Capone's Borsalino

[Garrett]

Here's an interesting museum that claims to have one of Capone's Borsalinos!

Here's the site:

http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id22.htm

 

[Garrett]

If I recall right, JTL has a Borsalino with a similar band and styling

 

[Lefty]

Doesn't that guy know that we need a liner shot?

JtL puts up a good front, but I've always thought he was a bit suspect.

 

[Tomasso]

Here's an interesting museum that claims to have one of Capone's Borsalinos!

http://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/id22.htm

"The museum was closed mainly due to the Italian community of Chicago, who was upset at the glorification of a criminal."

............................................................Wrong!!!

I know the former owner and he wasn't pressured to close the museum. He sold out to the Rainforest Cafe chain when they offered 5x what he paid for the property two years earlier. He never reopened because the museum never did any business anyway.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Trippy ribbon bow on that hat!


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[carouselvic]

Doesn't that guy know that we need a liner shot?

JtL puts up a good front, but I've always thought he was a bit suspect.

JtL and that dog of his both bare watching. It seems what one doesn't think up, the other one does. TLH

 

[High Pockets]

Holy smoke,....that's one sweet hat!

 

[RBH]

JtL and that dog of his both bare watching. It seems what one doesn't think up, the other one does. TLH

lol lol lol lol



I wonder what BIG AL has to say about all of this???

 

[Garrett]

Here is the one JTL has:

Borsalino...

Cheers,
JtL

 

[MississippiLong]

THEY'RE WASTING THAT BEAUTIFUL BORSALINO BEHIND GLASS! :eusa_doh:

Send it to Art for a reblock and then ship it to one of the fine members here at the Lounge. Hats are meant to be worn not entombed. My wife's Sicilian, so...maybe she could wear it.

 

[MississippiLong]

:eusa_clap lol

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Probably not Capone's hat, but what the heck.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

When I visited Gary White, the Master Hatter, in Buffalo a couple of years back he told me about how certain gangs would have a regional 'hook' in their bash. He mentioned, and I'm not sure if I am recalling this correctly, a South Side Hook, a Chicago Hook, a Cleveland Hook, etc. In the actual photo of Capone there looks like something that could be what Gary described in his lid. But I don't see one in the museum hat. Hmm.

 

[jimmy the lid]

JtL and that dog of his both bare watching. It seems what one doesn't think up, the other one does. TLH

Am catching up on my "Lounging" -- only to find that I have been seriously maligned in this thread by several members. lol

I can take it, but the dog may have a different view...

OK, in all seriousness -- sure enough, looks like the Capone hat in this thread has the same ribbon treatment as my brown Borso. Very interesting, as I had never seen another lid with this feature. I wonder if its appearance on Big Al's noggin' helps to date my lid? [huh]

OK, time to head back to the Speakeasy...

Cheers,
JtL