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    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    If you look closely, you can see the old original outlines of the pinstripes and so forth on it. Yeah I think someone hit it with a paintbrush!! Interesting detail you noticed. Thanks.
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    Lets see your Balloon Tire Bikes

    Finally,..I just came back from the garage,....here's my Roadmaster and my wife's Rollfast. Now that I look at the Roadmaster, I notice that the fender struts ar not he same as the ones I've seen in the 1939 Cleveland Welding Company's catalogue I found online. The struts on mine are straight...
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    you cannot weld with sunglasses. safety glasses with a tint were commonplace in shops and industry where there might be bright ligt emmitted from an oxy-acetaline torch or grinder, etc. Welding shields were used in the mid 30s and onward, though once in a while, you'd see some guy without...
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    Holy crap!,....I had a pair of modern glasses when I was in high school, they looked exactly like those in the lower pic!! I wonder what happened to those??
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    they're safety glasses,....some have thought them to be sunglasses or driving glasses. I'm a boilermaker,....I love history,....and have been reasearching the blue collar worker world of the 30s, 40s and 50s. nice glasses.
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    those are great, I'm glad you made a point to show them up close!!
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    Vintage Sunglasses

    very nice,..Allentown, PA is 20 minutes north of where I live,....
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    S.F. doctor honored for helping save France from Nazis

    yes, we have gone atray and gone off topic,....sure is easy though!!...LOL Thanks.
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    What are you wearing today??

    I can understand the Beatles-esk look to his photo on first glance. HOWEVER, the first thing I got from his photo was the look of an immigrant worker, late 1920s, eraly 30s. Glasses are thowback to the twenties, teens and earlier. Hat looks like an average worker's hat that can be seen in...
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    Merry Christmas!

    HA! WOW,....looks like an eggnogg and cocain mixer there with your other half buzzed out on speed! LOL!:eek: .....dear Lord, what IS in that pipe!!!???:confused:
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    Vocabulary Today

    YES! I know this firsthand as I was a substitute teacher for three years! I was only able to get through to most, AFTER they saw my tattoos, heard my demeanor in my voice, and realized that I WOULD treat them as adults IF,....IF, they acted like adults!! If not, I simply matched their...
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    LOL!,....That's awesome!!!,.... Well, there's your storyline then,...Pastor with hidden side,....lol Cool.
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    What are you wearing today??

    Bwaaahhha!!,....lol :eusa_doh: WOW!,....that's just completely screwy!,.....ok, but does it work!!??...that's what waana know?? Ha, ha!!
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Brother,.....you belong at McSorely's Bar in NYC with that outfit! A thick dark stout or two,...or 15,...and a brawl! Makes me want ta' be Irish!
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    You look like you should be in a Hitchcok film here,....the evil murderer type that doesn't say much....;)
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    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Light Grey Borsalino Fedora with black ribbon. Found this one at an antique shop earlier in the year, amazingly crisp and almost never worn by the original fellow who owned it! $30-35 I think I paid for it!! My favorite hat!
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    What are you wearing today??

    Well,...MY!,...Thank you....:) That's very kind of you! I'm stuck in the past,....happy to be,..its always nicer there. I am however, I'm still looking for my flux-compasitor to put in my '27 roadster,....lol I'll tell ya, if any of you cats have a line on a 1930-40s vintage double breasted...
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    Latest Project: Mycustomtailor Suit!

    Very nice. I would have opted for wider lapels msyelf. More like the illustration shown, about an inch more on either side...I'm a lover of the wide-lapel,....there's a few suits and blazers Carey Grant sports in some movies now and then,....those have always stuck in my head. Looks like a...
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    What are you wearing today??

    Going out,.... ......Tonight with the Mrs. to get us some dinner. I've been so happy with the Holiday Season being here, I said, hey, let's go out, you've been cooking for a while now,....lets go somewhere nice.... Of course I still have no idea where we're going just yet, but I have some...
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    Who has a vintage Men's Shaving/Grooming cabinet?

    In my opinion, I think Layrite is a bit overrated and much to expensive. Yes it shouldn't clog your hair folicles like a traditional pomade, but I've actuaaly still had mild breakouts when using it (something that happens to many guys when using pomades, waxes, etc) so i'm not sure how true...

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