A coonskin cap is a hat fashioned from the skin and fur of a raccoon. The original coonskin cap consisted of the entire skin of the raccoon including its head and tail. Beginning as traditional Native American headgear, coonskin caps became associated with American and Canadian frontiersmen of the 18th and 19th centuries, and were highly popular among boys in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia in the 1950s.
In the 20th century, the iconic association was in large part due to Disney's television program Disneyland and the first three "Davy Crockett" episodes starring Fess Parker, which aired from December 1954 to February 1955. In the episodes, which once again made Crockett into one of the most popular men in the country, the frontier hero was portrayed wearing a coonskin cap. The show spawned several Disneyland Davy Crockett sequels as well as other similar shows and movies, with many of them featuring Parker as the lead actor. Parker went on to star in a Daniel Boone television series (1964-1970), again wearing a coonskin cap.
Crockett's new popularity initiated a fad among boys all over the United States as well as a Davy Crockett craze in the United Kingdom. The look of the cap that was marketed to young boys was typically simplified; it was usually a faux fur lined skull cap with a raccoon tail attached. A variation was marketed to young girls as the Polly Crockett hat. It was similar in style to the boys' cap, including the long tail, but was made of all-white fur (faux or possibly rabbit). At the peak of the fad, coonskin caps sold at a rate of 5,000 caps a day. By the end of the 1950s, Crockett's popularity waned and the fad slowly died out.
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Randall was first, and correct, with:
Coonskin Cap
. . . and believe it or not, when I was a little kid, I actually had one.
Mom said I "wore the damn thing 'til it fell apart."
Mark. said:
Wearing a coonskin cap, as in Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.
Mac Mac wrote:
Coon skin hats. You couldn't get mine off my head.
Alan J answered:
Raccoon Skin Hats.
Billy in Cypress U$A replied:
A Davy Crockett Coon skin hat/cap, that Davy last wore at the Alamo.
Roy, still socially distant in Tyler, TX responded:
Aw, heck, what little boy didn't have a Davy Crockett coonskin cap back in the '50s? I had one!
Cal in Vermont said:
The wearing of dead animals on one's head which was very much more convenient than wearing live ones.
mj wrote:
In the Disney
Serialized "biography" of Davey Crockett, Fess Parker wore a raccoon
skin hat, complete with tail. Children all over the country demanded
their own version of the head gear. There were also Davey Crockett bowls
and mugs. I learned to drink coffee from one of the latter.
Dave wrote:
Boys wearing a coonskin hat with the hapless vermin's tail hanging down like a ponytail. Usually the children's version had fake fur with a real or fake tail attached. The actual David Crockett was 9 inches shorter than the 6'-5" Fess Parker. After the success of the Davy Crockett miniseries on Disney's TV show, Parker worked for Disney's studio for years in various TV movies but Disney refused to lend Parker to other studios, depriving Parker of several opportunities to advance his career, including Jeffery Hunter's role in the John Ford western The Searchers, and a big part in the Marylin Monroe vehicle Bus Stop. Parker escaped Disney by refusing a role and was fired. Parker later became the star and producer of the popular TV series Daniel Boone, (the TV Boone also wore a coonskin cap- possibly a dig at Walt Disney?). Parker did pretty well for himself financially and was able to retire from acting at age 49.
Photos: The real David Crockett, the frontiersman, soldier, politician, folk hero and storyteller. Crockett served 2 terms in congress but his opposition to Andrew Jackson let to his defeat in 1835(?), which prompted the disappointed Crockett to move to Texas | Fess Parker as Crockett seemed to dwarf his sidekick the 6'-4" Buddy Ebsen | Parker as Daniel Boone
David of Moon Valley said:
you mean that 'coonskin cap' thingy? eeeesh...fad fashion inna fifties, who knew....
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame answered:
The answer is Davy Crockett-inspired coonskin caps. My older brother and I each had one.
Daniel in The City responded:
Coon skin caps, like Davy Crockett
Deborah, the Master Gardener, responded:
His coonskin cap became a thing? I know he was both Davy Crockett and Daniel Boone on Disney shows, but the coonskin cap strikes me as the fad.
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Dave in Tucson said:
That fad was inspired by Fess Parker's coonskin cap. Don't know if the cap (or at least the tail) was also the inspiration for car antennae.
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That expansion was among several additional rules changes announced for this year's 72nd Emmy Awards competition, including a restructuring of how nominees are selected in each category.
Comedy and drama series categories will have eight nominations each, regardless of the number of submissions received. Paired performer categories (i.e., supporting actor comedy and supporting actress comedy) will have parity in the number of nominations.
The Television Academy previously allowed seven nominees in the outstanding drama and comedy categories, six in variety talk, variety sketch, structured reality, unstructured reality and competition categories, and five in everything else (including the ever-growing limited series field).
The Academy last expanded the drama and comedy race in 2015, from six. Yet the number of series on TV continues to balloon: According to FX's annual tally, there were 532 scripted original series in 2019. Although there isn't a count in the unscripted space, that number is believed to be perhaps closer to 1,000.
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Since the former national security adviser announced the title last year, Hamilton fans took notice of the reference to the musical's song "The Room Where It Happens." Earlier this year, the show's producer, Jeffrey Seller, told a California newspaper, "I don't even know how to describe it; it's just strange."
Miranda knows how to describe it: By adding a lyric to another Hamilton number, "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story."
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The episodes will be available on HBO.com and for free on-demand as "as an extension of the network's content offering highlighting Black experiences, voices and storytellers," the network said Thursday. "HBO is proud to offer all nine episodes for free of this timely, poignant series that explores the legacy of systemic racism in America."
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Walker's confirmation Thursday by a Senate vote of 51 to 42 puts President Donald Trump (R-Corrupt) one shy of his 200th judicial confirmation, which is teed up for next week. It's a number not achieved by any president at this stage in four decades.
A Harvard J.D., Walker's meteoric rise was aided by his Kentucky ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Myopic), a family friend for whom he once interned, and his outspoken conservatism - just two years ago he called the 2012 Supreme Court ruling to uphold Obamacare "catastrophic."
The push spearheaded by the Federalist Society, a network of conservative lawyers and activists, to install young and ideologically rigid judges is poised to steer the law rightward - on cultural issues like abortion and civil rights to the economic policy rooted in the authority to legislate and regulate.
Trump has been somewhat of a bystander in his own towering judicial legacy, delegating the task to McConnell and activists on a mission to curtail legislative and regulatory authority. Most of his nominees are in their 40s or 50s, while some are older, and others like Walker and 4th Circuit Judge Allison Rushing are in their 30s.
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In an unanimous ruling on Wednesday, the state's justices wrote that Tomi Rae Hynie, a former partner of Brown's who claimed to be his wife, failed to annul a previous marriage, and therefore did not have a right to his multimillion-dollar estate.
Brown's union with Hynie has long been the center of the evolving legal troubles following his death at the age of 73 on Christmas Day 2006. The performer's death touched off years of bizarre headlines, beginning with Hynie being locked out of his 60-acre estate, while photographers captured her sobbing and shaking its iron gates, begging to be let in.
Wednesday's ruling dealt another blow to a deal brokered by Gov. Henry McMaster who, as South Carolina's attorney general, stepped in to facilitate a 2009 settlement after Brown's estate had been floundering in court for years. In 2013, the state's high court overturned McMaster's settlement, which would have given nearly half the estate to a charitable trust, a quarter to Hynie, and the rest to be split among his adult children.
Finally on Wednesday, the justices ruled that Hynie has no claims on the money, and ordered a circuit court to "promptly proceed with the probate of Brown's estate in accordance with his estate plan."
During the coronavirus pandemic, employers have opposed unionization elections even as workers' activism over safety protections, job security and wages has increased in the face of an economic shutdown and health fears.
But the pandemic has created difficult conditions for workers to organize elections in - something many employers appear to have taken advantage of, despite the wave of labor activism sweeping the US.
The number of resolved union election cases at the National Labor Relations Board dropped from 84 in March 2020 to 13 in April 2020 as the pandemic raged. Several of the delayed union elections then had petitions withdrawn or have yet to be scheduled. During the pandemic, union election petitions have declined significantly. According to the NLRB, union representation case intake in April 2020 decreased by 67.6% compared with April 2019.
The NLRB initially froze all union elections, while permitting mail-in ballot elections if employers and workers agreed to proceed. The board lifted the freeze on 6 April, after 116 union elections were delayed, and several other groups of workers had petition hearings postponed.
For many workers, the need to have a union has never been greater.
Vice President Mike Pence (R-Animatronic) says the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic is "a cause for celebration," but a new poll finds more than half of Americans calling it fair or poor.
The Gallup and West Health survey out Thursday found that 57% of U.S. adults rated the national response to COVID-19 as fair or poor, particularly in light of the fact that America has the world's most expensive health care system.
The numbers amount to a flashing warning for President Donald Trump (R-Dolt) and his White House team, eager to change the narrative from projections that show a growing number of U.S. pandemic deaths to a story of American resilience and economic revitalization that reinforces his reelection bid.
The poll found that only 23% of adults rated the national response as excellent or very good, while an additional 20% rated it as good.
There was widespread agreement, however, on one point: By 88% to 11%, Americans want the government to negotiate the prices of coronavirus treatments with the pharmaceutical industry. That sentiment cuts across party lines.
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