dear loungers; this is 59 lark long quiet, two weeks ago a young lady came to see me, see she is the costumer maker for the tv show murdcoch mysteries filmed here in ontario Canada, and a wonderful show it is, so I came to the conclusion with over 200 machines in my basement and 40 more came in...
I repair things for a living, have done for 30 years, my speciality is sewing machines and old ones are my favourite. I Fix 10, 2o, 5o yr old plus this week, fixed a shoe patcher to go to haiti, was 11o years old. My wife and I have in the last 2yrs 4 toasters, cheap ones and what I thought was...
Greeting loungers , news of my demise was permature. My double breasted pinstripe and black biltmore came out of the closet for a funeral last week but it was not for me,but a poor fella that some surgeon forgot to close off a duct to his intestines when removing his appendix. . My studebaker...
Loungers; spoiled as I am , buying on line bothers me, driving to large urban centres doesnt make me happy either. I am blessed with a brother that lives a block away from the Biltmore factory and outlet. This last week was the second time he took my order, style and colours and size and came...
Last year when I watched its a wonderful life on tv, I felt like george trapped in a cage with no way out. I dont necessarly mean relationships or marriage but struggling to keep someone alive, when you own a business for thirty years it becomes you and you it. When its all you can do to keep it...
Loungers, picked up a dvd of warehouse 13 season 1 at the future shop and now totally hooked and in a couple of days watched it all . Now cant wait to get mine hands on some of season two. The show is filmed in nearby toronto and I love it. Want to know if any other loungers have discovered this...
Dear Loungers; the info of cleaning with napha inspired, me , if i can start making some money with regular line, my workshop is clean, yes i would clean the hats outside no explosions please. The workshop is clean, the moulds and blocks and large stretcher is ready, i want to buy some brushes...
Now i may have missed a digest already mentioned this if so please forgive me ,i could find one and i have not visited the lounge much lately. Visited with my brother who lives three blocks from biltmore factory and he tells me that the factory is mothballed and shut down, the owner looking for...
I must be losing it, recently was given a copy of amercian graffitti, now i have the album for twenty plus years and have seen the movie. But maybe it because my store has had the worst year in 25 years and we and the family are just barely getting by and actually we are probably slipping. I...
MY Fatherdays gift was a card or a present or a drink, it was the opportunity to fire up the 59LARK, STUDEBAKER AND go for a long drive, blue smoke trailing, my wife and i and children . NO
i may end up with a few more hats than i want in buying some, and i want to know what the average head size or most common size hats are so. i will be able to move the extra hats instead of being stuck with them for ever. I take a fairly large hat, 7 3/4 and am told that this is really large and...
well already tried posting this thread and it didnt take so here is a another try . On monday of all days, i got a phone call from a hat co that i have been trying to get a fedora from for a good long while. I was finally able to order a new fedora, the kind that jimmy stewart seemed to favour...
Was shopping with my brood, and was in a store called winners,, and i found a wool overcoat extra extra large made in canada, cardinal of canada since 1938 , was priced $350. now on sale for $120. so i was told by my wife you want it, buy it you wont see another for that price. so i bought it...
i have lamented my share of passings and special days here before, here my 46 birthday has come and is ending. the biggest thing my 85 year old mother said is you know your dad died at about your age. you have gotta start taking better care of your self. i have come to a kind of crossroad in my...
today my wife and i celebrated twenty years, i bought her a new coat, for 44 dollars and she had put it back because i whined about having enough to her out to supper, and then when she was busy i went back and bought it for her. i at least knew what she wanted and what would fit her, love is ...
how long has it been since you packed up your family and went for a drive in the country, has the urban sprawl and the life in the hamster cage and wheel. taken over and our you completely forgotten the peace and tranquilty of simply going for a drive in the country slowly down dirt roads and...
Here I am at 45 years old, visited my fathers grave last week and saw that he was only 48 years old when he passed. He was a farmer died on the farm he was born, lived his whole life farming, struggled with the depression, wasnt able to fight the war, saw farming modernize and saw the boom of...
It is with relutance, that I 59Lark offer the equipment, purschased last spring forsale, we have added some more equipment and moulds to the collection. I wish to sell it whole, not break it up, it now includes a spinner table, and electric, (needs to be rewired ) heated hat strechter, there are...
I sat downstairs with my wall to wall stuff, my 200 plus sewing machines and my tools and all my junk, and i looked at my former trainer layout and i looked at my hat set up and i decided that i need to scale down. I have a child that has special needs, and I wont have time to do this. We also...
IT amazing how our opinion is so far different from others. This forum is enlighting to me, my world is so narrow and small and this forum has such a wide spectrum of different points of view and perspectives. You have people from the smallest towns and you have people from largest cities and...
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