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    Pockets sewn shut

    On Stafford topcoats at Penney's... even in a low-cost brand, I'd expect the side pockets of a TOPCOAT to be functional. They hope to sell more gloves I guess. To be fair, thumb and pinkie could go in, and other similarly-arranged digits could take turns getting warm.
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    Staying Cool: Look, 1948

    I've been listening to Peter Donald on "Can You Top This?" He looks like my Scoutmaster, Mr. Ryan.
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    What are you wearing today??

    "Forgive the self portraits... I'm an idiot with my camera and cannot for the life of me figure out how to use the timer. " There have been quite a few photos in this thread which have made me think of Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947-- "Civilian posing with mysterious device recovered from...
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    What are you listening to?

    ("Little Bitty Pretty One") The fast-food chain "Wienerschnitzel" used the "ooooh-ooh" section of that song as background music for their website game based on lucky numbers imprinted on the corn dog sticks. I really don't know why I need to share that info...
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    The 1940s Radio Hour Show

    "The 1940s Radio Hour" has been presented in southern California, that much I know.
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    San Francisco still "hatty" in the 1960s-70s?

    I suppose in memories of that especially colorful time and place, the hum-drum businessmen would be easily lost in the background.
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    San Francisco still "hatty" in the 1960s-70s?

    I read some comments on the railroad-oriented site "Trainorders" that in San Francisco, R.R. officials and businessmen in general were more likely to still wear hats in the 1960s and 1970s, compared to other U.S. cities. Anyone have an opinion on this? Southern Pacific, headquartered there...
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    Bow Ties

    ----- I didn't find a match at mainebows.com (I looked under Christmas, and Stripes.) But for candy fans, there is a Peppermint Stripe... "warm pinks" and white.
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    What's a wind trolley?

    I'm reading this while standing on an overpass waiting to take a picture of Union Pacific steam engine 844. My hat's in the car because I don't want to have another "windy overpass incident." Although the hat would be retrievable here, unlike my "downtown L.A. freeway overpass incident"...
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    What are you wearing today??

    Widebrim looks like Sgt. Joe Friday (in the period after the original Dragnet series, but before the hatless revival, "Dragnet 1967.")
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    Nike Missle Sites or how close you were to the Cold War

    I was looking for something on the Maps feature of my iPhone the other day, and up popped a "Nike Missile Site." (East of Los Angeles.) Sometimes they're mentioned in passing on the news, for instance "The missing boys were believed to be hiking in the vicinity of an abandonded Nike missile...
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    I Like This Hat, But How Do You Just Start Wearing a Hat...

    "I too have a cap with scrambled eggs on the brim... but it's from back in my drinking days." (rimshot)
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    What are you wearing today??

    The other night after Janet Klein's show... I look half-asleep, but all my other recent flash photos make me look COMPLETELY asleep... Jaxon cap, Chereskin sweater vest, "George" slacks (from when they offered some with patterns.) My friends come off looking better, but I don't hold a grudge!
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    How-To: Keep Your Fly From Falling Down

    Don't let him drink so much?
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    What do you use to shave?

    Some if not all of the World Series games on ESPN radio had commercials for Barbasol. I kinda liked that, and I'm sure my maternal grandfather listened to some Cardinals World Series games on radio in his time (1930s.) Though I had no rooting interest this year. Seems like a lot of ad expense...
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    All You Need to Know About Hat Etiquette

    A joke told on the late 1940s radio series "Can You Top This?"-- (it goes something like this anyway): A kid comes home from school and finds what appear to be broken chunks of statuary in the front room. "Mom, what's all this mess?" Mom comes out of the kitchen and says, "Instead of going to...
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    1938 Production Of War of The Worlds

    Reminds me of Steve Allen's story-- he and his mother were living in a hotel at that time. His mother and aunt were in their room, frightened by the broadcast, but Steve went to the lobby and found people listening to something else. (Maybe Bergen & McCarthy?) He said he figured if Martians...
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    Bow Ties

    I don't know if it's in the film version too, but in a radio adaptation of the ventriloquist story from "Dead of Night," one of the jokes in the stage act was about a guy who goes to court to have his name changed from Joe Hitler. To: Frank Hitler. Because he's tired of everyone saying, "Hello...
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    Bow Ties

    Howdy Doody was a puppet TV star for the kiddies of the USA from about 1948 to 1960, along with his human pal "Buffalo Bob Smith." At this time the English kiddies were going to "pantomime shows" and waving their hankies in the air while singing along to "On Windmill Hill" (or so I've been told.)
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    Bow Ties

    T.J. Maxx has a few bow ties for $7.99. I saw one on a clearance rack for $5.00. Then I realized it was only half the tie. "You can't go wrong, for five bucks!" Well maybe you could. Hmmm... if you ruined the other half of another similiar tie, you could mix-and-match and be a trendsetter.

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