I've had friends who carry the larger unfolded bill wallets. They work well if you have an inside vest pocket in a coat or jacket, but become easy targets if stuck in a back pants pocket. I've carried both bifold and trifold types and it kinda comes down to what doesn't create quite the bulge in your clothes.
Today a larger wallet with unfolded currency works well in a suit jacket. As to bifold or trifolds. I quit carrying one in by back pocket years ago. If I left it in my back pocket on long drives. Oh my aching keister. But today if you do everything by card it just works better to carry it on your front pocket. And those truckers wallets with the chain. IMO they just make you look like a dork.
@@mpetersen6 thats the whole point,....of being an 'old school ' trucker. i knew a guy, had a cabover, older one. He got out, and was hung up, by that wallet chain, on the door handle. You know, back in the day, when THINGS WERE REAL METAL......
Fun fact-scene in "Shootist" guy shot by the derringer almost died for real, cause crew forgot him, and left him wet in cold and he had to walk miles back to where they were staying. John Wayne found out and paid him extra $ for his troubles.
Nice use of "Laugh In" there, Santee. I used to watch the reruns on Nick at Night with my step-father, when I was much younger. Dan Rowan & Dick Martin were comedic geniuses. There are plenty of jokes on that show that they wouldn't be able to get away with today. It was a simpler time...
@@ArizonaGhostriders Artie Johnson as the dirty old man. Gosh I loved that show as a kid. Artie also was the German soldier. On one show, as the German, he tells Bob Hope that he waited for him every Christmas. Bob used to do the USO Christmas shows for our enlisted soldiers every year.
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I love my trifold for money and cards but I was gifted a tobacco pouch that strongly resembles the long wallets and it is just plain fun to pull out of a coat pocket.
Great episode as always! Some historical sutlers make them to fit current size money. Wish they also made them for period reproduction money for reenactor use. Had to make my own. At least Dan gave you back your wallet. He is really a kind soul. 😁😎
@@adams7763 I buy bags of scrap leather from Hobby Lobby . They're sold in clear plastic bags so you get an idea of the contents , and last time I bought some it cost about $8.99 for five pounds .
I have one similar to the check book style and I’ve had it for maybe a couple of days and the leather is already starting to form. It’s working out great.
Thanks for making fun and informative videos. It sure is nice to see stuff like this in today's "always bad news" age. You keep me interested in on of my favorite eras.
Always something new to learn watching this Channel. I’ve seen a lot of these older wallets in the movies and tv shows as a kid but never really knew how accurate they were. Thanks Santee
I have one I use for re-enactments. You can easily slip cash,a credit card, drivers license and other needed papers to get to the event. Just can’t carry as many is all. It works well and adds to your authenticity if you have to buy your lady an ice cream or a cold drink while there🤠
Awesome video! As always, good information. Growing up, I had a little cousin who asked for a "pocket purse". No one could figure out what she was talking about. Well, she wanted a wallet, like her daddy. In her mind, women carry purses, but men carried "pocket purses" in their pants or jackets. LOL!
Wanted to add a bit of information. For anyone watching this being that it's April 2022. But Victorian women's dresses didn't have pockets like how men would carry their wallet but they actually did have pockets. After putting on their layers of clothing which was the petticoats they had these look like pouches that they would tie around their waist and the pockets as they call them hidden under the skirt. Because what they wore was always a jacket and a skirt and there is always an opening in the skirt so that they could easily access their pockets. Which they kept different things in. So just a little FYI 🤔☺️🌹
Not all. We have a dress and a pattern from the period that did NOT have pockets. There were solutions to move existing pockets or sew your own into the garment.
I had a wallet like, the one with the strap closure, you showed in this episode as well as a poke for my coins. Kept the wallet inside breast pocket of my Confederate uniform. We were paid with copies of Confederate or, if we raided the Yankee payroll, Yankee government money. We had areas that we could spend it for food and drink stuff. We carried real money for the areas where we needed real money for.
I carried the large unfolded bill wallets for years. Carried it in my boot. Always kept a small amount of change or ones folded up in my front pocket. Carrying in your back pocket didn’t work to good on a horse or a motorcycle.
I like to use this wallet very much, I have used it since I was a child. From the material to the fabric to the change to genuine cow leather. say hello from thailand
Now that you got your wild west wallet. Perhaps a video on the longest poker game ever played at the Bird Cage Theatre in Tombstone would be pretty interesting.
Hey Santee. Off subject here. But I wanted to let you know that we went to Mascal Studios this morning, what a fun group of people that volunteer there. I wanted to thank you for putting this wonderful piece of movie history on several of your episodes and letting us know about the restoration efforts. We stared out with a singing cowboy had a wonderful tour guide."Lt Dan" . I encourage everyone who is able to visit Mescal studios do it, you won't regret it.
My Grand dad always told me that you can tell a lot about a man by the way he drinks his whiskey and the way he carries his money.... I drink my whiskey straight up and carry my dinero in a leather long wallet just like he did... all bills facing the same way and organized by denomination... great video Santee !!!
Wallets and even before I hit play I'm thinking :" Wait for it....wait for it." Sure enough Dirty Dan shows up and takes your cash to make wise investments for you. What a nice friend. :)) THANKS for showing wallets for men back in the day and explaining that greenbacks were larger then. The idea of a check book sized wallet makes sense with the larger bills. I think perhaps keeping your bills in nice condition was a source of pride or showing how well to do you were for a man. I was taught that all bills should face the same way in retail cash registers. It also shows respect for your own hard earned cash not to crumple it up! I learned the meaning of 'poke' too, although how do you get a pig in a poke ? and who first tried it is a mystery. Might be another topic for another day?
Thanks for the video and the links, Santee! Always great to expand my knowledge and my kit (now if I can just keep the cinch on my britches tight....). Always brings a smile to my Saturdays!
Thanks again Santee & Co. I've bought scrap leather from a hobby store and made many small leather products including my bifold wallet . When I was in the navy overseas I learned the trick of carrying two wallets . One fat wallet full of low value bills for small purchases and the possible pickpockets and muggers . A second thin wallet hung by a cord around my neck under my shirt with my military ID and larger bills . As the old saying goes , don't put all your eggs in one basket .
Another great video brother . Thank you for sharing . I enjoy every video . Especially when you slide good ole Dirty Dan lol . Look forward to the next great video
Great idea for a video. You always have us thinking my friend. I would love to have some of the paper bills from back in the day. Cheers my friend. "A little something extra" The Duke
Well now I declare if my eyes saw the AGR logo on that there wallet but wait did I also see a bit of the logo peeking out as well? Nice detail on you all vid as usual great job team!!!
Great episode Santee. Inown several originals and reproductions. They are really cool inthe different designs. Don't forget Missouri Boot and Shoe. Robert makes great embossed wallets.
Santee, great episode. Always learning something new. Thanks 😊! How about doing also maybe an episode on the old west for cooking stoves, like the Great Western Stove Company. Thank you again.
This is why wallets were called billfolds . I love your videos and practical history is fascinating. A video about how Victorian gals carried things would be interesting. They were quite inventive
Another excellent video Santee, good to see old Bill again. Wallets had there uses, but money belts had multiple uses. As I recall my ancestor journey, after the boys father died (he thought he was his grandfather at the time). "Grandfather" pick the boy up, six years later and continue the journey. He was described as a gunslinger by the descendants and carried a "money belt", as wallets got in the way. His belt also carried bullets. But when he was riding the locomotive, he switched to the Wallet which he carried in a deep pocket in his coat over his heart, and laced with metal. I figured it out it was probably yto protect his heart, as there were stories of bibles been used for the same thing. Although the other side in this was how they "folded" the money in the wallet. The more I look into the boys travel, the the little details of his adventure with his dads dog, his father and "Grandfather" are amazing. Anyways, keep up the good work Santee and crew.
Cool Video 👍enjoy the old movie clip subs!! I Picked up a cool old long Ranger style studded leather Wallet months back. Thinking it goes back to at least 1920s -maybe earlier 🇺🇸
Very awesome and informative interesting video, I definitely learned a lot about wallets in the old west. I’m definitely going to adding the old west wallets to my old West inspired novella stories I’m writing. Great job and well done, I as always got even more inspiration for the old west inspired novella story I’m getting ready to write.
Another great video! Had a thought on security, if you tuck your wallet in the front of your belt you have the added security feature of if someone goes reaching for your groin you're probably going to notice.
Here’s another detail for my books old West inspired world: In the worlds of terragartha and earthstone the currency that the inhabitants use are Jade coins, and obsidian coins, as well as sand dollars and shells.
Good Morning Santee, Excellent episode… Do believe that as westerns evolved they gave a basic idea of wallets, but as I have seen from watching your videos… Not everything is as they say. So, again … thanks for the western history lesson.
Good evening mate always love a bit of amazing new knowledge..I'd think coins wouldn't of made you as stealthy it's amazing how far things have come even If now most of its all by card I can't remember the last time I carried cash on Me..much love brilliantly presented
I have always carried a wallet! Pretty much every style you’ve shown here! I don’t like bending bills so I use the long single fold! Has to be leather! Years ago my bank pissed me off so when I went to close my account to took a poke! Cool video!
Dang Judges! I got dinged at a show for having a modern wallet when I WAS carrying a three-fold 1880s one! I also got dinged for a modern watch, when I was carrying a T-clip chain! I learned a long time ago, from a Cannon from the Church of England, how he learned for crossing himself, "spectacles, testicles, wallet & watch"!
These old wallets are cool!!!! It’s true, people treat cash like crap these days. Strange, because it seems to mean so much to everyone. Good jokes in this one (as soon as I can get a woman to talk to me lol)! Great video Santee, and again, when are you gonna stop letting Dan bully you?
I am so glad I found these videos, thank you so much for making them. I’ve been slowly getting into the old West reenactor world, trying to find my way. So hopefully I can end up at some ghost town with a bunch of tourists doing oral history and maybe shooting a few blanks before I have to lay down and pretend to be dead. Could you make a video talking about how people like me can find her way into that activity as a hobby once in a while every year?
pockets were actually quite common in the victorian era in womens dreses thay were just hiden. They might not come with one but many women knew how to seow a pocket in to a dress
Thanks Santee for the wallet info. Now! Can you do a video on "cartridge money belts". Until just this month, I hadn't realized how common they were until I borrowed "Packing Iron" from the library and it appears they were more common than standard cartridge belts. Bullwhip Mckinna
The women's clothing did have pockets. They were like little bags inserted into the side seams of skirts, or hung from the waistband, underneath the skirts.
Many were added after purchase, and that's why I said, "didn't really have...." to leave that info open-ended. Two of my wife's didn't have them and they were from original patterns.
I can't remember even seeing any wallets in any western I have seen. So this will be intresting. By the way I tested elijah craig small batch today. Thank you for recomending it. We liked it.
@@ArizonaGhostriders I remember asking what whisky you liked, and then I saw that I could get some I went for it. Now I have one bottle in my collection.
Nice... I see I am not the only person how carried beef jerky in his wallet. 😁 but really.. I knew a guy when I was in the army. who carried bacon in his wallet and or pants. He went back and forth. Never failed he was always eating it when we were on patrol in Iraq. And no he never put it in a plastic bag. He just put it in his pocket or wallet. 😕
