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Question about racoon tails
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truss
Finally riding a big boys bike
like i said. i live pretty woodsy. ive seen a skunk skin seat cover before in my area so i have seen some gross homemade stuff lol. this would fit right in. but a real pelt like this can really last an eternity.
truss
Finally riding a big boys bike
heck yeah, beautiful bike
cyclingday
I'm the Wiz, and nobody beats me!
Tripple3 sporting a ring tail from the handlebar of his CWC built Western Flyer.
tripple3
Riding Miles; Collecting Smiles
A fine question.
Yes; someone will get "Up-set".
Awesome, that you would "Consider" them, and how they feel.
Most of us, here, like the "Old Style" of time gone by, and the folks that lived it.
I wear a "Coon Tail", hanging from my helmet, for years now;
they call me, "SPARKY"
Personal blend of all the "Characters": Daniel Boone, Davy Crocket, Peter Pan (never grow up), and Johnny Appleseed: He became an American icon while still alive, due to his kind, generous ways, his leadership in conservation.
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gkeep
I live for the CABE
Interesting take on this from a post in the Fedora Lounge. I remember in the 60s all the kids on the block had rabbit foot keychains.
“I suspect this whole thing was an outgrowth of 20s collegiate culture -- raccoon coats, ukuleles, and vo-do-de-o and such. The tails, which were hung from radiator caps before cars had antennas, had the same meaning that fuzzy dice had from the fifties onward -- that the owner of a car so ornamented was a wild-ridin' rebel who played by his own rules, just like all the thousands of other owners of cars so ornamented.
If you google up a novelty salesman by the name of Charles Brand, you'll find a bit more information on this -- seems he cornered the market on foxtails in the mid-thirties, only to have the fad blow over. The craze seems to have peaked in 1936-37, but lingered for a while -- Brand was still selling off his inventory as late as 1948, by which time he'd moved on to be hailed in the novelty trade as the Rabbit Foot King.”
Andrew Wyeth painting Young America from 1950 has a red, white and blue tail on a pole. I wonder how many bikes had these in the late 1940s?
“I suspect this whole thing was an outgrowth of 20s collegiate culture -- raccoon coats, ukuleles, and vo-do-de-o and such. The tails, which were hung from radiator caps before cars had antennas, had the same meaning that fuzzy dice had from the fifties onward -- that the owner of a car so ornamented was a wild-ridin' rebel who played by his own rules, just like all the thousands of other owners of cars so ornamented.
If you google up a novelty salesman by the name of Charles Brand, you'll find a bit more information on this -- seems he cornered the market on foxtails in the mid-thirties, only to have the fad blow over. The craze seems to have peaked in 1936-37, but lingered for a while -- Brand was still selling off his inventory as late as 1948, by which time he'd moved on to be hailed in the novelty trade as the Rabbit Foot King.”
Andrew Wyeth painting Young America from 1950 has a red, white and blue tail on a pole. I wonder how many bikes had these in the late 1940s?
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truss
Finally riding a big boys bike
Awesome info. I truly appreciate everyone leaving their 2 cents here
The Colonel
Riding a '36 Western Flyer
I think it comes from the coon tail hats we all wore as kids popularized by Davy Crockett at Disney in the 60s & 70s..
pic of me in my coon tail hat as a kid on the way
pic of me in my coon tail hat as a kid on the way
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