Show Us Your Vintage Hat Store

[RossRYoung]

Stetson 3X with the embroidered Last Drop liner. Late 1950s / early 1960s? From Metherd's Saddlery in Red Bluff, California.

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The store was in this 613 Main Street (renumberd 615 at some point) location from at least the early 1940s up until 1971 anyway. Fourth store-front from the left (1920s car parked in front in the top pic and the Coast to Coast store in the 1970s pic).

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Circa 1940s. On the left between The Sports Shop and Fickerts.

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1970s location in the Old Cowtown Plaza.

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Gorgeous LD 3x, Bob! Those long hairs are few and far between, that ones a cool cooler too.

 

[BobHufford]

Gorgeous LD 3x, Bob! Those long hairs are few and far between, that ones a cool cooler too.

Thanks Ross!

 

[BobHufford]

Nineteen-Teens Mallory from Dodge's Clothes Shop, Anacortes, Washington.

1919 (on right across from Mercantile Co.).

1916 (on left side across from Mercantile Co.).

1911.

1918.

1920.

Location in 1939 (Kimsey Market).

Today.

 

[M Hatman]

Nineteen-Teens Mallory from Dodge's Clothes Shop, Anacortes, Washington.

1919 (on right across from Mercantile Co.).

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1916 (on left side across from Mercantile Co.).
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1911.
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1918.
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1920.
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Location in 1939 (Kimsey Market).
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Today.
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This is just too cool!!!!! Great information!!!!!
LOVE that 1911 poem about the store!!!
Good research here!!!
That hat is really is a museum piece!!!

 

[BobHufford]

Mallory Ten from the Maplewood neighborhood in St. Louis.

Past Newberry's and Paramount Jewelers.

Behind the Hart Jewelers sign:

At the time of the neighborhood being added to the National Register.

 

[Frunobulax]

Those poor hats, caught in the fire...

 

[BobHufford]

NOS Beaver Brand hat from Elmore's Men and Boy's Wear, Houston, Missouri. Mr. Elmore is 91 and still running the store by himself.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Lichtenstein & Sons

Been watching this OR clone for a while & made an offer that was accepted. I'm thinking 1960's era.

Lichtenstein & Sons Department Store first went into business at 501-504 N. Chaparral St, Corpus Christi, TX in 1874.

They moved into their new downtown location in 1941. The business was sold to new owners in 1972 but continued to operate under the Lichtenstein name until it was changed to Frost Bros in 1977. The doors were closed for the final time in 1987.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Charles P. Shipley was not a hatter but was a long time saddlery & mercantile company located in the Kansas City stockyards. He had saddle makers & bootmakers working on 3 floors of a three story building. He sold all kinds of leather goods made inhouse. He also sold Stetson hats & clothing thru walk-in & catalog sales.

Taken just a few yrs ago but most of the paint has weathered badly since.

Saddles, tack, chaps & cuffs are usually die stamped as such.

A Stetson hat has surfaced with his embossing. Unfortunately not in my size.

 

[BobHufford]

This is for @Hagwood ’s Stetson 3X Open Road with the embroidered liner. The Springfield Barth’s is featured earlier in this thread. This is the store in Columbia, Missouri.

1978:

 

[BobHufford]

Early 1950s Stetson 3X "Spanish Trail" from Miller Stockman in Denver.

 

[BobHufford]

Borsalino "Torino" from the early to mid-1960s.

The Dickerson & Co. Hatters had been around since 1866. The store in the David Whitney Building in Detroit was there from 1915 when the building opened. Not sure when the hat shop closed, but the Whitney family sold the building in 1965 and the loss of businesses in the building continued until it closed in 2000.

This hat box was from another Dickerson hat here on the Lounge.

https://www.thefedoralounge.com/thr...o-of-detroit-anyone-here-remember-them.81309/

1873 Detroit City Directory:

1879 is when the "& Co." started:

1895:

1905:

 

[TheOldFashioned]

Arthur's Hats blue homburg:


Arthur Feilchenfeld opened his first store at the turn of the century, and over time Arthur's Hats would occupy seven locations in the Chicago Loop. The main store was located in the Fisher Building:

Still standing today, the Fisher Building is the oldest 18-story building left in Chicago. It's been renovated for present day apartments though some of the original finishings still remain, including doors inscribed with previous business tenants that once occupied the building:



Arthur on a matchbook:


Store credit tags:

Arthur had a love hate relationship with blue hats it seems:


Arthur Filchenfeld, Jr. continued the business after his father's death in 1940. His name appears on a patent application for a hat steamer in 1941. He would sell the company in 1949.

 

[Dotneck]

https://myhome.unctv.org/mitchells-clothing-store/

 

[BobHufford]

Resistol Stagecoach from Hochman's Department Store, Jacksonville, Florida.

Hochman's started out as a grocery store operated by Sophie and Nathan Hochman and their son Max Hochman with wife Rose on the west side of Jacksonville in the Woodstock area. Max and Rose's daughter Frieda married Leonard Saraga in 1950 and they eventually joined the business that became Hochman’s Western Wear and General Clothing Store on North Edgewood Avenue (on the left in the photo below).

That location today:

In 1960 Hochman's became a tenant in the new Phillips Highway Mall.

Phillips Highway Mall in 1964:

Phillips Highway Mall in 1982 (closer to the age of this hat):

Hochman's eventually became Saraga's Western Store and had a few other locations before closing down in 1988. Rubin and Leonard Saraga shown below in the Phillips Mall store in 1984.

 

[BobHufford]

I was so impressed by Rick's ( @rclark ) Stetson The Sovereign Open Road Stetson Twenty (STSORST) that I had to look up the store.

Ben Simon and Sons appears to have started around the turn of the prior century and lasted at least into the late 1970s.

1954:

1922: This is in the 1200 block of "O" Street in Lincoln (sorry for the small image -- I don't have access to Newspapers.com)

1926:

1928:

Looks like they moved next door in the 1930s. Then the old location was demolished to build a new building between the new location and the Miller Paine department store to the left:

The store front in 1949 showing some hats:

More hats on the right:

The location of the store today. Note the ghost of the "Ben Simon and Sons" sign:

 

[deadlyhandsome]

Arthur's Hats blue homburg:
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Arthur Feilchenfeld opened his first store at the turn of the century, and over time Arthur's Hats would occupy seven locations in the Chicago Loop. The main store was located in the Fisher Building:
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Still standing today, the Fisher Building is the oldest 18-story building left in Chicago. It's been renovated for present day apartments though some of the original finishings still remain, including doors inscribed with previous business tenants that once occupied the building:
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Arthur on a matchbook:
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Store credit tags:
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Arthur had a love hate relationship with blue hats it seems:
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Arthur Filchenfeld, Jr. continued the business after his father's death in 1940. His name appears on a patent application for a hat steamer in 1941. He would sell the company in 1949.

That’s a beautiful blue homburg. Someday....

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Petway Reavis, Nashville, TN (1913 - 2003) 90 yrs

Petway Reavis went into business in 1913 with the partnership of Edward Petway & Frank Reavis. Their first location was on the ground floor of the famous Maxwell House Hotel constructed in 1859. Sometime in the 1940's during the WWII yrs Petway & Reavis sold the business to an employee (last name of Minton) & the business was still in the Maxwell House Hotel when the hotel burned to a total loss on Christmas night, 1961. In its lifetime the Maxwell House Hotel was famous in that 7 Presidents stayed there, & infamous in that the KKK held their first national meeting there in 1867.

After the fire the business relocated to 424 Church St in downtown Nashville, where it remained until forced to relocate again in 1984 due to urban renewal. By May 1963 the Minton family had opened a satellite store in the Green Hills Shopping Center which is apparently where my hat was sold from.

In 1984 the Minton family purchased the former Zales Jewelry store building at 506 Church St & moved the Petway Reavis Men's Store again. The business would remain there until the 3rd generation of the Minton family closed it's doors for the final time in 2003. The building would next house a restaurant until 2014 when it was converted to trendy loft apartments.

 

[Hat and Rehat]

1920's Stetson Boss Raw Edge from Auerbach & Guettel Palace Clothing Co, Topeka, Ks. Members of the Auerbach family were influential in early Kansas state politics.

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On the National Historic Registry today.
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Nice Boss there, Bob.
My someday hat.
One on eBay last May with a seller that didn't know what they had "old black cowboy hat" sat with 2 low bids, and only a couple of watchers (officially) right up until the last hour. I chased it up to $200, twice plus what I'd spent on a hat until then, knowing there would be Hell to pay at home. Alas, I wasn't the only bidder paying attention.

 

[BobHufford]

Nice Boss there, Bob.
My someday hat.

A Boss is still my "someday hat" as well Steve.

That one is Jack's, but I can understand your confusion.

One more time:

@Hurricane Jack

@BobHufford