Crowded Faro Table, late 1800s: Great Hats!

[deanglen]

Found this photo while researching the "Gunfight At The OK Corral" I like the light colored hat on the guy at the table opposite the dealer. The dealer has a nice "montana" style peak on his. Look at the shine on the topper on the guy next to the dealer. Some of bowlers seem to be of fedora dimensions. Honestly, this was the Golden Era of men's hats, everything afterward hearkens back to it.

dean

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Look at all the hats! Great photo, Dean, thanks for sharing it with us.

I, too, like the light colored fedora (or is that a modified "peak") on the fellow opposite of the dealer. It looks like there may be another Montana peak in the photo, but can't tell -- there is a fellow in the middle with his hat tipped towards us, can't tell what the bash is. What think?

Do you know where the photo was taken? Out west?

karol

 

[deanglen]

K.D., doesn't that light hat have the"up-in-back-down-in-front" brim of a fedora? Can't tell the bash on the tilted hat, maybe center dent, maybe none. The guy above Light hat man has a BIG bowler on.

dean

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Deanglen: Yes, I thought the light hat certainly looked like a fedora.

And, yes, that is the tallest bowler I've ever seen.

Also noticed: Is that a hat on the wall in back of the dealer? Looks like one. If so, that also is a BIG hat, but can't discern what kind of hat it is. Looks like a western brim.

Interesting all the varieties of hats and the angles worn, some jaunty, some straight on.

karol

 

[deanglen]

Yep, looks like a hat to me, and a bowler at that! Nice high crown!

dean

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

They all wear their hats with such an attitude (the way it should be done of course). Too many wonderful hat styles in the history of hats-- keeps me so darned hopeless. I never know what style to try next

I have seen a few very fedora ooking hats in pictures from the late 1800's.
Nice picture Mr. Glen--thanks!

 

[deanglen]

Look at all the hats! Great photo, Dean, thanks for sharing it with us.
Do you know where the photo was taken? Out west?

karol

Out west, for sure, but beyond that, I have no idea. Anybody still play Faro?

dean

 

[LEUII]

We play it at WBTS reenactments. That is the only place I've ever seen it played other than when us 'pards' get together in the 'real world'.

 

[deanglen]

We play it at WBTS reenactments. That is the only place I've ever seen it played other than when us 'pards' get together in the 'real world'.

Is it a good card game, like Texas Hold'em? I only know Euchre. Found this:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faro_%28card_game%29

dean

 

[LEUII]

It's fun, but it doesn't require a lot of skill. Some have called it roulette with cards. There are variations.

Euchere is a blast. I'd never heard of it until I married into my wife's Ohio family. Shoot, everybody there plays it.

 

[John in Covina]

Never played eucre, but i did play acey-ducey and spades in college. It is so long ago I don't really recall the rules for either.

 

[mingoslim]

Used to live in Arizona . . .

Do you know where the photo was taken? Out west?
karol

And if I am not mistaken, this photo may very well be from one of the fine establishments of Tombstone . . . . I beleive that the dealer is one of the Earps, himself. Morgan or Virgil . . .

If you have never been to Tombstone, make the trip . . . The town is worth the visit.

 

[Russ]

Honestly, this was the Golden Era of men's hats, everything afterward hearkens back to it.

Hear hear!

 

[Twitch]

Good photographic evidence that there was a wide variety of headwear in use at that time.:fedora:

 

[J.T.Marcus]

deanglen, Thank-you for finding that photograph, and for sharing it with us! I'd love to see more from that era. In Dodge City, Kansas, there is a museum with a collection of portraits cowboys had made of themselves, at the end of the cattle drive. I studied that wall for a long time, before concluding that there was no definitive shape to the REAL cowboy hat. They looked like they had been washed for the picture (as had the lad), and allowed to dry in whatever shape the hat liked, just so long as the brim was up out of the face.