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George C. Wallace, Gov
FOUND by Tish Blackwood
in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Found this in 2004 in a Russian-English dictionary
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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...
Interesting holes. Not darts, obviously, unless the thrower's aim was waaaay bad. If you were using this as a dartboard, you'd aim for the centre.
And anyway in Tuscaloosa, AL, an autographed pic of Wallace might be a family treasure.
Tucked in a Russian dictionary...there's a radical somewhere in the woodpile!!
Am I first today? Wow!
I'm thinking darts.
Or maybe pushpins. Maybe this thing was on a bulletin board for a while?
What's really amazing about photos from this era is what people did to their hair. Can you imagine how that hair guck must have gotten all over the furniture?
Definitely not darts. The holes are all surrounding the main focus point of the picture. Was probably on a bulletin board somewhere for a while.
I didn't know Wallace was a Russian! And here I thought the segregation thing was his main point for so long. Turns out it was a distraction and he was a spy. Boy, was that Cold War era sure was confusing.
For others like myself who had no idea who George Wallace was: "George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998), was a United States politician who was elected Governor of Alabama as a Democrat for four terms (1963-1967, 1971-1979 and 1983-1987) and ran for U.S. President four times, running as a Democrat in 1964, 1972, and 1976, and as the American Independent Party candidate in 1968. He is best known for his pro-segregation attitudes and as a symbol of bigotry during the American desegregation period, which he modified after the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act ." (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Those holes look like teeth marks from a cat to me. I'm thinking somebody's kitten got a hold of this photo and played with it for a while.
I was a kid when George Wallace ran for president in '68 against Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. My parents were liberal democrats in the north, where Wallace was portrayed as evil incarnate.
I'm not sure it was original to my social studies teacher, but the way he put it was George Wallace is proof there is a God, and He does punish.
"Now they got Wallace, they shot him in the gut. They called it semi-modern and now we're all nuts."
- Lucky Tomblin
He must be using Dapper Dan.
Rain drops keep fallin' on my head.....
..Brylcreem! A little dab'll do ya!..
Gloria: "What's really amazing about photos from this era is what people did to their hair. Can you imagine how that hair guck must have gotten all over the furniture?"
This is why your granny had big cotton doilies on the back of the the chairs: to absorb hair cream/dressing that guys used. When it got nasty looking, you'd wash/iron the doily and upholstery still was good on the chair.
As for the post, I'm glad that nasty old bigot was never elected to anything higher than Alabama governor.
(I don't really have anything to add. I just realized too late what my header needed to be.)
My theory on why this was found in a Russian-American dictionary is there is a large population of Russians that live in Alabama. I think it was in the 50's or the 60's that the US brought a lot of their scientists over to help with our space program.
However, the fact that it's a 2004 dictionary seems to blow that theory out of the water.....unless perhaps someone in the family - someone who is not a rocket scienist - is a slow learner.
Say now, what's that Tish Blackwood doin' with a Russian dictionary anyhow?
I reckon she's probly some kinda commie her ownself!
http://tinyurl.com/6rbd3z
Aha.. She's an artist and/or creative person. She must know Jason.
If Julia Childs can be a spy, why not the governor of Alabama?
re Gloria: Maybe it took all that goop to keep his backwards ideas about race in his head.
Wallace said, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrah, segregation fo-evah!"
He was a terrible bigot until someone put a bullet in him while he was running for president which turned into a paraplegic and a much more considerate human. He renounced his words and offered apologies to those who he had oppressed.
The doilies that grandma put on the back of the chair are called antimacassers. Named for ylang-ylang or Makasser oil which was used on men's hair as a pomade and imported from Makasser, Indonesia in the 19th century.
Julia Child was a spy? Freak show!
"Bon appetit, y'all."
I don't think the holes were made by a cat, unless it was a cat with only one tooth. That's possible I suppose.
My first reaction was: "Someone is a terrible shot"
I'm glad I wasn't the only one...
@ John
The holes look exactly like the holes my kitten leaves in things she chews on and she certainly has a full set of teeth. If a cat is biting from the side, as they often do when they're playing with something, you only get a single incisor mark per bite.
Thanks, Lee. I stand corrected. Anyway, if George were alive, he'd be 89 years old today(and probably desperately scratching at the lid of his coffin.)
1. Blue suit = blue state politician? (Except that recently his state hasn't been so blue on the naitonal level, I don't think.)
2. So where's his American flag lapel pin?
He looks constipated.
Librarian,
'Bama ain't been blue since the Dems decided to endorse (or at least address) desegregation and the Civil Rights movement way back in the mid-20th century.
Much like the state I call home (for good or ill), Alabama is part of a big ol' block of red. Which, depending on your views on social welfare programs (I'm for them, infer what you will about my political beliefs from there), can make very little sense considering that the South is generally on the lower end of the economic scale, demographically speaking.
In my experience, Southern Democrats can out-conservative Northern Republicans any day of the week. And twice on Sundays.
South of the line, it's a whole different world, even yet.
See?
http://tinyurl.com/yoarrz
And see?
http://tinyurl.com/4gwzk6
Harumph. Just realized that my anniversary (24th) coincides with this sleeze-bag's birthday. I suppose it's too late to do anything about either.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Hold on, I don't want this pomade. I want Dapper Dan.
Pomade Vendor: I don't carry Dapper Dan, I carry Fop.
Ulysses Everett McGill: Well, I don't want Fop, goddamn it! I'm a Dapper Dan man!
Like Night In Gale, I was a kid when George Wallace ran for president. I also remember my parents discussing him as "evil incarnate."
Didn't he get shot sometime later, and spent the rest of his days in a wheelchair? Or maybe I am confusing him with Larry Flynt.
@Lolita ... he did; you're not.
@Turbo.. that's from my first job, working in a drive-in theater snack bar, when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid was playing.
I was only kidding...this guy does not look like George Clooney...it was just the hair gel-thing.
I remember exactly where I was when Wallace got shot in that shopping center parking lot in Laurel, Maryland in May 1972. I was almost 10 years old. My families politics were pretty conservative, but, even at that age I remember thinking that when you spew hatred you eventually you get what you deserve. Later, I felt the same way about Reagan's Alzheimers Disease. I'm sure the current crop of political fear and hate mongers will get theirs in the end.
Instant karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon youre gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin to do
Its up to you, yeah you
...Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun...
(and I'm free fallin)
@ Sitting: And Maggie Thatcher's got dementia. I always thought she was demented long ago.
The biter bit.
shoulda.. my anniversary (6th) corresponds with the bombing of Hiroshima.
The biggest Bigot...deserved what he got.
Makes me think of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young.
@ sick
Don't sell us so short! We liberals can be anywhere; location has nothing to do with political views. Let's not put all Southerners in one box. That seems as discriminatory as Wallace himself. Practice what you preach, please.
@Orinoco:
but so did Harold Wilson. So God must be a Tory after all.
So what were George Wallace's roots? He definitely looks Russian or East European in this photo, like some Soviet functionary with an 'official' smile. Perhaps a long lost cousin of the owner of the Russian dictionary?
His handwriting looks a bit Russian too. Those G's for 'George' and 'Gov.' are the weirdest looking capital G's I've ever seen.
The guy who shot and paralyzed Wallace during his 1972 run for president just got out of prison last year. He is living in Cumberland, MD. Just in case you care?