Club Obi Wan

Hey Indy fans! It's great to be in the forum.
I was 13 when I saw Raiders at the theatre. I was blown away. I wanted to be Indy. My older brother had a brown felt cowboy hat that he let me have and I reshaped it. I gave it the downward pitch in front and back. It still wasn't right and I knew it. It was my dad that told me that Indy's had was actually, what he called, "an old dress hat."
Fast forward to six months ago. I now have a buzz-cut and my head gets cold in the winter. In this internet age, I began looking for an Indy hat. I, of course, came across the Dorfman Pacific. I didn't buy it, but had it in the back of my mind.
I was shopping around in Las Vegas about a month ago, and found the Dorfman Pacific in a hat store. I went ahead and bought it and felt confident that I finally owned the hat that Indy wore.
When I got home I popped my old Raiders VHS in and started watching and said, "Wait, that's not the hat I bought."
That is when I dug a little deeper and happened on to Indygear. I am now awaiting the arrival of two Akubra Federations. One for me and one for my dad. I am not quite ready to commit to an AB. I want to try bashing myself. That is what really intrigues me about it. Herer is this raw product that you make your own.

Prairie, welcome to Club Obi Wan!

It's always great to have new members here.

So, you were one of the ones lucky enough to get to see Raiders when it first came out, huh? I was 8 back in 81' and I guess my parents probably thought it was a bit violent for me to go and see.

Ah well...

Saying that though, I have been lucky enough to see Raiders three times on the big screen now and it is like nothing that I have ever experienced before.

Only movie I ever saw at the theatre five times. It is violent at times, but I do let my 2 1/2 year old daughter watch. I just cover her eyes during the bad parts. She loves it. When Indy is running around Cairo streets after Marion she says, "Daddy's helping mommy."

I have to admit I saw Raiders when it first came out -- and I was already an adult -- by several years. I've just recently gotten back into Indy, and started buying some gear, prop replicas and the like -- and joined the Club.

Just goes to show that Indy has always appealed to kids of all ages -- even someone like me going through a second (or eighth or ninth or . . .) childhood.

Randy

Welcome Prairie! Be sure to post pics of your Akubra once you get it!

Ditto Pagey, I got my AB open crown. Once you learn how to bash a hat you will never want a pre-shaped hat again. I love working with the felt and putting my own personal touches in it.

Well i can't remember when i first watched indy but i think i was at elementary; i was born in 1985 so i presume i watched it first in early 90s, the same time when i first watched the star wars trilogy... ah i still remember the first feeling when Darth Vader enters, stops watching the deads on the floor and step foward .. ahhh what a great time was for me early 90s!... ops sorry for the little OffTopic

to go back to indy... i think i first saw the Last Crusade and only lately half of 90s raiders too... and loving it!

WELCOME PRAIRIEJONES !

your reserach for a hat seems to be similar to mine when i was younger but i wasnt as lucky as you. Then i met this forum and everyrhing changed, now i own an adventureblit, have a look
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Ha, when is your birthday erri? I was born in 1985 too! I can remember going to see LC at the theater.

J_Weaver wrote:Ha, when is your birthday erri? I was born in 1985 too! I can remember going to see LC at the theater.

Geeze, I graduated high school in 1985
Welcome Prairie, good luck with the new hat. There are abundant resources around as to what to do with it when it comes. There is so much to learn here, but be careful, it is an addiction.

Pagey wrote:Me too HJ
Or was it 88?
Anyhow, '81 I was in the cinema with my mouth agape!

I could actually see the marque of the cinema where it was playing from my homeroom, freshman year 1981. I think it was in the theaters for about 6 mos. In those days, movies hung around a lot longer.

Now that Hemingway feels old, I should tell you, Pagey, that I was born in 1988.[/i]

I've actually done a little practicing on this DorfmanPac that I have. The brim is hemmed and that makes it hard. Can't wait till the Fed arrives. How many of you cut the brim to the dimmensions for a Raiders hat outlined on Indygear Fedora page( front/back 2 3/4 sides 2 5/8) :

Pagey wrote:I meant I graduated in 88 - I was born in 69! Another oldie!

I know what you meant.

So far, I've got the rest of you best. I was born in 1954, so I was already out of high school, college AND law school by the time the FIRST movie came out. For me, it really was a blast from the past, like when I'd go to the old Fox Theater back in Bakersfield as a kid and see cartoons and a double feature on a Saturday afternoon, with action serials -- kind of like the thing George Lucas and Steven Spielberg were trying to do -- or pay homage to -- with the Indiana Jones movies.

Randy

I meant, I've got the rest of you BEAT. Oh well, I guess that happens when you get old Maybe I'd better hurry and get my Grail from Indy Magnoli -- looks like I'm gonna need it!

Randy

May be, seeing as the quest for it is an old-man's dream in the first place.

randystokes wrote:I meant, I've got the rest of you BEAT. Oh well, I guess that happens when you get old Maybe I'd better hurry and get my Grail from Indy Magnoli -- looks like I'm gonna need it!

Randy

Randy, you can edit your posts. Just hit the edit button.

Hemingway:

Thanks, I'm new around these parts.

Your username has me intrigued, also. I've been dubbed an "independent Hemingway scholar" (a bit of an inside joke), and have a pretty large library of books by Hemingway, books about Hemingay and literary criticism about Hemingway's works. I even went to the Centennial Celebration in Oak Park, Illinois in 1999 -- even got a ride with Jack Hemingway, and had a very interesting conversation with him about his father.

That's just another hobby, though. In "real life," I'm a lawyer in Phoenix representing companies that buy and sell land for development, among other things.

Best,

Randy

randystokes wrote:Hemingway:

Thanks, I'm new around these parts.

Your username has me intrigued, also. I've been dubbed an "independent Hemingway scholar" (a bit of an inside joke), and have a pretty large library of books by Hemingway, books about Hemingay and literary criticism about Hemingway's works. I even went to the Centennial Celebration in Oak Park, Illinois in 1999 -- even got a ride with Jack Hemingway, and had a very interesting conversation with him about his father.

That's just another hobby, though. In "real life," I'm a lawyer in Phoenix representing companies that buy and sell land for development, among other things.

Best,

Randy

Randy,
I think we might have quite a bit in common. I also collect books by and about Ernest Hemingway. I have quite a collection of 1st editions that is growing all of the time, though I still have many holes in my 1st edition collection. I also like the various coffe table books, biographies, and pulp paperbacks by and about the man. Like you, I have walked in some of his footsteps, drank his drinks in Venice and Key West. I hope to get to the rest of them when I am able, much in the spirit of Mr. Palin. I am also somewhat of a Hemingway Scholar, by hobby. I see quite a bit of similarity between Ernest and the character of Indy, the same spirit for adventure.
I hope when I look back, I have lived as well.
We should talk more on PM.
Oh, and in real life I am a commercial lender who provides financing for developers.
Let me know if I can help you as you acclimate to COW.

I've been a part of this club for around five hours now. I have realized that this is the amount of time it takes to start a topic and then completely lose control of it. Oh well, it's still fun.

Just wait till bink, Jess, and co. join in. It wont take five hours, I tell you. Anyway welcome to the club, the federation is a great first Indy hat.

prairiejones wrote:I've been a part of this club for around five hours now. I have realized that this is the amount of time it takes to start a topic and then completely lose control of it. Oh well, it's still fun.

Yes, sorry about that. We all stray off topic from time to time. But then, that is how friendships are formed. Generally, there is more wheat than chaff.

Randy,

Welcome aboard, my friend. You are in good company. Avoid any group hugs started by Bink, unless you don't mind having your wallet stolen!

Seriously, though, glad to have you aboard. I hope the experience you have here is as good as the experiences I have had.

Regards,

I saw raiders a few times when it first came out. I would love to see raiders again on the big screen, it's been so long ago. I can't beleive it's been 24 years since that movie ame out ( ouch).

Tone, you're right the Federation comes with the dimensional cut.

WOW GUYS you wrote a lot! i just went to sleep for 8 hours and look how far went this topic!
I'll try to answer to few things

J_Weaver wrote:Ha, when is your birthday erri? I was born in 1985 too! I can remember going to see LC at the theater.

My birthday is 11 July, in few days i will be 20... oh no... my teenage era is gonna end!!!!

My first movie at the cinema was Home Alone
Unfortunately i never saw indiana jones on big screen but i would really love it!
You guys from late 60s and early 70s are not oldie ... but very lucky because you watched Star Wars as children and high school-university in 80s with indiana jones and back to the future.
Come on, when you were young it was a lot better than now, look at the movies now!!! Have you ever felt again the same feelings of when you first watched Star Wars? Movies in these days do not the same effect anymore... and that's a real shame. I call it THE 80's EFFECT!
I grown up in 90s but i belong to 80s i adore 80s

Pagey wrote:I have to admit, seeing Star Wars in 77 and Raiders in 81 were both the most jaw dropping movie experiences of my life. I certainly don't expect to be that impressed ever again. Partly because of age and experience and partly because of what's happened to movie making. Nothing is impossible with computer animation and as a result nothing is particularly impressive. At least that's how I feel about it.

That's not to say I'm not impressed by modern movies - there are many (often European) movies which I find great and realy enjoyable. There are movies which really move me. But nothing is going to blow me away - especially not modern special effects.

That's what i meant to say Pagey There are a lot of good movies but nothing as enjoyable as the 80s movies (indiana and star wars and few others) and star wars from '77.

Pagey do you remember in a New Hope when rebellion attack the Death Star? i think it's still the best action-war scene ever and SOOO realistic!!... and i have the eyes of a 90's guy!
It's so amazing to think it's from late 70's!. Look at other movies of the same years (and also of 80s)... nothing compared to that!

erri_wan wrote:My birthday is 11 July, in few days i will be 20... oh no... my teenage era is gonna end!!!!

Ah, I got you beat by a few months. My birthday is March 15. And don't worry, you won't miss being a teenager.

J_Weaver wrote:

erri_wan wrote:My birthday is 11 July, in few days i will be 20... oh no... my teenage era is gonna end!!!!

Ah, I got you beat by a few months. My birthday is March 15. And don't worry, you won't miss being a teenager.

Lol i know, i dont care alot actually, i have always been more mature than my real age.

Indiana_Tone wrote:And Canyon, the new avatar looks terrific!

How sweet!

Canyon wrote:

Indiana_Tone wrote:And Canyon, the new avatar looks terrific!

How sweet!

I told you

Hemingway Jones wrote: There is so much to learn here, but be careful, it is an addiction.

Yoda wrote: Once you start down the path to the Khaki side, forever will it dominate your destiny as it did, Obi1-Al's apprentice..."

Skywalker wrote: ::Gasp:: ...Renderking.

Welcome to the madness. You came for the Gear, stay for the people.

I was "lucky" enought to get hooked on the whole Golden Era (1920's through 1955) scene back when I saw "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" and "Casablanca" in the same month back in 1982. Since then I've been a Vintage Junkie off and on for more then 20 years.

As a Fedora Afficanado I think the people who sell The Dorfman fedoras and The Stetson "Temple" and "Ark" should be horse whipped with used sweatbands until they repent. They're ripping people off for saying they're "just like the one's worn by Indiana Jones..."

[The folks at Stetson should be ashamed for taking a good brand and driving it into the ground like a Rented Ford Pinto... but I digress.]

I remember back in the 1980's there was a "Retro Movement" that I was a part of, and again in the early 1990's. Again in the late 1990's as we were heading to the new millinium, I felt we lost that spirit of adventure and class that we had decades ago and I got the vintage itch again and found these characters. But since they've kept the vintage flame a live, this isn't just another phase, it's a lifestyle.

What's strange is that there are kids here who know more about Vintage Threads better then I do and have older clothes then me, but they're half my age and they were born just as I was getting into this action 23 years ago.

The people are awesome. I haven't felt such a kinship with so many people since my days in the Marine Corps.