The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[carouselvic]

"You can be killed just as dead in an unjustified war, as you can in one protecting your own home." - Will Rogers, 26 May 1926

 

[carouselvic]

"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others." - Will Rogers, 18 November 1923

 

[carouselvic]

"So buy a ranch somewhere in the West. All your life every man has wanted to be a cowboy. Why play Wall Street and die young when you can play cowboy and never die?" - Will Rogers

 

[carouselvic]

"There will never be any class of people in our country that can replace the old western cowman for common sense, shrewdness, humor and fine citizenship." - Will Rogers, 12 December 1934

 

[alanfgag]

Loving the quotes but missing the pictures. Maybe it's me. My internet connection seems to have crawled into a hole and died today.

 

[carouselvic]

I'll try to fix this, I thought this might happen.....I'm still learning, got a ways to go

 

[Joao Encarnado]

I'll try to fix this, I thought this might happen.....I'm still learning, got a ways to go

Some appears, others not.
Great pictures and great hats!

 

[scottyrocks]

I find that I don't see most of the pictures when I'm on my inet connection at work. At home, never a problem.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Your work is blocking the sites the images are hosted on.

 

[frussell]

Vic, I've had a poster print from that same WR photo shoot with chaps on for about 35 years. Great photos, and I heartily agree with his quotes as well, they are as true today as ever. Thanks, Frank.

 

[carouselvic]

nothing to do with hats...just way koool

"Clara Mayer and Adline VanVlanderen pose with their motorcycles in the 1940s and in 2003 when they returned to recreate the photo in Cudahy, WI."

 

[viclip]

I wish I was savvy enough to be able to ID their 1940s rides

 

[scottyrocks]

The front one is an Indian Scout.

The shape of the emblem, and what looks like an 'I' in it, would lead me to the same for the other bike, as well.

 

[carouselvic]

Coney Island 1905

 

[viclip]

The front one is an Indian Scout.

The shape of the emblem, and what looks like an 'I' in it, would lead me to the same for the other bike, as well.

You know your vintage bikes!

 

[carouselvic]

Lonesome George

The DeZurik sisters aka the Cackle Sisters with future television comedian George Gobel ca. 1937

 

[Joao Encarnado]

Nice wide brim!

 

[alanfgag]

Dock Boggs

 

[hatophile]

Nice one Alan.

 

[carouselvic]

Redundant