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   derekcohen | Jun 15, 2009 08:27am | #1

   Hi Napie

   Thanks for that link. Interesting indeed.

   Regards from Perth

   Derek

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   WillGeorge | Jun 15, 2009 01:23pm | #2

   Great! The same film we had to watch once a month in High School woodshop!

   I found it more fun watching it this morning!

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Jun 15, 2009 05:00pm | #3

   Now... why can't Taunton produce films of that quality and yes.... I saw that one in HS wood shop. I highly suspect the author and narrator is not Arthur Two-good as noted but... the Boss disguised as Arthur P. Two-good.

   The strapped dungarees' reminded me of my great uncle who was a carpenter and build houses for 50 years. He had two tool boxes made of wood #one about 4' and the other 3'# with all the tools it took to build a house. He passed away in the late 50's and his son told me he did finally have an old Porter Cable circular saw he purchased around 1950 or there abouts.

   He was the reason I was inspired to take HS shop. With that said I am going to look for a pair of dungaree's with straps today. I think I know a hardware store that still has them but... anyone know of a source for sure?

   Sarge..

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   Eef | Jun 15, 2009 09:02pm | #4

   sarge,
   are you referring to pants that have the cloth straps on the trouser legs? there's a chain big box named orchard supply hardware in my area, and they sell, what i think is, dickies. seems that i have seen those straps on that brand.
   eef

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Jun 15, 2009 11:15pm | #5

   I did find some local eef as I had to go out earlier. They are Dickies and we just used to call them "Over-alls" when I was growing up in what was then a farm area turning into metro Atlanta. I have heard them called "bib over-alls" also as they have a bib at the top with the two suspender type straps that cross in the back.

   I found them at a hardware store but.. Walmart may very well carry them in the work clothes section. I avoid Walmart unless a must situation arises.

   Thanks for your help...

   Sarge..

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   WillGeorge | Jun 16, 2009 12:36am | #6

   Sarge..

   Your father passed on his Jeans? to you and I will bet he bit his tongue a few times as he watched you work from above!

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   WillGeorge | Jun 16, 2009 01:14am | #9

   Sarge

   I have no idea but if your wife has a sowing machine she can make in a few seconds IF you smile at her!!!

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Jun 16, 2009 02:03am | #10

   My dad gave up over-alls when he left the farm in 1929 after graduation from HS. He went to work in the U.S. Post Office and within two years sat behind a desk do the accounting by hand as he was good with numbers. You had to wear formal pants and a starched white shirt for that job or at least it was customary to do so.

   My wife crochets professionally and sells on-line in her store. High end baby blankets and outfits for shower gifts.. puppets for puppet ministries.. etc. But.. she has no clue how to do regular sewing other than buttons.. etc. Hey.. I was in the military and can do that. :>)

   Sarge.. 

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   PADDYDAHAT | Jun 16, 2009 04:50am | #11

   Sarge, if you want the real thing just stop in any farmers co-op in Tenn. and get your self a few pair of "Pointers", not too pricey (@$30), hammer loop, rule pocket and all. Paddy

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Jun 16, 2009 06:23am | #12

   Farmers co-ops are a thing of the past in my county, Pat. Once upon a time it was cotton country and their was a co-op in my town about 4 miles away. Right beside the old train depot that is now a museum so to speak. I would imagine there are still co-ops farther down in S. Georgia as it is still a prominent farming area.

   BTW.. I found the Dickies at an old style hardware store that carries about everything they used to carry back when. Not many left and I try to do business with them to keep them up and running.

   Regards...

   Sarge..

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   saschafer | Jun 16, 2009 06:29am | #13

   Duluth Trading carries a variety of bib overalls, including ones with hammer loops: http://www.duluthtrading.com/search/searchresults/26501.aspx?feature=&kw=overalls

   -Steve

    

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   SARGEgrinder47 | Jun 16, 2009 06:38pm | #14

   They send me their catalog and I found them there also late yesterday. I also did a Google search and there are numerous sources you can purchase them on-line. I was kinda shocked even though I probably shouldn't have been.

   But... in this case the local hardware got the business as they right across the street from a Home Depot and Walmart. They were there 30 years before anyone heard of either. Probably a few dollars more... but HD and Walmart wouldn't have a clue if you go in and ask for a left handed widget with a 3/8" off-set. I like the fact they would and hope they stay open forever. ha.. ha... ha..ha..ha..

   Sarge..

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   gdblake | Jun 16, 2009 12:37am | #7

   Napie:

   Funny how a video like that can make you forget what shop class was really like in the 60s.  It leaves out the part where your HS shop teacher looked for any way to publicly humiliate you and ridicule your work.  One of the boys in my class definitely wasn't cut out to be a woodworker.  He just couldn't get the hang of hand sawing to a line or four squaring a board with hand planes. A small bookcase he was trying to build looked like a poor mock up of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.  The shop teacher took it upon himself to make the kid an object lesson in screwing up and got himself all worked up beyond reason berating the boy. 

   The real fun started when the shop teacher went and got a mallet to beat the kid's bookcase apart.  In his tirade he forgot which project was the offending one and beat into splinters a really nice walnut cabinet which one of the more talented students had built.   The shop teacher didn't realize his mistake until he turned around and the wobbly bookcase stared him in the face.  First and only time I saw my shop teacher apologize to a kid.  I'm sure he had some private explaining to do to the talented kid's Mom as well.  You see, when I was in school the only things more ruthless and to be feared than our shop teacher were our moms.

   gdblake

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   WillGeorge | Jun 16, 2009 12:49am | #8

   where your HS shop teacher looked for any way to publicly humiliate you and ridicule your work.  My work shop teacher had only one hand.. I'd bet lost in WWI.. He sort of got along without it..

   He was also... My metal shop teacher.. Yes! he was a pain in the #### sometimes. Thinking back...  He was just trying his best to help us make things WE would like to make for others and maybe give to folks we loved..

   A pain in the #### I remember with love,,

    

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   RalphBarker | Jun 17, 2009 08:23pm | #15

   Fun video, Napie. Thanks for the link.

   I noticed they didn't delve into the wages being paid in 1940 for any of the types of work depicted. A quick Google did turn up a reference to a union negotiating a contract in 1942 for $1.25/hour. I assume non-union carpenters were paid substantially less.