The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[The Wiser Hatter]

Just searching thru Bill's link.

 

[buler]

You can almost feel the finish on this one:

He has a good eye for a hat:

RLK storing his open roads:

 

[scottyrocks]

RLK storing his open roads:

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Photograph of Robert Hewitt wearing a hat. Mr. Hewitt was partners with Raymond Preslar in the Preslar & Hewitt Drugs, 323 N. Main Street, Taylor. Mr. Hewitt appears to be standing under the store sign.

 

[buler]

Looks like a Columbia

Early Indy Pinch

Very close to RLK's leather band

 

[TPD166]

Open Roads?

More from the same great website. If I recall correctly, I've read several times that the Open Road in its "current" configuration was introduced in 1946. Apparently that same style pretty popular as far back as 1941 as well.

New Travis County TX Sheriff & Deputies - Jan. 1, 1941

Fort Bend County TX Sheriff's Office - April 1941

But in 1933, these Dallas Co. deputies seemed to prefer wide ribbons (posing with items from Clyde Barrow's car)

 

[buler]

Robert, not exactly sure what you mean by current configuration. But the "basic" open road style has been around since at least 1918. See the ads in this Schoble thread: NobleSchoble

They had one in their 1918 ad. Stetson and No Name Hat Mfg also had ads in 1918/1919 with hats pretty much identical to what we consider an Open Road.

B

 

[TPD166]

Robert, not exactly sure what you mean by current configuration. But the "basic" open road style has been around since at least 1918. See the ads in this Schoble thread: NobleSchoble

They had one in their 1918 ad. Stetson and No Name Hat Mfg also had ads in 1918/1919 with hats pretty much identical to what we consider an Open Road.

B

I've been wearing them for nearly 20 years, but only started learning their history more recently. I was referring to the thin ribbon OR (introduced under the name "Open Road" around 1946 if I remember correctly - but probably don't!); my understanding is that the earlier model named the "Open Road" was configured differently (wider ribbon, etc.).

EDIT: Thanks for Schoble link - those ads are great. I had no idea that style went back that far!

 

[hatophile]

Here is the posse that ambushed Bonnie and Clyde. The guy in the black hat top left looks like the guy in the white hat in TPD's picture above. He is Ted Hinton, Dallas deputy sheriff.

Here is Frank Hamer with what appears to be a thin ribbon OR type hat. I believe he was a Stetson man.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

1920's photobooth

 

[hatophile]

Cute!

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Paris, 1960s by Dick de Herder

 

[RBH]

Taken by Farm Security Administration photographer Carl Mydans, 1935.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Sjouwerman in Istanbul, Turkije, 1958
Foto Wim Dussel, collectie IISG, Amsterdam

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Au Bois 1911 by Jacques Henri Lartigue

 

[Hoyt Clagwell]

Keep 'em comin fellas,this is starting to be my new favorite thread. Rusty, I have decided that I need to establish a Farm Security Administration at Flying Fedora Farms.

 

[Gin&Tonics]

1920's photobooth

Wow, she looks like a real cutie! Shame we don't have a better view!

 

[mayserwegener]

Series of pocket sized portriat photos I picked up recently. I thought I would post these here as well as in the German and Austrian thread. They are very high quality and in great condition.

Riga, Latvia 1896 (example of an early Fedora)

Bocum, Germany

Hannover, Germany 1892

Bielefeld, Germany

 

[RBH]

Keep 'em comin fellas,this is starting to be my new favorite thread. Rusty, I have decided that I need to establish a Farm Security Administration at Flying Fedora Farms.

Check it out Hoyt!

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fsainfo.html