Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (and similar), knife sllers back when?

[KenHash]

I'm another one who as a kid used to wander inside A&F in the mid 1960s when my old man went there to buy rifles and shotguns.
I rember looking at the tons of fishing gear, huge salmon flies. Unfortunately all I remember about the knives there is that's where
I learned the word "Solingen".

 

[JJHollowman]

I can't believe A&F has degenerated to a fad clothing shop selling most likely sweatshop made **** to the spoiled high schoolers for bo coup $$$. I just don't like the image and attitude they represent now.

oh yeah... knives are cool

Are you insinuating that ads featuring shirtless, pouty-lipped 17 year old boys staring with teen angst at the camera are incapable of selling equipment to regular outdoor folks like us?

 

[mongomondo]

Filson is a fashion brand now and they sell the Buck 110 S30V.

 

[19-3ben]

Are you insinuating that ads featuring shirtless, pouty-lipped 17 year old boys staring with teen angst at the camera are incapable of selling equipment to regular outdoor folks like us?

Well that was certainly worth necro-ing a 12 year old thread for.

Marcinek’s wisdom speaks through 3 years later, but now it’s a 15yr old thread.

 

[unwisefool]

Marcinek’s wisdom speaks through 3 years later, but now it’s a 15yr old thread.

Interesting thread though, I started reading it then realized it was old, but did not know about A&F history. That 12 story store sounded amazing

 

[Peter Hartwig]

I owned a couple knives from their stores. It was an amazing store.
They had a store in Palm Bch. that my parents would take me to when we were up that way. My Grandfather took me to one in the NY/CT area(too young to remember where) and bought me one of my 1st knives.
fond memories
Never been in the new morphed version

 

[TechandTactical]

Even when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s the brand sold solid clothing. I have a long sleeve shirt from 1993 that i still wear today. You read that right. I have a 25 year old Abercrombie shirt that I still wear in 2018. Not a single tear or wear spot.

I have no idea what they sell now days.

 

[Rhinoknives1]

A famous maker named Robert Loveless got his start selling his knives to A&F.

. ———- They story I’ve read in Loveless’s first book was he was working on a Tanker that came to Port in New York & went to A & F and was told the Randall knife he wanted to buy, he would have to wait some six weeks for.——————He decided to make his own in the ship machine shop.. And the rest is History!

 

[Wallace Ashley]

My father was given an A&F Skinner knife back in the 50's. He was the chairman of our tribe and Erc Sevareid, a young journalist at the time had a program called something like the Americans. For his part in the filming of a mock deer hunt near his birth place he was given this Skinner knife. We still have it after decades of use on deer hunts. I have seen one knife for sale on EBay but missed out. I'm still hoping to find one for my own collection. It has a wood handle with finger grooves.

 

[jdm61]

A&F had a gunsmithing company that they bought from the founders in 1930 and sold in 1967 by the name of Griffin & Howe. Recognize that name?

 

[Alberta Ed]

A&F had a store in Chicago back in the 60s which I visited a couple of times. There were racks of gorgeous double bores and knives (can't remember the brand but probably Randall), plus outdoor clothing, hats and boots. It would have been easy to drop $50Gs back then! Which would have been several thousand times more than what my entire net worth was.