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    Woolworth’s, Bakersfield

    loungers; i see the idea, its takes 20 yrs to get worn in, and familar. Actually the art deco period was one of the best. My brother once told me that i wasnt so different than others it was i was 30 yrs behind. I wasnt blessed with a father in my lifetime, i lost him at 8, he had lost his at 6...
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    HBO's "The Gilded Age" Filming now in Troy

    Elegant, i grew up in my family home, a 25 room brickfarm house and see vistages of it in these photos, the grand parlour with pocket door and walnut wainscotting, and bay window . the grandstaircase and the grand pianio father chopped up with a ax, one generations pride the next one cant afford...
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    Looking to Buy a Sewing machine

    the machine hatmaker used was maybe the singer 111w , my memory sucks lately, now i knew a shoemaker who did hats , and he used his 29k due to the free arm, but they dont make a nice straight stitch and the bobbin is tiny, i knew someone who took a metal free arm domestic, and took the base off...
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    Woolworth’s, Bakersfield

    its been so long since, i sat in a diner, over a year with this crisis, i used to go to the Del Mar circa 1953 every monday and friday for soooo long. It feels like a different life, sitting in the orange vinyl booths, looking at the period photos, listening to the old folks, oldest customer...
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    You know you are getting old when:

    loungers; you feel old when young people think a studebaker is a foreign car, only if southbend indiana is offshore, i have owned gertrude since i was 25 , no i dont drive it in the winter, she doesnt even have a heater, spent most of it life in arizona and someone disaconnected the heater core...
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    I'm thankful! (+3 of my hats)

    kudos; thinks that is the right word, whereas i have worked with sewing machines for 40 yrs, that is not a project i would tackle at my age, noted i had the moulds and the equipment and a spinner in the basement. I sold all but the brass circular hat ruler and one stretcher, to jane who does the...
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    Stetson Open Road Straw

    loungers; i am a creature of habit, those montreal made 137w have been my everyday and special occ. for over 20 yrs, summers i like a milano straw fedora, being the owner of a textile business after my local habashery closed, i set up a account wtih said montreal hat plant, wholesale you have to...
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    Stetson Open Road Straw

    Loungers; i have been trying to purchase some fedoras, i have worn 137w in caribou with 1 1/2 black ribbon with a blue feather for 20 yrs. The wholesale has skyrocketed since 2015 , the new market it seems is trendy colours appealing to the in crowd, trendy prices as well. I too am looking...
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    Key sewing machine properties

    loungers; i have been in the business for 40 yrs and have not seen surplus hat sewing machine lying around, i was told when biltmore left Canada all the good stuff went with them , the rest to the dump. home sewing machines good ones will 8 layrs of canvas, the free arm out and the room that...
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    Key sewing machine properties

    a free arm would help, the ones that i made i took the base off so the free arm hung out from the table and the operater could stand next to it and sew around the hat. 59lark
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    Key sewing machine properties

    i havent been on the digest for months, but sitting down for breakfast i perchance came across this post, i have been in the sewing machine business for 39 years, and counting. i have built a machine or two for sewing the bands on, i took a free arm and modified the base and the customer fixed...
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    Worried about everyone here.......

    59LARK in southern Ontario Canada, relatively no cases in our town, small city. I have been blessed , sewing masks and being stuck home has revigorated the sewing machine industry. the first two months I was working 7 days a week, people were forgetting what day it was . I have no family or...
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    Knockoffs?

    My trade is sewing machines and one of the most iconic pieces of machinery is the black straight stitch singer with memphis decals, no not elvis , capitol city of Egypt , pyramid and sphinx in gold leaf decals. Not once but twice companies have contracted to make these models for singer and...
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    Knockoffs?

    I am in the sewing machine business and china and tw, makes 60% of the machines and a lot higher perecent in parts. The thing is, china can make good items, if you want to pay, however a lot of north American companies want a lot of profit and therefore cut corners and then whine about cheap...
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    Vintage Cars

    I felt inspired by you gents so I looked up on the net, Duesenberg in bc, and I found the story , his name was capt JOHN DART and it took him 52yrs to restore that car and he drove it less than 15 miles after the restoration, there are pictures in the news story if someone is curious, but I saw...
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    Vintage Cars

    It was a lovely day here, next week is gonna be on the scale of rotten to miserable, everyone with a vintage car or motorcycle had them out today, I was too busy with taking girls re bicycles to trails, and then walking all three dogs , our government has opened trails , most people were keeping...
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    Vintage Cars

    The pictures of the Duesenberg, earlier in this post reminds me of my Duesenberg story, there was a retired pilot in our city. When I was a older boy scout , a venture, we went to see a old airplane in pieces being restored, this man had a house built on a hill with a big garage on top and huge...
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    Vintage Cars

    how remarkable is the parts supply, I needed taillights, I bought a pair from Studebaker int, for $150. something us, they had found the moulds in a abandoned Studebaker building and had someone remold them, try buying new taillights for a rice burner for that. the mastercylinder is the same one...
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    Vintage Cars

    mike; I run a sewing machine shop and I have been run off my feet, fixing and selling everyone is making masks, so I wouldn't have time to fix my car, my uncle carl, was a mechanic and his cars were usually rough, shoemakers children go barefoot. 59lark.
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    Vintage Cars

    I will get the children to post a picture, but yesterday I got Gertrude out of storage, she is a lady of 60yrs, four door sedan built in dec of 59 , at southbend ind. She has a 259 v8 , two speed auto, 52, original miles, I had planned to let her slumber till june due to this crisis. A young man...

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