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    How we dress and what we drive

    how we dress and what we drive. Always wear a fedora, always wear a collar shirt, alway wear dress work pants, 4 weeks ago I bought a pair of blue jeans to wear to a toyota plant, because of welding you had to wear 100 percent cotton clothing, so the next week, i picked up my old hired hand too...
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    50s-early 60s?

    need a book about the sixties , heck i remember the 60s. I was born in a time capsule, time moved very slowly, the fifties were still there in the sixties and the sixties were still there into the seventies and the eighties we moved. Culture shock just about killed me, the sixties were too me ...
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    A really cool old Chet Atkins video I thought I'd share with you folks

    great video. i went to a chuck berry concert, with roy orbison about twenty years ago, and am glad that i did. That reminds of that, wish i still had that poor mans mustang ford falcon that drove to that concert, love live the fifties, mind you i have a studebaker now, that even cooler than the...
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    How Vintage Do You Go? -merged thread-

    how old school. I wear fedoras, my car in the summer is a 1959 studebaker Lark, i ride a 1950schwinn green bike, no pee wee herman jokes please, my radio is a general electric cathedral, our pianio is a 1916 berlin birds eye maple, and i live in a 1915 home. But no my wife made sell the...
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    A breakdown of Fedora Loungers by sex, location, age and marital status

    survey says. male age 44, woodstock ontario Canada southern ontario , married to the same lady for almost twenty years , she keeps telling me she is gonna die soon and leave alone, with our two girls. Keep the home fires burning. 59Lark.:rage:
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    Indy Review

    more update and thoughts. The idea of martians and flying saucers is rightly 1950s and thus but i thought that the aliens were credable. The idea of conspiracy is not new, but i am firm believer that there is warehouses full of stuff they dont want us to know about, and i also think that only...
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    Indy Review

    Last word on indy review. not. My family decided that we take the family van and go to the drive in and watch the indy movie, after buying 30 bucks of chips and pop, each having to have their own type of soda and chips and such. WE then decided that the six year old would have nightmares and...
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    obessed with ncis. Since they dont play jag reruns on history channel anymore are new toy is ncis. Which is produced by the same people as jag and has a similar feel and i like jethro. I also enjoy seeing one of the original actors from man from uncle still on tv working. I am also one of these...
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    Ever seen one of these?

    neat piece of machinery That reminds of a 1930s dictaphone machine that operated with wire to record on that i passed up at a flea market twenty years ago , but if i bought everything neat item, i would still be single, and need a barn to store it all. The concept is neat, and i have seen...
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    Felt hats in summer..

    fashion has to have a motive :rolleyes: The only time i wear a hot felt fedora in the heat, is the exception of a funeral, black biltmore, black double breasted pin striped suit, tried this outfit on the weekend last for a wedding and it was too tight, time to cut back and loose weight and get...
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    Felt hats in summer..

    too hot for felt in ontario. yesterday in ontario , we had a humid day and i wore my straw hat, milnano straw, today it cooled down and i throw a felt fedora back on. The leather band really starts me sweating if the temp is up, and the salt stains from the band. But you fellas, dont have old...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    question is did you like the indy film. I may take my wife and eldest daughter to go see the lastest indy film but since it will cost at least $50.dollars, and since that is more than a days wages for me , i would like some feed back from some loungers that has seen it. I read in a popular...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Hang em high with clint eastwood. :eusa_clap :eusa_clap Last sat, while I was getting lunch ready and the store was still open, i ended up watching on amc, this clint eastwood movie and it was still on after cooking lunch, eating lunch, and washing dishes. A long western but I remember this...
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    Perfection is an Obsession

    fedoras for the job. Trick is too , have a barn fedora, last years favourite for dirty jobs,outside work or the barn. A straw fedora for hot weather, and a good clean one for good, and my favourite a black one for funerals or weddings, either way someone is getting it. I keep an new crisp one...
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    New Amelia Earhart Movie

    proof is in the pudding. The authour that published that dusty volume had found airplane parts that came from the same kind of aircraft, he had found villlagers that saw a american woman that looked like amelia, being held by the japanese. How many american aircraft and women flyers do you...
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    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    planted a victory garden in my front yard. We grew up a farm with a garden the size of four new homes and lots, and we havent had garden of much since then , left the farm in 1977. This year, i got out my hoe, and culivator and started a garden with my six year old. I just wish i still had a...
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    Favorite Authors

    favourite author one that fits this forum. An author that art deco period lovers would love is edward wright, clea.s moon was the first one and he has two more with this same character. His stories are set just after the second world. His hero is a anti hero, isnt that real , a real gray...
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    Bathtub Nashes....

    nash ramble story my nash ramble story was during high school, in auto shop a local kid got hold of his grandfathers rambler after he died and was getting checked over in auto class. The couple of things he was doing was changing the front seat to buckets, i went up him to him and the bench...
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    What is your biggest vice?

    my biggest vice is talking. bad for talking too much, gallons of java at my favourite retro diner, i could sit down at breakfast and they would keep bringing coffe, record there is twelve cups. coke cola only in small glass bottles, my grocer brings it in for me.. seven year old cheddar...
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    New Amelia Earhart Movie

    amelia movie filming in dunnville ont Canada. i was coming home from taking my wife out for mothers day and i heard on the radio, a request for 300 extras for the movie of amelia earhardt being filmed in dunnville, near here. The story always interested me, and i remember finding a dusty volume...

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