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Birth Year Razor - 1955 - What should I look for

iankh

iankh

I have been thinking of looking around for the razor from the year I was born, 1955. What razor should I be keeping an eye out for?

1955 was a great year:


  • Disneyland Opened
  • Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus
  • Pocket transistor radios came out
  • Kiss Me Kate was on Broadway
  • The Mickey Mouse Club debuted
  • The game, Scrabble came out
  • My hometown team, the one and only Brooklyn Dodgers won the world series, in the 1955 subway series against the New York Yankees
  • The first Guinness Book of World Records came out
  • Hurricane Diane hit the northeast coast (and my mother went into labor)
  • The animated feature Lady and the Tramp premiered in Chicago (my adopted hometown)
  • The Broadway musical, "Peter Pan" with Mary Martin appeared on television
  • Ray Kroc opens the first MacDonalds
  • Dr. Jonas Salk polio vaccine is approved for use
  • I was born

I think it was a great year and am interested to know what razor goes along with it.
 
ChiefBroom

ChiefBroom

No tattoo mistakes!
What razor is currently your favorite to use?

What razor is currently your favotire to own/fondle?

What's your price range?
 
The Kiwi

The Kiwi

I bought my first motorcycle that year. I think my Red Tip is a 1956 (I never worry much about the ages of things younger than I am); it's a nice enough old Gillette. I don't know the age of my Schick G8, I think maybe about 1954 . . but I shaved with that two days in a row.

P. S. What I would really love to have, again, is that motorcycle, or the same model, and the same model car I bought the next year, when I paid $80 for a 1948 Ford Coupe.

I could afford it then, on a teen's part-time income savings. If I had a chance at another one that was still comparatively well preserved, I surely couldn't afford it any more.
 
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iankh

iankh

The Kiwi said:
I bought my first motorcycle that year. I think my Red Tip is a 1956 (I never worry much about the ages of things younger than I am); it's a nice enough old Gillette. I don't know the age of my Schick G8, I think maybe about 1954 . . but I shaved with that two days in a row.
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We're both vintage. In the vintage furniture and decor trade we'd be termed, "Mid-Century Modern" which I sort of like. :biggrin1:
 
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ChiefBroom

ChiefBroom

No tattoo mistakes!
I was born in '53. The first birth year razor I got was a minty President. I subsequently developed a preference for British-made Gillettes. Unfortunately, except in the case of Coronation sets, I don't believe there is a way to identify the specific year of manufacture for any mid-50s British razors. For $60 bucks you might find a '55 President in good condition. Diplomats (gold plated) are the same design as Presidents and were going for less back when I was paying attention to them. I have a '55 that belonged to a mobster in Wheeling, West VA, whose bust served as a test case for Bobby Kennedy's interstate racketeering law. If it weren't for the story, I'd offer it to you. A SuperSpeed would also be a good choice. I have a special soft spot for '58 TV Specials, but, alas, they are '58s.

Good luck.
 
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DEGuy

DEGuy

One of my two favorites is my series of Gillette Techs (I have several 1965s, the year I graduated from high school); I also have a 1966 Tech (the year I enlisted, USAF). Love my Techs. Along with them are my contemporary Jagger DE89L razors. I have extra DE89s and use the handles from them affixed to my Techs--I don't care for the Techs' ball. I also have a Fat-Handle Rhodium-plated Tech, not sure of its 'birth year'--it, too, shaves great and is very smooth against my face--Rhodium plating is really nice. This razor was 'gifted' to me from a friend and brother from B&B--Thank you, AC. These are fine fixed-head razors that work comfortably for me and never to deliver DFSs. I'm using SuperMax SP blades, no others; these blades work for me in these fixed-head DE razors.
 
iankh

iankh

Gents, I have snagged a 1955 Flare made in the quarter of 1955 I was born. Now I just need somev1955 aftershave to go with it.
 
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