[z3n]

This is old!

I don't mean the photo. If it's legit, it's obviously old.

But this is old to the internet. I remember seeing this many years ago.

the NY Post is specifically formatting their page to keep from direct linking to their image content, but you can find it elswhere on the internet.... because like I said, this is not a new thing.

There's probably a simple explanation.

First of all, they had two-way radios back in the 1940s. They were large and cumbersome however. Even transistor radios weren't invented yet. So that is out. You wouldn't even see a speaker that small in the 1940s, if I am correct.

However, he could easily just have something small and flat in his hands and be raising it to scratch an itch or fidget with an irritation.

[dereknunley]

Oh my goodness, he’s clearly pulling a cigar from behind his ear.

[knarf]

Bobby Darrin in Hell is for Heroes ?

[BiteYourSelf]

It’s Leonard Nimoy!😁

[DiogenesLamp]

They made flat ear horns long before this period. I saw a video from the early 1900s that purports to show a woman holding a cell phone to her head.

It was a flat ear horn. This may also be a flat ear horn.

[Fledermaus]

It’s his finger. The dark shadow is his cupped palm.

[PIF]

There were no cell towers then, so obviously it a satellite phone.

[Larry Lucido]

It’s a conch shell. He’s listening to the ocean.

[Valpal1]

The way his fingers are set makes me think it’s a pipe and he’s scratching his ear ore behind his ear with the stem. Pipe smokers always use it as an extension of their hand.

[suthener]

The soldier wearing the sunglasses? Those are Ray Bans, and that model wasn’t invented until 1984.

[Brilliant]

A better question: why is that car driving on the wrong side of the road?

[JimRed]

First of all, they had two-way radios back in the 1940s.

Dick Tracy had a two-way wrist radio, worn like a watch.