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With his friends is our youngest son Walter in 1994. He's wearing a Minnesota Twins West - American League t-shirt.
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Minda Haas Kuhlmann | 2019
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Eva Longoria and Tony Parker ease their pre-wedding jitters with a yacht party in St. Tropez with family and friends. Eva relaxes while Tony cuts up with his friends, jumping off of the yacht and flipping the bird while water skiing. Tony is expected to appear on the NRJ Music Tour before the couple's July 7th nuptials near Paris.
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The "Hemingway's Cap," purported to be styled after the long-billed fishing caps the author Ernest Hemingway wears in a few photos from the 1930s to the 1950s, is still available from the J. Peterman Company web site and catalog (or, as Peterman's describes it, the "Owner's Manual").
Here's a J. Peterman link, current as of May 2016: J. PETERMAN COMPANY WEB SITE
Here's a link to an image of Hemingway wearing a cloth cap with a long, dark bill while fishing in Bimini in the mid-1930s.
A discussion topic on The Fedora Lounge website from 2006 indicates that the 2006 retail price for the Hemingway's Cap was $39.00, with an occasionally discounted price of $34.00. Ten years later, in 2016, the price is $59.00, although subscribers to the J. Peterman email list are sometimes offered short-term "percent off" coupons, generally 20%.
Early posts in this topic also describe the long bill of this cap as having been covered in soft deerskin. The current Owner's Manual listing indicates calfskin leather.
I recently purchased a J. Peterman "Hemingway's Cap." Yes, I paid fifty bucks for a baseball cap. Yes, I'm a frivolous moron sometimes. At least I had a "21% off" coupon, so actually I only paid $47.00 for a baseball cap. Plus shipping. So yeah, fifty bucks.
I've wanted one. For a long time. Practically forever, it seems. Or at least, ever since I first saw this cap and read the likely spurious but nevertheless compellingly entertaining description in a Peterman catalog years and years ago. But I could never justify the cost. And, quite frankly, I still can't justify the cost. I mean, it's a cotton baseball cap. Light tan in color. With a long, dark bill. There's no way it's worth fifty bucks.
Here's what you get for your $59.00: it's an "old school" low-crowned baseball-style cap made of a lightweight cotton canvas material. The crown consists of six wedge-shaped panels. Each panel sports a brass ventilation grommet in the middle. The back of the cap has elastic sewn into the hem of the fabric to keep it snug. No plastic adjustment band. No Velcro. No open back with a stretchy bit tacked in. Elastic, sewn into the hem. The hat is available in three sizes, Medium, Large, and Extra Large. Thus, it is "sized" to an extent, rather than merely being "adjustable" or "one size fits all."
I generally wear a 7-5/8 or 61 in "sized" hats. I purchased an Extra Large, and it fits well. You'd think that, what with all that space in my head for brains, I'd know better than to spend fifty bucks on a baseball cap.
A tag sewn inside the cap displays the J. Peterman logo and indicates the body of the cap is Made in Sri Lanka of 100% cotton.
The bill is, on my example, 4-7/8 inches long from the front edge to the seam where it attaches to the cotton body. The bill is, indeed, covered in leather. The leather is very smooth, almost shiny. In fact, it almost looks like vinyl. But a close examination of the inside of the hat where the brim attaches reveals that the brim covering is actual leather, as the "non-shiny" side of the hide is visible at the seams. The brim feels as though the core inside the leather is... cardboard. I don't know. What are the brims of baseball caps (or, I shudder at the term: "trucker's caps") usually made of? This one feels like thin cardboard. When the hat arrived the brim was completely flat. I have been gently attempting to give the brim a curve without inadvertently creasing it.
I suppose one way to justify having purchased this hat is that this is the first baseball-style cap I have ever owned. Even as a kid, I never had a baseball hat. So if you add up all the five and ten and fifteen dollar baseball hats and trucker's caps I haven't purchased over the years... okay, yeah, it's a stretch, I know.
Anyway:
PROS:
*Cotton body (not nylon or other new-fangled synthetic blend)
*Six-panel, low-profile, rounded crown construction
*Brass (probably plated) ventilation grommets, one in each panel
*1930s "fishing hat" style
*Long, nearly five inch, leather-covered "duck bill" brim
*Available in a range of three "sizes" rather than one-size-fits-all
*Elastic sewn into the hem; no Velcro or plastic size adjustment band
*No external sports team or "Big Johnson" novelty logos
*Made someplace other than China
CONS:
*Sixty bucks for a baseball hat: that's a "con" in more than one sense of the word!
*Fifty bucks for a baseball hat even with a discount coupon
Does anybody else own one of these? Or rather, will anybody else admit to having shelled out fifty bucks for a semi-fictionalized reproduction of a type of fisherman's cap a famous author might once have worn?
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I spotted this in an amusement arcade in Herne Bay, Kent. It's one of those crane machines. Stick a quid in the slot, and you get a chance to grab a goodie with a rather inept crane. Only this one is full of fake burberry, a chav's idea of paradise.
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February 14, 2011: World Soccer Superstar Cristiano Ronaldo goes on a shopping spree at Gucci in New York on this Valentines day. The Real Madrid star has flown here for a couple of days to be with his girlfriend glamour and swimsuit model Irina Shayk (not pictured).
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I was driving home, and almost there, when I spotted Jeff sitting at the bus stop. I turned the car around when I could, drove back and parked in the parking lot behind him. It was just afternoon, and 99 degrees. When I approached Jeff and asked if I could talk with him a little bit, and maybe take his picture, he asked who it was for. I explained 100 Strangers, and said I'm doing it to meet people, because people don't talk with each other much anymore. Jeff lit up in agreement, and said that should be the primary goal to do the 100 Strangers, to which I agreed! He was happy to be a part of it, and said we had until the bus came.
I took two quick pictures from this angle, sitting beside him on the bench. Then I stood up and asked Jeff to put his hands on his knees so I could get a good picture of his tattoos. He obliged, let me take that shot, then stood up so I could "really get a good picture of all his penitentiary tattoos". Jeff stood with his back to me for a snapshot, then turned around facing me so I could photograph his chest. He said they were pretty much all from prison. Whew! That is a lot of tattoos!
Unfortunately, the bus came to quickly for me. Jeff was very friendly and kind. He seemed like we could have had a great visit, and we shook hands again before he had to hop on the bus. All he got to tell me was that he was born in Nevada, but now lives in San Diego, he's Christian (as he pointed to the large cross tattoo in the middle of his chest), he loves his kids to pieces, he's been in prison, and how important it is that people start talking to each other again and get to know one another.
Jeff: it was really good to meet you, if only for a short chat! I'll be keeping an eye out for you, and hope to talk with you again, when we have a little more time.
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