vintage caps

[Blackthorn]

More IRA pics:

 

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And a better one:

 

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Chicago, 1941:

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Somewhat blurry when enlarged but interesting picture taken on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Yr unknown.

The "tradition" continues today but is mostly tourist attractions.

 

[M Hatman]

Somewhat blurry when enlarged but interesting picture taken on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. Yr unknown.

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The "tradition" continues today but is mostly tourist attractions.

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I wish I could like this a second time for TWO likes, one for the caps, one for the Whiskey!!!!
M

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I wish I could like this a second time for TWO likes, one for the caps, one for the Whiskey!!!!
M

I'd like to tour the distilleries in Scotland but probably won't ever make it. Wouldn't even know the best time of yr to go. With Whisky auctions becoming more popular with collectors here in the US plus internet sales I've wondered how a speciality merchant in fine whisky might go over too.

 

[M Hatman]

I'd like to tour the distilleries in Scotland but probably won't ever make it. Wouldn't even know the best time of yr to go. With Whisky auctions becoming more popular with collectors here in the US plus internet sales I've wondered how a speciality merchant in fine whisky might go over too.

I am Sooooooo with you on that one. I would love to tour the distilleries in Scotland and Ireland!!!!
I have been down to the Bardstown Kentucky area many times for the Whiskey Museum and the auctions and toured the many distilleries in Kentucky as well as the one near Mount Vernon in Virginia where they are making Rye with Washington's original recipe. I have been to many of the craft distilleries in our Iowa and Illinois area...BUT....of course Scotland is the prize!!!!
M

 

[Blackthorn]

Can't remember where I found this one:

 

[Matt Rich]

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Lew Cody, silent and early sound actor

 

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More IRA photos, taken years after the rebellion:

 

[M Hatman]

1914 Montgomery Ward......
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[Blackthorn]

Wow, great pic, Hatman! If only all those models were still available at non-custom prices!

 

[Zombie_61]

Wow, great pic, Hatman! If only all those models were still available at non-custom prices!

If only they were still available at those 1914 prices.

 

[Short Balding Guy]

1914 Montgomery Ward......
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Thanks for sharing your Montgomery Ward cap page. A treasure of info and history is on that page. Amazing the variety of options available to cap wearers. My father often spoke fondly about catalogs and how he would peruse them as a child in the 40's. I make the time in order to appreciate his life experience.

Best, Eric -

 

[belfastboy]

I am Sooooooo with you on that one. I would love to tour the distilleries in Scotland and Ireland!!!!
I have been down to the Bardstown Kentucky area many times for the Whiskey Museum and the auctions and toured the many distilleries in Kentucky as well as the one near Mount Vernon in Virginia where they are making Rye with Washington's original recipe. I have been to many of the craft distilleries in our Iowa and Illinois area...BUT....of course Scotland is the prize!!!!
M

My wife and I have been to the British Isles and Ireland many times but somehow always managed to miss Scotland . Next late September/October we will make a specific trip at my wife's urging. I agreed on the condition we would take a number of days to travel the whisky trail. The weather will likely be crap but then I think it is even in summer and if we don't expect good weather and dress appropriately it will work out. And inclement weather just gives more reason to stay indoors in a nice pub somewhere.

 

[Blackthorn]

April 1939. "Salvation Army, San Francisco, California. Unemployed young men pause a moment to loiter and watch, and then pass on."

 

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[Hurricane Jack]

Leonard “Bugs” Rucker, 1982
Elected into the Billiards One-Pocket Hall of Fame in 2004. Deservedly so! "High Heels" Danny deserves to be in there too.

There's a million old places out there just like this, where you have to be buzzed in & buzzed out. They have names like Tuxedo Billiards & Cadillac Billiards, & eventually get closed down by do-gooders.

 

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