vintage caps

[Bamaboots]

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What a great post, Blackthorn.

 

[M Hatman]

Blackthorn, your pic got me to reminiscing & looking for an old cider press:

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But now I dreaming of a set up like this:

See what you did?

I keep coming back (off topic.....do we have a topic for distilling?? We may need to start one......) to this really cool column still set up. I prefer copper pot stills for more base flavor in my whiskey (column stills produce a higher alcoholic volume distillate with less base oils and flavor from the original mash) but this setup is just so nice I can really see it in the corner of my shed!
Darn you guys.......
M

 

[Blackthorn]

What a great post, Blackthorn.

Thank you, Bamboot's.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I keep coming back (off topic.....do we have a topic for distilling?? We may need to start one......) to this really cool column still set up. I prefer copper pot stills for more base flavor in my whiskey (column stills produce a higher alcoholic volume distillate with less base oils and flavor from the original mash) but this setup is just so nice I can really see it in the corner of my shed!
Darn you guys.......
M

Rather than spend that kind of money for the setup I think I'll just mash up some apples & pour in some Everclear to add to the fermentation. Or just go to the bar.

 

[Blackthorn]

Joel McCrea in Dead End:

 

[Blackthorn]

From Shorpy: September 1937. "Herman Gerling, farmer. Barrels on truck are for hauling spring water. Near Wheelock, North Dakota.

 

[Blackthorn]

How newsboy caps got their name:

 

[Blackthorn]

 

[Blackthorn]

I know, I already posted a pic of Bogie from this movie, but this is a cool angle and action shot:

 

[Blackthorn]

 

[M Hatman]

1952..........a photo and an illustration ad.
M

 

[M Hatman]

Thomas Begg , "the gentleman's hatter", advertised the Slimline cap for $5 in 1955.
M

 

[Blackthorn]

Nice, Hatman!

 

[Blackthorn]

 

[GHT]

On March 24th, I'm breaking the habit of a lifetime, I shall wear a newsboy flat cap to a Peaky Blinders inspired event. The flat cap has never appealed to me, although on my desk is a photo, circa 1929/30 of my paternal grandfather, standing alongside his brother, with my father, then a schoolboy, resplendent in their flat caps. Grandfather died before I was born, but his brother lived to a grand old age. And if there are any loungers from North London, you might remember a pub called The Cambridge Arms, now demolished, at the junction of The North Circular road and the A10. That pub was my grandfather's brother's. My great uncle.
This is the cap that my wife has bought for me.

I have found the photo of grandfather, sorry about the poor quality.

 

[Blackthorn]

Great pic, GHT!

 

[Zombie_61]

Great pic, GHT!

Seconded! Your father makes that school uniform look good!

Despite any apprehensions you might have about wearing a flat cap, please post at least one photo of you wearing it.

 

[Blackthorn]

November 1909. "A group of workers in Jonas Glass Works, Minotola, N.J. These are typical of conditions in Southern New Jersey although one finds, occasionally, a few younger workers."

 

[Blackthorn]

Roger Banister breaking the four minute mile:

 

[M Hatman]

1957 London Fog ad.....
M