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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

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FedOregon

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felt like a good day for this 30s Penney's Marathon
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Very nice, indeed!
 
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Wow, what a great history Alan. Would a Jewish person from Galicia have been Sephardic?

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Forgive the further digression into the family tree, but a footnote: All of the kids in this photo of my great grandfather's children c.1910 have passed on. But there was a sixth child born in 1914 who survives. She was born at home, two pounds at birth. Family legend has it that spent the beginning of her life in a shoebox bassinet that was kept in a dresser drawer. Here she is at 101. She turned 102 in August.

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Forgive the further digression into the family tree, but a footnote: All of the kids in this photo of my great grandfather's children c.1910 have passed on. But there was a sixth child born in 1914 who survives. She was born at home, two pounds at birth. Family legend has it that spent the beginning of her life in a shoebox bassinet that was kept in a dresser drawer. Here she is at 101. She turned 102 in August.

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Amazing. Great family history.
 
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Well, I decided to wear the Black Cherry Gannon to another appt with the doc. It's interesting the series of changes in the crease on this one. Michael said he tries to make his hats so they are easy to bash for the owner, and he wasn't kidding. This hat has seen no steam at all, yet it progressed from a center dent to a c-crease and then - just this morning - to a diamond that just fell into place as I was brushing, then forming the hat. Excellent hat. The sun has not appeared as there is heavy fog here now, but the light is filtered by the fog and makes some of the shots show a truer color of the felt. The darker pics show the most accurate to my eye, at least on my computer.

My first bash, a somewhat modified center dent:

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Then more of a c-crease:

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And today's diamond:

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The bow/knot treatment I love so much:

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MrsFed (Sandra) always insists on a goofy smiling pic for her to keep on her phone...

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I like the diamond bash, nice job.
 
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I like to get this hat out in the air a couple of times each year. It's a survivor from time completely different from our world today. When this hat was sold around 1905 it was a three dollar alternative to the five dollar status quo. It might have been purchased by my great grandfather, a Galician Jew who had just landed in America seeking a better life for his young family. It might have been worn at a rally for a Republican president who saw the race for the White House as his bully pulpit. It might have made it out to see the Chicago Cubs, who would rack up the best winning percentage in baseball (a record that still stands today) in 1906 and go on to win their first World Series in 1907. If only hats could talk...

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Sadly, the great thread started and researched by #joshbru has many broken links. Perhaps it can be fixed.
This hat and it's story brings me to tears! Alan, you are a inspiration to us all!
 
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Lunch meeting to some wheels. Thought a Steton Royal Deluxe (recent from Garland hat outlet and a decent job of replicating vintage felt) was the way to go with conservative suit.

That's a helluva nice hat. Does it have a model name (looks like a Stetsonian) or just the Royal Deluxe designation? Got pix of the insides?
 
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Forgive the further digression into the family tree, but a footnote: All of the kids in this photo of my great grandfather's children c.1910 have passed on. But there was a sixth child born in 1914 who survives. She was born at home, two pounds at birth. Family legend has it that spent the beginning of her life in a shoebox bassinet that was kept in a dresser drawer. Here she is at 101. She turned 102 in August.

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Amazing history and story! Has there been an attempt at capturing an oral history from her? It would be a treasure both for the family and the National Archives.
 
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Amazing history and story! Has there been an attempt at capturing an oral history from her? It would be a treasure both for the family and the National Archives.

That's a great question and I'm not sure of the answer. She has a three children and many grandchildren... I wonder if any have thought to do this. My wife and I connected our fathers, who are both WWII veterans, to an oral history project through the WWII Museum in New Orleans.
 

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That's a helluva nice hat. Does it have a model name (looks like a Stetsonian) or just the Royal Deluxe designation? Got pix of the insides?

Actually Royal De Luxe and a punched hole in sweat speaking to its origins from the outlet store.
 

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