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Los Angeles. Pershing Square, June 1944. Reading about the D-Day invasion.

 

[BobHufford]

"June 17, 1946 - The first call using a regular commercial car telephone service was made in St. Louis. Offered by AT & T, the service cost $15 per month plus 30 to 40 cents per call. It wasn’t very mobile as the equipment weighed 80 pounds. The system could only handle three calls at a time in the entire city, basically a party line."

 

[M Hatman]

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"June 17, 1946 - The first call using a regular commercial car telephone service was made in St. Louis. Offered by AT & T, the service cost $15 per month plus 30 to 40 cents per call. It wasn’t very mobile as the equipment weighed 80 pounds. The system could only handle three calls at a time in the entire city, basically a party line."

Party line....and they don't mean line dancing.........hmmmm....crap I am old..........I remember them, everybody listening to everybody.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Wasn't able to identify this pic but they look like they could be brothers. The one in the left looks like he might have on a smoking hat. The one on the right looks to have a long "book pipe" cradled from his hand thru his elbow.

 

[Mighty44]

I’m sure this must have been posted before but it is new to me. Looks like an impromptu hat check at a hotel event of some kind in the 1950s. Wonderful to see so many distinctive creases—each owner creating his own style.

David

 

[Hurricane Jack]

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Can’t make out the ribbon.

 

[M Hatman]

Looks like a two cord.....

 

[Hurricane Jack]

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Better choice of words on my part would have been medal.

 

[M Hatman]

Better choice of words on my part would have been medal.

Sorry...my mind went right to the hat ribbon....
Now for the medal....I cannot tell either......other than the use of a Maltese Cross. Probably a Fraternal Order or some such....

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Sorry...my mind went right to the hat ribbon....
Now for the medal....I cannot tell either......other than the use of a Maltese Cross. Probably a Fraternal Order or some such....

The Southern Cross of Honor issued by the UDC.

 

[M Hatman]

The Southern Cross of Honor issued by the UDC.

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Awesome medal!!! Is that your Jack? I will say that is not the same as the one in the picture....no ribbon, different hanger pin, medal itself has figures in the center. To me it looks like some GAR medals I have seen and or fraternal medals....could also be a Sons of Confederate Veterans or the like....

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Awesome medal!!! Is that your Jack? I will say that is not the same as the one in the picture....no ribbon, different hanger pin, medal itself has figures in the center. To me it looks like some GAR medals I have seen and or fraternal medals....could also be a Sons of Confederate Veterans or the like....

The pic is too dark for me to make out the medal but when you said it was a Maltese Cross the Southern Cross of Honor came to mind first. It was issued by the UDC at least twice. The first time was shortly after the formation of the UDC. Don’t know how many were issued, some were silver (maybe all of them?) & the veterans name was engraved in the bar. The cross was backed by a ribbon. The second issue came about 1910 as the 50th anniversary of the war began to gear up. We think veterans had to buy these, they were all bronze & the veteran could have them engraved. This one is mine.

In the 1980’s some fake reproduction medals in pewter started to show up.

 

[Zombie_61]

Can’t make out the ribbon.

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Aside from the photo being too grainy, the medal looks authentically decades old but the model and his wardrobe look like they're straight out of central casting circa 1973. I'd also bet that cigarette was made by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and someone tore off the filter.

 

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I can’t seem to find a good definition, and I really don’t want to go through 8800+ posts.

 

[BobHufford]

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Who …

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[Hurricane Jack]

…but the model and his wardrobe look like they're straight out of central casting circa 1973. I'd also bet that cigarette was made by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company and someone tore off the filter.

Here’s something that is right out of central casting:

‘Your cynicism knows no bounds.” — Doc Holiday, Tombstone.

Howard Parker was a true cowboy in every sense of the word. He was a fourth generation Sandhills cowboy and rancher; a rodeo cowboy, announcer, and judge; an old west history buff and collector of western memorabilia; a western entertainer story teller and cowboy poet. In 1960. 1962, &1963 he won the NSRA Saddle Bronc Championship.

Daughter Lex Ann says “I’ll never forget the times younger men have told me that they looked to my dad as model for being a true-to-the-west cowboy; hand rolled cigarette, holstered six shooter, riding a half broke bronc all the while running down a coyote. My dad brought to life what young men thought they’d never see beyond a movie screen.”

Back in 2006 he was inducted posthumously into the Nebraska Cowboy Hall of Fame.

 

[M Hatman]

Can’t make out the ribbon.

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Looks excly like this 1883 WRC badge.....