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January 22, 2008 |
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I Need a Nap
FOUND by Caitlin
in Westerville, Ohio
I found this in an abandoned house near where I live. There are piles and piles of photographs throughout the house, but unfortunately most of them are badly water damaged. I took only this one, to send to FOUND. The date on the back says 1959.
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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...
He looks like he's singing. She looks a little embarassed by him too. Maybe he sounds really awful, and she's afraid the whole neighborhood can hear.
Aaaaaauuuuugh!! Are you sure he's not screaming??
He reminds me of the photo I Found in the back shed: the guy laughing at someone's funeral.
This pic is awesome!! Thanks, Caitlin.
"...I am a major model of a modern major general..."
that's what I think he's singing.
jack sprat, who could eat no fat, yet could sing quite loud-ly (set it to music) and his wife, who could eat no lean.
is that a dog behind the woman's legs?
i imagine this is the first day of spring that weather has fortuned upon this usually dreary man. he's just tasting spring - trying to get enough warm windy air in his mouth to quench his winter longing.
i want some spring, too. wonderous find.
That building, with its turret-like tower there... looks so cool. I want to live there. Perfect. that *must* be a dog.. or the White rabbit?
In an abandoned house filled with piles and piles of abandoned photographs, I don't think I could contstrain myslef from taking only one. But if I had to, this probably would have been the one for me, too.
To. constrain To taking only one. Or restrain myself from taking many.
Archie: It looks like a dog or a purse, or possibly just a rock. Ah, The magic of finds.
Dude looks like Val Kilmer. I just watched Deja Vu. good movie. The lady reminds me of someone Molly Shannon would play.
That woman bears a striking resemblance to the character in "The Sound of Music" who places 4th (or something) at the Austrian Music Festival, who takes about 16 bows on stage.
The photographer really ought to count to three - neither of these people look ready. I wonder how many of the pictures in the piles were like this one - snapped a fraction too soon or a fraction too late and discarded.
nobody was ready in 1959.
Looks like an Easter photo.
They resemble the parents in the movie Airborn. I'll bet he drives a Zamboni
They were clearly not ready for the picture to be taken.
He's yawning, she's adjusting her clothes, and there's a dog shitting behind her.
Also, I'm hoping their whole house is as round as the part we can see. I hope it's just a big ol' cylinder.
Katherine: Ha! That would be wonderful! It would be like living in a giant can. I wonder if the whole house would smell faintly of Chicken and Stars...?
The building looks like a university building to me. This picture reminds me of some i've seen from Sweden after my great-grandfather immigrated back and married a new wife. The clothing looks like stuff they were wearing in the phtos they sent home. I think they were waiting for some others to join the photo, and the dog wasn't being very compliant.
I think it's sad to abandon a house and the photos left behind are sadder still.
I think the guy is unreasonably proud of his new dental work.
Stanley: Can you see my gold filling? Can you? Can you?
Mildred:Yes, Stanley. Everyone can see your filling, now close your mouth. This is a serious photo, which will be kept for posterity and cherished forever.
Stanley: Don't be silly, Mildred. The kids are just going to leave it lying around when they abandon the house and move to Majorca. Nobody wants to keep a picture of you wearing a bib.
"American Gothic" revisited in the fifties...WHAT are those reddish highlight things on the guy's receding hairline? They look almost like stubby little devil horns, like you used to see in the Little Lulu comic books. (And Huey, that stupid giant goose in the diaper and baby cap!)
The photographer sure did snap too soon, or perhaps did it on purpose...he's yawning, or yelling "Hurry up already!" and she's tugging down her sweater. Check out his pants cuffs--what's with that?
That house has a corner turret. I always wanted one of those.
judith: oh dear... I used to be able to button up this sweater
Mort: Yaaaaawwnn, im sick of your complaining. hurry up and take the picture before that dress doesn't button up any more
I believe Mildred and Stanley have just replaced the Christmas tree our in the garden until next season. Very ecological for 1959. Mildred is adjusting her clothes after having climbed down the tree to fetch the star on top. Stanley is - quite understandable - tired. He spent half the night digging the hole for the Christmas tree. Fido has just finished helping Stanley with refilling the hole. Mildred, Stanley and Fido: Thinking about ecology before carbon footprints dirtied our earth. Fido perished in 1962 due to salmonella poisoning. Mildred, who is three years older than Stanley and in fine health, recently retired from her position as head of accounting for the local school board and now tends her roses. Stanley is still junior environmetal geologist at Tech E & E. He now has diabetes.
It doesn't look like a "couple" to me. Looks like a Mom and her son.
I love it!
and I don't usually like the photo founds.
Well, it's been a long drive, but Professor Shmedlap has finally fetched his mail-order bride from the airport and, despite his fatigue, poses for this first photo, which the new Mrs. Shmedlap has insisted upon, to send to her parents as proof of her safe arrival, with her faithful pooch Borktok at her feet.
Within a week, she'll be nagging him about moving out of the faculty housing unit.
I'm so naming my next pet, Borktok.
somehow i think of will ferrell's character in stranger than fiction when i see this.
"who just said, 'harold counted brush strokes??'"
Caitlin-is the house in the picture the same as the house in which you found this gem?
Spam protection: spell 'palindrome' backwards. Cute-but what if I'm dyslexic? (I'm not, I'm just sayin'...)
Reminds me of a They Might Be Giants song
He's shouting, "Get me out of these dorky clothes!"
Big house, big tree, big mouth. No way that's a dog behind them, it's a suitcase or a bag. Cindy, I think you're right about They might be giants. He's singing "I lost my lucky ball and chain", (now she's four years gone, she's five feet tall and sick of me, and all my rattlin on)
or maybe "Mr. Horrible".
hey, I live in Westerville too! Way cool! Not too many abandoned houses here, but there are some cool old ones near Otterbein College. Don't recognize the cute couple, but then I wasn't around in '59. Nice find!
"HEEEEEEEYYYYY YYYOOOOOOOUUUUUUU GUUUUUUUUYYYYYSSS!"
"Oh hush up Edward: It wasn't funny the first dozen times you did that. Just let Norman take the picture already!"
What we have here are rebeles of the 50s. The rebel, dorky version of Bonnie and Clyde. And perhaps he has terrets and he's screaming some obscenity. She's sick of hearing it all the time.
Chrome:
I was going to say that my husband's family is Swedish (at least I hope so since his name is Thor) and this looks just like their old pictures.
The lady looks Swedish, yah?
I *love* this picture. Oddly enough I can smell the stale paint inside, which is probably some drab blueish grey. Kind of picturing it to be like the insides of Grey Gardens.
I wonder what that is hanging off of the top windowsill-
You know, I kind of see him being a loud mouth half senile jack ass, screaming at whoever is taking the picture in a gruff voice. She is so uncomfortable at the scene he's making that she fidgets with her sweater. Is she wearing pink wellies or is she so pale you can't tell where the shoe ends and he edema begins?
That looks like grandmother and my uncle rufus.
They look like mentally challenged siblings.
I'M HENRY THE EIGHTH, I AM, I AM, I'M HENRY THE EIGHTH I AM...
And I would walk 500 miles more!! Butalutta!! Butalutta!
the grass is hiding most of her black shoes. Low heeled pumps. I do believe that is a dog behind her. He's tired, and she's fidgety. Neither of them are ready for this.
I hate the thought of abandoned photos. Who is out there that loved these people. Is the house in the picture the one that was abandoned?
I love "It's a Wonderful Life", when George and Mary fix up the abandoned house. They gave the house back its dignity. There was an abandoned house on my drive to work that's been torn down, and now its as if it never existed. I know that, practically speaking, its easier just to tear down and build new, but its just so sad to see it disappear. Lives lived, people loved, children playing... all vestiges of that gone in the blink of an eye.
That's not a dog or a rock. It's a giant panda cub.
it is not a giant panda cub: it's one of those little ice bear cubs.
the man is yawning because he's been up with it all night.
I'm gonna have to disagree with most of you and say that pic was totally taken while he was in the middle of a very satisfying yawn
My first thought was "Aaaaachooooo!"
Catyia those aren't pink wellies those are cankles.
That's a poodle in the back.
What is that grey fluff on his shoe?
Awwwww, "Cankles"! I haven't heard that term in years! That made my day.
She reminds me of a chubby Mary Katherine Gallegher right before she busts out in a lunge...
yes, it's definitely a yawn. can't be anything but.
I don't think he's yawning or sneezing because most cover their mouth, at least when sneezing. And I for one always like to stretch when I'm yawning. Definitely don't hold my hands behind my back.
Those shoes! Her feet are killing her! No wonder she looks less than pleased. Edema indeed. The photographer has been messing them about for an hour trying to get the "perfect" shot until her husband yelled: "Come ON!" and he/she snapped the pic in a fit of "artistic" pique.
"There! Enjoy your stupid photo!"
Just wondering... is the picture in the photo the same one that you got the photo from?
In it's pre abandoned days....?
that IS a dog behind them, he's letting out a shout of anger because the dog just left a little blue "present" on his shoe
She's so sick of him practicing his crust-punk vocals in public.
"Smash the system! Destroy this pine tree! Bleeeeaaaaauurrrghhh!!!!!!
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!! PEEEEPPUUULLLL!!!!
Oh Fun- thank you for clarifying that- maybe she should have purchased wellies then, to cover the cankles.
Orinoco....you want a christmas card? HERE's YOUR CHRISTMAS CARD!
Obligatory spam question post:
Spam protection: What is 2012 minus 4?
These just keep gettin' harder and harder! :(
It reminds me of one of my favorite jokes when I was young. "I'm a laaaaaarge-mouthed frog! what do you feed your babies?"
That cannot be a purse or rock behind the lady. It has a little tail. And legs.
Just googled: 1959 is the year that Alaska and Hawaii gained statehood in the USA.
The Laaaarge Mouthed Frog Joke is one of my favorite jokes of All Time. It's right in the top three along with my father's famous Pumpkin Pie Joke (told every Thanksgiving to any new family member without fail) and (drum roll please) Clover's joke about the man who walked through a screen door.
Now that my father is gone the responsibility of telling the Pumpkin Pie Joke has fallen on various family members. Yet no one delivers it quite like Dad did.
For the record the guy in this picture isn't telling the Laaaarge Mouthed Frog Joke. He just heard it.
Mildred: How?...What?... You fell out of the tall tower, you creep!
Herbert: I was saved at the last minute.
Mildred: How?!
Prince Herbert: Well, I'll tell you.
[music begins playing, the photographer begins dancing and singing, "He's going to tell, he's going to tell!" Herbert takes a deep breath]
Mildred: Not like that, not like that! No! Stop it! Nooo! Ooooh...
I love it. They're darling.
The dog just bit his ankle (see how his pants leg is ruffled?), but he promised the missus he'd stand still for the foto and daren't shake a leg. But the missus didn't say he couldn't holler. Which is what he's doing.
I love old pictures.....just kinda sad cause they are dead by now. Anyway, he is defintely yawning. And ya, she has some edema there.....yikes.
He is totally singing, it almost like I can hear the marriage of Figaro playing in the background.
As for the little white thing behind them to me it looks like a chicken, It is totally a chicken!! Ooooo! Maybe thats what he is saying, she is like "Fred, behave yourself!" and he is like "Hush you old hen! BA-GAAAAAWK!"
A lot of people have asked about the house in the photo--yes, the house in the photo is the abandoned house the photo was found in. It's no longer white, though...just crumbling, exposed red brick with hints of white here and there. It's overflowing with photos and other personal items, most of which are strewn about the floors. It's very sad that so many memories have been left and forgotten.
Some more info: The house was built in 1850, just down the road from the old location of Central College (an old Christian college that shut down in around 1901...pretty much put out of busineses by Ohio State)...so people's comments that it looks like a college building were pretty close. I believe the house is now owned by the daughter of the couple seen here, but I'm not positive about that.
Here is what the place looks like now:
http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n32/scripto
Is that big beautiful tree gone too, or just out of the shot? It really is a shame that no one fixes it up. I would love a house like this- stale paint and chicken & stars aside...
Caitlin, you're awesome. thanks for checking and providing an updated photo, no less!
thanks for the submitting the picture of the house, caitlin. it's beautiful. i totally want to live there!
oh and by the way, CURIOUSKAT, i realized that i have absolutely no idea what the hell smarties are. is that candy? cereal? a little of both? please advise, so i can be prepared. i don't know, maybe we don't have them in alaska?
caitlyn... i love that you updated us on the details.. thank you so much. If they ever see fit to post a found i've sent in, i promise to do the same.
sarasara - smarties are candy. In Canada, they're chocolate (like M&M's), and apparently, in the states, they're sugary tablet. (like rockets here in canada)
He's bored which is why he looks like he's yawning and she looks like his breath is sickening her. All around great keepsake. :P
Caitlin: Thanks for the updated picture. If you or anyone else is interested (and by no means trying to steal the thunder of Found) check out www.opacity.us for really awesome pictures of urban ruin. We're all friends here.
I ate so many smarties on time, all the sugar made it hurt when I peed.
LOL @ Turbo about too many Smarties! I've never had THAT happen- but I do get that sugar burn in my throat when I eat too many.
That house looks fantastic! It looks like someone has sandblasted it, in preparation for a new coat of paint? What a shame for it to be sitting empty. It's much smaller, in the updated pic, than I would have guessed from the old one.
I meant "one time", not "on time". It's not like it was a race or anything. But you understood.
@Turbo Go ahead and tell yourself whatever you need to about the burning when you pee. Blame it on the Smarties if it makes you feel better. But, seriously, go get that checked out.
mom? dad? is that you??
This photo is so full of contrast; the couple seems dwarfed by the height of the house and the tree, the dark jacket on the woman and light jacket on the man, the light color of her dress and the dark color of his trousers, the skinniness of his tie and the width of her collar, their ridiculous facial expressions (which, if you save it to your computer and then zoom in further than the magnifier above), remind me of the comedy/tragedy masks.
This photo is awesome! Caitlin, you earn high marks for answering our burning questions and providing another view of the house. I’d love to see more photos of these people!
the large mouthed frog joke! i haven't thought of that for years!!!!! i can't remember all of it, but i remember the punch line so ibet i could tell it if i was pressed...
what is the pumpkin pie joke? and teh screen door? was that covered in earlier comments the past week? i'm in a out with my rehearsal schedule. :-(
Thanks Caitlin! The updated picture (and the find itself) is awesome.
Also, Mona, what you said about abandoned photos/houses is very poignant and I agree completely. People are so taken with everything bigger and better that the past is forgotten. I'm glad some of those things can show up here to be appreciated again.
And Turbo, you're so right. I didn't see it before, but he does look like one of The Proclaimers. I'll have that song stuck in my head the rest of the day.
after some digging I "Found" another awesome photo
http://8.6.192.26/roverdocuments/20050427DR092
of the same house
The FOUND is not as interesting as the info surrounding it. Thanks, Caitlin for the extra pics and history.
Turbo~ I LOVE OPACITY!!!! Thanks for the link. Know of any buildings that are Opacity-worthy in Tulsa? Would have loved to venture inside the Camelot......
Caitlin you just rule as a finder.
Caitlin, is that your Photobucket? What a bunch of intriguing, darkly fascinating pics! (I especially love the koolaid man, busting through the wall.)
When I lived and worked in Ohio, my boss called the area "the rust belt" because of all the abandoned buildings, vehicles, manufacturing machines, warehouses, etc. So sad how an area once so booming and bustling seems to have gone bust.
that Opacity site is waaaaay creepy. But also, darkly fascinating.
Those pics remind me of
http://foundmagazine.com/find/769
this uber creepy Find.
verry interesting, I couldn't get your link to work.
that's weird- that link from Very Interesting worked earlier today, but not now. I do think that the same pic is among those in the photobucket album that Caitlin linked to.
http://s108.photobucket.com/albums/n32/scripto
Another view of the house in its delapidated state, complete with skeletal trees and a profound feeling of desolation and hopelessness. Very Interesting's link led to a larger version of the picture, though.
Thanks, Hmm.
Caitlin, are these interior photos of the same abandoned house? What a mess. I may have to go haunt the place....
'it's not like it was a race or anything' made me go into hysterics. and this is a GREAT, GREAT found. geeky guys rule.
The photos in Caitlin's photobucket are really great. Did anyone else sort of feel like they were snooping? Thanks for providing the info and the pics, Caitlin.
Yes, Smarties here in the lower 48 are as Mona described. They're almost like Sweetarts and by that I'm not referring to the fabulous fun drink at Chuck's in Fontana, Wisconsin. (Yes, for me, it's usually about booze somehow.) I don't really think they work as well as a Bloody Mary for curing a hangover.
On a road trip to look at colleges about a million years ago my mother and I ate an entire bag of cinnamon disks. Both of us ended up with little blister like things on our tongues.
Dad's Pumpkin Pie Joke really isn't that funny but he could tell it like no one else. It's one of those that kind of gets you later and makes you groan. It's about a salesman traveling through a rural southern area one fall who needs a bathroom and can't find one. Outside of a little town he finds a pumpkin patch and uses a pumpkin. (At this point my father would demonstrate the man cutting into the pumpkin and the replacing the top when he was finished.) Some time later the salesman is passing through the same area and stops at the local diner. He tells the locals in the diner about his last trip through the area. One of the oldsters gets up and heads to a phone and calls home and says (use your best southern drawl here) 'Vi?' (Long pause.) 'This is Si.' (Another long pause.) 'I was right about that pie.'
It's up to Clover to tell the joke about the man who walked through the screen door.
I'm trying to housebreak a dog. Any tips? I've got two weeks to do it while I'm housesitting.
those are some awesome pictures.
i wish i knew of abandoned houses
near by me. i'd love to lurk....
i do wonder what he's shouting.
and, at first i wondered why she
looked so embarrassed, and then
i saw that god awful cardigan.
i'd be embarrassed to wear that too.
(wtf is up with the spam question?)
(don't you guys know i'm crap at math?!)
curiouskat-- is it your dog, or theirs? cause if it's yours, and you're housebreaking it at their house, SERIOUSLY IRREVOCABLE KUDOS TO YOU! i mean it. if you've given yourself a time limit until you move home to housebreak your dog, you are my new hero.
and thanks for schoolin' me about smarties.
Love 'FOUND' photos!!!
They look like a happy couple, to me.
Thanks, Caitlin!!
OK, could y'all PLEASE stop posting superlong links, or at least break them up somehow, so that it doesn't f*ck up the FIND, which is what this whole site is about??
I can no longer see the photo. Surely if you put a return in there and then told people where the break is, so they can stick it back together, it could still be cut/pasted into the browser.
Stop it! Just stop it!
Anyone else notice the ghostly face in the top room of the turret? I know it's most likely just the clouds reflecting in the window.. but still.. It looks like someone is watching over this odd cankled lady, large mouthed man and their white little bunny-dog.
Spam ? What is 15 divided by 3
Answer was FIVE not 5. Lame!!!
Looking closer at this picture I see the cloud like face in the top half of the window, and an E.T. like face in the bottom part of the window (it looks like the window is open) this is very creepy..
I think it's a chicken.
@sick in tired I can see it just fine. Apparently so can others. Must just be you?
I can't believe that no one has pointed out that this woman has NO ankles - it goes straight from calves to feet.
I do love the dress though
Is that a dog behind the woman?
lauriebee and running in circles: to put this Find's comments in condensed form in response to your queries:
Lauriebee, those are apparently referred to as "cankles." (Yeah. I know. new one on me, too.)
and Running, it's a dog, it's a purse, it's a rock, it's a baby panda bear, it's a little "ice bear" cub (which we can only assume means polar bear), it's a chicken.
You guys should really read the comments, though- it's FUN!
Oh, and Chill in, I can see the Find fine, until I open the comments page. The page formatting got effed up from that long link up there. Can't see the pic right now, and can't hit the left arrow. I can hit the right one, though. Maybe you have a massive monitor?
The superlong links don't mess with the picture for me either. Standard monitor too.
What an awesome awesome find...I am madly in love with that house...
thanks Caitlin
No way, he's totally yawning.. The woman looks pretty tired herself...