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August 12, 2009 |
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Drinking and Playing Cards
FOUND by Alethea
in Scranton, PA
I found this old Polaroid in a coal miner's house in the Bull's Head section of Scranton. I'm not old enough to date the photo, but I'd guess 1950's. There were other pictures with it, but this is the one I kept.
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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...
It's so rare to find snapshots from so long ago, photography was so expensive back then, almost all photos are posed. what a great glimps back in time.
Scranton!!! That is awesome. So many cool things seem to occur there, such as this polaroid being found...
This woman looks like the one in yesterday's "Mom was a Freshman" find. Is it another scene from the same play? And how did it get from upstate NewYork to Scranton?
My fondest association with Scranton PA is Harry Chapin's song, "Thirty Thousand Pounds of Bananas."
tructed him hang the photo at eye level. We didn't know he was going to have his bean-pole nephew, Shaq, weild the hamme
Bottoms up!
Bottoms up!
Erp..scuse me.
"Now you boys finish all of that shine. There's miners in Virginia going sober"
Its not that old, mid to late 60s. Televisions in the 50s had different screens and Polaroid cameras came to be popular then. These folks were actually upper middle class income to afford such things.
I have Polariod taken of me and my sister in 1960, long skirt is throwing me.
They're gittin' liquored up before their trip to Rio.
Because she was a freshman, Mother needed to get a part-time job to pay for books and so on. By the time she got to campus, the only one open to someone of her qualificaitons was something called "serving wench" at the Delta Tau Chi fraternity house.
That t.v. is awesome! I remember t.v in the early 60's...a few channels..black and white..
oy..I am old.
I have to laugh at the guy with the jug. My bro holds his growler like that when he drinks from it. (Bayern Amber. Mmmmm.)
Is the fella with the pint wearing a style of hat that has recently made a comeback among the skatekids?
mama's got good looking boys. she pretends to scold them for their drinking, but she knows they work so hard at the mines, they deserve a little moonshine at the end of the day.
i love this picture. i think i'll save it.
The lamp shade looks burned at the top...
No one in this crowd made a "threesome" joke yet?
Yeah, Alethia, I think you'd have to be *at least* 21 to date that photo...
We had a TV like that when I was a toddler. We got a color set about 1968.
And no comments about the mysterious third hand of cards on the table? Surely, Momma the serving wench wasn't playing! Must have been the photographer's cards.
There's also a ghostly aura in the doorway.
And, it looks like either popcorn or the shattered remains of a ceramic cat on the rug in front of the television.
Mama's a Cougar - getting her cubs liquored up and ready for a serious game of Strip Pok-her.
Librarian, looks like the photo subjects are already playing that drinking game!
(lime jell-o rum shot... chug chug chug)
Hey, what about that entryway? So cool! I want the ones in my house to look like that.
@Librarian
If that photo was not so old I would say that is the crack cocaine in front of the TV
I'm not so sure that's a mom. I think she's young. Girls and young women looked old in the 1950s, because of the hairstyles. It's interesting she's wearing an apron. I think she's wagging her finger at them, "Shame, shame, shame on you!" Her skirt under the apron looks like a circle skirt, like a poodle skirt.
I think Alethea hit it with her guess on the date, because of the skirt, the apron, and the TV, which looks identical to the one my family bought in 1958 (our first TV). But the photo doesn't look like a Polaroid to me, and I don't think Polaroids were invented until the 1960s. And those early ones wouldn't have produced such a good quality print, and they were square. If this is a Polaroid, it's been cropped.
I wanna see the other photos from that house! Was the house abandoned? Or did Alethea go into a house inhabited by a coal miner and start going through his photos?
I play cards and drink every time I go to Scranton. I guess some things never change...
The finder is too young to date the photo. It's old enough to be their grandfather for goodness sake!
I have no idea why, but every time I look at this picture, her smiling little "tsk tsk" makes me think of 7 Little Girls (sittin' in the backseat..)
All together now, one, two, three
Keep your mind on your driving
Keep your hands on the wheel
Keep your snoopy eyes on the road ahead
We're having fun, sitting in the backseat
Kissing and a hugging with Fred
Dee doodee doom doom...
that's not real. they're acting. it looks like a stage set from the 50s,60s. doesn't it?