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The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

The Wiser Hatter

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Art Shay, 1951
 

viclip

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Note how Jimmy Durante's fearsome schnozola was tempered by his fedora:

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The "internationally famous" Elmwood Casino folded in the 1970s.
 

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Imagine the hats in those boxes...

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More stacks of hat boxes...

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buler

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Crowds gathered to watch Harry Houdini..... just a few hats.

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Watching Houdini, 1923, Vancouver

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