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  1. Brinybay

    What do you use to shave?

    No problem there, I wasn't keen on the idea of a brush that someone else has used, kinda like using someone else's toothbrush, gross! Yup. There was an awesome looking one from late 1890s on eBay that easily went way over what I was willing to spend, especially considering that I factor in...
  2. Brinybay

    American Vintage Classics

    Somewhere here (I couldn't find it) there was a scan of a catalog that showed a shirt with a very similar coloring as the one I'm wearing in the pic, e.g. broad green stripes with a white collar, although other details may have been different. For the purposes of that party, it did just fine.
  3. Brinybay

    Post New Hats Here!

    Akubra Sydney Well, once in a while antique shops do have something that's not horribly over-priced. I found this hat in a shop near me. Exactly my size, good shape and only $40. I particularly like the diamond bash. Also the smell. Everything in that shop reaks of patchouly, which is way...
  4. Brinybay

    What do you use to shave?

    I want to "upgrade" from disposables and aerosol to vintage safety razors, shaving soap with the mug, brush and whole bit. Question is where to get the stuff? Should I get antique mugs? (I've seen a few on eBay). Are there contemporary razors made in the vintage style, or should I just buy a...
  5. Brinybay

    American Vintage Classics

    My humble apologies, I didn't mean to disparage the vendor. My untrained and "rookie" eye is to blame for not being able to discern much difference between genuine vintage shirts and similar ones made today (note to self: just look at the tag, "Made In China" doesn't cut it). The nudie just...
  7. Brinybay

    Making someone's day (or even life) the old-fashioned way.

    With good cheer and a smile. Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the death of Mark McLaughlin, a bus driver in Seattle. I never knew Mark, this happened before I started working for Metro. But the following article always chokes me up and really puts my job in perspective, especially those...
  8. Brinybay

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Mildred Pierce. But only a small part of it. I was walking by a new pub in my neighborhood on my way to an antique store and I noticed they had a Golden Era vintage B&W movie on the big screen TV above the bar. (A welcome change from sports!). After I visited the antique store, I stopped in...
  9. Brinybay

    Hair cuts

    I'm jealous of youse guys who have thick, dense hair. Mine has always been very fine and not real dense. Getting less dense as I age. Anyway, my hair isn't any specific "vintage" style, unless "short" is considered vintage. I just tell my barber to cut it fairly short, tapered in back...
  10. Brinybay

    Barber Shops

    Can only get 10 pics per post, but here's Gene, the Harley-riding barber:
  11. Brinybay

    Barber Shops

    Is your barbershop "vintage"? Breaking this off from the men's haircuts thread because I thought it would be interesting. Ladies too. Took my camera with me when I went to get a haircut yesterday and asked my barber if he minded me getting a few shots of his shop. It's a one-chair, men-only...
  13. Brinybay

    during the golden era what was worn at a horse farm

    Horse feathers? :eusa_doh:
  14. Brinybay

    American Vintage Classics

    Thanks for sharing that, but I honestly didn't see much difference in their "vintage" men's shirts than what's available today. And what's with the French nude in the men's tie section? Do they think showing a nude is going to make me buy their ties? Anyway, I first found FL while...
  15. Brinybay

    Antique radio repair course?

    The HBT (Heavy Black Thing) is the power unit. It plugs into this doo-dad, which appears to be broken: which in turn is connected to the chassis: which in turn plugs into the power outlet. I've found the schematics and downloaded them, but have no clue what I'm looking at. Most of...
  16. Brinybay

    Vintage Camping Equipment

    I found this a while back on eBay, I wonder if it was intended for camping? Currently I just set my aerosol shave cream can in it, but I'm looking for a vintage mug and a brush to use. It's plastic except for the mirror and metal hinge.
  17. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Thanks. The knob on the right underside I've discovered adjusts the angle of the back. There is a third knob in the center directly over the spring which is also frozen, but I assume that is for the spring tension. Still not sure what the one on the left is for. Now that I've sat in...
  19. Brinybay

    A Monumental Find: 1930s German TV on Film!

    I wonder if Leni Riefenstahl was involved with this, or was she strictly film? I'm thinking the latter, because there's no mention of TV anywhere in her biographies or filmographies.
  20. Brinybay

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    Vintage chair My day off today, raining and crappy out (typical NW November weather, but I'm not complaining). After going to breakfast with a friend, I went to check out a St. Vincent De Paul's store I've never visited. Just when I was about to give up, I spotted this chair...
  21. Brinybay

    All hope is not lost

    Maybe he had hearing problems and was simply moving her to his good ear side... ;)
  22. Brinybay

    A veteran's sad end

    That's a tear-jerker. RIP, my hero.
  23. Brinybay

    Motion Pictures that should NEVER be remade?

    Ben-Hur, but mostly due to technology. May not be a fair comparison, the 1925 version is in a class of it's own.

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