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April 05, 2009 |
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Halloween 1952
FOUND by Greg
in In a wall of our house while renovating
We found this pic of an "indigenous" couple in the wall of a closet we were tearing apart while renovating. The glass blocks give the locale away as the corner of our kitchen and the date of printing on the back of the photo marks it at Nov 19, 1952.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
Oh, for the days before Political Correctness was even a term!
Time capsule! Great Find, Greg. Perhaps your home was built above tribal burying grounds....
Oh, you KNOW there's a Chrome Toaster just to the right of the frame...!
but really I just checked in tonight to see if there's a new drinking game of the week.
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Wow. I forgot to comment on those FANTASTIC curtains!! Holy- look at them. Vintage Veggie draperies. Beets and onions and corn on the cob.. (and okra? wtf else is on there?) I kind of wish it was a print with roosters and hens, but if I could find those veggie curtians, they'd definitely adorn my humble kitchen. I have a thing for glass brick, too, but prefer the "ripply" kind, rather than the kind with straight lines in 'em.
She's smoking. I wonder what ciggies went for per pack in 1952.
Where's smallbear? it's almost his birthday..
Cigarette's? Cha! Where's her peace pipe?
nbelievably, they were able to carry it off for several months before their neighbors (who surely must have been morons) caught on. The drought continued unabated, but once the truth was known, they were relieved of the burden of performing the rain danc
Are they wearing "brown face" or is the color on the print bad?
Also, I think I see Cauliflower on the curtains.
@ Laura:
Shouldn't that be "red face"?
I like the meager attempt at sitting "Indian Style" by the Chief ... haha Indian style which has been reduced to sitting cross-legged.. actually his pose looks kind of hip-hop gangsta contemporary...
Im not liking that she appears to be floating...
Im suprised no ones pointed out the oh so obvious carrots? whats up with that?...maybe its TOO obvious and I lack creativity?
@Mom- cha! love it. very Waynes World of you.
I have a vintage dress with a print that looks quite a bit like those curtains. I concur, they are extrordinary!
I see an onion, and what I think is a bunch of radishes.
P.S. That's not corn on the cob, it's maize!
Elaborate Halloween costumes.
Chrome Toaster, those curtains are awesome....
Racism circa 1952, meet racism circa 2009?
I was 12 days old and in a Youth Hostel* when that picture was taken.
*My parents were house parents at the Rockford (IL) College Farm which was an AYH
Carrots!
Tomatoes!
the prequel to poltergeist...
Anna and David really loved vegetables, so they bought some vegetable curtains. While they were at the store, they spotted some Indian costumes and couldn't resist getting them. They posed in front of their new curtains.
FINALLY! Photographic proof that the Vikings settled America before Christopher Columbus got here. Look at those blue eyes! I tell ya, it's heartening to see that least some of those good old Scandinavian genes persist among the aboriginals down to the present. Thank you Found guys.
I love this couple. They look like fun, and her smile could light up a room.
I'll bet there was some savage boomboom THAT night...
It's not a couple. He's perched his ventriloquist's dummy on the window ledge.
What's racist about this photo? Is it any more racist if someone dresses up in authentic German garb with lederhosen and a pointy hat?
Ahhh, the "veggie set" of the 50's! In the mid-70's I was trawling through the basement in my mom's house and found a set of veggie iron-on embroidery transfers from the 50's, supposedly for use on teatowels and similar. I ironed them onto a man's chambray shirt and embroidered them and thought it was soooo cooool. Wore it as a sort of jacket. And it was cool, in 1974.
On the curtains, ya got your carrots, parsnips, cauliflower, corn,onions, radishes, and what could possibly be a cabbage or a lettuce in the bottom right hand corner, there. Looks like tomatoes (ie maters) and peas up at the top, too. (Garrison Keillor's voice in my head reading off that list.)
those look like two red side-by-side toilet seats don't they? this picture is awesome! it reminds me of the old movies when they ACTUALLY tried to make the actors of that time look like Native Americans... the days when kids played cowboys and indians OUTSIDE... now it's drug dealers and "po-po's" on Xbox on the couch...
Is that some kind of Aunt Jemima wall thingy behind the Chief?
I bet these folks had a sunburst clock and three ceramic geese flying up the wall in the livingroom, just above their plaid three-piece suite with the granny square afghan (or do I mean ripple stripe?) thrown over the back of the sofa. Right in front of the big ol' TV in the wood-veneer cabinet with doors you could shut over the screen. The one with the built-in record player (mono of course!).
Almost forgot: they also have a ceramic dog/lion/panther in one corner of the living room, down by the swivel rocker, behind the magazine caddy.
And why does she look like she's levitating???
This is Wowkle and Billy in a 1952 modern-dress production of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, Act II.
Oh Baby Basil... are you sure it's not a ceramic cat or two in the corner?
@(Just looking...)...well, lions and panthers are the big cats, so you can have a big shot!
YEAH SACHEMS
HERE WE GO!