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  1. dr greg

    unit badges

    notkraut The one on the left has the inscription TE KAAHU MATAARA, which sounds Polynesian to me, maybe a samoan or maori unit but google comes up with nothing, and the eagle seems an odd juxtaposition.
  2. dr greg

    unit badges

    Any experts out there know what these are, I'm told they're WW2 US...dunno maself.
  3. dr greg

    New Kit

    garrison duty I like my 1952 garrison cap for working on things like my tractor where I have to crawl around under oily bits and pieces, they also go well with 3/4 leather coats for that International Brigades look.I used to have a fabulous forage cap as well, but being made of wool. it was too...
  4. dr greg

    Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain, 1942

    the great divide aussies also are very impressed when we hear about cheerleaders 'rooting' for their team
  5. dr greg

    Pass the Bucket - Eminem is Paladin.

    the wooden idol Keanu's best work had to be in Bill&Ted, but even that doesn't sink as low as Antonio Banderas, I avoid anything with his name on it as a matter of course. But I'm a male.
  7. dr greg

    Not Sissy Actors but REAL MEN

    eddie That's fascinating, one of the great war films is ATTACK with him and Jack Palance, where Eddie plays a coward. That would have taken some doing, but then again he probably had seen some in action and knew what he was talking abouit.
  8. dr greg

    Not Sissy Actors but REAL MEN

    tough enough Back in the 70’s I used to work with a guy who was Polish, one day in the middle of the English winter I said how cold it was… he laughed and said, “you know what is cold, when the axe blade hits the tree and shatters: sending a sliver through the eye of the man beside you…he falls...
  9. dr greg

    Was Your Hometown Retro?

    JR Sorry. the old hotel was in Dallas, had been restored, and the great part was that the shoeshine guy at the station was their hustler if that's not too strong a word, which I thought was cute, that's one thing you DO NOT see in this country, is shoeshiners. It was the 80's as I said and I...
  10. dr greg

    Was Your Hometown Retro?

    Foat Wuth What was the name of the retro rooftop bar/music venue there, I went there in the 80's to check it out but the whole town was shut down for MLK's birthday so I ended up catching the Neville Bros in some bar in Dallas..stayed at a real old hotel there too, near the station, forgotten...
  11. dr greg

    Favorite everyday watch

    Dress watch My other watch is a SEIKO 5, good for any situation that may involve undue travails, but this Girard Perregaux is my fave..a good watch for its day
  13. dr greg

    The Stooge Lounge

    song lines I remember many years ago seeing an episode of the 3 stooges that was sung, absolutely no spoken dialogue. I wondered if that was a technical factor because apparently early films weren't able to coordinate the spoken word accurately enough, which put this one pretty early in both...
  14. dr greg

    great source

    Some of the re-enactment chaps might find this site interesting, it's not just Australian stuff. http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pages-top-level/master-index.htm
  15. dr greg

    Hawaiian Shirts - Aloha Shirts

    the cost of authenticity Another problem with top shelf old aloha shirts is when to wear them, you can't put them on if you're going where a: red wine will be swilled and spilled b: drunken chainsmoking clowns abound c: fights are frequent D: all of the above which sort of eliminates most...
  16. dr greg

    Vintage Sunglasses

    Show us your..SUNGLASSES B&L Wayfarers,5022 model.
  17. dr greg

    Illustration of the Hey Day

    a bit fruity but fun I like Willy Pogany's patterns and illuminations (?) as well as his general figures. http://www.americanartarchives.com/pogany,w.htm
  19. dr greg

    Show us your...RAINCOATS

    the original? Aquascutum, made in london, 10 bucks, does it qualify as D/B without the extra row of buttons?Now I need a dark suit to go with it,
  20. dr greg

    the hunter

    As an experienced vintage clothes seeker, I was called upon to give advice to a neophyte recently, and advised them that anything that had the words:classic, vintage, authentic, or original, on the label was most unlikely to be any of the above. Some of the fake retro labels are laughable...
  21. dr greg

    Hawaiian Shirts - Aloha Shirts

    tut I often wonder who'll appreciate my stuff when I go to the great garage sale in the sky, will vintage clothes be of interest to anybody 30 yeras hence
  22. dr greg

    Hawaiian Shirts - Aloha Shirts

    aloha The prices on feebay are definitely exponential in relation to sizes, reflecting the general scarcity of bigger people back in the old days, which has been canvassed on other threads. I'd love to have thousands to spend on shirts but unfortunately Jack Nicholson was born already so I...
  23. dr greg

    Hawaiian Shirts - Aloha Shirts

    the bird the paradise found jungle bird in red is of course the famous Magnum PI shirt and one is in the smithsonian i believe, I've got one in blue, which doesn't count, but a nice traditional style anyway for the 80's

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