A Horse With a Hat, 1950s
At some point, the horses that from the Horse Drawn Streetcars were fitted with hats. I'd like to think that the hats might have provided a teensy bit of relief on hot days, but... I doubt it was very much. In the 1946 film "Make Mine Music", there was a segment titled, "Johnny Fedora and Alice Bluebonnet", in which two hats fall in love. After being separated, they are reunited on the heads of two horses. I assume that hat-wearing horses was an actual thing, but perhaps their use was also a callback to that film.
Dang, it looks good! I told Walt that the horses should wear Chuck Taylor high-tops too, but he coughed and pretended that he had to call Fred MacMurray.
2 comments:
Major-
"Dang, it looks good!"
I couldn't agree more-! Tomorrow I'm cutting-out ear holes in ALL of my hats. Man, I'll be stylin' then-!
Thanks, Major.
What the world needs right now is more horses wearing hats. Think how much more pleasant things would be! Do the Main Street horses still wear hats today? This horse's dark coat would make him extra hot on summer days. Maybe they use the light colored horses on hot days?
The horse in the second photo looks especially nice with his hat. "Fred MacMurray"? The inventer of Flubber? Heck yeah! They could iron the Flubber to the soles of the horses' Chuck Taylors and they'd be bouncing all over Main Street!... And on top of the Matterhorn! Walt really missed a bet by not following your advice, Major.
Quite a theme, Major. Not just "horses" and "hats", but "horses wearing hats"! Thanks.
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