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  1. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    I remember the latter because of my wife's comment at the time, to wit: "These people hire au pairs and have no idea what they're getting into. Those Brit girls just want to come over here to party. The parents who hire them think that they're getting Daphne Moon from Frasier!"
  2. ChiTownScion

    Do you have a vivid memory????

    My mom had a serious substance abuse problem, and I had an older brother with severe developmental disabilities, what was referred to at the time as "mental retardation." Parents fought continually. A lot of grist there for a therapist's couch, I'm sure... but it's ancient history. It's over...
  3. ChiTownScion

    THE RETURN OF THE tUCKER????

    Interesting undertaking. I'll believe it when I see it.
  4. ChiTownScion

    What seperates "golden era" from "midcentury"?

    We have 'em in the Midwest as well. They still make a terrific cup of coffee. I go gourmet on soda pop and hot chocolate, but nothing beats a good cup of regular coffee in the AM.
  5. ChiTownScion

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    Exactly.
  7. ChiTownScion

    Vintage Silhouettes Custom Hats - Official Affiliate Thread

    Show and Tell time. I've posted these before, but not in this thread. This is my first Vintage Silhouette hat. Silver belly beaver fur felt, high crown, 1930's style: This is my most recent acquisition. I wanted a hat like Howard Hughes wore when he flew his Spruce...
  8. ChiTownScion

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    I always laugh whenever I see some sunny southern region hit by a rare snow or ice storm, and the locals don't know how to drive in it. It often looks like a bumper car ride on steroids. Maybe Buffalo and Chicago should become winter vacation destinations where folks who have never...
  9. ChiTownScion

    Would some of you join me...?

    I lost my father ten years last February. I miss him still. To your father.
  10. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    And sometimes, anachronistic terms hang around despite all odds. Members of the Chicago Fire Department still refer to a battalion chief's car as "the buggy." And the radioed term from a train conductor to the engineer to get things moving is still, "Highball!"
  11. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    You're right. I was there in '87 and '88 as well. Old age settin' in, I suppose.
  13. ChiTownScion

    The Cap Faction

    Now that it's the weekend, here's a few shots of the Prinz Heinrich Mütz that I posted earlier from a cell phone pic. These show the work in better detail.
  14. ChiTownScion

    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

    I know that I displayed my newest Art Fawcett "Howard Hughes" chocolate brown fedora before, but here are some shots that show finer detail of the excellent craftsmanship. I have received MANY positive comments on this finely crafted hat!
  15. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    That was grist for a lot of impromptu comedy skits among college friends (some Canadian) and myself at parties of the time, as I recall. His heart was in the right place, but it had an element of overkill to it, particularly with the patriotic music swelling in the background.
  16. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    A few years back on one of my jaunts to Gettysburg we had one of the licensed battlefield guides who had been at the 1938 75th Anniversary Reunion as a boy. I asked him what his memories of the vets were, and he told me that the old fellas mainly spoke among themselves in quiet conversation...
  17. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    And it is my understanding that a number of Civil War widows were around well after the centennial of the 1960's. It was not uncommon for Union army veterans to marry girls in their teens- the promise of a widow's pension was an incentive for such a person of an impoverished background to marry...
  19. ChiTownScion

    The Cap Faction

    Waited over seven months- and it was ordered in the maker's shop in Hamburg- but my Prince Heinrich cap finally arrived today.
  20. ChiTownScion

    What's something modern you won't miss when it becomes obsolete?

    And speaking of Christmas.... Those Christmas Eve "sightings of Santa's sleigh by NORAD." Lame.
  21. ChiTownScion

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    My new Vintage Silhoettes fedora and my A-2 jacket. Art really outdid himself on the hat: I asked him for one similar to the fedora Howard Hughes wore in several photographs, and he certainly nailed it.
  22. ChiTownScion

    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

    Thank you for the kind compliment. Yes, it is chocolate brown. Teardrop crown crease, ribbon edge, 4 1/2 " on the crown, with a 1 1/4" wide ribbon.
  23. ChiTownScion

    Art Fawcett VS Hall of Fame

    Wearing my new Art Fawcett "Howard Hughes" fedora and my A-2 jacket at my place up in the North Woods of Wisconsin.

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