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  1. David Conwill

    Show us your vintage home!

    Darn, I forgot all about this while I was at my computer! If you like those, you'd love the 19th-early 20th century firehouses Detroit is trying to sell off right now.
  2. David Conwill

    Show us your vintage home!

    No need to apologize. I've entertained similar thoughts in the past - usually involving brick warehouses or service-station like buildings. As you indicated - every gearhead's dream! When I get to a full-fledged computer, I'll try to share some of my imaginings.
  3. David Conwill

    Show us your vintage home!

    That's a carriage house! Would you be thinking to live on the second floor?
  4. David Conwill

    Boater faction!

    Perhaps, but I've yet to find one where I'd want to wear my boater. Jazz on Jefferson is a class act.
  5. David Conwill

    Boater faction!

    A Saginawean! Who knew? Greetings from Bay City! Great festival, I've been wanting to go back but I never seem to find anyone to watch the kiddos.
  7. David Conwill

    Post New Hats Here!

    It shows. On some people the hat wears them, but you are clearly owning that look (to use a tired phrase). It's all in the self confidence.
  8. David Conwill

    Post New Hats Here!

    This is a great look, and one I've been wanting to try - the crew-neck sweater and boater together look like an ideal summer combination.
  9. David Conwill

    The Cap Faction

    :) My wife made that for me a couple years ago from some crazy seersucker we found at the fabric store. I've really gotten into it lately.
  10. David Conwill

    The Cap Faction

    This just showed up today: Kangol Canvas Ripley Newsboy It rounds out my collection quite well and should be the most versatile cap in the mob. I do hope it shrinks up a stitch, though.
  11. David Conwill

    Post New Hats Here!

    These just showed up today: Kangol Canvas Ripley Newsboy Ozark Truman Milan They round out my summer and cap collection quite well.
  13. David Conwill

    Everyday Fellows of the Golden Era?

    It doesn't get much more "everyday" than Montgomery Ward's in 1941.
  14. David Conwill

    Modern home furnishings & appliances with a vintage flair

    If you don't have the time or patience to track down functioning vintage appliances, don't have the skills or means to have them restored, or don't have an understanding better half, there are always Big Chill refrigerators; Elmira Stoveworks's Northstar line of large appliances; and SMEG...
  15. David Conwill

    Dressing for HOT weather?

    I do well in Michigan's hot-and-humid summers wearing light cotton poplin and seersucker. I need to acquire some lighter-weight shirts, though. I'm not flush enough for linen or Palm Beach suiting.
  16. David Conwill

    Show us your Guns!

    There must be an interesting story as to how a US GI ended up bringing home a Soviet revolver - a double capture, perhaps? Oh, and a2jacketpatches, those WWI pieces are to die for.
  17. David Conwill

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    You might enjoy reading Food of a Younger Land. It's a summary of an abandoned WPA project documenting American regional eating habits in the late-1930s and early-1940s.
  19. David Conwill

    Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

    I certainly believe this. I'm totally ham fisted, but my wife is very good at this type of thing. You should see her gap points on an old distributor.
  20. David Conwill

    AMAZING Vintage Photos of Fedoras

    I used to have a neat Shantung labeled "Made in Occupied Japan". It was pretty beat up, and sadly I think it was thrown away. I had never considered Japanese attitudes toward western dress in the pre-war era. Fairly neutral, it seems?
  21. David Conwill

    Show us your Guns!

    Quite a find, Kilroy. I thought I was pretty familiar with my WWII small arms, but that's one I've never heard of!
  22. David Conwill

    Student Jalopies of the 1940s

    That sounds like a delightful way to spend college. I was thinking about just how ancient those cars seemed when it occurred to me that in 1979, a '28 was only 51. Still, auto technology had come a long way (for good or for bad) in those 51 years than it has since 1962.
  23. David Conwill

    Show us your Guns!

    Well, they'd go better with your pith helmet and whiskers.

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