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by **shimp scrampi** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 4:26 am

I'd say no on the '48 Chevy, seeing as this photo was taken in 1942. And that's a clue!

by **Maxwell** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:47 am

A wild guess. It's being pushed, so your clue leads me to think Jack may be taking it either to a junkyard or a car dealer.

by **shimp scrampi** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:01 am

Darn close Max, but in 1942, where would all patriotic Americans take their heaps?

by **Maxwell** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:49 am

shimp scrampi wrote:Darn close Max, but in 1942, where would all patriotic Americans take their heaps?

Ah, to scrap to produce a bomber that Jack would fly in a dream.

by **shimp scrampi** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 11:08 am

Yeah! In addition to it being a radio show plot (10-18-42, and a bit thereafter), Jack actually did some publicity for the scrap drives to offset the then-current steel shortage, including actually finding a real Maxwell, and doing the stunt of taking it in for scrap for newsreels.

We kinda forget that the Maxwell was a war casualty, and disappeared for a good while, until it would mysteriously resurface in the show much, much later (I think 1949 definitively, according to 39 Forever) without explanation.

by **Yhtapmys** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:12 pm

shimp scrampi wrote:I'd say no on the '48 Chevy, seeing as this photo was taken in 1942. And that's a clue!

Yeah, Steve, that pretty well gave it away. The war scrap drive seemed obvious but I thought the car was post-war. It's probably a '41 Chev; maybe a '40. Who are the women?

Yhtapmys

by **shimp scrampi** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:22 am

I don't know for sure, but my guess is the women (and the uniformed guard) are 20th Century Fox bit players, as Jack turns the Maxwell in at "the studio". In addition to the scrap drive publicity, this was -also- convenient PR to plug Jack's upcoming "Meanest Man in the World".

The men in the second shot, if anyone's interested, are Mr. Merrill Stubbs, Chief of the Automobile Graveyard Section, Conservation Division of the War Production Board (he'll have you know!) and Lessing Rosenwald, Chief of the Conservation Division, War Production Board.

by **shimp scrampi** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:35 am

OK, why not...

by **Yhtapmys** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:09 pm

I didn't know Jack played The Joker!

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by **JohnM** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:32 pm

Surely that's George Burns looking all Joker like, not Jack?

by **shimp scrampi** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 2:44 pm

'Tis neither Joker, George, nor Jack! ...

by **JohnM** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:52 am

This is a huge stretch but ... Peter Lorre?

by **Yhtapmys** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:48 am

shimp scrampi wrote:'Tis neither Joker, George, nor Jack! ...

The hand's dark. Maybe it's Eddie Anderson.

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by **shimp scrampi** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:58 am

And I would've gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!

Not quite sure who the mask is supposed to be - my vaguely-educated guess is that Eddie's goofing on George Jessel, who was known as the perpetual master of ceremonies, rather than George Burns (who didn't really look like that in 1941). This is from an NBC dinner for Jack celebrating his 10-year radio anniversary (a little early).

by **shimp scrampi** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:16 pm

Who's Jack seen with here?

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