this looks strangely modern to me

http://www.shorpy.com/node/7051?size=_original

11/27/2009 1:13:44 AM

The dress of the guy on the dock lets you know, though.

I think it's the hat.

[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 1:18 AM. Reason : .]

11/27/2009 1:18:22 AM

amazing picture though, especially for it being 109 years old. Love the contrast



this one confuses me
http://www.shorpy.com/node/7046?size=_original

[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 1:21 AM. Reason : e]

11/27/2009 1:19:15 AM

I haven't been on Shorpy in a while, but I think my favorite pictures on there are the ones where stuff is ghosted because it was moving. This happens a lot with the cars -- you'll just see the front half and it just disappears -- it's really cool if the car is parked in a parking space.

Here's a cool shot.

http://www.shorpy.com/files/images/12303a1.jpg

[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 1:38 AM. Reason : .]

11/27/2009 1:22:06 AM

I found this one interesting due to the tattoo of his ssn on his arm. I guess it made it easier for him to get paid when working odd jobs. Shorpy did some research and found that this guy was born in 1912 and died in 1980, and was 27 when this picture was taken

http://www.shorpy.com/node/921

[Edited on November 27, 2009 at 10:35 AM. Reason : no hotlinking?]

11/27/2009 10:34:34 AM

Quote :

"He bears an uncanny resemblance to Pierce Brosnan"

11/27/2009 10:50:23 AM

Nothing really ever changes - train graffiti in 1905:

http://www.shorpy.com/hit-the-grit-c1905?size=_original

11/27/2009 10:58:19 AM

pretty cool thread

11/27/2009 11:03:17 AM

A+++ thread

11/27/2009 11:14:10 AM

If Marko approves, it must be good.

11/27/2009 11:26:38 AM

Quote :

"train graffiti in 1905"

I wonder if that's graffiti, or record-keeping chalk markings made by the railroad? There seem to be a lot of numbers.

11/27/2009 12:01:31 PM

http://www.shorpy.com/node/3977?size=_original

nice knockers

11/27/2009 2:55:49 PM

child labor?

http://www.shorpy.com/node/990?size=_original

11/27/2009 6:17:05 PM

Quote :

"Works until after one a.m. every night"

11/28/2009 12:09:07 AM

cool thread. i can dig these old photos.

11/28/2009 12:13:40 AM

that site is chock full of them, I spent a good 3 hours on there last night looking around

11/28/2009 12:20:23 AM

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5248?size=_original

to the girl on the left

11/28/2009 12:23:26 AM

damn, shes hot... looks like that chick from Knocked Up

11/28/2009 12:27:41 AM

this is really cool

Gamers, 1950
http://www.shorpy.com/node/4969?size=_original


thought that was a joystick but I think its an ashtray

11/28/2009 2:01:13 AM

Quote :

"child labor? http://www.shorpy.com/node/990?size=_original"

Kid has a sad story



Whoops.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5338?size=_original

[Edited on November 28, 2009 at 2:22 AM. Reason : .]

11/28/2009 2:14:50 AM

so many hipsters in this thread

especially those girls with the ducks and the kid on the fixie.

11/28/2009 6:15:23 AM

yo they the O.G.s

everything else is just imitation

11/28/2009 3:56:36 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NINOxRxze9k

Somebody embed this please

11/28/2009 4:46:27 PM

third picture is of Secretary of War Newton Baker

i'm guessing he was pretty rich

11/28/2009 7:24:44 PM

I was just at my Grandpa's place. He's got a pic of my great uncle from like 1940 looking like James Dean. He died in 1942 in the war.

11/28/2009 11:58:42 PM

ill

11/29/2009 12:01:54 AM

fish ducks in a barrel

11/29/2009 12:45:10 AM

i'm going to invent a time machine just so i can go back in time to meet marry the girl on the left, assuming she's not my grandmother.

11/29/2009 12:50:10 AM

fap city.

1919 in da hizzouse.

11/29/2009 1:08:01 AM

^^ disgusting! She's like 5 yrs old

11/29/2009 3:35:05 AM

My Mother


My Grandmother

11/29/2009 3:40:17 AM

my Great-Grandmother's brothers, circa 1915





straight up cold chillin' with the Missouri Mafia. the younger guy shown by himself died in 1917 from the influenza pandemic.



my Great-Great-Grandparents from Maine, circa 1898



i think the guy was a sailor with the merchant marine. his gal looks like she was a voodoo witchdoctor or something.





[Edited on November 29, 2009 at 4:03 AM. Reason : ]

11/29/2009 4:03:00 AM

who wants a mustache ride!!

11/29/2009 4:40:17 AM

11/29/2009 4:48:53 AM

don't take this thread downhill! it rocks

11/29/2009 5:12:21 AM

Hmm.

11/29/2009 5:52:21 AM

I still like the ipod in that one pic

11/29/2009 10:26:47 AM

bump

12/2/2009 7:46:41 PM

Quote :

"so many hipsters in this thread"

these people in the photographs aren't fucking hipsters, they're wearing the same clothes everyone else was...

12/3/2009 12:09:50 PM