers” it was being rendered a cappella by a drunk older down-and-out gentleman on the Yonge-University-Spadina line. a truly ideal introduction

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