The Open Road Guild

[Grinchily]

Ah... I should have searched more closely gents!

I just found a tiny date stamped on the inside of the sweatband: June 11 1998. I assume this is the date of manufacture.

Thank you all for your input!

 

[DocCasualty]

Here's some shots of my "reclaimed" Open Road. Actually reclaimed twice now. It was my dad's hat, purchased either in the latter '40s or early '50s. Unfortunately it lived too many years in the attic and between my head being larger than his and dry rot to the sweatband, the innards fell out. Pretty sure it's a Royal Stetson. If I knew then what I know now I would have scooped up the Stetson hat box and left the hat alone. Live and learn. But anyway, I bought a hat stretcher, fashioned a new cloth sweatband and it's a very functional and fun hat. More recently one of the Poodle puppies got a hold of it and put a couple of teeth marks into it and I was able to fix the only visible one on the brim with Elmer's glue to acceptable results.

Here I was wearing it at a Roaring Twenties party in the late '70s while it was original.

This is several years ago but after resizing and replacing the sweatband.

Today.

 

[M Hatman]

I thought I should post this here too. I initially posted in the "New Hats" thread......
As an additional note, when my freind was tellling me about the hat, I had NO Idea it was an Open Road....
AND I did not have an open road.............I do now.......
Cheers,
M

A Stetson "Open Road" Royal Deluxe soft Fedora style with wind trolly. Has original box. A good friend gave this to me last night. It belonged to his father who passed away last year......he knew I liked hats and he had no use for it....he told me about it but was unsure of size.....I was very doubtful it would fit (I am a 7 1/2 to 7 5/8). Well long story short......IT FITS LIKE IT WAS MADE FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!! Differant color than it photographs...........a sort of yellow-grey-tan.....Sand Color perhaps? Could not find a blocking tag but could be behind the liner.....I was very cautious about peeking behind the sweat......sweat is a sort of very very deep brown..........not sure of it's age.....
CHEERS,
M
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[gtdean48]

I've got 2 of these modern Royal Deluxe Open Roads & to me, this is what an OR should be today & always...not sure we'll see it offered again tho...

 

[M Hatman]

Here is a picture of that OR that you don't have to click on for this thread....
Cheers,
M

 

[Hurricane Jack]

~1960's - early 1970's Stetson 3X Open Road

1960's Crest with plastic protector

Sweat has the rolled in line along top edge

Pre metric size tag

No tags that I could find but stamped EXTRA LONG

Sweat barrier

Hat is clean & in very good shape.

 

[moontheloon]

very nice Jack
excellent condition
that thing is you, man

 

[Frunobulax]

Good job, HJ! Nice looking OR.

 

[Bamaboots]

You know I like it, Jack.

 

[BobHufford]

~1960's - early 1970's Stetson 3X Open Road

Nice one Jack! Thanks for listing the details.

 

[Rogera]

what says recent to me is the gold line bordering the top of the sweat

I'd have to see the size tag and label under the sweat but it looks fairly recent

Yeah it looks like a pressed in crease

 

[Hurricane Jack]

very nice Jack
excellent condition
that thing is you, man

Good job, HJ! Nice looking OR.

You know I like it, Jack.

Nice one Jack! Thanks for listing the details.

Thank you guys. I didn't wear it when I went out last night because it was (& still is) so windy & hot here. I'm anxious to shim it to size a bit & wear it.

 

[Michael A]

Been fooling around with my camera this morning and looking for things to take photos of. So I thought I would update my not strictly OR thin ribbon collection.
IMG_4067 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
Clockwise from center bottom it's Pilgrim, 3X OR, Mallory The Dallas, Royal OR and Royal Deluxe OR.
IMG_4063 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
All would seem to be from sometime in the 1950s.
IMG_4066 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr

IMG_4071 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr

Hope you are having a fun Friday,
Michael

 

[KarlCrow]

Been fooling around with my camera this morning and looking for things to take photos of. So I thought I would update my not strictly OR thin ribbon collection.
IMG_4067 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
Clockwise from center bottom it's Pilgrim, 3X OR, Mallory The Dallas, Royal OR and Royal Deluxe OR.
IMG_4063 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
All would seem to be from sometime in the 1950s.
IMG_4066 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr

IMG_4071 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr

Hope you are having a fun Friday,
Michael

great collection, great creases.

 

[Michael A]

great collection, great creases.

Thanks Karl. I think I'll put one on and run some errands now. Which one is a tough call.

Michael

 

[RJR]

great collection, great creases.

+1,envious.

 

[Bob Roberts]

Been fooling around with my camera this morning and looking for things to take photos of. So I thought I would update my not strictly OR thin ribbon collection.
IMG_4067 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
Clockwise from center bottom it's Pilgrim, 3X OR, Mallory The Dallas, Royal OR and Royal Deluxe OR.
IMG_4063 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
All would seem to be from sometime in the 1950s.
IMG_4066 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr

IMG_4071 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr

Hope you are having a fun Friday,
Michael

Nice collection there. Good Diamond creases.

 

[Frunobulax]

Been fooling around with my camera this morning and looking for things to take photos of. So I thought I would update my not strictly OR thin ribbon collection.
IMG_4067 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
Clockwise from center bottom it's Pilgrim, 3X OR, Mallory The Dallas, Royal OR and Royal Deluxe OR.

All would seem to be from sometime in the 1950s.


Hope you are having a fun Friday,
Michael

Great shots, especially that first one.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Michael R.]

Been fooling around with my camera this morning and looking for things to take photos of. So I thought I would update my not strictly OR thin ribbon collection.
IMG_4067 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
Clockwise from center bottom it's Pilgrim, 3X OR, Mallory The Dallas, Royal OR and Royal Deluxe OR.
IMG_4063 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr
All would seem to be from sometime in the 1950s.
IMG_4066 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr

IMG_4071 crop by Michael A2012, on Flickr

Hope you are having a fun Friday,
Michael

Really Nice Collection and Pictures Michael ! Like Candy , sweet , and a good assortment .

 

[Michael A]

+1,envious.

Thanks Bob, I've still got a long way to go to get to the quality of your collection.

Nice collection there. Good Diamond creases.

Thanks Bob. These hats are fun to crease. Very amenable to changes

Great shots, especially that first one.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

Thanks Jim. I think I'm going to like this old camera. It seems to behave itself much better with sunlight than the one I have been using. Still much to learn about it.

Really Nice Collection and Pictures Michael ! Like Candy , sweet , and a good assortment .

Thanks Michael. Candy is dandy, liquor is quicker, but hats are more addictive than either.

Thanks all,
Michael