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  1. Benzadmiral

    Akubra Stockman

    I've always thought the Stockman was one of Akubra's best hat styles -- much like the moderate brim hats Fifties and Sixties actors wore in the old Western films and TV series.
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    Would an Akubra Campdraft work in big city business?

    Have a look at this shot from a movie. It's been posted here before; I think it's 1947's Out of the Past. The actor is Frank Wilcox. You couldn't ask for a nicer (i.e., more classic) coat and tie, and thin-ribbon hat, setup.
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    What Are You Reading

    I recently picked up In the Wet. At first I thought, Oh, no, a story about a climate as bad as the one I live in. Then, suddenly, the story shifted into a science-fiction mode to follow a major character through a world, primarily about Britain and Australia, 30 years after the opening...
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    The STETSON WAY, Advertising and ephemera of the Golden Era

    The young lady looks like she's seen something that, as we say today, "You can't unsee."
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    The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

    There is something not quite right about that picture. I never knew Jack Nicholson had access to a time machine. Either that, or somebody been playin' with the Photoshop, yo. (It's been a long time since I saw Kubrick's version of The Shining, though.)
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The story David Gerrold quoted Koenig as telling was that he read, but then nobody told him for 2-3 hours that he had the part. They kept shuttling him here to wardrobe and there to the hairstyle people. Finally he got fed up and said, "What is going on?" Only then did they tell him he was to...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    The Shailene Woodley starrer Divergent, from 2014. I was curious about it, had liked Shailene's performance in Big Little Lies, and it was on TBS yesterday, so I gave it a try . . . and enjoyed it quite a bit. They were sensible about the fighting business, didn't have Shailene's character...
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Alexander Waverly (dryly, to Napoleon Solo, who has just described an attempt on his life while on his current mission): "Report any such attempts immediately. Unless, of course, they're successful." U.N.C.L.E. fans have said for years that it was Carroll's role in North by Northwest that...
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    DE shaving issues

    Ha. I cut myself with a Braun electric. 'Struth. Not easy to do, but I managed it. I'd used the foil-head model for a few years. Then one morning I felt a sting, thought I'd pulled a beard hair, and then saw the blood from the thin scratch on my cheek. A bit of the foil had broken off and...
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    Favorite shaving soaps

    I'm going to try one of the Chiseled Face soaps, the Sherlock. It's supposed to have scents of wood, leather, and pipe smoke! Their other one that intrigues me is the Ghost Town Barber, which is, I've read, similar, but includes hints of gunpowder (!). But it's out of stock in a lot of the...
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    Vintage roadside

    That's where Napoleon Solo would have lived in the mid-Sixties -- very close to U.N.C.L.E. Headquarters!
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    Stars And Their Cars

    I remember sitting in an XR7 sometime in 1967 or so, on a dealer's lot. In those days, at least around here, the dealers usually left the cars unlocked. Dad, my brother, and I would visit the car lots and we boys would sit in the cars. We were clean and never left a hint we'd been there, but...
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    Stars And Their Cars

    When watching the film last month, I noticed that her monogram, ND, is visible on the rear door -- at least on the driver's side.
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    Old gas stations

    "I TOLD you to look in the mirrors when backing up!"
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    Paris In The Roaring Twenties

    The fellow with the cane and bow tie looks like pics I've seen of James Joyce. And is the mustachioed rakehell-ish fellow Hemingway?
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    Paris In The Roaring Twenties

    Her look doesn't seem adoring to me. She appears to be peering down the street as if waiting for a bus or taxi to turn the corner.
  20. Benzadmiral

    Old gas stations

    Miss. Gulf Coast, perhaps, ca. 1952? And that looks like one of the Nash "bathtub" models. There is a YouTube video of the one Jay Leno has/had, a 1950 Ambassador. Neat as the styling looks, it must have played the very devil with trying to change a tire!
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Much as I've always wanted to like Key Largo, somehow for me the excitement factor that should be there, isn't. Don't get me wrong: It's light-years ahead of most films of today, and the cast is indeed outstanding. But it's always left me a little cool. Dunno why.
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    What was the last TV show you watched?

    The entire run of the HBO series Big Little Lies. Despite wanting to see it because of Nicole Kidman, who I will watch in almost anything *, I was a bit worried since David E. Kelley of Ally McBeal and L.A. Law infamy has always been one to hit you over the head with political correctness...
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    I trimmed my Federation IV brim today

    I should get up the nerve to do that with my Carbon Grey, or if I order a brown Fed.
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