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Office Christmas Party: 1925
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Posted on 12/17/2014 6:21:25 AM PST by Phillyred
It's the week before Christmas, which means it's time for a hallowed holiday tradition here at Shorpy: The Office Xmas Party! Which has been going on for close to 90 years now. Will Clarence in Sales ever get up the nerve to ask out Hermione from Accounting?
Washington, D.C., 1925. "Western Electric Co. group." There are enough little dramas playing out here to keep the forensic partyologists busy until Ground Hog Day. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History
KEYWORDS: photography
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Love gazing at old photos like this one. So much going on in one long gone moment.
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:21:25 AM PST
by
Phillyred
To: Phillyred
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:24:56 AM PST
by
corlorde
(Oath Keeper)
To: Phillyred
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:29:41 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Liberty Valance
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:30:44 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: corlorde
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:30:47 AM PST
by
kitkat
(STORM HEAVEN WITH PRAYERS FOR OUR COUNTRY)
To: Phillyred
I love that site, I can get lost in it for hours.
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:31:07 AM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
To: Phillyred
Any guesses what the oilcan in the right foreground is there for? Some party!
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:34:05 AM PST
by
muir_redwoods
("He is a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of a conservative." G.K .C)
To: Phillyred
Electrical outlets where hard to find back then. The lights for the Christmas tree is plugged into the ceiling light.
Cool old picture.
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:35:53 AM PST
by
GregoTX
(Remember the Alamo)
To: Phillyred
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:36:27 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: Liberty Valance
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:37:57 AM PST
by
Liberty Valance
(Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
To: muir_redwoods
"Any guesses what the oilcan in the right foreground is there for?" My guess is that it was a Christmas present from a co-worker. There are allot of little gifts and wrapping paper lying around.
I wonder if her office chair was squeaky?
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:38:51 AM PST
by
GregoTX
(Remember the Alamo)
To: Liberty Valance
The brooding chick in the lower left?
I'd hit that.
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:39:36 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
("Two parties, governing AGAINST the will of the people, not with the consent of the governed." --MrB)
To: Phillyred
Thanks for sharing. This is great to get a glimpse into the past.
To: Liberty Valance
Looks like the Christmas party at my office. Everyone is thinking they’d rather be someplace else...
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:42:12 AM PST
by
cld51860
(Volo pro veritas)
To: Phillyred
There sure are a lot of funny looking white people in that photo.
Definitely worth clicking on the enlarged version. Lots of detail, and an inkling of office politics.
I'd even throw out the word "pathology".
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:45:58 AM PST
by
T-Bone Texan
(The time is now to form up into leaderless cells of 5 men or less.)
To: Lazamataz
“I’d hit it”
What about the flapper sitting in the lowest row on the our (the viewer’s) right (stage left) with the Zelda Fitzgerald bobbed hair and the seductive look in her eye?
She looks like she might be interesting. I am just guessing, since I am a (normal, not gay) female, so not actually competent to evaluate.
To: Phillyred
We can visit the past. Shorpy is on my list of visited sites daily.
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:53:44 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
(I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
To: T-Bone Texan
Definitely worth clicking on the enlarged version. There's a iPhone box on the desktop, just to the right of the scale.
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:54:21 AM PST
by
Steely Tom
(Thank you for self-censoring.)
To: stonehouse01; Lazmataz
Not gay?!? You just ruined Laz’s second fantasy.
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posted on
12/17/2014 6:56:41 AM PST
by
SpinnerWebb
(IN-SAPORIBVS-SICVT-PVLLVM)
To: stonehouse01
Oil can girl looks like she has already been in to the spiked punch.
The boss really spent big on that Christmas tree.
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posted on
12/17/2014 7:02:36 AM PST
by
Rockpile
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