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    Photobucket

    My question is, would anyone kiss any of these women in the first place?
    • CommentAuthorWelland
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2009
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    So no kissing? I guess a quick handjob is out of the question then?
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      CommentAuthormister86
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2009
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    @Brennoculars I swear that half of those women seem to be making faces deliberately.
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      CommentAuthorJess
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2009
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    bjacques -- True, so let me amend my statement to being jealous of your particular find. :) Though it has been a while since I've seen glass negatives at the flea market.
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    2 of them are men. possibly 3.
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    BEST THREAD EVER.

    Once, at a second-hand bookstore I found several pictures that could be dated arounds the 50's all of the same young woman. I don't have them anymore, I mailed them all to a friend of mine, along with a letter where I pretended to be that woman, writting to her fiance who is away at the sea :P
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    On a very tiny sidenote, somewhat inspired by The Wandering Dogs last comment. Where I grew up, there was a former workhouse, which had been used as a council run OAP home. When the council relocated, my friends and I used to frequent it. One building, was quite low, single story, and had a sizeable doorway into the attic space, wherein we found a letter, still in its envelope, open, dated 1915, from a young man who was at war, lamenting his inability to see the recipient of the letter, his wife. I wanted to take it (mainly as I believed the stamp might be worth something) but we were superstitious youths and left it, lest we invoked the wrath of the either the writer or the addressee.

    The young man who wrote the letter never made it home. My friends mother checked the council records, and found the records of both his death, and the addressee about 20 years later. Out of all of the buildings, it was the only one flattened when the site was developed into housing, and I still regret not having taken that note.
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    see, this is part of why I love old photos. Such stories waiting to be discovered or even made up!
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    ha ha ha... my Gramma and Grampa

    whack.
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    Great Grandfather, with is dapper mustache, ever tidy suit, and very pale eyes:



    Frank was an unusually tall man. He also apparently picked this car up out of a ditch once running someone to the Doctors.



    And in the winter, he was a logger - He's the one in the Paul Bunyan pose with 'isa' over his head.



    His son Nilo, Only odd because shortly after this pic, he'd dissappear. Supposedly running supplies into St. Petersburg over an icy lake.



    And Fiina, who had many personally remarkable qualities, sharp wit, well read, and someone I bear a rather deep resemblance to.

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      CommentAuthorhowyadoin
    • CommentTimeMay 22nd 2009
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    My maternal grandmother (who died before I was born):

    Ethel

    And my mom as a child (mid-to-late 1940s, I'm guessing):

    Mom
    • CommentAuthorLani
    • CommentTimeMay 22nd 2009
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    This is a fantastic thread. Keep 'em coming. :)
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    !!!
    • CommentAuthorStefanJ
    • CommentTimeJun 3rd 2009
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    @Frenchbloke: Tony Stark's great grandpa?
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    boyyy

    pet lion

    !

    er

    is that quark on the right ?

    order

    ?
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    Pretty sure that one with the skeleton is modern/digital. I wish I could believe that one with the clown were.
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    Oh, man. Some great stuff here.

    I really love looking at old photos at antique stores, etc., and some of the stuff here is really cool.
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      CommentAuthorTanuki
    • CommentTimeJun 13th 2009
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    gunmolls?

    I think I originally found this on shorpy, but I still love it.
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      CommentAuthordorkmuffin
    • CommentTimeJun 13th 2009
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    Not QUITE old enough, but wonderful.

    muppets

    I got it via Ffffound. That site is a bit of an addiction.
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      CommentAuthormister hex
    • CommentTimeJun 13th 2009
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    @ dorkmuffin - WONDERFUL!

    Henson's one of my heroes. Frank Oz, too.

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