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    What Price Glory replica A-2 review

    Reviving this older thread... I recently purchased a What Price Glory (WPG) goatskin leather A-2 flight jacket (also "2018 run"). As others have noted, this is a very well made jacket. At a price of $155.00, I was curious about how well it compared to another well known brand's A-2 flight...
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    Toppers Unite

    My grandfather and his 1st cousin, circa 1905. I guess their parents thought this was cute.
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    Homburg Nation

    Thank you... never heard of that hat style before. I noticed that the brim didn't have the satin edging, and also didn't have the satin band. Has the look of a Homburg. He would have been a bit young career-wise to have worn a Homburg at the time; though he was a snappy dresser (my dad said...
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    Homburg Nation

    Proto-Homburg? My great-grandfather ca late 1890s.
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    Let's see your mechanical watches

    Pretty much agree with your Rolex sentiments. I bought a new Explorer 114270 from an authorized dealer in 2002. Sold the Explorer in 2012. The lack of a date indicator and the "retro" (to be polite) deployant clasp caused a loss of interest in the watch. My Archimede Outdoor Protect fulfills...
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    Coronavirus: What Vintage Skills Can Help Prepare for a Potential Pandemic?

    Since I'm somewhat of vintage age-wise, one of my decades-old rules to prevent getting the flu was to not drink from glasses or use utensils that others are using (e.g., a friend at dinner says "try a sip of my wine, I think you'll like it," or "I can't finish my steak, you want what I can't...
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    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    Unfortunately, I have only one photo of her, which was cropped from a larger family photo with her children at her side and behind her (one of whom was my grandfather). Her name was Osana, which means "otter" in the Muscogee Creek language. My aunt possesses all the old family photos. I...
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    Turquoise/Native American jewelry

    My great-grandmother, wearing her trade bead necklace. She was born in 1874, and lived in a small community within the Chickasaw Indian nation in the Oklahoma territory. To those with expertise in trade bead necklaces, what might be the stones, and their color, which make up her necklace?
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    Ford Vs Ferrari ...

    A Porsche 906 (?) on display.
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    Ford Vs Ferrari ...

    And another... this time of the wrecked Scuderia Bear team's no. 63 Ford GT. It wrecked during practice prior to the race.
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    Ford Vs Ferrari ...

    Another picture successfully uploaded. We reached one of the ticket gates to the LeMans race course.
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    Ford Vs Ferrari ...

    Well... got one to upload of my mom, brothers, and I heading to the gate. I'm the big kid (8 years old) on the right.
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    Ford Vs Ferrari ...

    Thank you... I have a lot more digitally converted photos of this race my dad took with his 35mm camera, but memory limitations of this website have made it impossible to upload them. They capture aspects of the race not shown in the film.
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    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    A friend and I saw the movie this evening. Some observations: I agree with your overall assessment, articulated above. My thoughts as I watched the Ford and Ferrari business interactions depicted in the movie was that, in the greater overall view of this event, Ferrari could be described as...
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    Ford Vs Ferrari ...

    Unable to upload photos due to memory limitations, but I posted some photos of the 1966 LeMans race my dad took over at this website, this past April: https://askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/threads/where-have-you-been.241124/page-7 One of the pictures shows the no.1 Ford GT, driven by Ken...
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    Have You Ever Met A Movie/TV Star or Celebrity?

    My wife and her family are from Apollo, PA, which is the hometown of James Stewart's mother and her parents, whose last name is Jackson. My wife's mother worked in the Jackson home as their house cleaner. Her brother, my wife's uncle, was a childhood friend of Jimmy. My wife tells the story...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    I love the desert Southwest, too. Quartzsite is a neat little town, particularly in the high summer (temperatures of 45C/113F) when few people are there. The town has a number of fossil/gem/meteorite-oriented shops that are fascinating. I prefer the landscape of New Mexico, however. I had a...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    Feldman's Bookstore in Menlo Park, CA had the interior vibe you've described above (which I think it still has, according to online reviews). Many years ago I'd stop by the bookstore when I was visiting Menlo Park. On one visit, in late October, I wondered if they had a copy of Bram Stoker's...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    As to another bookstore that's become something of an attraction.... if you're driving thru Quartzsite, Arizona you might stop in at "Reader's Oasis Books," which is a regular, general interest bookstore-- or so it seemed. I've personally seen the attraction, live and in the flesh. I...
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    Today in History

    That timeframe reminds me of one of my maternal grandmother's adventures. A few months prior to Ronald Reagan's passing, my grandmother decided to sell her 1967 Buick Riviera (having bought it new and owning it for 37 years). She lived in Mountain View, California, since about 1946-47. One of...

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