August 27, 2008
Shorpy.com
is a photoblog featuring high-definition images from the first half of the 20th century.
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Oh, so very, very bookmarked.
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Samuel Cletus Slemp is so my next nom de plume.
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The captions are the best part. I had to excuse myself from the office after reading this page.
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See how sad they are without internet! They have to wait until they're home to look at porn.
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Indeed. "Safety First".
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Uh, I was replying to TUM.
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And "The Lady's Gun is a Colt" is so the name of my next band.
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And if I may be crass for a moment, hot diggedy!
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They have to wait until they're home to look at porn. Shoot, young'un! Back in them days we had this thing called a "bottom drawer." Inside it was the "Ladies' Foundations" section of the Sears, Roebuck catalog, pasted inside a cover with "Accounts Payable, June 1920" stamped on the cover. Besides, you could openly ogle the office girls back then.
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Shurely, not the girls in that office. Perhaps the ones working reception or some other capacity where members of the public are encountered?
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All the purty gals is down to the speakeasy, doin' the Charleston on top of a flagpole with Al Capone.
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*dons Zoot Suit*
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Don's zoot suit won't fit you.
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Is there a fetish for making women look like women from the 20's and then doing unholy things to them? And, if so, how do I become a part of it?
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Flapper-feelya-philia?
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Jitterbuggery?
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Suffragette Shitty?
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TUM FTW!! RORYK FR-U!
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roryk, you made me choke on my ice cream!
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Here you go
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Mr. Whiskers has a Great-great-great-great-Grandpa!
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If my historical records are accurate, that is none other than Sergeant Thornton Aloishus Whiskers III, of the 23rd Infantry Brigade, who clawed the Kaiser's eyes out!! (Dreadnought will need to back me up on this.)
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Sorry, but that happens to be none other than Sal "The Pooper" Del Whiskerio, a known member of the infamous Litter Box Mob and a reputed tuna hustler.
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Boy Most Likely to Explode: 1940 I'm betting he was the first one on the beach at Omaha.
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Just had to share my new favorite Shorpy picture: Chorus girl Eleanor Tierney at Starlight Park in the Bronx in 1921. The hair, the chin, the ATTITUDE!
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The concrete beach!