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    Rockabilly anyone??

    I LOVE Rockabilly. I love the music and the subculture and the vintage '50s clothing associated with Rockabilly. I think Rockabilly fits nicely somewhere in that part of the '50s which was forward looking, sleek car driving, futuristic dreaming....If it ever existed it was an ideal era...
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    The WWII generation and Doo Wop

    Hmm. You see in all those Scorsese movies the older Italian guys listening to that stuff in the 60s and 70s, like this song in the infamous Billy Batts scene from Goodfellas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg65nhgvubo And in a lot of '50s, 60s, or 70s set Mafia films, Doo Wop and Soul are...
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    The WWII generation and Doo Wop

    From people's experiences here with their older parents/grandparents-- How would a person who turned 40 in 1960 tend to have viewed Doo Wop, and the girl groups of the late 50s-early 60s (like The Crystals, The Ronettes, etc)? What was the WWII generation's attitude toward that kind of music?
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    Differences between Tanker, Ricky, Gabardine and Ike jackets

    Where could I find a Ricky Jacket like this? Where could I find a Ricky Jacket like this--with the same sort of cut and wide collar--new? Do any clothing lines make Ricky Jackets anymore or would I simply have to get an old one off of Ebay?
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    Walt Disney fedora

    Front of it
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    Walt Disney fedora

    That is a picture of Walt Disney from September 1966. Was curious as to what material you think was made in his fedora--it does not look like felt--and anything you could tell me about the band. I like it a lot; it looks casual, not unlike the casual fedoras of today.
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    The Moustache

    I go back and forth on a mustache. I feel my face looks plain without it, but at the same time, I have to shape it just right because I have big lips, which gives my mouth a triangular shape and thus my mustache slopes a bit. My girlfriend had shaped it into basically a pencil mustache (shaved...
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    The Moustache

    Can someone give me a list of leading men from the 20s-50s who were known for their pencil mustaches (besides Gable, Flynn, Colman and Niven)?
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    What does this refer to?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oV1bZG8n6A The video above is of my mother's family at the park, likely in 1962 or 1963 at latest. My grandfather (mom's dad) is the man in the blue shirt, without glasses. Starting around 1:30 or so in the video, he hits the golf ball into the hole and does...
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    Cartoons on TV in the 1950s?

    My family's TV--sometime between 1954 and 1958. Another TV set--perhaps earlier in the decade? Later?
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    Cartoons on TV in the 1950s?

    A question: My grandmother claims that my great grandfather (her father in law) used to chastise my grandfather for preferring to stay home on a Saturday and watch cartoons rather than go out. My great grandfather died in June 1956. I'm curious--what cartoons would've been on TV in the ealy-mid...
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    Help me place a date to this photo

    May I ask why? Also, anyone else? It'd be cool if it indeed was the mid/late 50s--it would be the only photo of him that I know of between 1950/1951 and 1964.
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    Help me place a date to this photo

    I'm trying to place a date to this photo of my grandfather (1920-1975; he is the man on the right). I am unsure of it's time. I think it is either from his time in a military hospital from the period 1945-1946 (he was hospitalized for over a year due to a gunshot wound in WWII). Yet I also...
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    1960s era watch

    A couple of questions. In the following picture and video, both set in the 1960s, the guy is wearing a really cool watch: The watch in the following video and picture (in the video on the wrist of the guy in red and in the picture the guy on the left)...
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    Question: The music of the GI Generation

    Sadly no musical stuff among his memorabilia. Tons of work, job, clubs and other stuff, but no music stuff. I'd ask my grandma but they had a VERY, VERY bitter separation in the late 1960s (due to infidelity on his part) and she doesn't even refer to him as my grandfather; only as "my husband."...
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    Question: The music of the GI Generation

    I'm trying to find out things about my grandfather. He died in 1975 so I never got to meet him and anyone who could tell me first hand stuff is dead. So a little help here..... My grandpa was born in 1920 in NYC. Son of Italian immigrants. Served in Army in WWII from '39-'46, was a Staff Sgt...
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    Peg Pants?

    My grandmother was mentioning to me a few weeks back how my grandpa (who was born in 1929) wore in the '50s "peg pants". What are those exactly? Were they a fashion trend? She also said he wore plain white t-shirts with the sleeves rolled up--was that a trend as well? My grandma said his mother...
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    Pencil Mustache

    Pencil Mustaches on Leading Men and Actors If you look at the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, a whole lot of leading men, or men who wanted to be leading men, wore pencil mustaches, at some point. Cases in point: Douglas Fairbanks, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Tyrone Power, Rudolph Valentino, William Powell...
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    The Average User Age at The Fedora Lounge

    Would love to see how the demographics for this forum breakdown age/gender wise. You can either post your age in the thread if you feel comfortable, or just vote in the poll.
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    The Early to Mid 1970s: The Last Gasps of the Golden Era

    I think it's generally thought here that The Golden Era lasted sometime between the 1930s to 1940s, very vaguely defined in terms of the actual specific years. Many would probably extend the duration of the Golden Era to sometime in the 1950s, possibly before 1956 and the rise of Rock N' Roll...

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