Want to buy or sell something? Check the classifieds
  • The Fedora Lounge is supported in part by commission earning affiliate links sitewide. Please support us by using them. You may learn more here.

Search results

  1. Bugguy

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    Here's a mate to the fixture in my first series: Here are the offspring: This is one of my favorites. Cleaned and re-wired:
  2. Bugguy

    Letter-locking

    I missed this when first posted. I've never heard of it. Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
  3. Bugguy

    Golden Era Things You've Revived Or Repaired For Use

    No way a big box store medicine cabinet would ever work in my house... I picked up this sad gem at Building Value - Cincinnati (Eastertseal Enterprises). Rusted out, ragged wires, tarnished chrome, bad silvering; in other words, "CHEAP". Heavy wire brushing with my angle grinder, re-wire with...
  4. Bugguy

    What's your favorite, most psychologial-impressive movie scene??

    The USO tour segment in Apocalypse Now. Something about the silent arrival, the pyrotechnics, the crashed helicopter, and the truncated show hit me at a visceral level.
  5. Bugguy

    Show us your photography

    Pictures I took in 1971. Not up to Nat. Geo. standards, but two of my favorites. Too bad the emulsion is starting to change. First picture is off Hong Kong harbor. The next picture is Macau after riding down from HK on the hydrofoil.
  7. Bugguy

    Adventure! Fedora Lounge Folks in Action!

    I thought I'd take a personal trip way-back... ~1960 and share a pre-FL experience. In the first pic, I'm the kid looking down holding the second net 3 kids back. This was a Chicago Boys Club field trip to a Cook County (Chicago, IL) forest preserve. The naturalist was Charlie M. The second...
  8. Bugguy

    The nutcracker Kings are holding court......

    Nice collection. Thanks for sharing the sample. Do you look for older, vintage pieces?
  9. Bugguy

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    My current house is not old - ~35 years. We've only been in Nashville for about 6 tears. I bought most of the fixtures for my Cincinnati house, Cotswold Tudor style, that was pushing 100 years. I couldn't stand to let them go to someone that wouldn't appreciate them. I'll dig out a couple of...
  10. Bugguy

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    ... and a few more:
  11. Bugguy

    Vintage lamps/light fixtures

    This is definitely over kill, so I'll keep the collection to thumbnails... We're big fans of vintage light fixtures and other than when absolutely necessary, will always look for older fixtures. Unless our guests are of our ilk (FL), they tend to not appreciate their style, workmanship, and...
  13. Bugguy

    Vintage posters and other paper ephemera

    Deadly Moonshine. Back in the early 70's, I was doing patient follow-up for the North Carolina State Health Department in Western North Carolina. As I was deep in the mountains, I was given these broadsides to distribute. I still have a number of the originals and have framed some for...
  14. Bugguy

    80 Years Ago: Relive the Queen Mary's Maiden Voyage

    I believe my father was on the same round-trip tour, fortunately. Here are several souvenir cards he sent home...
  15. Bugguy

    “WTF’ Hats,” that are hard to believe...

    I'd like to reflect on a previous post of mine from May 25, 2014 (https://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/pyramid-hat-man.77797/). It went unanswered and uncommented on... nonetheless, seems appropriate for this thread. There's always a story... "According to the caption his unusual...
  16. Bugguy

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    When the glass is good, I buy... the metal was in poor shape and it needed a new socket and wiring. That was easy, but if the glass is bad, its never worth the effort. I just need a headboard thin enough for this to clip over.
  17. Bugguy

    In Search Of: The Great Hot Dog Stand

    Chicago's north side (5600 Milwaukee) "Hasty Tasty" or Hastee Tastee or Tastee Hastee... I think they were always in court about the name. It was known for its "Meal in a Bun". We went there often in the 50's.
  19. Bugguy

    Draft card

    My father registered in 1940 and volunteered in 1943. He landed with the 82nd AA in Holland in a glider and was imprinted by that experience for the rest of his life. I gave up my 2-S (student) deferment in October 1970, in the middle of the Vietnam action and took my chances in the first...
  20. Bugguy

    (KNIVES) Let's see some sharp pointy objects

    WESTERN, Boulder, CO. ~1960. Its not marked, but I think its a L 84A. The sheath is narrow going to the snap. 9" total, 5" blade ...and there's always a story. This was a gift from a favorite uncle when I was 12-13. I was proud of it and remember taking it with me in the summer of 1965 when I...
  21. Bugguy

    Cigar/pipe table?

    Blowing life into an ancient thread... I was out in the Blue Ridge Mountains and came across this smoking, side table/liquor cabinet It was inexpensive and I thought I could clean it up and make a few bucks. Zero interest on any of the usual local websites. Pretty disappointing. I have no place...
  22. Bugguy

    Hats and Drinks - A Match Made in Heaven

    Now that its in the 20's in Nashville, time to pull the old flask out of the cabinet and fill up with some single-malt. I missed out on a couple of small vintage sterling flasks, so I went in this direction... glass, faux alligator (I think), and a tin cup. My kid-in-law is still dragging me out...
  23. Bugguy

    Some of my old electric fans

    I went through my fan collecting phase a few years ago. I kept to the smaller fans and had a nice collection. I really enjoyed the guys at the fan collectors site - friendly and helpful. My wife, however, couldn't understand why I needed more than one fan. So in the interest of maintaining the...

Latest posts

Members online

Total: 2,757 (members: 35, guests: 2,722)

Forum statistics

Threads
109,637
Messages
3,085,426
Members
54,453
Latest member
FlyingPoncho
Top