Posted on 02/15/2014 2:08:06 PM PST by Reaganite Republican
I just don’t understand why I don’t look that good when I still have “bed head”.
Thanks NFHale,Fun thread.
Just goes to show ya....
Be careful what you put on film... 176 years later, there you are, with several million folks seeing your pic.
[mad scramble begins to erase embarrassing Kodak Instant photos taken in drunken stupor and various states of undress with equally drunken women....]
Governor, time traveler?
I hear you,just got my husband set up for facebook and he’s taking pics of me while I sit on the computer.Gave him the rules.Poor kids today will have many regrets.
He’s totally sporting the bed head look, then ramping it up with the cool Victorian jacket. He’d have all the chicks if he could time travel to today, as proven by this thread.
Imagine, though...
Here’s this gentleman, obviously of some means (photographic equipment could NOT have been cheap back in that day) snapping an image of himself that lasted long beyond his days.
I see old photos, and I can’t help but wonder at what that person had seen in HIS / HER day; that time frame saw the country expanding, saw the first railroads beginning, early steam power, etc., the Mountain Man era, and the country STILL had a frontier.
And here he is, a product of his time, of his day, fooling with a camera, also new technology for it’s time.
A Fellow American, linking us here in this time, with him in his.
Gives one a sense of our ancestors. They weren’t all that different from us... except maybe THEY had a better understanding of BEING American than a majority of folks today.
I’d like to have been around back then to see it unfolding...
He has a Donald Trump mouth. Overall, a good looking young man.
“...And here he is, a product of his time, of his day,...
A Fellow American, linking us here in this time, with him in his.
Gives one a sense of our ancestors. They weren’t all that different from us... except maybe THEY had a better understanding of BEING American than a majority of folks today....”
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I think you’re likely right about them having a better understanding of BEING American than most today have. This young man’s image bears not the slightest indication of him being afflicted with political correctness—the bane of our time.
Just a guy playing with his newest “toy”, like we’ve all done when we brought something new home. I can hear the wife right now “What did you buy NOW, and how much did it cost????”
Back then, those folk were part of the generation that fought and repelled the British in the War of 1812; you probably still had some Revolutionary War veterans around (those who had been youngsters of 14 through 18 during our War for Independence), you had folks who were involved with the Indians, who had been with Lewis and Clarke, etc.,
Think of this too: kids born in that year would grow up to fight the Civil War.
It would have been an amazing time to be alive - for me, anyway.
I’m not understanding your comment, though - how he could “look” politically correct... ?? That concept didn’t come about until Mao Tse Tung brought it into being over a hundred years after this man walked the Earth.
“...I’m not understanding your comment, though - how he could “look” politically correct... ??...”
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Think “pajama boy”.
Oh, roger that. Got it. That particular image is just pathetic.
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