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    Hat size questions

    Sure, I'll have a couple of pix tomorrow (Have to charge my camera, take the pix, find my USB wire and upload em)
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    Hat size questions

    Yes recrease it is what I meant. It would just pop right back out into it's normal crease, instead of holding the crease I made. I feel bad. This is a vintage 1940s era hat.
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    Hat size questions

    The body is a little stiff. If I try to reblock the crown myself by hand, it just pops back into it's regular position--same with the brim if I try to cock it.
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    Hat size questions

    I bought a hat--Dobbs Twenty--about six months ago. I was supposed to get it cleaned but never did and so never wore it, kept it in the bag. The satin interior and sweat band crumpled somewhat, and it feels a bit tight on my head. The top of the hat bulges up somewhat and won't go down even if I...
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    Hair cuts

    What kind of hairstyle could President Lyndon Johnson be described as having here? This hairstyle (long on top and slicked back, long on sides, slicked to the side and short in the back) seemed to be VERY popular from the 1920s through the 1970s, but did it ever have a name?
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    Need help placing a date to something

    A question: These two IDs of my grandpas are from the same employer--A security firm long since gone here in NYC. He worked with them until April 1973, when he had a stroke. The first card is larger, made of paper. It is not laminated. It is dated 3/7/66. On the back is a bit of...
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    Pencil Mustache

    That's DeNiro in the Godfather Part II, in the 1920-1925 segment of the film. Not King of Comedy.
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    Pencil Mustache

    Sean Connery Brando
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    The Moustache

    Were big mustaches (think Teddy Roosevelt or William Howard Taft) around in the 1930s/1940s? I ask because I'd imagine TR's legacy still loomed large in the 30s and he was pretty much THE American icon of masculinity in the 1900-1920 period.
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    When does the "Golden Era" start and end for you?

    Well you see that's the thing...a lot of the 50s held over here too. This is Brooklyn, NY I'm talking about. A lot of the 50s things held over into the 70s...Brooklyn for some reason wasn't touched by the 70s like the other parts of NYC were. And it's always been a fairly conservative area both...
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    When does the "Golden Era" start and end for you?

    The youth culture of the '70s may be far afield from the 1930s. But then look at the wild youth styles of the 1920s! Not that much wilder, really. Also, the older people (people in their 40s and upwards) of the 1970s generally held to a very golden era style of clothes and hair etc. They held on...
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    Pencil Mustache

    If I may: It's your own body and choice of course, but speaking as a straight male (who worries he'll go bald himself), I always thought there was something a bit bold about not hiding your baldness by shaving your head. The idea of a generally bald head, with the remaining hairs slicked back...
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    When does the "Golden Era" start and end for you?

    Bumping this thread...I think the premise is very good. Would anyone agree with the "Golden Era" lasting from around 1920-1975/1976? Or 1929-1965? I firmly believe that the "Golden Era" extended into the mid '70s--Marked at it's end with the Fall of Saigon or the Bicentennial. I believe the...
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    Pencil Mustache

    A question: Can we figure out when the pencil mustache trend began--what films first starred leading men wearing pencil thins? Who were some of the pioneers of the trend between Gable and Flynn? And when did the trend die out as a mainstream stylistic choice? Could we list some films where a man...
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    Pencil Mustache

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    The Moustache

    A lot of males in my family have worn mustaches at one point or another: Maternal Great Granda -- wore one at least in the 1930s and 1940s. A closeclipped, pyramid style stache Maternal Grandpa - Wore one in the late 60s-1975. Again, a pyramidal mustache. Maternal Uncle - Wore a mustache from...
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    Question about Gambling in NYC

    With the closure of OTB here in NYC, what's an immediate way to gamble without having to actually go to the track? I worry that the closure of OTB will kill horse racing as we know it within the future. I'm new to gambling, very new, so any tips, advice, tips on where to go, how to play, etc...
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    The Misfits (1961)

    Bumping this for one of my favourite films.
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    Hair cuts

    Mine looks basically like this
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    Hair cuts

    I just got it cut and it is almost exactly like Lyndon's here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdNEOtGRi_w&list=LLLhaiDXHzGq_77S4T88GKjw&index=10&feature=plpp_video If combed down, the front would fall over my eyes and the top of the sides would fall over my ears, but the back is short. Slicked...

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