Show us their hats!

[Frunobulax]

I've posted this picture before. Here is a little more on Dan's background.

On December 10th, 1928, DAN BLOCKER was born in DeKalb, Texas. When he was six years old the family moved to O'Donnell, in Lynn County, where his father operated a general store. DAN BLOCKER attended Texas Military Institute in San Antonio and Hardin-Simmons University before entering SUL ROSS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE here in Alpine in 1947. After playing football for the college and graduating with a B.A. degree in speech and drama, he refused offers of professional careers in both football and boxing. He was drafted for combat duty in Korea, where he served as an infantry sergeant. In 1952 he returned to SUL ROSS, where he earned an M.A. degree, and then taught school in Sonora, Texas, and Carlsbad, New Mexico, before moving to California in 1956 to work on a Ph.D. degree at the University of California at Los Angeles. During this time he also worked as a substitute teacher and began his career as a professional actor in Los Angeles. He played the role of Hoss Cartwright for thirteen seasons, from 1959 until his death in 1972 from complications following an operation, on NBC's "Bonanza," one of the longest-running and most popular TV series in history.

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And his boy, Dirk.

 

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David Herold, one of the four that were hung in the Lincoln conspiracy. Herold had been working as a druggist. He knew of Dr. Samuel Mudd & accompanied Booth with his broken leg to Mudd after the assassination of Lincoln.

 

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Frank LLoyd Wright and wife Olgivanna Lloyd Wright

 

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Artist & member of The British Society of Master Glass Painters, David Wasley, photographed on the grounds of Waltham Place on the day of his son Keidrych's wedding 2009.

 

[steur]

Joseph Beuys (12 May 1921 – 23 January 1986) was a German happening and performance artist as well as a painter, sculptor, medallist, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. In pictures he is almost always seen wearing a hat. Sometimes he even worked in/with felt.

He owned a second home in a small village in the Netherlands, where he could stay completely anonymous.
As a pedagogue, carrying an axe would likely convince students to do their homework!

 

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Alessandro Corsellini, 3rd generation pipe carver.

 

[hatophile]

And his boy, Dirk.

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Great hat!

Artist & member of The British Society of Master Glass Painters, David Wasley, photographed on the grounds of Waltham Place on the day of his son Keidrych's wedding 2009.

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He looks like a 19th century gentleman. Love the pooch, too.

 

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Greg Dacyshyn on Mercer St, SoHo, New York. I think he carries an iPad in that carpenters pouch.

 

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Roy Daugherty aka Arkansas Tom Jones (1870 - 1924)
Missouri boy & last living member of the Bill Doolin gang.

 

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Samuel B. Arnold (1834 - 1906)

Classmate of John Wilkes Booth whom Booth recruited in the kidnapping attempt of President Abraham Lincoln, which twice failed. Arnold than left to take a job in VA where witnesses said he was at the time of the assassination. Nevertheless Arnold was arrested on complicity. After conviction he was sentenced along with Dr. Samuel Mudd, Michael O'Laughlen & Edmund Spangler to Life in prison. Arnold, Mudd & Spangler were released by pardon of President Andrew Johnson in 1869. O'Laughlen had died while in prison.

Samuel B. Arnold returned home to Baltimore where he lived out his life very quietly. He did reminisce with a return to the Ft. Jefferson prison in 1898, & wrote a short series of articles for the Baltimore American in 1902, about his imprisonment. If interested, those articles today are at the Baltimore County Historical Society website.

His grave is anonymous as to who he actually was.

 

[Frunobulax]

RIP Mary Ann

 

[Bamaboots]

Herb Parsons, trick shooter for Winchester. Did all the trick shots in the 1950 film, “Winchester 73”.

 

[ETBass]

There is only one more gun I want to own and it is a side by side double barrel shotgun. As soon as this pandemic is in the rearview I am gonna get me one!

 

[deadlyhandsome]

There is only one more gun I want to own and it is a side by side double barrel shotgun. As soon as this pandemic is in the rearview I am gonna get me one!

Don’t leave me hanging: what are you looking at? AyA, Purdey, H&H, LC Smith, Parker Bros.? I have a few, but they are either old and worn out or lower end. I’ve been thinking about a nice one for years. My financial realties keep me away from the UK makers, but AyA in Spain has my attention: a vacation for my wife along with a custom fitting for me. Probably just a dream, but it’s a nice dream.

 

[BobHufford]

Teddy Roosevelt and Leonard Wood (there is a Fort near here named after the latter). I like his hat ...

 

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When Mikhail Gorbachev visited Pres Ronald Reagan on his ranch in 1992 Regan gave him a Stetson hat which Gorbachev wore backwards all day. Being diplomatic, Regan chose not to correct him.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

On Oct 23, 1912 Teddy Roosevelt survived being shot in an assassination attempt on his life. He was running his third presidential campaign as an independent with the Bull Moose Party. Only some papers & the case for his glasses in his chest pocket saved the wound from being worse. This pic was taken during that campaign & around that time.

Unbeknownst to him his friends had already ordered a custom engraved Colt Single Action Army revolver & presented it to Roosevelt on his 54th Birthday, just 4 days after the assassination attempt.

Remembering the recent assassination of President McKinley in 1901, & the attempt on his own life it is said that Roosevelt always carried a handgun for his own protection from that day on.

That well worn Colt SAA just sold at auction in Dec 2020 for $1.4M!

 

[hatophile]

On Oct 23, 1912 Teddy Roosevelt survived being shot in an assassination attempt on his life. He was running his third presidential campaign as an independent with the Bull Moose Party. Only some papers & the case for his glasses in his chest pocket saved the wound from being worse. This pic was taken during that campaign & around that time.

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Unbeknownst to him his friends had already ordered a custom engraved Colt Single Action Army revolver & presented it to Roosevelt on his 54th Birthday, just 4 days after the assassination attempt.

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Remembering the recent assassination of President McKinley in 1901, & the attempt on his own life it is said that Roosevelt always carried a handgun for his own protection from that day on.

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That well worn Colt SAA just sold at auction in Dec 2020 for $1.4M!

That's a beautiful piece.

 

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FDR’s first Supreme Court nominee, Alabama Senator, Hugo Black surrounded by journalists.

 

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President Dwight D. Eisenhower