NOT JUST A POODLE SKIRT, chrome, pink & black 50s-themed cafe, although that era is well represented. Nostalgia is part of it, but the main idea is that the era between the 20s and early 60s produced a huge amount of superior popular entertainment: jazz, musical theatre, and popular music, as well as some of the best movies ever made–a wealth of rich content worth exploring in depth.
The shop features an old-fashioned soda fountain and art deco jukebox loaded with tunes both well-known and obscure, representing each decade in our period of interest. Browse our music and movie offerings on CD and DVD; books on the people and trends in the history of jazz, dance bands and early radio & TV; the actors, directors and studios; and hundreds of posters and other memorabilia.
I invite you to poke around on this site; check out the sound and movie files–regard them as previews of things to come. And don't miss the links to some cool nostalgia/historic web sites. Your comments are welcome; you can email me at dmiller@gv.net.
WATCH clips from old Hollywood movies, short music films and TV shows, many of which the Jitterbug Palace will offer for sale.
IMPORTANT: clear your cache often in order to see the newest additions.
MOVIE GENRES WILL INCLUDE:
Silent Classics
Musicals
Screwball Comedies
WW II
Astaire & Rogers
Film Noir
Adventure
Science Fiction
Swashbucklers
Serials
Comedy
Hitchcock
Westerns
Selected TV Shows
NEW WEB CAM! See Jitterbug Palace's home town on the GRASS VALLEY CAM
To be updated about store location
and other developments, and to suggest products (movies, music, books, posters)
you would be interested in, EMAIL ME. Put Jitterbug Palace in the subject line.
Bookmark this site and come back often--I'll be updating it frequently.
Milkshakes
Sundaes
Banana Splits
New York Egg Cremes
Fountain Drinks
Mary Fraser Candies
Featuring your favorite big band, pop, doowop, surf, western swing, R&B and rock and roll hits. Well-represented also is The Great American Song Book—The Gershwins, Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern.
CLICK THE LINK BELOW for a multimedia preview/commercial for the Jitterbug Palace. It may take quite a while to download and will open in a separate window.
