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happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Don’t shake your head too much. Your eyeball might fall out. !

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Uh oh….. I smell detention coming.

Alexikakos
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6 months ago

 
By photographer Nina Leen (1914 (Russian Empire) -1995 New York City)
 
I didn’t find another copy dating this as a certainty. I’ve seen in listed as the 1940’s and 1950’s. I go with the 50’s (Susan?).
 

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Sorry… Thought I answered this earlier…

The thing is, that style for teenagers lasted quite a long time.

A 1943 dress, suitable for the office, say, looks quite different from one from 1957… but sweaters and skirts and bobby socks lasted for pretty much that whole time without changing a lot.

Purposely stepped-on saddle shoes, to make them look scuffed, or penny loafers, too.

If any of them were in a dress, I could tell more definitely, as well, or were not so fashionable, dressed more like an adult.

My best guess for this group is based on their hair all being long and their skirts short…. especially that checked shirt near the window….that makes me think it’s not terribly long after the war…

but definitely after the tight finances of the early 40s, when some would be wearing cotton dresses.

The men were mostly working again and times became more prosperous as the 40s went on.

By 1950 skirts were usually mid calf, and more girls had short hair, but not in the tight waves of the early 40s.

Bobby socks had also gotten thicker than the anklets I see in front here.

My best guess from all that is sometime between 1944 and 1949…

Probably closer to the former…

though it’s not impossible for it to be the early 1950s.

P51Strega
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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

Thanks

Alexikakos
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

 
Depending on the shooting schedule, Michael Fox is either 23 or 24 in this picture.
 

Alexikakos
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6 months ago

 
A very short video of this scene in Xinjiang, China.
 

 

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SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Nice but I’ll pass.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Wow. Quite a scene.

Not for posting cos it would probably be too large, but I’d like to find a copy with better resolution, to see what’s going on.

Why are the women fleeing up the stairs?

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6 months ago

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6 months ago
SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Thanks.
I still have a hard time seeing it….

I think the resolution of my 8″ tablet is partly to blame.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Steaming off to search for his lost patent…

Mickey was quite upset to hear that there’s a new horror version of his sweet little movie, now that his protection has expired.

I, for one, find it odd that the law only protects a person’s creativity and hard work for 95 years.

In fact before Walt fought for more time (for all artists, not just himself), it was only something like 37 years until people could freely copy or steal it.

Is that fair?

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

Forgot to say… This is, of course, the titular steamboat, of “Steamboat Willie.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Whoa… This may seem odd, but I recognized him right away.
His face, his expression… I knew who it was… and yet…

had you asked me to think of what this person probably looked like as a young man…. or probably adolescent here(?)…

I’d never have thought of such a kind-faced and (relatively) handsome fellow.

Oh… and if you don’t see it in his face…

This is…
Danny DiVito

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Reply to  SusanSunshine
6 months ago

BTW I think I posted his baby picture here a while back.

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Part of me wants to say

SPOILER?
Danny DeVito, or maybe Joe Pesci. Another part says “nah.”

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  Liverlips McCracken
6 months ago

The first one.

happyhappyhappy
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

I thought i saw someone else in the younger photo, but i was (badly) wrong.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

Um… It’s a weensy bit ambiguous…

I hope they mean the hops-scented trail that the basset hound is following, to find the pint.

And not my first thought, which is that we’re supposed to be following the odors wafting from the basset hound, his own doggy scent plus whatever he does along the trail.

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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

 
LINES ON ALE
 
Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain.
Quaintest thoughts – queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
 
Edgar Allan Poe
Published November, 1848 / Written May, 1848
 
“The Unabridged Edgar Allan Poe”
I.S.B.N.: 0-89471-233-0 (paperback)
 

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

This Old Life, National Geriatric, Old People, Ageweek, Vague….

Ok, I’ll stop.

(Might have been funnier back when I wasn’t their target audience!)

Psst…. Nighthawks…. about the pointer on the second word balloon…… ???

Greyhame
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

The “Coot’s Life” appears to be coming from Claude.

SusanSunshine
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Reply to  nighthawks
6 months ago

What Greyhame said.

I guess I was too subtle.

The first balloon in Panel 2, which is the second one in the strip, points to Claude instead of (the intended?} Cleo.

Tigressy
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6 months ago

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SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

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SusanSunshine
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6 months ago

I wondered whether I could find a picture of it.

Hah! There were dozens!

happyhappyhappy
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6 months ago

Boo! 😀

P51Strega
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6 months ago

It took me a while.

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