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Posted by 7j43k on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:08 PM

Ties?  Ties?

I guess none of you young kids remember hats:

 

 

There was a Jim Frye.  And a Dave Frary.  I don't recall a Dave Frye.

 

 

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Posted by cuyama on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:03 PM

Dave N. is right, there were a couple of variations of this photo:

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Posted by NorthBrit on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 11:58 AM

I cannot help the OP,  but the wearing of ties.    I always wore one from schooldays,  at home,  at work  and most holidays.   Since retiring the wearing of a tie has been less,  but special occasions and some holidays a tie is worn;  even bow ties.

 

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Posted by John-NYBW on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 11:34 AM

SeeYou190

It seems fellows were still wearing dress shirts and ties to play with trains as late as August, 1968.

-Kevin

 

If you look at pictures from the 1950s, men would wear suits and ties to ballgames. There was even an episode of Leave it to Beaver where Beaver had to put on a coat and tie to go to a game. If you saw men getting off a plane, almost all of them would have coat and tie. Then we have Ozzie Nelson who seemingly never left the house but always had on a sweater and tie. We once had a culture where many men wouldn't think of being seen in public without a coat and tie. Thank goodness those days are over. I retired in 2001 and the day I did, I took a scissors and cut up every tie I owned and have never donned one of those dreadful things since. There isn't an event important enough to get me to wear one of those again. If they try to put one on me when I'm in the casket, I'm going to get up and leave.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 11:27 AM

mbinsewi

I'll take a wild guess, David Frey?  He did put out some scenery books.

Mike.

 

 

I think Frary put out his first scenery book in the late 1980s or early 1990s. I hadn't heard of him prior to that.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 11:23 AM

My guess is a younger Linn Westcott. The layout looks similar to other pictures I've seen of his layout.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 11:11 AM

It seems fellows were still wearing dress shirts and ties to play with trains as late as August, 1968.

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Posted by dknelson on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 10:58 AM

Well the guy who (literally) wrote the book on scenery that Kalmbach sold at that time was Bill McClanahan, and while John Allen was great at scenery it was McClanahan and his book that really made him the scenery guy of that era.  In fact your description of the photo resembles one or another version of the cover of that book, Scenery for Model Railroaders, which featured him smoking his pipe and leaning over the layout while wearing his engineer's hat.  In an early edition he is to the right of the layout, for a later edition he switched over to the left closer to a tunnel portal.

He was a professional artist (sports cartoonist) and his other specialty was painting rolling stock.  His articles about scenery and other topics appeared pretty often back then.  His humorous drawings also accompanied his own and other people's articles.

I took a quick look at MR photos from the late 1950s to early 1960s and did not find any others that fit the description.  By then seeing photos of the actual modelers on the cover was becoming quite rare.  Into the early 1950s nearly every cover photo included the modeler.  And oddly enough an awful lot of modelers back then seemed to be pipe smokers!

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 10:55 AM

Model Railroader showed people on the cover quite frequently in the 40s and 50s. I would think most of them were not very notable.

My favorite was the guy in a dress shirt and tie drilling holes with a pin vise. I have never dressed up for model work.

You would need to find the specific issue for help.

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Posted by rrebell on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 9:59 AM

50's would be John Allen

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Posted by mbinsewi on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 9:50 AM

I'll take a wild guess, David Frey?  He did put out some scenery books.

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Posted by hdtvnut on Wednesday, January 5, 2022 2:49 AM

There was a well-known scenery guy who had his picture on MR's cover in the late 50's or early 60's holding a loco and next to a layout tunnel, IIRC.  I can't find the mag; does anybody know who he was?  Thanks.

 

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