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May 14, 2007 |
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Colonial Tea
FOUND by Lucie Andrieu
in Lyon, France
I found this picture in the basement of my university. This picture reminds me of the beginning of Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much.
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Incredible find. Would love to know the story behind this photo.
This has toppled every other "favorite" find I've ever had!! What an amazing and creepy fucking photo!
aha great movie, and great hat.
Bring out the old lampshade and you're the life of the party.
I'll never understand the necessity of these old-timey people to wear three-piece suits on archaelogical digs in the middle of desert and harsh sun. Yeesh. But I guess that's what they get for making women wear the whale-bone corsets. And that servant guy sure has the right idea with that fanny-pack-waist bar. If only I could be twirling in my desk chair and mixing martinis at the same time!
the one with the glasses looks like they're those joke glasses. what an interesting photo.
Would you buy tea from a street vendor? I don't think I would.
What a great picture! Theres just something very cool about it
Reminds me of Bill Murray in "The Man Who Knew Too Little...". Is that a lampshade and two safari hats?
This looks rather old. Very cool find.
Magical! Exploration in exotic places in pith helmets whilst being served the local beverage... good times! I'd like to know what's happening with the Candelabra Hat.
Is that a watering can?
I just can't stop looking at this one, don't know what it is about it, but it has me mesmerized.
Omg! Is that one of the Toms on the right? Maybe it's the guy on the background....is this a "Peeping Toms" get together of some sort? If so get me in on some of this action! :)
I just imagine the guy on the right with Woody Allen's voice saying, "Oh geez, you're doing that all wrong. Just set it....no,no,no, stop pouring! Just put it down!"
I feel the same way. This is pretty high up there in the Found ranks, next to the notorious rake ladies photo.
I wonder what else was with the picture. Was it in a book or with some really old papers? Whatever was found with something like this could tell a lot.
My theory about the suits is to distinguish social class. In a less organized/policed world it tells people you need to be taken seriously.
Could the hat be part of the tea brewing apparatus? What is the birdlike object on the vendor's arm. Couldn't be a bird could it?
I feel the same way. This is pretty high up there in the Found ranks, next to the notorious rake ladies photo.
I wonder what else was with the picture. Was it in a book or with some really old papers? Whatever was found with something like this could tell a lot.
Still Up, that Candelabra Hat is really the top of a big samovar-type contraption that the man has strapped to his back. It brews tea all day long. When someone wants a drink, he fills the ewer and pours one long string of hot tea into the glass cup. He adds lots of sugar and hands the drink to people like the man in the glasses before they pass out from the sun. I've seen similar ones in the Middle East. Love this photo...hope it wasnt "borrowed" from the university archives?
"GET your Teeeaaa here, piping HOT Teeeaaa, here".
"Damn Ian, these shriners make a mean cuppa Orange Pekoe."
I think that's Jean-Paul Sartre. Isn't that Jean-Paul Sartre?
what the fuck is Jean-Paul Sartre doing in india?
This is an AWESOME Picture... what a find!
i think that guy's hat is the precursor to the beer helmet. and it somewhat looks like he's pouring into a funnel. early beer bong? they're all wasted.
Clearly they are putting on Beauty and the Beast and the man on the left is playing Lumiere and Mrs. Potts.
I LOVE THIS!!!
You Americans, you're all the same. Always overdressing for the wrong occasions.
That's the second-coolest outfit I've ever seen. I have to get one for myself. I'll let you guys know how my hunt turns out.
...is that a watering can?
Dominique- what the f is creepy about the pic? No offense, just curious!
And what's the notorious rake ladies photo? I thought I'd seen every find at this site, but evi-fucking-dently not. :)
Ab - Halarious
Fanny-pack waist-bar
I think I need to visit the desert sometime soon.
The tea vendor guy looks like on of the Wayans Brothers. Right? Anyone?
TJ, ur absolutely right about what the thing is on his back; its a middle eastern apparatus for brewing not just a hot beverage like tea, but also cold beverages, like licorice juice or tamarind juice...my guess is this is not in india, but rather in egypt (judging from the pourer's outfit), near an archealogical dig...the fellow in the fez is serving up some nice cold tamarind to the archeologists, all in a days work...i've had the same drink from vendors in the streets of damascus, this find reminded me of home :-)
A great find from the "Age of Hats"; I collect old hats and its amazing how disturbed people become when you sport a fez or a pith helmet in their prescence.
One of my favorite things to do is get some friends, dress them in turn of the century clothes and put a fez or pith helmet on them and then sign up to be in small town parades. As you slowly glide down mainstreet in an open top car you are greeted with the most delightful looks of confusion as people try to decide who the hell you are and what you are doing in the parade.
I think this is old-time Ethiopia (pre-WWI) and that's the former emperor Haile Selassi looking at a tea-seller. Could be, Could be...
Turbo - HAHAHAHHA! I can see it completely.
Anyone good at dating photos? I'd say 1910s-1940s, but can't get any closer.
if that is Sartre, then he's right where he's supposed to be. Hey, Cherokee Nation, I want to see the fez parade, shouldn't there be a bunch coming up this time of year? Where do I sign up?
Ooh! Robert/Cherokee, I'm right with you. Can I help next time?? (I have a couple of great hats of my own, and too few oportunities to wear them!)
Belle trouvaille!
This must be a B Kliban drawing! like his series 'The Turk'.
PS -- here are the notorious rake ladies:
http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/527
They don't do it for me though.
Amazing picture. Almost certainly early-mid 1920s.