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Bee Hat Company (now with images)

Lance Uppercut

Familiar Face
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Lafayette, CA
"Bee Cool" hat w/plastic visored brim

It's very possible that Bee Hat Co. produced a version of this farming/fishing hat. I have a Spring/Summer 1972 Bee Hat Co. catalog, but it is not represented there even though many other 40's-50's-60's style models are.
 

Colby Jack

Call Me a Cab
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North Florida
Bee "Roma" hat

I have the Bee "Roma" hat...a chocolate brown Indy-style hat. I think it's wool, but I'm not sure...it may just be rough fur felt as others have mentioned here.
 

RBH

Bartender
Lance Uppercut said:
It's very possible that Bee Hat Co. produced a version of this farming/fishing hat. I have a Spring/Summer 1972 Bee Hat Co. catalog, but it is not represented there even though many other 40's-50's-60's style models are.
I have always been fond of this style straw [never had one with the green visor]. It was a common hat in my neck of the woods when I was a youngster.
 

carter

I'll Lock Up
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Corsicana, TX
tonyb said:
Did Bee produce the "Bee Cool" line of straws? I have one of those dirt-cheap farmworker hats of theirs, the kind with the green plastic visor incorporated into the front of the brim....
Just a bit :eek:fftopic:
I have been trying to find one of those farmworker hats with the green plastic visor in the front of the brim for years. My grandfather wore one every summer. I even sent the Vermont Country Store a suggestion to add them to their product line. (Insert obligatory joke about their s_x toys.) I wonder if Duane will have any of these?
 

RBH

Bartender
carter said:
Just a bit :eek:fftopic:
I have been trying to find one of those farmworker hats with the green plastic visor in the front of the brim for years. My grandfather wore one every summer. I even sent the Vermont Country Store a suggestion to add them to their product line. (Insert obligatory joke about their s_x toys.) I wonder if Duane will have any of these?
Carter, I found a place where I got a couple of the straws without the visor and I think they also have the ones with the visor.
These hats are like the ones I wore when I was a kid...i.e. they dont have the huge brim.
When I get back home I will look in the catalog and let you know if they have them.
an old thread..

http://www.thefedoralounge.com/showthread.php?t=16704&highlight=


a couple of old shots of the hat.


<a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/6930/hpim1113er4.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a>
and me wearing it...

<a href="http://imageshack.us"><img src="http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/3900/hpim1111sa7.jpg" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" /></a>
 

Lefty

I'll Lock Up
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I've got a couple of these. They seemed to like the baseball tie in.
no date
beecoolhatad.jpg

1950
beelife-06-05-1950.jpg
 

carter

I'll Lock Up
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Corsicana, TX
Rusty, Thanks. I was able to access their catalog from the linked thread you posted. No visor brims but it looks like I'll be placing an order for a vented style.
 

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