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This picture was taken in 1937, and shows a couple sitting in Jackson Square. To me, it looks like they did not want to have their picture taken. The man looks like he is holding a small item in his hand, but I am not sure what it is. I think the woman is holding a small key ring.Friday, September 18, 2009
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The item in the mans hand is a pocket knife.
ReplyDeleteI think he is holding a pocket knife
ReplyDeleteGood call about the pocket knife, and upon closer inspection, he appears to be sitting on something.
ReplyDeleteIt looks to me like those silly Chinese 'hand cuffs' we had as kids. Put your finger in both ends and it gets tighter as you pull. I suppose a knife makes more sense, though. Judi
ReplyDeleteInteresting picture. It was, and still is to some extent, customary for my elder kin folk to sit on a section of the newspaper, when they sat (sit) in public places, to keep their clothes clean. It's not hard to imagine dust and bird droppings on a park bench.
ReplyDeleteHe has a pencil in his front pocket. Sharpening is one reason to keep and use the knife. Fountain pens were expensive and at that time there was no ballpoints.
ReplyDeleteit was not uncommon for men to "whittle" a small piece of wood with a pocket knife. i kind of past time for men of that era.
ReplyDeleteMy Grandpa always had a pocket knife. I bet the guy in the pictuer was cleaning his fingernails. My grandpa did that all the time.
ReplyDeleteAgree he's holding a pen knife and my first impression was that he was cleaning his nails. Even today, don't 99% of men carry a pocket knife? It was essential in the old days. (I always have a knife - I love to cut plant slips ;-)
ReplyDelete@ anon, most of the men I know don't carry pocket knives anymore. My dad still does when he's not traveling. It's just part of getting dressed in the morning, same as his money clip. :-)
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They don't look too happy, do they? They must have been dressed in their Sunday best.
ReplyDeleteNice eyeglasses. My husband wears similar ones. He thinks they make him look smart.
I think he's tamping down the tobacco in a cigarette.
ReplyDelete+JMJ+
ReplyDeleteIt looks to me as if they didn't much care for the photographer--!
They are brother and sister (notice no wedding rings).
ReplyDeleteI think they are Tony and Hester Pringle from Pringleton who aren't happy about the town's newly appointed school vice principal named Anne Shirley.