One more for the "Road"

[RBH]

I know we have gone over alot of this before but I just ran across this ad from 1940 Alton Illinois newspaper.

Here is another from 1943 Iowa. It mentions a stitched brim.

I found several ads from 1949 that shows the hat we are used to seeing.
Here is one from Reno Nevado.

And here is a fedora shaped Open Road from Texas 1949. The first ad I found with a fedora style crease with the thin ribbon.

 

[Mobile Vulgus]

Notice how often cigarettes appear in those ads!

 

[hatophile]

Makes me wanna "light one up" in my Open Road----Not.

 

[danofarlington]

Notice how often cigarettes appear in those ads!

Worse in old movies. I always used to marvel at how characters in the old movies were always on such an even keel, things under control, and hardly ever getting out of hand. Then it dawned on me that people in that day--at least in the movies--are constantly drinking and smoking. In the movies, all it took was going from one room to another for everyone to be offered a drink and a smoke. There was a decanter in every room, it seems. So no wonder they were on an even keel--people medicated themselves extensively then.

 

[tonyb]

Always good to see more of that stuff, Rusty.

As to the cigarettes ...

Sure wish that smoking wasn't so danged bad for a person. I'd have never even considered quitting if that weren't so. Great stuff, nicotine.

 

[Jauntyone]

Thanks for these, RBH!

 

[Tango Yankee]

Has anyone here ever come across an Open Road with anything other than a thin ribbon? Inquiring minds want to know!

Cheers,
Tom

 

[carouselvic]

Yes, but not me. They have been shown on the lounge.

 

[MarkD]

Thanks RBH I love those old ads. It really brings a guy back in time.

 

[Corky]

A bit offf-topic, but referring to an earlier comment:

In previous decades, tobacco and alcohol consumption were a screenwriter's convention to give the actors something to do in the scene. An unfortunate blowback of prohibition on the film industry.

Those conventions have (thank God) gone out of style, but today's screen and TV writers have their own bag of tricks. Next time you watch a re-run of LAW AND ORDER, notice that in expository scenes the characters are walking and when they have made their point, they stop.

In the excellent new SHERLOCK series on PBS (set in current day London) spoofs the earlier convention. The title character and Inspector Lestrade use nicotine patches instead of pipes stuffed with tobacco.

 

[Chinaski]

Yes, but not me. They have been shown on the lounge.

I presume it wasn't a swapped out ribbon? A thin ribbon on an OR is just so ingrained in the consciousness anything else seems implausible.

 

[Lefty]

check out this page. Douglas has the only one that I know of, though another did sell on ebay a while back.

 

[theinterchange]

In the excellent new SHERLOCK series on PBS (set in current day London) spoofs the earlier convention. The title character and Inspector Lestrade use nicotine patches instead of pipes stuffed with tobacco.

You have got to be kidding me... seriously? They actually use patches? Please. Call me old school but I think if people smoke in the real world, they ought to on film/television... to me it's extremely fake [read kiss up politically correct garbage] to have no characters who smoke. I hate the fact that they axed smoking from the character of Indiana Jones... it's not very period correct to see him smokeless over the course of four feature films.

Randy

P.S we now return you to the regularly scheduled thread already in progress.

Randy

 

[Chinaski]

check out this page. Douglas has the only one that I know of, though another did sell on ebay a while back.

Thanks for the link, Lefty. I hadn't seen that one.

 

[CRH]

Perfect. Just what I need, a hat that "keeps it's swagger".

 

[carldelo]

check out this page. Douglas has the only one that I know of, though another did sell on ebay a while back.

Great photos - so am I reading it right, the original OR had a wide ribbon and a triple-stitched brim?

 

[Lefty]

That seems to be the case, but as with all things Stetson, it's possible that there were variations.

I've got a clone, but now I want a vita-felt OR.