What Jacket Are You Wearing Today?

Schambach · Nov 29, 2021

@jonesy86 the rockaway beach surfer in me gets nervous/paranoid every time I see one of your jackets on the beach, unattended. Can you paddle out there without worry about your stuff? The beach(and the jacket)looks amazing.

jonesy86 · Nov 29, 2021

I have been pretty much sitting at the same spot on the same beach almost every day for a couple of years now, with no problem. I swim over half a mile at least 5 or 6 hundred feet off shore out pretty far past the surfers depending on the weather. It is mostly a locals beach, everyone knows everyone else, at least by sight. The life guards all know me pretty well as they have been watching out that I don't drown, because nobody swims out so far, and all the way down the shore into some rough currents accept for me. I could always get hit but a local junkie I suppose, but I think they prefer hitting tourists, at least I hope so. It really is a small place with not many people, and I bet I would eventually see my jacket somewhere if it got stolen. Now getting it back, I might have to regress back to my New York City street fighting days, but I ain't 19 any more.

Al 916 · Nov 29, 2021

jonesy86 said:
What jacket are you wearing to the beach today?

GW Mojave yesterday as the weather gets just a bit colder as the sun goes down, and we are further into winter.
Sometimes I worry a bit that my jacket might get stolen while I'm out swimming. But then I realize, who the heck would wear a leather jacket on a tropical island? If someone was that crazy to wear it, I would probably run into them eventually, and they would just have to give it back.
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Not only the jacket! but also that hat....

I recall a line of T.S Eliot's that I always aspired to 'I grow old … I grow old …I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.'

Schambach · Nov 29, 2021

jonesy86 said:
I have been pretty much sitting at the same spot on the same beach almost every day for a couple of years now, with no problem. I swim over half a mile at least 5 or 6 hundred feet off shore out pretty far past the surfers depending on the weather. It is mostly a locals beach, everyone knows everyone else, at least by sight. The life guards all know me pretty well as they have been watching out that I don't drown, because nobody swims out so far, and all the way down the shore into some rough currents accept for me. I could always get hit but a local junkie I suppose, but I think they prefer hitting tourists, at least I hope so. It really is a small place with not many people, and I bet I would eventually see my jacket somewhere if it got stolen. Now getting in getting it back, I might have to regress back to my New York City street fighting days, but I ain't 19 any more.

Sounds like a great spot, enjoy it brother! But if you were a NY guy you probably understand where I'm coming from, even the seagulls at Rockaway are up to no good!

jonesy86 · Nov 29, 2021

Yeah I grew up on avenue B right off Tompkins Square Park back in the 60s and 70s, I still got that don't f#^k with me attitude. Things are a lot mellower here and now.
Peace!

ton312 · Nov 29, 2021

Christmas Camo

Monitor · Nov 29, 2021

Bates. Also, @Carlos840, if you thought that the last sweater was thick, check this one out. XD

Motocann · Nov 29, 2021

JCSD said:
First Mouton collar- Aero STF Bootlegger in Tobacco Badalassi with collar by Johnson Leathers

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Wow! That's a beautiful jacket! My Real McCoy's Buco J24L with collar!

torfjord · Nov 29, 2021

Monitor said:
Bates. Also, @Carlos840, if you thought that the last sweater was thick, check this one out. XD

PERFECTION!

navetsea · Nov 29, 2021

Morning walk, sorry pictures are bad

JMax · Nov 29, 2021

torfjord said:
PERFECTION!

And the stache takes it to another level.

Will Zach · Nov 30, 2021

^^
Wanted to say the same thing, @Monitor stache game got stronger with the beard gone. More old-timey in my view.

Mrfrown · Nov 30, 2021

Monitor said:
Bates. Also, @Carlos840, if you thought that the last sweater was thick, check this one out. XD

Fantastic

And yes..a very robust sweater

Does your Bates have the stiffened kidney panel?

Mrfrown · Nov 30, 2021

navetsea said:
Morning walk, sorry pictures are bad
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Fun way to show your ‘fit and the neighborhood

Schambach · Nov 30, 2021

jonesy86 said:
Yeah I grew up on avenue B right off Tompkins Square Park back in the 60s and 70s, I still got that don't f#^k with me attitude. Things are a lot mellower here and now.
Peace!

Nice! I lived on 12th and Avenue A for most of the nineties, then further south, and finally Brooklyn before I left a couple years ago. Different world than when you were there, and neither of us would recognize it now.

Motocann · Nov 30, 2021

Schambach said:
Nice! I lived on 12th and Avenue A for most of the nineties, then further south, and finally Brooklyn before I left a couple years ago. Different world than when you were there, and neither of us would recognize it now.

I grew up in NYC also, I moved out to California 22 years ago. Just as all the urban renewal was hitting. NYC has always been an amazing city, even more amazing now! I had to get out, I just couldn’t take another freezing cold winter there. I go back and visit my family often, but never in the winter. Spring and summer is magical in the City. I do miss the electricity in the air and all the people.

jonesy86 · Nov 30, 2021

Great shot.

Schambach said:
Nice! I lived on 12th and Avenue A for most of the nineties, then further south, and finally Brooklyn before I left a couple years ago. Different world than when you were there, and neither of us would recognize it now.

I had to learn “How To Take Care of Myself” from an early age, it was a tough place.

Merv said:
I grew up in NYC also, I moved out to California 22 years ago. Just as all the urban renewal was hitting. NYC has always been an amazing city, even more amazing now! I had to get out, I just couldn’t take another freezing cold winter there. I go back and visit my family often, but never in the winter. Spring and summer is magical in the City. I do miss the electricity in the air and all the people.

it ain’t boring, as I recall. I finally left for the last time in the early eighties. I been in New Mexico and California since then. I mostly only go back to NYC for funerals.

Schambach · Nov 30, 2021

The winters are tough, even worse upstate, where I find myself mostly these days

Motocann · Nov 30, 2021

Schambach said:
The winters are tough, even worse upstate, where I find myself mostly these days

As I recall, February-March are brutal months, temps dip into the teens.

dudewuttheheck · Nov 30, 2021

Oh yeah thats a classic!

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