vintage caps

[Blackthorn]

I'm glad you enjoyed them! It's fun having so many vintage caps in one thread.

 

[Johnny J]

Louis Graveure

 

[Blackthorn]

The Cairo Gang, a team of British assassins brought in to kill Irish guerrillas in Dublin, 1921. They were wiped out on Bloody Sunday in a series of raids by the IRA:

 

[Metatron]

How to rock a fiddler's cap.
From Ossessione, an Italian movie from 1943:

 

[Blackthorn]

From the Movie Long Voyage Home, with John Wayne, 1940:

 

[Blackthorn]

 

[GregNYC]

Blackthorn, these rock!!


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[Blackthorn]

Blackthorn, these rock!!


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Thanks Greg, I'm having a lot of fun with them!

The latest: October 1931. "Imperial Airways aircraft refueling at Semakh, British Mandate Palestine."

 

[tropicalbob]

I find that I keep going back to that shot of "The Cairo Gang." I studied in Dublin and have read a fair amount about that time there, but this is new to me. Research time, I guess. Thanks, Blackthorn, for the great photos.

 

[Blackthorn]

I find that I keep going back to that shot of "The Cairo Gang." I studied in Dublin and have read a fair amount about that time there, but this is new to me. Research time, I guess. Thanks, Blackthorn, for the great photos.

Thanks, Bob. You can find out more about them here, although the web is full of info about that era:http://www.cairogang.com

 

[Blackthorn]

I find that I keep going back to that shot of "The Cairo Gang." I studied in Dublin and have read a fair amount about that time there, but this is new to me. Research time, I guess. Thanks, Blackthorn, for the great photos.

For more on that place/time, here is a pic of IRA suspects arrested in 1921. I can't remember where I found this one:

 

[Blackthorn]

July 1923.... More than 2,000 Hupmobile owners and their families attended the second annual picnic, free-for-all sports program and barbecue staged July 1 by Greer-Robbins Co. at Sawyer's Camp, beside Crystal Springs Lake in San Mateo County.

 

[RJR]

Great pic.

 

[Blackthorn]

 

[Simonds]

 

[Simonds]

 

[Simonds]

 

[Blackthorn]

Great pics, Simonds!

 

[Blackthorn]

1937, migrant farmworkers along Highway 99 (near where I live today). This could well have been my ancestors, but mine couldn't afford the car, so they had to stay in Texas:

 

[RJR]

Good reminder of the travails of travel not all that long ago.Note the tire rim,tube&tire.