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August 31, 2009 |
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Park Slope Ladies
FOUND by Linn Edwards
in Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY
Found this negative on 7th Street between 4th and 5th Avenues on trash day on a street where many old timers live. Must have been a two-for-one sale on hats and shoes that day the picture was taken! The negative was unusually large, 7mm x 11mm. They sure had cool cameras back in the day.
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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...
Back in the days when a lady was known by her gloves, hat and shoes. These look like the famous "summer straw"--which, depending on the brim, made you look like a clam, or like Little Debby.
My grandma always said: an American woman puts her gloves on in the street, an Englishwoman puts hers on at the door, and a Frenchwoman puts hers on inside the house. She never left the house until her gloves were on and buttoned. She wasn't French--she just wanted to be.
Two-for-one sale of black or white toilet lids?
There's no crying in baseball.
I love the fact that this is actually taken on a NY rooftop, not the street outside. It's like they were so proud of their outfits, they wanted to preserve them with a photo - but they didn't want to seem too vain, so that had to move away from prying eyes before they were photographed. They look like good friends just before going out on a long-anticipated outing!
I swear at first glace I thought the scratch was a fishing pole, and I though "Oh my, they're overdressed for fishing.
Definitely some classy dames, showing just the right amount of leg. I want one!
I'm hoping the dark gloves and hat match the dark dress.
Or maybe they were heading off to a "black and white party" to celebrate the opening night of 'West Side Story'.
Whatever the occasion, you can see it's a big deal to them. The air of supressed excitement! They are about ready to squeal and giggle!
I thought at first the scratch was a switch of some kind, like the kind teachers used to keep behind the door of the classroom. And some actually used it. You can't do that now under threat of legal action, so the students beat up their teachers, and get away with it because they're minors.
This looks like my mother and her cousin.
One other thing ... I know everything is HUGE in New York (even out in Park Slope, Brooklyn), but isn't a photo negative that measures 7 millimeters by 11 millimeters actually on the SMALL side?
Two sassy dames all dolled up and standing on a slice of uncooked bacon.
they are not standing on anything! they are levitating!
what year was it?
It's gotta be the 1940s, because of the padded shoulders, and the shorter skirt length, I think was popular during WWII (which I heard about from my mom.) These girls may have been going out to greet their soldier boyfriends or husbands. I think the darker gloves are actually red, as is the purse she's carrying, and her shoes. They look like sisters.
I really wish someone would give us a "hey that's me!" They're probably in their mid-80s now.
The feet in those shoes remind me of Minnie Mouse.
Gangsta biches
The door to the rooftop looks like it shut behind them. I hope those 2 aren't still stuck up there after all this time. A pile of vintage clothes with skeletons... picked clean by pigeons. They probably yelled for days, but finally went hoarse and collapsed from exhaustion and lack of water...
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Uh, isn't 7mm x 11mm like, really small?
Once upon a time, in the comments on another Find, someone said they wished they looked good in hats, to which I replied, "Everyone looks good in hats!"
I take it back.
I wish we still wore hats all the time. Perhaps not those hats....but hats none the less. A much classier time period. timeless.
There was even a lineup for the ladies' can back in the day...life ain't fair dang nab it...
In their later years, both of these lovely ladies had hammer toes.
I can't believe it, I've been impostered again! Rest assured, fellow FoundHounds, that the herb garden is not in Leeds. However, most veterans know this. It does make my day since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, according to Oscar Wilde....and when was old Oscar ever wrong?
I just looked at the pic again and realised these are "peep-toe" shoes. If the bows were on the back they would also be what Lana Turner referred to in her autobiography as "FM shoes," the kind she wore to casting interviews.
Are they wearing white tights, or are their legs just that pale?
My first camera used 120 film which had negatives around 11 x 7 mm -- 8 pictures to a roll. So you were very careful what pictures you took, and then had to wait a week or so until they came back from the chemist's.
How different from our own dear digital age, when I have just shot off around 700 pix during my holiday and could happily have managed lots more at no extra cost.
Love the ladies, by the way. Definitely 1940s. White stockings I should say, Basil?
At least this answers my question of where have all the interesting Finds gone?? Hooray.
This picture is wonderful.
My mom used to tell me about how, growing up in Minneapolis, they used to dress just to go downtown.
Wouldn't that be nice?