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December 04, 2008 |
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Small Town Beauty
FOUND by Peter Moyes
in Sacramento, California
This is one of a number of negatives I found in the gutter.
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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...
Sunbathing! I'm jealous.
@not just another mouth - don't be jealous, she probably died of melanoma 15 years later.
@man: I'm only jealous because it's warm enough in the picture to sunbathe. I can't sunbathe, because I burn without spf 1000 sunscreen on.
A beauty...? Well, sure. But what happened to her other arm?
Do you think it was "found" somewhere else but some other person?
Someone just got drunk and fell down the stairs...
@not
I don't bother with the spf 1000. I go right for the plaster of Paris.
@Kermit
Yes. She's carefully posed to make us not notice the missing arm. And that right foot. I bet its lying in the weeds off camera. Stupid foot.
The stairs in the background gave it away. this is the same location as find #3684, but at a different camera angle.
See for yourself:
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/3684
Hubba Hubba. (I'm not picky about missing arms, or feet in the weeds for that matter)
@ Dr Jones: Is she the executioner or the convict? This could have been her last photo before walking up those 13 steps, while holding onto the hand rail for safety of course.
I love the simplicity of this photograph - it looks like a newly developed suburb (in California?) no iPods, TVs or cars in sight, and she's pretending to be a model, just for fun. The naive delight in this photo is something precious!
Geek NOT in my mom's basement
Flargy in New Haven
"Is she the executioner or the convict? This could have been her last photo before walking up those 13 steps, while holding onto the hand rail for safety of course."
"Someone just got drunk and fell down the stairs..."
Truth is, she was both drunk and the executioner. See, she was out all night partying with Clyde Barrow
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/6544
Not fully aware of her inebriated state, her arm and foot became entangled in the rope just as she pulled the lever, hanging a 400 lb priest. The really sad thing is, the priest was so heavy, he broke the rope and lives to this day, continuing to molest two alter boys whose picture was taken just about the same period of time -
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/6505
@ Bob: The funny thing is, after I looked at the photo of Clyde Barrow, I knew exactly who the altar boys were going to be. Thanks for the explanation- it all makes sense now.
This was taken only seconds before the nuclear test. Don't you recognize the building?
p.s. the stupid math problem I had to solve to post this lame comment is 28 times 15 is what?
way too hard this early in the morning. I had to use a calculator.
She's one of the first American Apparel models. Note the very risque midriff. Guys across the country were imagining that they could almost, sort of see her belly button, maybe.
On the other hand, given the apparent age of the image, the big fence in the background, and the wooden construction elements ... I'm wondering whether this isn't a still from an old Leni Riefenstahl film.
Poor skinny thing, she fainted because she's hungry.
Is Peter Moyes the next Robert Keim? I hope to see the rest of the prints from those gutter negatives!
@ Dr Jones - if you took the time to actually look at the two pictures, you would notice that the stairs in #3684 and the stairs in this picture are different. The stairs in this picture have two railings / supports / whatever you call them, whereas the stairs in #3684. Believe it or not, stairs exist in more than one place, and generally look alike.
I think Dr. Jones was being silly.
Is that her belly button on her cheek?
I like that dress thing she's wearing. it's cute in a vintage sort of way.
I like it when she has on those blue stockings with the white stripe - looking back at me with those nice child baring hips... the only problem is when she drinks Tequila she turns into the SHE-HULK and gets so holding on the grass to keep from falling off the earth drunk - she wakes up in the front yard in her bathing suit...
I’m the first to laugh and I find it really funny when we turn a FIND into a big joke. Sorry -- I fail to see any humor here. The picture is lovely, and she is quite beautiful.
This reminds me of the amateur "pin-up" pictures that were sent to men in the military by their wives and girlfriends during WWII or the Korean War.
I can imagine her nervously going to into town and buying her new midriff baring bathing suit -- quite risqué for the 40's or early 50's. Then she spent hours putting brush rollers and pin curls in her hair, to give it just the right bounce. The whole morning was devoted to doing her make-up, accentuating her lovely beauty mark. Around noon, her friend Betty Lou shows up with her camera, and snapped a few poses. She was quite embarrassed by the leering looks she got from the old guy behind the counter in the camera shop when she picked up the developed film, but it didn't matter she was doing this for her one and only.
It’s even possible, the original print of this picture was what gave her solider boy the will to get through the dark days of war. Knowing that he had this lovely creature waiting for him back here at home, gave him the will to carry on.
It was a sweeter and simpler time back then. Beauty wasn’t plastic, and love wasn’t disposable.
@ Julie in California: Ah, but I have prove that these are the same stairs. If you look closely under the microscope, It's the same wood structure and the C-13 carbon analysis turned out positive, too! I can't be wrong! :)
Julie... google this.. Sarcastic humour.
@cotton.....I like your interpretation..I can see this photo jammed into the edge of an altimeter on a B-17 instrument panel...
@Cotton... the first thing I thought when I saw this was that those buildings look like they are on a military installation...
(damn math - it's too early in the morning for that for me after getting puked on by a sick kid last night, even though my spam question was only "what's 4x7")
Pretty sure this is WWII military housing/barracks.
@cotton.-
I loved your story. I can picture it in my mind...owww the love letter attached to the photo with hearts on every "i".
anyways she's sooo pretty!!! I bet now (if not dead) she's like my mom, she always start with something like: 'when I was your age.......every boy would look at me'
p.s. I HATEEEEEEEE spam protection
i look at this and all i see is a corrupt, middle class, ellitist.
Thanks, Cotton. That's spot on, I feel. Except I'd guess it's the boyfriend taking the picture, hence her loving though slightly nervous smile.
This is exactly like a few photos I've seen of my grandma. She used to send them to my grandpa when he was away during WWII. She was always sitting on the front lawn much like this (wearing more clothes though), and she'd write little messages on the front (?) of the photo. Seeing this (and wondering whom this woman was taking this for) makes me happy :)
Ha! Just read Cotton's comment. 'Spose I should do that before I pipe up. Anyway, I do believe you're correct, Cotton.
Not sure if I'm just the first to notice, or if it means I'm wrong- but the caption says it's one of a number of negatives. But... it's not a negative... ?
I don't mean to be at all argumentative, I promise, I just want to say that beauty still isn't plastic.
Hey Terrie-is So: thanks for pointing out in nice and fun way what Dr J was doing rather than being superior and bitchy. That's why I like you.
I think this photo and it's subject are beautiful.
And I've been thinking most of the day that this woman looks an awful lot like a movie star, but I can't remember what her name would be.
Also, despite the Finder's caption, it doesn't look negative to me. Looks all sunny and happy.
Why does everyone keep mentioning her midriff? It has wavy wrinkles like fabric. Not to mention, there's no rib bones or belly button. It's a belt, no?
Debra Messing
S T E P F O R D W I F E
(skinny bitch)
We should get our mind out of the gutter
I would not choose to sit there of all places. It looks kind of uncomfortable. The grass seems itchy. But she is happy, so I suppose I am ignorant.
i don't understand how this could have possibly become a controversial found.
she looks happy and skinny and that's that.
and according to hiplainsdrifter she fell out of the sky.
Ah, remember when everyone was slim? Me neither.
(I don't think that's a mole on her face since there is one on her arm, one on her leg, and three floating around her head.)
justmakingapoint: thank you :)
librarian: I kept thinking the same thing, I was thinking maybe Debra Winger or Zoe Deschanel
or Debra Messing like imthinking said
@Geek
You may wish to reconsider your policy re missing arms and feet in the weeds. See, like, this is how yer conversation would go:
Geek NOT: "Hi! How are you?"
Mabel: [stands up] "Good! And you?"
Geek NOT: "Hey where's your foot?"
Mabel: "Over there in the weeds."
Then what? See? Nothing left to talk about. Conversation done.
@ I believe in love: actual photos can still be printed from negatives, I'm pretty sure.. On the other (more technologically advanced) hand, there are now scanners that can scan negatives or slides.
1950. Looks like Norma Jean before she bleached her hair and changed her name to Marilyn. I wrote this comment early this morning before work, and thought I posted it. But I don't see it now. Anyway, I think Norma Jean was much prettier than Marilyn.
@ Gloria: interesting point. I guess there'd be a lot of awkward silence while I went to the weeds to fetch her foot. With a missing foot, would she be named Eileen?
I think this lady would look great painted on the nose of an airplane.
Looks like army barracks in the background. Maybe she's visiting her soldier boyfriend, just before he heads off to Korea or Germany. Or maybe they just got married and she's living in the married couples housing with him, and they will soon have 'army brat' children who will have move and make new friends every few years, living in Germany and England and lots of other places.
Geek! Eileen! Haha! That's my daughter's middle name. And that's what my husband always thinks when he hears that name!
@Geek
Awkward silence, yes. We probably can't say that Eileen's foot is missing, exactly, because we know where it is. It's over there in the weeds. That arm, however, could be anywhere.
Speaking of foot, there is something seriously wrong with this lady's left one.
Terrie, I noticed that, too! I think it's either a leafy plant covering up her foot, or she has some SERIOUS corns.....
i look like her but i have longer hair.. so did my mom
she's like: I'll Give you Head 4 FREE and I'm like: ok skinny girl, you bitch