Hats-your early years

[handlebar bart]

Anyone else have some hat pictures from your youth. Maybe from the 70's

 

[GWD]

This ought to be a good thread. :eusa_clap

 

[bolthead]

Anyone else have some hat pictures from your youth. Maybe from the 70's

What.....no stache?

 

[1911 Man]

I might be able to find some from the late 80', my late teenage years. Bono from the rock band U2 was a big influence. I don't know if I want to reveal or revisit my appearance at that time of my life. I look back with shame. What if my children ever found out? My wife knew me back then, and I sometimes find her giggling about it.

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

Here I am in 1965 in definite need of a hat!!

I know I've got some with me on a my pony wearing a cowboy hat from around '72. I'll have to dig that up...

 

[Flieger]

Not so much a hat... more a beret of some kind... anyway, this is me 1969 or 1970.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I was an avid hat collector in my youth, starting in the mid-60s. When I was 14, I did an oral report for school about hats. My dad, the pro photographer, shot me in various costumes to illustrate different hats and add a few laughs:

The Politician - a gorgeous Stetson derby I had just bought brand new for about $5 when a local menswear shop had a going-out-of-business sale:

The Master Detective - a deerstalker some vacationing family friends had brought back for me from England:

The Flying Ace - a mint WWII-surplus leather helmet that I had gotten for a dollar(!) a few years earlier at the amazing Marine Specialties store in Provincetown, MA. (I was just there again this summer: it's still a must-visit!):

The Big Game Hunter - a cheap wool safari hat knockoff that I had mail-ordered from an ad in Boy's Life for about $6:

You can probably tell that my avatar picture is also from this series: Man About Town - a fantastic, barely used Stetson homburg I got for $5 at a thrift shop in ritzy Bronxville. I also had shots of a chef's toque, straw boater, artist's beret, army helmet, and several others.

I still have most of these hats, but the years haven't been kind to them - for example, the leather flying helmet is totally dried out and flaking apart. Oh well, they're all two sizes too small for me now anyway.

 

[just_me]

Last of the Brooklyn Cowgirls

 

[just_me]

A few years later.

 

[Neil]

Great look. .

For a young woman. Almost literary.

 

[Bassman]

Hey you Just Me,
I was Ave. N and E.5th St.
Where wuz you?

 

[just_me]

Hey you Just Me,
I was Ave. N and E.5th St.
Where wuz you?

The projects at Avenue W and Bragg St. (Sheepshead Bay)

 

[Bassman]

Cool! I also lived on E16th and Emmonds.

 

[just_me]

When I was in college, I lived in Brooklyn Heights and later on I lived in Park Slope.

 

[Bassman]

As we continue to hijack this thread...
I also lived in Park Slope. 3rd St between 6th and 7th Ave., one side of 8th Ave. between 1st St. and Garfield Place, the the other side of 8th Ave. between 1st St. and Garfield Place and also on Fiske Place between Garfield and Carrol.
And now back to our regularly scheduled hat pix?

 

[just_me]

It was a long time ago, but let me think -

I lived for a short time in an apt. on Prospect Park West.

Then my friends and I rented several brownstones -

• 10th street bet. 8 Avenue and PPW

• 9th st. bet. 7 ave. and 8 ave.

• 9th st. near (I think) 5th ave.

The last place I lived at in Park Slope was in the only single family house surround by apartments on Prospect Ave. We called it The Palatial Biffy Estate.

Back to the actual thread.

 

[Mr. Lucky]

Here you go! Baby Bing!

 

[Lefty]

That's great! The pose is perfect for the hat - it just screams that you're in charge.

 

[DOUGLAS]

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[indycop]

23 years ago

Looks like you could have building the Empire State building!:eusa_clap