De stille kracht van koloniale
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GELD VOOR
NIEUWE
MEUBELS?
bij Setiakawan
can now see on T.V. You no longer
even have to use your imagination and
that, I think, is a great loss.
Partly through the radio the world got
to know jazz, the music of America
that found its way all over the world.
Jazz started in the South and often New
Orleans is mentioned as its cradle, and
in the Twenties Chicago had become a
jazz center, as had New York City.
Jazz consists of a lot of improvisations
and its rhythms are irresistible. Black
and white musicians played the music
and Benny Goodman, for instance,
who heard Louis Armstrong and others
play, had a good ear for it and later be
came the King of Swing, swing being a
form of jazz also.
Back in the Fifties we used to go to
Gaillard, on the Laan van Meerder-
voort in The Hague, and just listen to
the Dutch Swing College Band play
Dixieland jazz. New Orleans jazz, un
der the direction of Peter Schilperoort.
They were very good. I have a brother
who is such a fan of the DSC, that he
has just about every record they ever
made. It is happy music, toe-tapping
music.
Charles A. Lindbergh
There was, however, more to this deca
de than just gangsters, alcohol and
jazz. A young man, Charles A. Lind
bergh crossed the Atlantic Ocean alone
in a small plane, the Spirit of St. Louis,
leaving Roosevelt Field on Long Island
on May 20, 1927 and landing at Le
Bourget Field in Paris on May 21
He had flown 3.600 miles in 33 hours
and 30 minutes. Nobody had done
anything like it before in the history of
aviation.
Later his first-born was kidnapped.
He and his wife lived in Hopewell
(New Jersey) then. It so happened that
I got to know a carpenter who worked
for the Lindberghs at the time his
small son was abducted and he told
me that he saw a ladder under the ba
by's window the next day. The kidnap
per was caught, and although he main
tained his innocence, he was brought
to trial, convicted, and died years later
in the electric chair in New Jersey.
If memory serves me, his name was
Bruno Hauptmann.
The Twenties were drawing to a close
but not before the stock market cras
hed on what became known as Black
Thursday, October 24, 1929 and then
nosedived on October 29. Many people
lost all their money, many people
jumped out of windows to their death,
committing suicide because they could
no longer meet their financial obliga
tions. It must have been utter chaos.
The crash of the stock market would
have very far-reaching consequences,
not only for America, but for the who
le world. The decade had begun so full
of promises after the end of the Great
War. My parents had stories about
great prosperity, especially among the
planters in Indonesia, the men who
worked for sugar, tobacco, coffee, or
- best of all - rubber estates. They said
it was not unusual to see them light
their cigars with bills of anywhere be
tween ten and hundred guilders. They
made that much money and money
then meant so little.
My parents were married in 1928.
They had been full of confidence in a
future that surely would be rosy, it was
what they expected and it was what
the rest of the world expected. The
Roaring Twenties this decade was cal
led in America. Nothing seemed to be
able to stop it, but even if the decade
had started off with a bang, it ended
with a whimper. And given what had
happened on October 29, 1929, what
would the Thirties have in store for
the world;
H. v. Olphen
Al meer dan 40 jaar het adres voor
de enige echte Indische saucijsjes
Tevens in ons assortiment
Babat Faroe - Limpa oetak
De Groenteman H. v. Olphen,
Haverkamp 222, 2592 BM Den Haag,
tel. 070 - 383 96 99. V.a. Centr. station
bereikb. met bus 4 of tram 6.
Wat zijn ze mooi, die oude koloniale meubelen! Bij Kampong Antik in Laren
lean men ze zien.
De oude teakhouten meubelen zijn niet te kopiëren omdat je teakbomen die
voor de fabricage nodig zijn, simpelweg niet meer mag kappen. Het oude
teakhout - wat hier en daar nog bewaard wordt voor restauratie van oude
meubelen - is nu een vermogen waard in Indonesië. Het merendeel van het
assortiment van Kampong Antik bestaat uit originele, gerestaureerde
meubelstukken. Daarnaast voert Kampong Antik voor een klein deel repro
antiek, gemaakt naar origineel koloniaal model.
Ook het bedrijfsleven zoekt blijkbaar als tegenhanger van de dynamiek en de
snelheid van de huidige maatschappij, een stuk rust in de werkomgeving,
want Kampong Antik heeft al regelmatig met een koloniale inrichting in
warm teakhout, menig ontvangst-, directiekamer en zelfs bedrijfskantine
mogen inrichten.
Voor de lezers van Moesson heeft Kampong Antiek een aantrekkelijke,
speciale aanbieding! (Zie onze advertentie elders in dit blad).
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Source: Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia
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43ste jaargang - nummer 4 - oktober I 998
