tredhed2 Posted August 11, 2009 Share #51 Posted August 11, 2009 And, let me reiterate - Louie does NOT mess w/ uniforms. What you see is how he found/finds them. He has taken me along and it is everything Louie, vintageproductions and kammo-man said. Very backbreaking, smelly in a way not of this universe (NASA should see what type of life is in those bales) - but he has some stone-cold killer gems. Vintageproductions is also correct about how little it takes to get booted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
316th FS 324th FG Posted August 12, 2009 Share #52 Posted August 12, 2009 Awesome thread, beautiful uniforms and an excellent learning experience. Thanks for sharing guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #53 Posted August 12, 2009 Yes, Bob hit the nail right on the head. One place for years never had crap..Now this was a surplus store that mostly carried civilian stuff. It was an old market converted to a surplus store in early fifties. The old Jewish guy would always say, this is all we got, take it or leave it. Then in the eighties he died. Another guy bought him out and let me go into attic and sort, and if I die from black lung it is def. this places fault. The stuff was in mountains of clothes. Much of it civilian, many bell bottom hippie pants from the sixties and seventies, but just keep looking and you will find. He had a bunch of jungle jackets he had bought from Oakland Army terminal in the early seventies. Now most of this stuff should have been left in VN or burned in Okinawa. A friend of mine used to drive a bulldozer and pile them up, and poof, up in smoke. Somehow these got through with all the Vietnam nasty red dirt still on some of them. But the patches, both SSI and pocket were to die for..He had a crapload of AAF A11 helmets, Marine Korean war HBT covers, Marine map cases w/ tactical marks on them. Tons of Ikes that all seemed to be from L.A. high school ROTC's, but in there found some great bullion AAF stuff. Double buckle boots, VN boots w/ the always present red dirt still in them. In the corner of attic many M38 and 41 field jackets , many w/AAF command patch and stripes still on them. But that place reeked of rat crap, prbly dead fossilized rats, dust from the New Deal era, you name it..In summer I think I lost 20 pounds sorting that, but the fun was too much to let go. You only live once and this was just too much fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #54 Posted August 12, 2009 Now, here's a combo that no one would fake because it's too too bizarre! A crude cut down of an enlisted blouse with all the wrong combos it seems! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #55 Posted August 12, 2009 Now, here's a combo that no one would fake because it's too too bizarre! A crude cut down of an enlisted blouse with all the wrong combos it seems! Close ups of two patches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #56 Posted August 12, 2009 Close ups of two patches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vintageproductions Posted August 12, 2009 Share #57 Posted August 12, 2009 Yes, Bob hit the nail right on the head. One place for years never had crap..Now this was a surplus store that mostly carried civilian stuff. It was an old market converted to a surplus store in early fifties. The old Jewish guy would always say, this is all we got, take it or leave it. Then in the eighties he died. Another guy bought him out and let me go into attic and sort, and if I die from black lung it is def. this places fault. The stuff was in mountains of clothes. Much of it civilian, many bell bottom hippie pants from the sixties and seventies, but just keep looking and you will find. He had a bunch of jungle jackets he had bought from Oakland Army terminal in the early seventies. Now most of this stuff should have been left in VN or burned in Okinawa. A friend of mine used to drive a bulldozer and pile them up, and poof, up in smoke. Somehow these got through with all the Vietnam nasty red dirt still on some of them. But the patches, both SSI and pocket were to die for..He had a crapload of AAF A11 helmets, Marine Korean war HBT covers, Marine map cases w/ tactical marks on them. Tons of Ikes that all seemed to be from L.A. high school ROTC's, but in there found some great bullion AAF stuff. Double buckle boots, VN boots w/ the always present red dirt still in them. In the corner of attic many M38 and 41 field jackets , many w/AAF command patch and stripes still on them. But that place reeked of rat crap, prbly dead fossilized rats, dust from the New Deal era, you name it..In summer I think I lost 20 pounds sorting that, but the fun was too much to let go. You only live once and this was just too much fun. Ahhh!!, I know which one you are talking about. When you went upstairs and to the right was that room with the webgear in it. I remember one day going through a huge box there of VN era baseball hats. By the time we had dug through everything we probably bought of 100 Vietnamese made caps with embroidery or patches on them. Plus a lot of those A-11 had the Gosport tubes on the sides. I heard from a mutual frined of ours that, that building was sold a year or so ago, and divided up into smaller offices and shops. All the rag and surplus was blown out. Oh yeah, and there were 1000's of police department shirts scattered around the upstairs area as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AK101 Posted August 12, 2009 Share #58 Posted August 12, 2009 but the fun was too much to let go. Hehe.....amen bro....I am excited just reading about it.... :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtdorango Posted August 12, 2009 Share #59 Posted August 12, 2009 Wow!....this is a world Ive never heard of before....very interesting indeed.. ...mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anelles Posted August 12, 2009 Share #60 Posted August 12, 2009 Wish I had some finds as nice as a few of these.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #61 Posted August 12, 2009 Can't leave the 82nd A/B behind. found some of theirs over the years too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted August 12, 2009 Share #62 Posted August 12, 2009 Hoarder !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #63 Posted August 12, 2009 too bad the wing was gone! On this 508th ovel and one ribbon left but no other pin on stuff. Most of these type devices didn't survive in the rag mill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #64 Posted August 12, 2009 Here is one Treadhead has really liked for years..I just can't believe how people tossed these things out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #65 Posted August 12, 2009 Here is one Treadhead has really liked for years..I just can't believe how people tossed these things out! closeup of the bullion 69th I.D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #66 Posted August 12, 2009 Here is one for kammoman! Only camo shirt I have ever found w/ chevrons on it. It is an Army shirt, well worn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #67 Posted August 12, 2009 Here is the pic I was looking for! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted August 12, 2009 Share #68 Posted August 12, 2009 you are kiling me with the cammo !!! owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #69 Posted August 12, 2009 Funky looking beat up, but real 82nd/17th Airborne Ike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #70 Posted August 12, 2009 Has British wound bars as usual for many ETO stationed Airborne and Air Corps uniforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kammo-man Posted August 12, 2009 Share #71 Posted August 12, 2009 you are kiling me with the cammo !!! owen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
36-tex Posted August 12, 2009 Share #72 Posted August 12, 2009 AWESOME! Keep them coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #73 Posted August 12, 2009 One of only two Raiders I ever found. Other one was lost in flooded garage was on blues. This one has the only small fully embroidered patch I have ever found or seen, anywhere. Seen Aussie ones, big embroi. and small twill, but never this one. Guy was in 3rd Raider Btn. looked him up, and was from Chicago area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #74 Posted August 12, 2009 close up of patch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louie Posted August 12, 2009 Author Share #75 Posted August 12, 2009 Nicest B14 enlisted type Ike I ever came upon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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