The hats of our fathers

[moontheloon]

Great pic of your dad, Pancho! Good idea on how to resurrect this thread. You are lucky to have your dad for so long.

Here's a picture of an important man in my life; my grandfather wearing his big brim fedora probably around 1940. I had lots of uncles & great uncles; I need to see if I have pics of them in fedoras too.

great pic

men were a different breed back then

 

[Pancho65]

Great pic of your dad, Pancho! Good idea on how to resurrect this thread. You are lucky to have your dad for so long.

Here's a picture of an important man in my life; my grandfather wearing his big brim fedora probably around 1940. I had lots of uncles & great uncles; I need to see if I have pics of them in fedoras too.

I love that big brim - especially the shape. I think I'm going to have to look for old photos with relatives, too.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

This was an uncle who was a pilot in WWII. By ~1950 he was working as a pilot for a privately owned business with several locations around the state. I'm guessing this pic was taken sometime from 1950 - 1955.

 

[Pancho65]

This was an uncle who was a pilot in WWII. By ~1950 he was working as a pilot for a privately owned business with several locations around the state. I'm guessing this pic was taken sometime from 1950 - 1955.

That is a great photo! And I'm guessing this guy had not problem with the ladies.

 

[BobHufford]

My wife's great-grandfather (a commercial contractor) in Springfield, Missouri.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

That is a great photo! And I'm guessing this guy had not problem with the ladies.

LOL, Pancho I wouldn't know anything about that since this all happened before I was born! Now that I think more on it these pics were probably taken in 1946-1948. My aunt was born in 1930 & they married when she was about 18-19. I suspect these pics were taken not long before they married.

Here's another pic taken that same day. Trying to get more detail out of the soft focus, it would appear the bash is a teardrop or C-crown.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

My wife's great-grandfather (a commercial contractor) in Springfield, Missouri.

Great pic Bob! The yr is blotted out; do you know when it was taken? Looks like a wide brim also.

 

[BobHufford]

Great pic Bob! The yr is blotted out; do you know when it was taken? Looks like a wide brim also.

Thanks Hurricane Jack. My wife is guessing the 1940s. He was born in the 1880s.

 

[ddcronk]

Has anybody had a hat restored by Mike at Northwest Hats in Eugene, OR? Bob at Black Sheep hasn't gotten back to me, but I've been talking with Mike and he seems like a really good guy. He's got a three-month backlog of hat restorations right now, so I'm just hoping to get a little word of mouth before I ship my hat off to him.

Thanks,
Dan

 

[moontheloon]

LOL, Pancho I wouldn't know anything about that since this all happened before I was born! Now that I think more on it these pics were probably taken in 1946-1948. My aunt was born in 1930 & they married when she was about 18-19. I suspect these pics were taken not long before they married.

Here's another pic taken that same day. Trying to get more detail out of the soft focus, it would appear the bash is a teardrop or C-crown.

Could that be a wedding band on his left hand in the photo with the airplane ?
... Maybe after they had married
Looks like maybe a cigarette and a ring

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Could that be a wedding band on his left hand in the photo with the airplane ?
... Maybe after they had married
Looks like maybe a cigarette and a ring

Could be, Moon. I had noticed the cigarette but never paid any attention to the ring. That would probably date the pic at 1948-1949. I have a cousin born in late 1949 who could probably clear this up, but I rarely see her nowadays; sadly only at funerals.

 

[ddcronk]

Well guess what was under that duct tape sweat band:

 

[Doctor Strange]

Here are my parents by the Hudson River in North Yonkers in the late 1940s. I don't know what kind of hat it is, but that's his Army Field Jacket from his days in the Air Corps.

I love this picture, which I believe was taken by their then-partner in the commercial photo biz they started after the war, which remained a going concern for over fifty years.

 

[jkingrph]

Have both cleaned. You might put a fedora bash in your grandfather's hat. As for the open road you might try steaming and reshaping the top to something like a center dent with front pinches, or possibly a teardrop type bash. I tried that on an open road and it was simply too stiff to work by hand to another shape without leaving the outline of the factory bash. I do on my open roads is flatten the sides and snap the front down, making it still look like an open road but less cowboy.

 

[Knotten]

Bumping this thread because my stepmom visited last week and left me with some old family photo albums. I was leafing through when I found this one of my dad and my sister at Midway Airport in Chicago, 1957. Can't say this is a style of hat I would like to wear. The brim is too short and there are no side dents. But it was stylish for the time.

 

[Michael R.]

Bumping this thread because my stepmom visited last week and left me with some old family photo albums. I was leafing through when I found this one of my dad and my sister at Midway Airport in Chicago, 1957. Can't say this is a style of hat I would like to wear. The brim is too short and there are no side dents. But it was stylish for the time.

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Knotten , That looks like a Frank (Mr Blue Eyes) Sinatra Style . Great Picture !

 

[EstherWeis]

This is my great grandfather and my "Vava" ( grand pa)

This was taken right before my father was born so 1955.

Not really clear what hat but I like the picture.
Funny thing is that this is a picture of him and his sons working on their holiday home over the weekend.
In a SUIT!
He was a contractor and it was a family business so they built it together just for fun on weekends.

 

[Short Balding Guy]

A pic of my Grandfather and me. Taken near his trucking company in the Duluth, MN area.

Proud of my immigrant Grandfather and family.
Eric -

 

[EstherWeis]

A pic of my Grandfather and me. Taken near his trucking company in the Duluth, MN area.

Proud of my immigrant Grandfather and family.
Eric -

What a wonderful picture!
Where was he from if you don't mind me asking.

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Esther; My Mom and Dad's families left northern Finland (Rovaniemi and Tornio areas) for the US when Russian started annexing Finnish lands after WWII.