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    Campaign hat study from "The Wind and The Lion"

    THIS movie is what started me on the road (pun not intended) to the Stetson Open Road.... Classic lines: "Cap'n Jerome, United States Marine Corps. And you, Sir, are my prisoner." "You are a very dangerous man, and your President Roosevelt is mad." (Renders salute and large grin)...
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    Just watched LA Confidential again...

    I like the Dragnet riff; the TV show that was starting, "Badge Of Honor", is direct homage to the greatest cop show of all time, Dragnet.
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    What's your least favorite chore?

    Well, I detest all housework. You do it, and it just needs to be done again. Never through with it, like when fixin' something. At least you can read when you're doing the laundry.
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    The loss of occasion

    Been watching this thread.... The comments made are indicitave of a bigger issue in modern society: We live in a more or less honorless society. There's a bigger problem that not dressing for formal occasions, failing to remove a hat in a Church/restaurant/etc, and leaving Church or other...
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    Opening Lines In Radio Programs

    From the Crossroads of America, the Pacific Garden Mission presents.... Unshackled.
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    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    Vought F8U-1. Golden Age, but barely. Looks evil just sitting on the ramp or hooked into the cat.
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    Great songs remade

    I have yet to find a Western Swing tune that wasn't improved by Asleep At The Wheel's cover.
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    The Great MacArthur Debate/Discussion

    I'll say this much: "Tears as big as buckshot and as evenly spaced as soldiers on parade. Never said a blessed word about the Corps." BGEN L. B. Puller, USMC, on Macarthur's lack of appreciation of the role of the Marines in the Choisin Breakout in a speech given in Korea. Macarthur...
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    Vintage Heat?

    The Highway Patrolman (AKA Model 28) was a .357 Magnum (AKA Model 27) that wasn't polished as well. They postdate the Golden Era, being introduced in the mid 1950s. I have had 2 of them, and regret selling the first one.
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    New U.S. Air Force uniform protoypes

    Random thoughts.... 1) Being an E4 in the US Navy (Reserve Component), my pet peeve is so many of our uniforms require dry cleaning. Dress Whites should be canvas instead of polyester, and "WestPac creases" (sewn in) should be in all working dress uniforms. IMHO the "urban camo" (sic)...
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    Why Did my Mother Hate the 40s So Much?

    I think a VERY good point is made in that we tend to romanticize eras we didn't live through. One military funeral was hard enough. We (I think) tend to overlook that a lot of our parents/grandparents/kinfolk lost a good number of friends and relatives in The Golden Age. Looking at a fedora and...
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    The Art of the Open Road

    With the OR like in the pic you'd fit right in in an old time string band. Think Bill Monroe or the Stanley Brothers...
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    1940s/1950s country

    http://www.wdvx.com/programs/HillbillyFever.html Thursday evening 7-10p Eastern time. It's streamed, so you don't have to be Around Here to listen...
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    Where do you hang your hat?

    In the closest unoccupied seat after all hands present have been seated.
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    The Open Road Guild

    Here's mine... While I *do* look like a park ranger, I have since flattened the hat out a mite....
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    Ship Geek

    Only time I have ever been at sea was "haze gray and underway", but travelling civilian on the high seas might be worth lookin' into....
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    Most Hated Ugly Hats ever...

    I like a hat turned up in the front, but then I might just have been in one too many reenactments....
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    How we dress and what we drive

    Plain old dave drives a plain old Ford Crown Vic. V8, rear wheel drive, full frame and bench seat. The last Great American Car....
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    Vintage Heat?

    The Savage pocket autos are slick... The ads for them are neat, too...
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    Golden Era Passtimes / Hobbies

    Amateur Radio, the ORIGINAL internet...

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