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[wickedflea]

Some of the recent posts in foundphotos made me think about how I dig those really old photographs in which people thought up and enacted goofy, elaborate set-ups. Like check this out. These are two of my great-great aunts with their mother--or maybe grandmother. Not sure. Looks like they'd cooked up some kind of shotgun-wedding scheme, but they didn't have a shotgun, so the old woman had to threaten the other two with some sort of staff. Clem and Elgie was in e-motherfuckin-ffect back in rural Mississippi in the '20s. Gender bending and all that.

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[ex-thebellja885.livejournal.com]

now I see where that Confederate profile came from
:p

I loved the potato sack clothing era. So hot.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! No way, though--I can safely say that I don't think like I look like any of the Harpole part of my family.

[ex-thebellja885.livejournal.com]

you're a Heller in this world, as GM might say.

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

I see you're not the only character in the family. ;)

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

True enough--I come by it honest!

[mipplet.livejournal.com]

Awesome photo!

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I love old family photos. I should go through and post some more. :)

[lemmons.livejournal.com]

Awesome!

More coke through the nose with that one, so apparently your whole family has that effect on me. That or I haven't learned to properly swallow fluids.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna get ya with soup one of these days.

[dichotomous.livejournal.com]

*screams for more*

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

awwwwyeah ;)

[dob.livejournal.com]

did you ever see the ones i posted?
my grammy . . .


and her and my great uncle. . .


My family is yankee all the way :P

there's more if you turn out to have not seen them.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Excellent! No, I'm pretty sure I missed those--where are the rest?

[dob.livejournal.com]

my great grammy . . .

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

HONEY CHILD.

Your family are FREAKS.

I love it.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Like you couldn't have guessed they would be. :P

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

If you go over to skinandseed the current contest is Birthday, and I posted a photo of my esteemed crazy grandmother on her last birthday. It's not an old one, but I think you'll appreciate it.

http://www.livejournal.com/community/skinandseed/371953.html

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

EXCELLENT!

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

Oh, BTW... she isn't holding a stick. She's holding a home made straw broom. I went with my mother years ago to visit an old lady who used to make them; they are tall grass bound into a round broom. She's holding it by the bottom (loose) end, which is actually the top of the grass.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Aha! Thanks--I'd wondered about that. I thought it was something like that, but I didn't figure out that she was holding it by the bottom.

[carocrow.livejournal.com]

Heh... it's obvious she wants to whack them with the business end of the broom, not the bristles ;-)

[miladyelizabeth.livejournal.com]

LOL!! Huzzah for chicks in ties. Even if they are getting hit by old women with sticks...

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Chicks in ties rule!

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

honest to goodness...

this photo is so incredibly astounding in a good way...that i'm actually speechless.

just...wow.

[wickedflea.livejournal.com]

Right on! Glad you dig it.

[lulu-girl.livejournal.com]

ps:

YAY FLAPPERS YAY!

(and yeah, you can be a flapper at heart and not just do the jitter bug...)

:D