Fleet Foot Maggie

Fleet Foot Maggie Specializing in vintage and antique glassware, kitchenware, furniture, linens, clothing, jewelry, ha I grew up in a house full of antiques. Were they happy?

The Story of Fleet Foot Maggie
FLEET FOOT MAGGIE·MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2019·
I’ve always loved the past, ever since I was a kid. My parents listened to classical music, Dixieland Jazz and old standards. My brother favored classic rock, blues, the Beatles. I scratched up his Styx-Paradise Theater album from playing it so much. One of the reasons I loved it was because of the picture of the old movie

theater in its heyday. I never liked to look at the rundown version of the theater on the other side of the album. I gravitated towards books and movies about history or time travel. When I first saw Xanadu, I used to fantasize about being back in the 40’s and falling in love with Gene Kelly. When I was a teenager, I had old movie posters all over my walls. I kept albums filled with pictures of movie stars from the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. Collecting vintage is my way of traveling back in time. When I pick up an antique or vintage item, I can almost feel it vibrate with the energy of the past. I like to imagine where it has been, who owned it, who wore it, who used it, who stitched it. Were they in love with someone? What did they worry about? Did they have children? I am irresistibly drawn to antique stores. I can poke around in them for hours. Sadly, I only have one house to store my vintage finds. My solution is to start passing my finds on to you. I hope you enjoy them like I do. My store is named Fleet Foot Maggie, after my daughter, because she is the reason for everything. Oh, and after Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’, because.....Dylan.

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Vintage Muse of the Day: Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985)was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the Jazz Age and flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career.

At the age of 15, Brooks began her career as a dancer and toured with the Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts where she performed opposite Ted Shawn. After being fired, she found employment as a chorus girl in George White's Scandals and as a dancer in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City. While dancing in the Follies, Brooks came to the attention of Walter Wanger, a producer at Paramount Pictures, and was signed to a five-year contract with the studio.She appeared in supporting roles in various Paramount films before taking the heroine's role in Beggars of Life. During this time, she became an intimate friend of actress Marion Davies and joined the elite social circle of press baron William Randolph Hearst at Hearst Castle in San Simeon.

Dissatisfied with her mediocre roles in Hollywood films, Brooks went to Germany in 1929 and starred in three feature films that launched her to international stardom: Pandora's Box (1929), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), and Miss Europe (1930); the first two were directed by G. W. Pabst. By 1938, she had starred in seventeen silent films and eight sound films. After retiring from acting, she fell upon financial hardship. For the next two decades, she struggled with alcoholism and suicidal tendencies. Following the rediscovery of her films by cinephiles in the 1950s, a reclusive Brooks began writing articles about her film career; her insightful essays drew considerable acclaim. She published her memoir, Lulu in Hollywood, in 1982.Three years later, she died of a heart attack at age 78.

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