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Country Wedding
FOUND by Nan
in Madison, Wisconsin
I found this in my suburban neighborhood. It was one of two photos on a yellowed photo album page. I especially like the lady in the lower right-hand corner; she seems so happy for the couple. This must be from the '30s or '40s (if someone can identify the car, maybe we can pin it down).
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Since the photo is square, it appears to have been taken by a Brownie box camera or a twin lens reflex. I used both those kinds in the 1960s. I wonder if it has been cropped, though, and if the white edges were cut off. Lots of times the date was imprinted on the white edges of photos. However, my best guess is that the wedding took place in the early 1950s. That's because of the way the hairstyles are pin curled and the hats have nets over them. I remember ladies wearing hats like that to chuch when I was little. I think the age of the car might predate the event by a few years. It's interesting that all the non-brides are wearing hats that appear to be black. I suppose they may have been rich shades of maroon or navy though. It's strange that women all wore hats to an event like that. If they were coming out of a catholic or episcopal church, they were supposed to cover their heads.I'm not sure which of the white-vieled women is the bride. Perhaps it was a double wedding.It seems like winter; not much vegetation, and everyone is wearing heavy coats. They do look happy, though, genuinely so. I wonder who the man in the car is.I wonder what the couple went on to do in the last 50 years. How many children did they have? Are they grandparents or great-grandparents now? I wonder where they are. It looks sort of desolate I think. The landscape contrasts with the happy scene.
I like this find. Everyone is so cute and happy and joyful. I really LOVE how all the women are wearing hats. I think hats should be the next big trend..... If only I looked ok in them.
the man driving the car looks like he's about to perform some old school gangster mafia drive by shooting on the wedding party.. and the groom sees it coming
Bring'n hats back.. everyone looks ok in hats!! I love this picture. It's so pretty. the landscape doesn't actually appear desolate to me- just... undeveloped. I imagine that same landscape today is covered with a Costco, a Home Depot, Olive Garden, and Staples. Time marches on while I stand still.
How on earth can the submitter tell that the woman at the lower right is happy? She has her back turned to the camera. Is it body language or something I missed?
Tucker. Loved your comment!
I think that the person driving the car is actually the lesbian lover of the bride. She is passing by trying to get a look at an event that she obviously was banned from.
Not that I would really know. i guess tucker does know everything.
i know nothing!
except that Hot mom should never be allowed to wear white...
man the woman on the far left looks like she has a huge nose
how is it the finds on this site are so wonderful and rare, yet almost every comment is so douchey and vapid? how does that work?
this is beautiful, i love these moments captured in time. I wonder if they're still alive, if their children have seen this photo of them... so many things.
epistolero, i assume you include yourself in the vapidity?
The groom is still oblivious (see him with the big carnation on his lapel?). It's the best man that's discovered their impending doom from the shadowy figure in the car. Maybe he's the one who has something to fear?
This definitely has to be the late 1940's, based on the hats, the car, the hair, and the dress styles. This was right before the waist line moved way up and the skirts poofed out a bit more. Also, the fact that there were supposed multiple brides could mean that it was after the war and fall was a good time to have it (the harvest was significant, not to mention that it was a good time to conceive with the upcoming winter!). So I'm pretty sure it was at the latest 1951.
Not that this dates the photo exactly, but the car in the background is a 1940 Chevy. Nice picture!
It looks like a 1940 Chevy Deluxe, but I may be mistaken. Nice happy picture though!
I don't know if this was still the custom in the '50s, but I think that at one time bridesmaids were supposed to dress like the bride. It was a tradition originally meant to confuse the evil spirits and protect the bride. So that may be why so many women oare wearing white. The woman in white in the center front looks quite a bit older to me. I think she is the mother of the bride, and I think that the bride is standing behind her.
If times were only this simple now. Back then they didn't worry so much about the "whole grand scheme" of things such as the back ground etc. they were just enjoying life and loving one another. So much more of that should be done today. I like this find.
THAT CAR IS MOST ASSUREDLY A 1946 BUICK REGAL. I FIND THIS PHOTO MILDLY DISTURBING BECAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE A SHOTGUN WEDDING.
Tucker, I probably wouldn't have noticed the man in the car if you hadn't said something. You're right!! There are two stories happening in this picture, something happy and something dark and suspicious.... i LOVE it.
This is my favorite type of find -- old photos. I love this one in particular because it reminds me very strongly of home movies of my grandmother's wedding in the late 1940s. It's so beautiful! I always wonder, when I see a great find like this, why someone would allow it to get lost in the first place.
Damn Clover, your old! Had it not said it was found in Wisconsin I would have guessed somewhere in the midwest, because everybody is so homely. I know this is going to piss off the midwesterns, but it's true. I tried bring hats back once, then I found (from experience) it wasn't going to work because of hat hair. Once you put one on, you can't take it off the rest of the day. Welcome back Mona Lisa. Tucker, your to funny LOL!
Hate to disagree, SALT, but i think its a 1939 Buick. And not a regal, that model name doesnt show up till the 70's. :-)
http://www.tocmp.com/pix/Buick/images/part2/39
Woops, correction. Tucker you're too funny! Midwesterns are still ugly.
I like this find. Everyone whose face we can see is smiling. I'd wager even the mystery man in the car is cheesin' a little.
2 bridesmaids, one bride, people...The bridesmaids are wearing big "picture" hats with tulle streamers down the back. Their dresses may very well have been pastel pink or yellow, which would show up as "white" on a BW photo. Notice that the bride is wearing a "coronet of roses" type headdress, very common in the mid to late 40's, with a very long, billowy veil that has come over her shoulder almost like a cape--but there must be some breeze blowing.
Given the bride's coronet and the guests' hats, I would definitely say this was a 1940's Catholic wedding party. It reminds me very much of some photos in my (Catholic) MIL's photo album, of weddings and first communions back in those days; they dressed the girls like little brides, billowy veils and all.
I don't see much facial expression either--but you do get the impression of the bridesmaids trying to smile into very bright sun
Is it just me, or does this look like a double wedding. It looks like two women in bridal attire and two men in groom attire.
I love this - happy, simple times. Love that auto too!
Yes, the majority of the comments--almost exclusively from the "regulars"--are just plain dull.
This comment section has become a mini-lovefest for these children. Are you sure you're not a group of high school students, with your weak, cute little comments to each other?
It is really funny that Mona Lisa feels the need to try to put epistolero down. How ironic, coming from, her, the most vapid of all posters.
What a joyous picture to start the day! I love old photos. This looks like the late 30's or early 40's to me, judging from the hats.
Women should wear more hats...and oh how I wish men would wear them again.
I love a good hat. I'm glad they are still somewhat en vogue for women in some parts of the world.
This looks like a festive and happy day.
What a photo of hope, joy and love.
Fabulous find!
There's nothing in this picture a little penicillin can't clear up. My guess is everyone in this picture is dead.
Mona Lisa, did you want to make any other overgeneralized statements about specific geographic areas?
Did you perhaps want to overgeneralize about race, religion or nationality, while you're at it? I'm sure you have some prejudiced comments just waiting to come out.
Since when do phychologists point out where the largest number of good-looking people live? Did you mean cultural anthropologists, perhaps, though even they would most likely refrain from such stupid comments?
Regarding all the good-looking women in Texas and California that you've scientifically pointed out, could that be the result of all the beautiful young Mexican-American women? Or were you referring only to whites?
I'm from canada, and i have formed no opinion on attractiveness of people in various places.
I was not putting down epistolero, merely asking if his/her comments were to be included in the vapid comments category.
I personally don't care what anyone thinks of my comments. I just say what I think. Couldn't care less about what anyone thinks of my interactions with the Found regulars. (how do you know if we're 'regulars', unless you frequent the site as well. If you dont like it, dont read them)
Why do people feel the need to put other people down? in my experience, its usually because of some inadequacy that they feel within themselves. Again, not putting anyone down, just an observation.
San Diego, i did not make those comments. those were made by an impostor. I don't judge people by what they look like. People who know me, know that.
Blanche, you forgot to finish your sentence. Your old -- what? Your old car? Your old house? Because if you meant to tell me that I am old, you surely would have written "you're" which is the contraction for "you are." Still, I like that your name is French, that's classy. Anyway, I'm happy to have lots of years of life and experience with which to make connections with the cool at Found.. anyone who thinks it's a problem, well that's their loss. I'm not old enough to know what kind of car that is, though.
The background looks as flat as West Texas or eastern NM. hmm, interesting that Mona Lisa equates vanity with attractiveness. The scene is beautiful, but not glamorous.
cool *stuff* at Found
that was an observation I've made. Not putting anyone down, 'in the gym'.
Clover, I thought we agreed we wouldn't be grammer police. Christ,it's morning. However, you are old, but I enjoyed your comment, spot on. In fact I always enjoy your comments. You're always polite and never pretentious. Bring em on. Shame on Mona Lisa. Even though I made the orginal rude comment on the appearance of the people of the midwest. Shame on me, too.
By your comment, then, we can deduce that SALT has some inadequacy that he feels within himself.
Are you now trying to back away from your comment because it clearly includes your friend, SALT?
I love the idea that the bride has a lesbian lover and that she's driven to the church to lurk outside in the shadows of this photograph in the car everyone is trying to identify. That's just brilliant. Kudos to Hot Mom for pinpointing the narrative in the photo. Great Find!
Blanche, that wasnt me.
SALT probably does have an inadequacy, i agree. He puts everyone down. He's consistent, tho.
I have inadequacies, too. I can be petty and vindicitive, when i feel like it. M
ost of the time, tho, i don't feel the need to put others down. I make observations, for sure. But i dont purposely try to make people feel bad or uncomfortable. Maybe that's why you feel like you need to make me a target. I dont know.
Have a nice day.
Mona Lisa, sure it wasn't.
...just making an observation. That's all.
THAT IS NOT ME. I WILL NOT COMMENT ON THIS PHOTO
I don't know about the car (except I wish I could own an old sweet baby like that), but the clothing in the picture tells me late 1940's. Bridesmaids frequently wore dresses similar to the bride's, but in pastel colors (which would, as some mentioned, look white in the photo). The bridesmaid on the left of the bride has similar facial features; I wonder if that's her sister?
I always wish I could find the names of the people in photographs like this so I could share it with their children. I hope their marraige was/is a happy one.
Shut up, all of you "regulars". I used to enjoy coming to this site and reading everyone's observations and now it's become a masturbatory jungle of narcissism.
That was the best comment of the past month. I love it!
I agree with Blanche. These look like ugly midwesterners, not hot Wisconsinites. I bet these people were forced out of Wisconsin shortly after this wedding and herded toward the Midwest to be with "their own kind."
These imposters are terrible. Now Mona and Salt have an instant "out" whenever they mistype, slander others, or are just being mean.
It's not me, really.
Suuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee it's not.
doesnt that make you a regular, "you are driving me"?
USE YOUR HEAD, FOOL. EVERYONE HERE HAS HAD THEIR ALIAS STOLEN. I NEVER MAKE MISTAKES BECAUSE I AM A GOD. ASK THE FOUND GUYS. THEY'LL PROBABLY END UP DELETING THE IMPERSONATOR'S COMMENTS LATER TODAY
The Found comment section today reported that SALT in THE SEA was branded "inadequate" by at least one member of the contributing public. The ramifications of this scandal are still unclear, but there appears to be a storm brewing in a Lubbock, Texas bodybuilding gym.
When pressed for comments, the self-styled sodium bandit denied any inadequacies, and in his blustering, self-assured style would say only "That wasn't me."
Found comment-poster, Mona Lisa, when pressed for the reason for her "observation" would, in a similar manner, say only "That wasn't me."
Stay tuned for more on this late-breaking story.
Regular reader but first time commenter. I just wish people wouldn't abuse the great comment feature that Found has and would find their own chat room somewhere else, that's all. Didn't mean to be so snarky.
Exactly! That comment about the Buick was definitely SALT, but then he was embarrassed that he was clearly wrong and got moded and faced, so now he can blame his ignance on the imposter. How queenvenient!
So...do you think the photographer was 8ft tall or standing on a ladder?
LOOK, IF YOU PUT A COMMENT BOARD ON A PLACE LIKE THIS, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COMMENT REGULARLY. IN TURN, THE 'REGULARS' ARE GOING TO LEARN MORE ABOUT EACHOTHER AND A COMMUNITY STARTS TO BUILD. WE ARE GOING TO INTERACT. YOU CANNOT STOP IT. STOP BITCHING.
LET ME CLARIFY:
I DON'T KNOW SHIT ABOUT CARS. PROBABLY AS MUCH AS A FEMALE DOES, IN FACT. EVEN IF IT WAS ME, SO WHAT? I WOULDN'T CARE.
That wasn't me.
I think there are multiple brides, as White Rabbit said because the "bridesmaid" dresses do not match - each is unique.
Members of this community want to know.
Just because we don't kiss your ass doesn't mean we're not part of the community, too.
people commenting, in a comments section? why is this happening? what is the world coming to? omg... please.someone call the internet police, people are forming communities, getting to know each other!!! stop the madness, stop it, i say......
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
PLENTY OF PEOPLE DON'T KISS MY ASS THAT INTERACT WITH ME. WE DON'T ALWAYS COMMENT ON THE FIND. A SUCCESSION OF COMMENTS HAPPEN, PEOPLE ADDRESS ONE ANOTHER AND COMMUNITCATE AND IT PISSES YOU GUYS OFF.
YOU HAVE FREE REIGN TO ASSUME WHAT WILL ABOUT ME. I'M BASICALLY UNTOUCHABLE BECAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY TRUE IDENTITY. SO GO AHEAD, PLAY PSYCHIC.
I SAY WHAT I SAY FOR MY OWN AMUSEMENT. GET OVER IT AND COMMETN ON THE FIND. YOU WANT TO SEE THAT SO BADLY IN THE COMMENT SECTION OF FOUND, DO IT.
What's your point?
YOU GAVE UP EASY.. I WIN
Looks to me like you were the one who got riled up while trying to defend yourself againt anonymous postings.
Who, exactly, were you defending yourself against?
Get a life, fool.
HEY, NEXT, WHY DON'T YOU ATTACK THE CAPATIAL LETTERS WHILE YOU'RE SCRAPING THE BOTTOM OF THE BARRELL.
ATTACKING THE AMOUNT OF TIME I SPEND ON LINE IS PROBABLY THE EASIEST THING TO FALL BACK ON
i've always enjoyed seeing the find of the day and reading its comments. now it is a waste of five precious minutes of my time each morning. although i'm not sure why there are so many folks who choose this forum in which to talk about themselves, it's become boring and predictable and juvenile. i'll take my FOUND magazine any day.
im surprised theres no corn or cows runing around in this picture, seeing as it was found in wisconson
i belive the wedding party met up with a funeral party and started to mingle.
Hmm. Do you see the woman in the bottom left corner with the black hat? What are those things above her right shoulder?
watch Le Samourai. *that's* how to wear a hat.
mona lisa you state that most of the time you don't feel the need to put others down. i remember two weeks ago i commented on something SALT said and
you told me i'm not well read. it's nice that you grew up.
Jade/Tiny, I definitely think it's a double/triple wedding, or two daughters and mom. My mother and aunt got married on the same day and my grandfather bragged to all his buddies that this is how to do it - give 'em away two at a time.
I owned a '39 Buick and the headlight was fully perched on top of the fender. This vehicle must be early forties because the headlight has begun the inexorable progression down into the fender.
I'm leaving and I'm never coming back.
HOTMOM DOESN'T PUT A SPACE IN HER ALIAS
whatever..............
PI salt is right.
my dear imposter, would you please pick one alias to argue with SALT? That way I could just skip your postings. Thank you.
Thank you SALT, I appreciate it. I wish these people would stop doing this. It ruined my day yesterday.
After further inspection, I think the man in the car is Alfred Hitchcock making his cameo in "The Man Who Didn't Know How to Get Out of the Fucking Wedding".
Hotmom's comment was so touching that it brought an ever-so-small tear to my eye.
Sniffle.
psychiatric patients really shouldn't have access to the internet. someone it taking things way too seriously on here.
I'm not taking things any different than they are meant and I thing that the imposters are being very hateful.
That one about the hair WAS NOT ME!!!!
This is driving me crazy! These people are not me! Please stop!
HAHA
impersonations are only funny and/or effective if they're witty.
HOTMOM IS MAD AND RIGHTFULLY SO. SHE HAS PUT MUCH TIME AND EFFORT INTO BUILDING UP HER INTERNET PERSONA. YOU SHOULD ALL BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELVES FOR UPSETTING HOTMOM IN YOUR DREAMS. SHE'S AN EMOTIONAL WRECK. LOOK AT HER
The one in the back is the bride. The one in the front is the mother. The one on the side is the maid of honor.
Yes, thank you again SALT. This IS a BIG DEAL. I refuse to give up my name just because a moron is getting her or his rocks off by focusing on me.
I thought that this was a triple wedding?
On closer inspection, the one in the front can be the bride and the others bride's maids, because they have on the same head wear.
I love this find.
Hats did cause a lot of 'hat-hair' but a true lady never took off her hat and gloves until she was home and could freshen up.
btw - people in CA and TX tend to look better probably because plastic surgery is more of an drive-through (read - "Every day") happening there.
Nice find.
I kind of dig the car.
Looks like a happy day, both in the picture and 'here' too. *include a tone of sarcasm here*
I love this picture. B&W photos are definatly the prettiest of all photographs.
Free For All comments should be removed from this site. The majority of them have nothing to do with the find. Just slandering other people's comments.
Grow up you sound like a group of 13 year old girls.
Ignore? IGNORE? I think not, dearest Mona.
apparently, im not cool enough to get an imposter...
NEED I REMIND YOU THAT TEXAS HAS THREE OF THE TOP TEN FATTEST CITIES IN THE NATION? IT'S DISGUSTING, REALLY
YEAH, MONA, DON'T TURN INTO ONE OF them. WHINING, 'JUST IGNROE, THEY'LL GO AWAY!'
IMPOSTOR, WANT TO HEAR MY CONDESCENDING TERMS OF ENDEARMENT RANT AGAIN?
HOTMOM I HAVE TO SAY, YOU ASKED FOR IT. WHO PROVIDES A PICTURE OF FOR STRANGERS TO VIEW AND PUT TOGETHER THE LAME AND VAIN COMMENTS TO A FACE? NOTICE ON MY MYSPACE THERE ARE NONE. GO FIGURE.
i take that back...
SALT, I thought that you were a guinuine friend. I am proud of my looks. How many 51 year olds do you know that shop at Holister?
HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO STRESS THIS:
PROOF READ YOUR SHIT
You know hotmom, you look like you could be 49.
Come on guys! Grow up! How old are you anyway?
HAHHAHAHAHAHAASDF
I HOPE TO HELL THAT THAT WAS THE IMPOSTOR
WHAT HAS GOTTEN INTO SALT? Oh thanks Tucker. I try. I tan 6 times a week and work out with my 18 year old daughters friends.
There are at least 28 imposters on this site.
1 TH1NK 1M G0NN4 H4V3 2 S74R7 7YP1NG L1K3 7H15...
THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN BACK WHEN EVERYTHING WAS BLACK AND WHITE. THEN AN AMAZING THING HAPPENED WHEN TED TURNER FOUND A SCIENTIFIC FORMULA TO TURN THE WHOLE WORLD TO COLOR. AFTER TED TURNER PERFORMED THIS HEROIC DEED TO ALL MANKIND, SOME PEOPLE WISHED THE WORLD WAS STILL BLACK AND WHITE SO THEY INVENTED BLACK AND WHITE FILM TO RECREATE THE WAY THINGS LOOKED IN THE OLD DAYS. THAT IS WHY TODAY SOMETIMES YOU STILL SEE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS.
No, the picture was taken when Ted Turner was too you and was not a weathy photographer yet.
blah, blah, blah.... you're conversations are funny to read
I don't think this is a wedding. Notice all the young ladies are wearing white which would indicate it's a "Coming Out" party.
It is a 1940 2 door chevy special deluxe,
compare image here
http://www.americandreamcars.com/1940chevy2dr0
I don't even know where whoever said it is a 46 buick is getting their info... it looks nothing like a buick
http://www.tocmp.com/pix/Buick/images/1946Buic
OKAY THERE MAY NOT BE A PICTURE ON MYSPACE, BUT IF ALL OF YOU WOULD LIKE TO PUT COMMENTS WITH FACE GO TO THESMOKINGGUN.COM/MUGSHOTS/TRIBETTMUG1.HTML FOR THE LATEST AND GREATEST PICTURE OF SALT!
Turbo, I loved your take on this find. Thanks for makin me laugh.
Tucker: 7H4NKS!!1
I got here a little late today , and see that the free for all has already begun . Creative insults today , everybody ! Associated Press release ,crunchy hair and vapidity . Sickem !
Someone said my hair was broken.
i like wedding candids so much.. this one is beautiful, what a cool thing to find!
Oh, there's a face down there. I see it now. Ignore my first comment. I thought it was part of that other woman's blouse or something.
You people are so droll.
What a great picture, it is sad that someone lost it. I'm happy to be in the "always a bridemaid, never the bride" role, I freak out when I get engaged and tend to turn into a runaway bride (without the kidnapped and dragged away story, though). I wonder if these people stayed married for their whole lives. If not, maybe that's why the picture and the album page were discarded.
Thank you for the compliment, Blanche. But I could never agree not to be grammar police. It's part of my nature. I enjoy everyone else's grammar policing even more than my own.
I looked at the photo on another computer screen with better resolution, and I believe that this is definitely a double wedding. You can clearly see two grooms and two brides.
This leads me to the conclusion that it was probably during the WWII, during the mid-1940s. (Way before I was born, Blanche.) It was common at that time for people to hastily marry before the husband left for the war. My mother was one of these. I hope these husbands survived and also that they came back all in one piece (unlike my mom's first husband, who returned missing a leg.)
Oh Pixi I remember that dead deer find. ICK! I almost took Found off my home page after that one. But now I'm glad I didn't.
I gather the following from reading these posts:
Chrome toaster is benign, and possibly a retro fanatic.
The SALT in THE SEA douchebag is far less intelligent than he fancies himself to be. Urgh.
Hotmom is insane, and quite possibly a habitual drug abuser.
Mona Lisa hates all races, but whites. She is also a whiner and a fair-weather friend.
Clover is a good person.
Tucker is a good person (and hilarious).
All the capital letters make my eyes die a little inside.
L: I think the poster is referring to the lady with blonde hair pinned up and turned to the side smiling in the corner.
This is very pretty, what was the other picture you found?
Clover made me wanna look closer . Then I realized , is it just me or is the magnifier thing gone ? I think you're way right about salt and toaster , and Mona may very well be a fair weather friend . I kinda feel sorry for whoever originally signed on as hotmom because now she realizes nobody's impressed with her self - proclaimed hotness .Clover may be good but I think a little sheltered .I'm just sayin' .
i am not a fairweather friend. far from it. I am so tired of people judging other people.
THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN BACK WHEN EVERYTHING WAS BLACK AND WHITE. THEN AN AMAZING THING HAPPENED WHEN TED TURNER FOUND A SCIENTIFIC FORMULA TO TURN THE WHOLE WORLD TO COLOR. AFTER TED TURNER PERFORMED THIS HEROIC DEED TO ALL MANKIND, SOME PEOPLE WISHED THE WORLD WAS STILL BLACK AND WHITE SO THEY INVENTED BLACK AND WHITE FILM TO RECREATE THE WAY THINGS LOOKED IN THE OLD DAYS. THAT IS WHY TODAY SOMETIMES YOU STILL SEE BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS.
It's true, I am good and also sheltered. I also love black and white photos. Wow, I have never felt so understood... :)
Mona, please get a MySpace. Ignore what your kids say. It's fun.
Is anyone else reminded of the wedding Brad and Janet attended at the beginning of The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
I know it's a wedding, but the first thing I thought of was that it reminded me of "It's a Wonderful Life", where they are welcoming the Italian family into their new home. But only for a split second.
Very nice find.
I think it's a double wedding and the two grooms are brothers (possibly twins). There's gonna be one hell of a tight squeeze in the back seat of that car! It has a kind of pre-war feel to me (1930s), though if the car is 1940 I must be wrong. (Clover, I do remember my granny wearing those nasty black hats in the 1950s.) I think the high viewpoint is because the photographer is standing on the steps of the church. Nice that it's 'candid' and not a posed wedding picture though. Wouldn’t it be great if someone on here recognised these people? Some of them must surely be still around, and they would remember this happy day. Shame we can’t see enough of the buildings in the distance to work out where it might be.
Aha! Just spotted something else.
kitty in the window said:
“Hmm. Do you see the woman in the bottom left corner with the black hat? What are those things above her right shoulder?”
Just worked it out – they’re bits of the rear fender of another car – maybe the big showy one the couples are actually going to drive off in. You can make out the curve of its boot, sorry trunk, behind the bridesmaid’s head.
I absolutely love the composition of this photograph. There’s just so much going on, so many smiling people, one can totally feel the mood that this photo captures. Let the good times roll!
Oh, and on the Midwesterners are homely, I’m in Michigan and there’s a never ending supply of hot mammas around here… maybe I’m just desperate…
Judging by the 1938 or 1940 Plymouth (i think) and the definite early 1940's hair styles, I would this wedding happened before the end of the War. My guess, 1941. Right before Peral Harbor. The bow tie on the groom, the hats, the hair styles, even the cut of the bridesmaid dresses, very early forties. The puffs on the dress prove this. After the War started puffs would have been non-existant, and after the war, they didn't come back into style until the mid 50's. And then the hats, hair styles and everything else woulf be much different. I say, 1940, 41 at the latest early months of 1942 before rations can into effect. I'll also bet $50 i'm right.
The car is no later than 38 or 39. By 1940 the raised headlights on top of the fenders were gone, moved entirely inside the fender, pointing forward. The hood ornament looks like the Indian Head of a Pontiac, but it might be a Plymouth. I'm still looking into this, and may find a pic of an identical car before I lose interest.
It's a 1937 Pontiac. I found a pic online.
this one?
http://www.auto-ad.com/37%20pontiac.jpg
Thanks, looks a pretty good match (apart from the lowered suspension and 'orrible paint job -- why do people do that??) though I'm not 100% convinced by the curve of the trunk??
I wonder what the colour of the one in the photo was. I sort of assumed all cars were black in those days, or maybe that was a 40/50s postwar austerity thing.
The restored car with the garish paint job has much smaller wheels; this makes the suspension look lower.
The trunk is different, for sure; but I wonder if that's a result of work being done.
Some 'expert' I contacted sent me a nasty email accusing me of wasting his time when the correct answer was already here...
I'm fascinated by the question because my great grandfather was a chauffeur in the 20's and 30's.
Still, on second look the shape of the rear window, headlight and trunk make me wonder if it's NOT a 37 Pontiac after all.
It's not a 37 Pontiac.
It is a 1940 2 door chevy special deluxe;
here's a picture:
http://www.americandreamcars.com/1940chevy2dr0
Notice the directional signal mounted next to the raised headlight on the fender.
Thanks again! You could be right. And the little sidelight next to the headlight is there too, and the vents along the side of the hood. Strange colour scheme though – ice cream and chocolate! Would that be original? Maybe the one in the photo was the brown colour of the wings on this one.
So we’re back to the wedding being 40s or 50s after all.
One of my first cars (a 1955 Riley RME – black, of course) had those flip-up indicators (‘trafficators’). Oh, the days when cars had character! Scary to drive though (and it broke down a lot).
I haven't read every comment, so I may be repeating what someone else has already said. It appears to me the bride and groom are the two standing in the center and the folks are all coming out to say congratulations and such. The other girls who all appear to be dressed in a light color (white we don't know for sure.. could be light pink, blue or yellow) and hats are obviously the bridesmaids. Look closer at the bride she's not wearing a hat...those are flowers. And the man in the car has more than likely pulled the car around so that his wife (whom may be one of these older ladies in the foreground) wouldn't have to walk so far to get in the car because they're leaving.
Deanna: hell yes. 'now she's mrs Ralph Hapschatt...'
Wow- thanks a MILLION for the car sleuthing by Jonathan and Flip Flapper! "oh the days when cars had character!" Yes indeedy. I LOVE classic cars. (Ovcoarse I do! I'm a retro fanatic.)