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  1. Salty O'Rourke

    Post New Hats Here!

    I got one of those Hats Plus ORs too. I flipped the sweatband and it's dated 2002, so your hat may have drawn up a bit in storage if it's of the same vintage as mine. I checked all the Biltmore catalogs on their website and I don't see the Wilderness Collection OR after 2006.
  2. Salty O'Rourke

    Top Quality Biltmore

    I got one of the last, if not the last, Hats Plus Wilderness O/R clones in Caribou. I needed to replace my gray Knox Westlite (carpet beetle got to it - those buggers work FAST!) and I snapped up the Biltmore after reading about HP unloading some old stock. Biltmore's Caribou is darker than...
  3. Salty O'Rourke

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Anna Karenina. My wife and the couple we saw it with loved it; I thought it was a mess. The director's constant "see how clever I am" touches wrecked it for me. As one reviewer observed, this movie may be longer than the book.
  4. Salty O'Rourke

    Revived hat wearing hero - The Spider

    John LaCurto was the first actor to portray The Shadow, Frank Readick was the second. For the first few years the character was used merely as a host, to introduce unrelated detective shows. The popularity of the radio host spawned the magazine, which in turn led Street and Smith to develop a...
  5. Salty O'Rourke

    Waldorf Astoria Doors Removed

    Stuff wears out and has to be replaced. The Waldorf just underwent a $300M renovation. I tried to find a post-renovation photo online but haven't as yet. I'd be very surprised if new revolving doors in keeping with the building's architecture weren't used. For that matter, the doors they...
  7. Salty O'Rourke

    Revived hat wearing hero - The Spider

    Done! And you can find some of the old radio episodes online if you know where and how to look, although the radio series is vastly inferior to the pulp novels; all that "cloud men's minds" and tin-can-echo voice business - meh. I'll stick to the pulps, etexts are out there in the ether as well.
  8. Salty O'Rourke

    Dating Your Hat (A Place to Discuss the Age of Your Vintage Hat)

    You can never have too many hat pics.... The Mallory is late 40s/early to mid 50s - post Stetson takeover clues are the "1817" reference in the liner crest and the paper size tag. Can't help you with the other two.
  9. Salty O'Rourke

    What modern invention/innovation do you wish had *never* been developed?

    Although the drunks, brawlers, juvenile delinquents, domestic sqabblers, bums and outright crooks as heard on Night Watch and Unit 99 aren't terribly unfamiliar to modern ears - the language was less salty and of course edited for broadcast, but otherwise the attitudes and evasions demonstrate...
  10. Salty O'Rourke

    Revived hat wearing hero - The Spider

    They have a series that features a bunch of the 1930s pulp and radio fedoraed characters, Masks. I've enjoyed reading the first two issues. The Spider's hood is taken from a movie serial rather than the pulps, but I think it's an improvment.
  11. Salty O'Rourke

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Well, I've fallen off the HAD wagon - here's my new-to-me Mallory Nokabout:
  13. Salty O'Rourke

    Vintage Desk Help

    The second desk will be easier to polish up or refinish. It's hard to tell from the photo but the first desk's top appears to be veneered, and it looks badly chipped in a couple of places. The veneer will be hard to repair and refinishing around the leather inlay will be tough. Form follows...
  14. Salty O'Rourke

    What TV shows were you GLAD were cancelled?

    I was never impressed by Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, not a bit sorry it went away. Same in spades for Love, American Style - yuck.
  15. Salty O'Rourke

    Good Riddance 2012 Nice to Meet You 2013

    2012 wasn't bad at all for me - my youngest graduated college in May and found a job in his field by September. It was a better year at work than 2011 (and WAYYYY better than the disaster of 2009) - we aren't able to hire additional personnel but neither have we had any layoffs or RIFs since the...
  16. Salty O'Rourke

    Depressed by the modern world

    This reminded me of the fact that F*** is one of the few words (and perhaps the only one in English) whose derivitives can be used to make a complete sentence, as in: F***! F***ing f***er's f***ed!
  17. Salty O'Rourke

    DE shaving issues

    The problem with DE shaving is finding the perfect blade - a seemingly endless quest, at least for me. I've been a dedicated SE shaver for years and not even a Merkur slant can shave me closer. I use a vintage Heljestrand wedge SE razor with modern GEM blades - I have gotten as many as 12 shaves...
  19. Salty O'Rourke

    Wanted: Biltmore Open Road, Black, Size 7 1/2

    Miller has their Open Road in black - a little pricier that the Biltmore but way cheaper than a Borso. They show it pre-bashed tho...
  20. Salty O'Rourke

    In the Pressure Cooker!

    My mom used one, more for canning than cooking although I recall her preparing pot roasts in it if time was of the essence. I had one right after I finished college and struck out on my own, but haven't used one in years.
  21. Salty O'Rourke

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    Apparently Universal (who purchased Paramount's catalog of films up through the 1940s) has struck a new print of the 1949 Great Gatsby - it was shown at last year's Noir City festival. Let's hope it will be released on DVD.
  22. Salty O'Rourke

    The Great Gatsby - Remake in the Works

    In the words of Leonard Pinth-Garnell, it will bite the big one.
  23. Salty O'Rourke

    Golden Age Actors/Actresses Who Aged Gracefully

    Cary Grant.

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