Re: red jacket
(no name) ((no email))
Sat, 19 Dec 1998 03:00:49 -0600
Like Mark Dryer (<DryerMS@CLF.NAVY.MIL>), I too am blue-green
colorblind (ask Jessi about the arguments between whether thing are
BLUE or GREEN!)
However....
>BLUE?! I bought my red jac-shirt in 1964 for $25 when I was an
>Explorer and red was the Explorer color. This is showing my age,
>and you may suspect me of growing senile, but I distictly remember
>Boy Scout jac-shirts as being GREEN.
They were; at one time, we had Boy Scout jacshirts and jackets in
GREEN and Explorer jacshirts in RED. I'm still trying to find an
exact date when the BSA moved to having ONE color for both Boy
Scout and Explorer jacshirts.
In 1970, however, the BSA did make available the BLUE (dark blue,
not even CLOSE to Green!) jacshirts for Explorer and Cub Scouters.
I've got a BSA Supply Division catalog which has the item listed
with an outrageous price of $25 or so! (yeah!)
In 1979, the BSA discontinued the blue jacshirts and blue "action
jackets" and like a lot of the Supply Division items, many of the
jacshirts were sent to local Councils for firehouse sales or sales
during Scout shows or Scoutaramas; others were just sent to local
Councils to give to professional Exploring executives; and still
others were just tossed into the old dipsy dumpsters in back of the
Charotte Distribution Center (would LOVE to go and dive into those
dumpsters sometime!!) and is now several feet under other stuff at
a landfill somewhere (what a shame; they *should have* donated them
to Sal Army or Goodwill so that they could be given out to someone
that needed a good warm jacket for cold nights!)
I've wrote to Woolrich (the makers of the official jacshirt) but
haven't heard back from them. If you're interested in writing also,
you may at support@woolrich.com
They do have some special order items, and I don't believe it
wouldn't be too much more than the BSA's retail cost to get a blue
jacshirt from them; I've asked them for a cost for 40 of them
(thinking that they won't just make a couple!).
When I get a response back, I'll post to those whom posted to me
and "wanted in" as well as to the list at large for those that just
joined us and aren't aware of the jacket thing.
(I've also asked about prices for a MacLaren Tartan and for a
purple jacshirt too!)
Settummanque!
(c) 1998 Mike Walton ("no such thing as strong coffee,...") blkeagle@mninter.net
http://mninter.net/~blkeagle Burnsville, MN 55306-7130 (612) 435-3085
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