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  1. JackieMatra

    What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

    Another one?! Are there any more lovely old hats in your size left in Germany?
  2. JackieMatra

    question about Akubra eyelets vs liners

    Might your Akubra Territory possibly be an originally unlined Australian version that a liner was later put into?
  3. JackieMatra

    question about Akubra eyelets vs liners

    I have several Akubras with eyelets and liners, including an Akubra Territory. The eyelets go through the liners on all three of the hats, the Blue Mountains, Coober Pedy, and Territory. In fact, the outside rims of the metal eyelets inside of the hats sit on top of the liners. Point of...
  4. JackieMatra

    JJ Hat Center & Pork Pie Hatters NYC

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Ko%C5%9Bciuszko Not too shabby in the hat department, either. He has a statue in Lafayette Square right by the White House in Washington, D.C., as well.
  5. JackieMatra

    JJ Hat Center & Pork Pie Hatters NYC

    So there is, across mighty Newton creek, that I have never traversed, however, there certainly was also a Kosciuszko bridge in northern New Jersey, that had been there for, at least, the best part of a century, that I have crossed, and that was still there the last time that I visited the Garden...
  7. JackieMatra

    JJ Hat Center & Pork Pie Hatters NYC

    The Kosciuszko bridge, named for Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko, a Polish patriot and American revolutionary war hero, is in New Jersey. Kosciuszko is approximately properly pronounced as Kos-tsyoo-shko with an emphasis on the middle syllable, however, in the Northern New Jersey/New...
  8. JackieMatra

    There is some anti-hat propaganda going on...

    I'll assume that was meant as a compliment.
  9. JackieMatra

    There is some anti-hat propaganda going on...

    It's Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr., yes, if that's who you mean.
  10. JackieMatra

    There is some anti-hat propaganda going on...

    I beg to differ. I definitely recall the phrase being in common usage over fifty years ago.
  11. JackieMatra

    Name the Actor...

    I disagree. It really seems to be a willful refusal to use familiar faces and names, which would have been why former child stars found themselves typically receiving no onscreen credits for their later adolescent and adult parts. Take the case of Dickie Moore. A huge star as a child, quickly...
  13. JackieMatra

    Name the Actor...

    Carl Switzer. Why is it that child stars are no longer of interest to casting directors once they approach adulthood? Hardly ever any roles of any consequence, typically, and often even often no screen credits. Carl Switzer, for example, has a supporting speaking role in "Going My Way" for which...
  14. JackieMatra

    The Maltese Falcon

    Check out "Stagedoor Canteen" and "Thank Your Lucky Stars", as well. (In "Thank Your Lucky Stars" Bette Davis sings (well, sort of), John Garfield strangles Eddie Cantor (realizing the dreams of many), and S.Z. Sakall intimidates Humphrey Bogart.)
  15. JackieMatra

    Ask a question, get an answer

    I've been told that they can be washed, and seem to recall once actually seeing a video of that being done. I have a Panama hat that mullberrys fell all over and deeply stained. Soap and lukewarm water followed by a coldwater rinse took all the stains right out. Unfortunately, it didn't do the...
  16. JackieMatra

    OK, Which Lounger Dropped Their Whippet?

    There, there, now. There was an unscalable (for the tiger) fence separating her from the kitty, and it wasn't a hat that she retrieved, but a camouflage cloth cap. Not really all that much risk involved, and anyway, quite understandable, as the cap must have cost at least $4US (or $5CA!).
  17. JackieMatra

    The Maltese Falcon

    Additionally, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre both appeared in five films with Humphrey Bogart. Sydney Greenstreet in: The Maltese Falcon (1941) Across the Pacific (1942) Casablanca (1942) Passage to Marseille (1944) Conflict (1945) Peter Lorre in: The Maltese Falcon (1941) All Through the...
  19. JackieMatra

    The Maltese Falcon

    For the curious, the eight films that Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre both appeared in were: The Maltese Falcon (1941) Casablanca (1942) Background to Danger (1943) Passage to Marseille (1944) The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) Hollywood Canteen (1944) The Verdict (1946) Three Strangers (1946)
  20. JackieMatra

    The Maltese Falcon

    Greenstreet and Lorre had never appeared together in a film prior to "The Maltese Falcon", although they were to appear in a subsequent seven (all excellent) films together, because "The Maltese Falcon" was Sydney Greenstreet's very first film.
  21. JackieMatra

    Stetson Panama

    A noteworthy feature of the Tesi Panama hats is their unusually tall crown height. The salesperson at Bencraft assured me that they all had 5" tall crowns, as creased, and this turned out to be quite true of the Tesi Optimo Panama hat that I purchased from them.
  22. JackieMatra

    1 1/2'' brims?

    Judging from movies, television shows, and photographs of the time, as well as "vintage" hats from those years, The Dane is quite correct. I would further expand on that by adding that generally brims further decreased in width to about 2.25" to 2" from the mid-1950s to 2" or less through the...
  23. JackieMatra

    Stetson Panama

    Here's a link to a Fedora Lounge thread from a year ago with my lengthy disquisition on Panama and other "summer" hats priced at less than $170. http://www.thefedoralounge.com/threads/recommend-a-panama-for-this-need.81832/ Most of what I (and others) wrote there probably still holds true and...

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