The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Hurricane Jack]

In July 1969 with the 1st launch to the moon just 8 yrs after the Bay of Pigs, ~7 yrs since the Cuban Missile Crisis & 3 assassinations in <6 yrs, we thought the end of the world was near & everyone wanted to grow up fast.

 

[Zombie_61]

^ Standard safety protocol.

 

[HadleyH1]

Picasso at work (1950s)












Pablo Picasso holding a revolver & holster given to him by Gary Cooper - Cannes, 1958

 

[2jakes]

Caption has him as "104" but he claims to be closer to 70 years
old and dresses like this mostly because he enjoys it.

"Krabbenhft has demonstrated that age doesn't have to
determine how we choose to express ourselves to the world."

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Russia, circa 1940s

 

[hatophile]

Russia, circa 1940s

Officer, this man is trying to steal my handlebar!

 

[2jakes]

Stetson ads.

 

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[2jakes]

Brighton Swimming Club, England. 1863

"Mermaid Club", Philadelphia.
1920s.

Portrait of a butcher. 1875.

 

[2jakes]

Winner of the Most Scary Woman in the UK award in 1883 was Hattie ‘The Mad Hatter’ Madders

Gold Rush prospector.

Italy. Fratelli Alinari – Napoli 1880

A British Veteran Sells Matches On The Street , 1930.
(Chap reminds me of Robin Williams)

 

[Frunobulax]

Winner of the Most Scary Woman in the UK award in 1883 was Hattie ‘The Mad Hatter’ Madders
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That's Butterbean in drag.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Zombie_61]

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I hadn't paid much attention to this photo until I noticed the young man on the right was wearing modern tennis shoes. Then I noticed the modern plastic equipment case with the metal latches and the white circles on all of the horses' hindquarters.

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Portrait of a butcher. 1875.

Not just any butcher. That's William Poole--butcher, bareknuckle pugilist, political activist, and founder of the New York street gang the Bowery Boys. A.K.A. "Bill the Butcher", he was the basis for Daniel Day Lewis' character in Gangs of New York (2002). According to other sources that photo was likely taken in 1855 (the year he died), not 1875.

 

[2jakes]

Not just any butcher. That's William Poole--butcher, bareknuckle pugilist, political activist, and founder of the New York street gang the Bowery Boys. A.K.A. "Bill the Butcher", he was the basis for Daniel Day Lewis' character in Gangs of New York (2002). According to other sources that photo was likely taken in 1855 (the year he died), not 1875.

It's Mr. William Poole--meat seller, vendor, slaughterer, processor, skinner, boner, cutter, proprietor of a meat market and winner of
three Oscars...thank you!

 

[2jakes]

"Ol Blue Eyes"

 

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Never gets old!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

CREEPY!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

 

[2jakes]

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CREEPY!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Jake, did you notice she chopped of the dummies fingers?