Tag / Frankfurt

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B-74 5TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT 30TH NOV 2013

yesterday i joined B-74’s 5TH anniversary event. it was really nice to meet some friends there and it was a relaxed atmosphere. good people, drinks and food – at the perfect location! all in the invitation listed artisans and merchants were there. KAMI and his staff did a perfect job – smooth. at the same time i could take a peak to UWE E.MAIER’s new AMTRAQ show room which is on the 3rd floor in the same building berliner strasse 74: perfect! pics | LTG

OLI THE BARBER (in the middle), on the right ALEX c/o FEINSCHMUCK & because blog
on the left MARIA c/o FEINSCHMUCK on the right WOLFGANG c/o PassionFrance®
RAKELLE customizing the B-74 RINGS
ROB LONGSTAFF with a fan
customizing belts DUKES
“REMSPERGER VATTER” with his little ones – they are so sweet!!!
the HASHEMIS: on the left KAMI, on the right the master of bmx cycling KIAM, in the middle KAMI’s mum & dad
Mr. “WURSTFONTÄNE” SASAN
FEINSCHMUCK
Alex & SABINE c/o PassionFrance®
my little LEVI with Sabine talking about knives
ANDI c/o AMTRAQ
on the right UWE E. MAIER c/o AMTRAQ

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EVENT UPDATE WITH FEINSCHMUCK & PassionFrance® | B-74 CELEBRATES ITS 5TH BIRTHDAY

he guys, today KAMI c/o B-74 told me that the line up for the 5TH birthday event of the shop is fixed. happy to hear that FEINSCHMUCK and PassionFrance® will be in FRANKFURT next saturday 30TH NOVEMBER. FEINSCHMUCK will show a lot of works and the upcoming new collection 2014. WOLFGANG from c/o PassionFrance® will show a selected range of his unique knives. i know what he will bring with him – exciting! so much to see, so much to tell. the event starts at about 12:00 and will end at 20:00. check the schedule below with DUKES, who will do belt customizing, live music by ROB LONGSTAFF, customized worscht, meat & sauces by WURSTFONTAENE and RAKELLE. see you at BERLINER STRASSE 74 in frankfurt next saturday! The pics show some nice works from FEINSCHMUCK, DUKES and PassionFrance i am happy to own. pics | LTG 

 


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RED WING SHOES | CUSTOMIZED POSTMAN #101

yes, yes, yes – this is it! i love the #101 – the POSTMAN. my first pair was a present from KLAUS c/o VOLLS.DE. i know this post is something special for shoe nerds … but sorry, this is a RED WING SHOE for real RED WING LOVERS and not for fashion pussies! and the best: the customized #101 means for me one step further. hm, what do you think? would you prefer the one with the original cushion sole or the customized #101 one with the nitrile black cork sole, you may know f.ex. from RED WING’S black IRON RANGER #8114? i love the #101 look with this heel construction. it reminds me a classic U.S. navy officer shoe. but i like both and i won’t give one of them away because for me they are different shoes. KAMI c/o RED WING SHOE STORE FRANKFURT/GERMANY made the customized #101 for me. i can’t remember if the first miles with the original #101 hurt so much as they do with the customized one. damn. everyday i wear them just a few hours indoor and i am happy to get them off. but … it’s okay. the day will come when they got broken – this shoe is worth the trouble! pics | LTG


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B-74 CELEBRATES ITS 5TH BIRTHDAY SATURDAY 30TH OF NOVEMBER, FRANKFURT, GERMANY

he guys save this date! i know that some highlights are waiting for you at the 30th of november. stay tuned, next weekend you will know more than just the date. time is running. when KAMI opened the B-74 five years ago i did a story about it in german R’n’R magazine #01 DYNAMITE!. at this time i was one of the chief editors and the art director of the mag. this is really fucking 5 years ago. when he celebrated the 2nd birthday of his shop i was there and met DIRK THOMAS c/o MERZ B. SCHWANEN for the first time. he customized me a MASTER SMITH shirt with stamps. DIRK, i still got it! the party was great, nice to be again at B-74 for another birthday party. pics | LTG

 

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THE GOLDEN TEXAS STAR RING

nice to have a wife who finds things that are not forgotten but somewhere stored in the house you can’t remember … so it happened with my beloved TEXAS UNIVERSITY RING i bought more than 10 years ago. i remember the day and the place where i got it as it was yesterday. i found this piece while walking through an antique market in frankfurt/main germany with my wife. i wasn’t searching for a college ring or something like this. but the ring was like a magnet. i went to a sales booth saw it in the display case, knewing i must have it. but after asking the seller for the price we went away. but i couldn’t get the ring out of my head. after we were back in darmstadt, i went to the bank to get the money i wanted to spend – less than the seller rather wanted.  so i drove back the 40 kilometers back to the antique market. i told the seller which price i would pay and he gave the ring to me. i love this extraordinary piece and i think it is a good combination with my, no, little LEVI’s ring, he get it when he will be 18 years old. pics | LTG


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GANT | THIS IS WHAT I CALL A SHOPPING BAG

last saturday my wife took me to the new GANT flagstore in frankfurt / main, germany, to check some GANT RUGGER stuff for SS/2013. there she bought a really nice GANT NAVAL SHIRT and so she got this so fucking perfect shopping bag. unusual to find so high quality and sophisticated done shopping bags. printed inside with historical stories and pictures, a blue sky on the ground, closed with a real button hold by a denim strap and a smart embossed GANT logotype – really well done. very nice the wash and care instructions card. pics | LTG




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LIFE TIME GEAR @ PEP CARS FRANKFURT | US AND CLASSIC CAR MEETING

1st of may is off in germany: so called labor day. so there was time to visit the US AND CLASSIC CAR MEETING of frankfurt, germany, located car club PEP CARS. saw a lot of old and new CAMAROS, my favorite us car, and some nice other stuff. always great to hear V8 engines roaring and bubbling, smelling petrol and oil. bad pics | LTG

my little boy with an orange big toy.




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LIFE TIME GEAR @ AMTRAQ DISTRIBUTION & LAMBCHOP

saturday evening was great: at first PETER and me visited UWE c/o AMTRAQ DISTRIBUTION at his office in frankfurt/main, germany, and after that we all joined together the LAMBCHOP concert. first of all the concert was really nice, sometimes very low, but exciting by the same way. KURT WAGNER’s voice is catchy – you just have listen to! AWESOME. but the songs from their actual longplayer “MR. M”, dedicated to the band’s died friend VIC CHESSNUT, are so sad and you feel deep devotional. but before PETER and me discovered UWE’s mens playground: the AMTRAQ office. we could have stayed there for hours. the office interior is so tastefully. UWE was explaining his stuff, me i checked and tried one piece after another, pizza, beer, good music …just perfect! over all TELLASON denim and the DEHEN1920 stuff fascinated me most. great stuff! but don’t forget MAKR, TANNER GOODS, TOPO DESIGN and SPORTSWEAR REG. UWE, you did a good selection, a lot of new and exciting stuff for german men shops and outfitters. pics | lLambchop faz.net | LTG

 UWE MAIER,AMTRAQ DISTRIBUTION

me, trying a DEHEN jacket while taking photos


 peter z., master of text

 KURT WAGNER in frankfurt/main, unionhalle

3 guys, 3 different boots: VIBERG, ALDEN & WHITE’S


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VIBERG BOOTS | SHELL CORDOVAN BOOT at MANUFACTUM

yesterday i got the new MANUFACTUM catalogue. great stuff as all the years before. NEW: they have
a VIBERG BOOT in their boot line up. it is the classic SHELL CORDOVAN BOOT in black. beside labels
like LVC and PIKE BROTHERS they have some selected NIGEL CABOURN stuff. some pieces are just
made for MANUFACTUM. beside other clothes with history you can discover a lot of other very nice
old school stuff for your hosehold, to eat, drink … you can’t get anywhere anymore in the world true to
their motto: “THE GOOD THINGS IN LIFE STILL EXIST.” check manufactum.com or manufactum.de
or visit one of their shops for example in FRANKFURT, hamburg, cologne, munich or berlin. pics | manfuctum

MANUFACTUM FRANKFURT, opened 2 years ago