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Clearly not every one round here, no (though perhaps ironically TFL started off as a spin off from an Indy board, in effect). It can't have been the first thing I ever saw a fedora in, though in an era when you would never have seen a fedora worn where I grew up, it definitely was the first thing where I really noticed the hat. My brown Fed Deluxe is still one of my most worn fedoras, though I've never gone for the olive oil route.... (what's that for, aging? staining?) My favourite Indy looks were, in the main, his classroom suits. No doubt that was a big subconscious influence when I started wearing bow ties other than black or white tie events.
Definitely not the first thing I ever saw a fedora in, either. I grew up with the '4:30 Movie' here in New York, which in the '60s, featured recently old movies, which meant the '30s through the fifties. Lots of fedoras, which I was fascinated by at an early age.