The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[rlk]

from France

 

[buler]

Here is one for Buler.

Thanks, Ed. But even the most beautiful women are ruined for me with a cigarette.

B

 

[Fletch]

Mmm..... If I could skate well enough to guarantee not falling over and looking like a prat, then I'd give it a go!

Today your choice is between an OTR 3pc that will ride up and bunch everywhere, and a kilodollar-plus article you wouldn't dare mess up.

 

[rlk]

 

[alanfgag]

What open expression in these faces... gives this old photo an unusually modern quality.

 

[Rick Blaine]

Bad Dreams Tonight

 

[hatophile]

For some reason she reminds me of Etta Place, Butch Cassidy's paramour.
(The lady in the previous pic, not the pig).

 

[Sprinkles]

Hehe, the guy in the middle of the pig picture is a total porcine hit-man.

 

[hatophile]

Hehe, the guy in the middle of the pig picture is a total porcine hit-man.

"Pigsty Empire"?

 

[Fletch]

All we have on this one is a date: October 19, 1938.

 

[Hoyt Clagwell]

"Pigsty Empire"?

"BoarsWalk Empire"

 

[danofarlington]

For some reason she reminds me of Etta Place, Butch Cassidy's paramour.
(The lady in the previous pic, not the pig).

That's probably the best-looking woman I've ever seen in an old-time photo. Mostly they look dowdy. This one would look good in any era.

 

[hatophile]

"BoarsWalk Empire"

Good one Hoyt!

Yeah I can see why the guys liked Etta, she was a looker!

 

[rlk]

 

[TPD166]

A few items from the “Florida Memory Collection” - http://www.floridamemory.com/
As you can see I have indulged my preferences for thin ribbons, law enforcement, and things western (dates and captions supplied from the archive).

“Men in a room at the Gadsden County courthouse” - Quincy, Florida – 1913. Not wearing hats, but some interesting ones on the hatrack.

Seminole County Florida Deputy Sheriff James Cleveland Jacobs – ca. 1916-22.
“He was shot and killed on September 14, 1922 when he tried to enter a house to question a man about the theft of another man's pants.”

“Sheriff Bob Baker of Palm Beach County – Florida 1923.”

 

[TPD166]

“Gilchrist County Sheriff Dozier H. Browning.” 1940

“Sheriff Neil F. Law - Hernando County, Florida” – No date - Sheriff from 1933 to 1949.

“Citrus County Florida Sheriff Frank Morris.” Not dated – Sheriff form 1945 to 1953.

 

[TPD166]

“Seminole Indian standing in open field holding cowboy hat.” Date listed as “mid-1950s.”

“Cowboy at an open range roundup near Fort McCoy – Florida.” Circa 1910.

“Unidentified cowboy gets a soda from the soda shop - Bonifay, Florida.” Rodeo publicity photo from 1949.

 

[hatophile]

A few items from the “Florida Memory Collection” - http://www.floridamemory.com/
As you can see I have indulged my preferences for thin ribbons, law enforcement, and things western (dates and captions supplied from the archive).



“Sheriff Bob Baker of Palm Beach County – Florida 1923.”

Sheriff Baker was the undoing of the Ashley Gang who terrorized South Florida in the Teens and Twenties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashley_(bandit)

 

[Rick Blaine]

Sheriff Baker was the undoing of the Ashley Gang who terrorized South Florida in the Teens and Twenties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ashley_(bandit)

fftopic:
Whoa...whatta story. Thanks.

Crazy Crackers & outlaw Swampers.
Just like E. Tennessee w/ swamps rather than mountains & gators instead of bear!


:focus:

 

[Fletch]

Havana, 1933

through the lens of Walker Evans

© Walker Evans Archive, Metropolitan Museum of Art