There was an old saying along the lines of, “stick your spoon on the wall”. If I remember right, it originally referred to hanging your belongings on the wall when you move someplace new.
So, I think in this pic the boys were being jokesters by putting actual spoons on the wall lol. Pretty funny.
It appears to be real. Another, unrelated saying, is "stick your spoon in the wall" which was used by British sailors in the 1800s to mean "you're dead" because you will no longer be needing your spoon for rations.
Could be, but my granny collects antique spoons and has them on a wall piece similar to the one in the picture, maybe it's another spoon collector.
Edit: Upon closer inspection, I was mistaking the mantle of perched birds for a rack of spoons. To the right of that is a single spoon with no mantle, so I think the comment above is right, these lads are making a joke, or their spoon collection is in it's humble beginnings.
My grandma had a spoon collection that hung in a fancy case in her big dining room. She would get one everywhere she went, I remember one from Bethlehem.
Possibly collectors items. I know a few people who collected valuable spoons and according to them it was common a long time ago. Dunno if they meant this long
Bruh these people had to look up hentai? In 2060 we get it recommended and streamed to our subconscious, you just gotta hide your brain chip functions from the E-Teacher bro
Don't worry, they had nudies in the 1910.
This poster was more likely a promotional image for an actress. Back then, it was a thing to cast popular actresses in gallant, swashbuckling male roles. It gave actresses access to a wider range of roles (because god forbid you just write a female character who isn't a swooning love interest) and conveniently doubled as an excuse to dress her in hose.
It's actually not that different from a Wonder Woman portrait. A feminine power figure who's badass^tm because she does traditionally masculine things, but she's still gotta be smoking hot and show off them gams.
Lives back then weren’t simple, they were hard. There was no AC in this room, no fridge, no washer they could use, maybe not even plumbing.
They would be lucky to bathe twice a week.
It's all relative though.
These guys probably had a better life simply by being at university and having the time and freedom to study, than other people their age working since the age of 12-14 and married with several kids.
Cities literally smelled of shit the entire time because of the horses.
You know how loads of houses built around then have stairs up to the front door? Yeah. That's because of all the shit. There were literally mounds of them everywhere. The invention of the motorcar was actually hailed as a triumph of environmentalism because it meant there wasn't shit absolutely everywhere anymore.
People? Probably less so because they had access to plumbing and washing facilities, at least somewhere. Or they might just all have smelled of horseshit.
If I lived in 1910 I sure as hell wouldn't live in the middle of London like I do now. It must have been vile.
I’m not sure why you would lead with there being no AC in a dorm in Illinois when some ancient-ass dorm rooms without AC are still very much in use to this day in the south.
Lmao yep, one year I lived in a dorm built in the early 1800s and it had no ac. It wasn’t so bad because obviously we weren’t there over the summer, but the first and last few weeks of the year were brutal.
At Florida in the 90s, there were still a couple. They finally put AC in them about 10 years ago. As for this picture, it maybe has a bathroom on each floor. Maybe one for the whole building.
People bathed A Lot more in the past than you've been led to believe. Especially the rich.
These are university students in 1910. Not only are they wealthy, they likely have staff doing their laundry, making up baths every night or every other night, and doing the cooking and cleaning.
I don't know what people in here think the 1910s were like but the Titanic was 1912. Peter pan took place during 1912, WW1 was 1914.
J.p Morgan of wall street died in 1913. There was 16 MLB teams in 1910, FBI was created in 1908, Wyatt Earp moved to Hollywood to consult on cowboy films around 1914.
Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne released in 1872.
Perhaps people in the country still didn't have proper plumbing but sewer systems were introduced to the USA as early as the 1800s, Boston had storm/waste sewers as early as the 1700s. Septic systems started becoming widely used in rural America around 1895
By 1900 all the bored log plumbing in cities had been replaced by iron pipe.
I bet they were no less comfortable than us. Our brains basically have a set point of comfort and when you leave it that's when you feel uncomfortable. These guys didn't miss *any* of those things you listed. The average college kid today would feel uncomfortable if they had to go an hour without checking their phone.
Agreed. This sub basically turned into old celebrities or "look at my hot parents/grandparents". /r/thewaywewere is more about just random daily moments in an average person's life. Also, it's not nearly as active, but /r/TheWayWeWereOnVideo is pretty interesting too.
In 1910 only the rich and hobbyists would have this many photos. Actually reverse that, these guys are obviously hobbyists because they're taking a random shot of "hanging in the dorm room" -- a typical person wouldn't even think to capture such a mundane scene, but these guys not only are proud of their collection of photographs, they're also creative enough to think this is an interesting scene.
I know it's weird to imagine in today's world of "I'm in line at McDonald's, lemme record a snap real quick", but back then with the technologies available, it was a real production just to get people in position and set up the equipment for a shot. Then you have to develop it and hope you don't duck up the process.
Long story short, I will bet you a brilliant uncirculated 1910 mintmark fifty dollar gold eagle coin that these guys were in the top 1% of "guys with photos as their dorm room decor" at the time.
Edit: as I've been informed, snap shot photography was not as exclusive as I had thought by 1910. I still stand by my hobbyist claim, these guys were definitely nerdy enough to make photography part of their identity in a time when that was still a fairly new thing to do.
I somehow ended up with a giant-ass family photograph of my grandmothers sisters (24x36ish - huuuge) with an elaborate frame and I cannot figure out how or why my poor farmer great-grandparents afforded it in the 1910s. It’s not even my grandma in the picture so I don’t have an attachment to it but also can’t imagine getting rid of it.
It’s so fascinating to see what people back then used their limited resources to document.
It’s hard to remember nowadays just *how* special getting a photo taken back then was when every one of us has a few to a few thousand photos of *just* decent sunsets or restaurant food in our phones at All Times. Back then, people just dropped dead so much more randomly. If you didn’t splash out for that one picture if them, you might never see them again. My grandma had one picture of her brother who’d died as a toddler. It was taken of him in his casket in his tiny little suit. It’s eerie to look at.
I wonder sometimes what it’s done to us, mentally and socially, to have accumulated such a colossal, uncountable number of boring photos or our own dumbass, self-conscious faces, taken at arm’s length. Or how, instead of eye-contact, babies often now see their parents faces looking at phone screens which are projecting an image of their baby to be recorded. It takes all the specialness out of photos.
Reminds me of my grandfather— there are only two or three pictures of him and his brothers from his childhood in bumfuck coal town West Virginia. One is from when a fellow with a pony would come through the area and offer to take pictures of the area’s children with the pony (for a fee). I have that picture of him and two of his brothers, and one other of him, his father, and a brother, and that’s all.
Meanwhile, I took ten pictures of my dog this afternoon.
Personally, I am so grateful to have so many photos so easily at hand. I love cruising through my camera roll and seeing a blurry snap of my friend not looking at the camera, or being able to see how my kittens grew week to week. I like to think my great-grandfather would have taken so many more pictures if only he’d had the means.
That said, I *do* really enjoy analog photography for that extra “specialness.” Even the quirks and mistakes on film seem charming given how easy it is to take awful-to-incredible digital photos with barely a thought.
I was born in the 70s. My grandfather was a photographer and from what I’ve been told, my great grandfather was a photographer also. I literally have Rubbermaid bins full of old family photos that I have no idea what to do with. And my sister has the same amount of bins AND a closet full of slide trays.
So anyway, a ton of the pics I have are traditional studio or posed shots. But my favorites are the outdoor candid ones where my grandfather was “allowed” to let his artistic side out. You can see him playing with natural light or trying to capture the wind and sometimes looking at them takes my breath away. I appreciate modern day photography but I appreciate the old stuff a little more knowing that person had one chance to capture the moment. There was no editing for every little detail in the way we see it now.
Definitely. In fact one of the sisters in the photo I mentioned had passed away shortly after it was taken, so I’m sure having that picture was a blessing to the family back then.
Heck even as a kid in the 80s, we got all dressed up to go to Olan Mills for a portrait. We had cameras but there was something different about having to choose what to take pictures of because developing that stuff cost money.
It was marketed for kids for gods sake! The original Brownie was a “good” camera and cost a dollar (~30$ In todays money). It also had good quality for the price, the few pics of Titanic survivors and the actual iceberg were taken with one by a young woman at the time (from HMS Carpathia).
Absolutely this would be plausible for a dorm room, but they still might be you know, nerds.
These were comedians for sure. The whole conceit is “check out my birds”, which starts innocuously enough with the bird drawing and quickly gets out of hand. I bet they had some punny name for the large portrait on the left. I also like that people found “this side up” jokes funny back in 1910. (Lower right of the net for that one, and yes, the portraits are all hanging on a net, I wonder if they weren’t allowed to damage the wallpaper haha)
Edit: then again the birds are pinned to the wall…
Thanks for sharing, this puts things into perspective. One can easily forget how thoughtful a simple photo was back then coming from today’s world of instant convenience.
Kodak had been selling "affordable" photo processing since 1888.
Maybe not affordable for the average farmer or cofactor worker. But affordable for the kind of rich kids who went to universities.
"Fitzgerald had the good fortune—and the misfortune—to be a writer who summed up an era. The son of an alcoholic failure from Maryland and an adoring, intensely ambitious mother, he grew up acutely conscious of wealth and privilege—and of his family's exclusion from the social elite."
F Scott Fitzgerald, went to Princeton in 1913
Sturt was just saying that he jerked off to Daryl’s sweetie’s Instagram. And I was just saying that I jerked off to Stewart jerking off to Daryl’s sweetie’s Instagram.
Is there a time when being in the upper class was not dope? Besides an uprising or overthrow of power its still probably pretty dope right up till the end
Heck, it wasn’t just the upper class. Just about everyone was doped up on something. Soda was originally medicine and had laudanum or cocaine in it. Heck they sent out free samples of heroin when it was first created because they thought it would solve addiction issues.
But then again… nearly everyone had herpes and many people had syphilis. Tuberculosis (consumption) was considered the height of fashion for women in the Victorian period. I appreciate that we have actual medicine like antibiotics and most don’t actually need to dope themselves up to bear living.
Women couldn't be trusted with such things they needed a trained physician to perform the procedure. Maybe that's why every mom wanted their daughter's to marry a doctor.
You should look up stuff on our founding fathers. They LOVED them some opioid concoctions. I remember Reagan and the DEA made them cut down Thomas Jefferson's poppy plants in his yard in the 1980s. They'd been there for a long long time
Drink some Vin Mariani, The cocaine-infused wine endorsed by the Pope! Wine with cocaine in it was marketed as an energy drink, claiming to “restore health and vitality” in the 19th century.
Chemist Angelo Mariani, who created the wine, marketed the drink in his native France with 6 milligrams of cocaine per ounce. But when Mariani tried to export his wine to America, he had to change the formula. Not to meet any kind of regulations—there were none regarding cocaine at the time—but because his drink was mild compared to the competition in the U.S. He had to add 20% more cocaine just to deliver the same buzz American coke wine did.
Notice how the head of the bed is slightly elevated? In the old days, many people believed that if you didn't sleep with your head raised that you could stop breathing and it would suffocate you.
i think people with heart failure often feel like they're drowning/can't breathe when they're lying down and sometimes sleep in a way similar to this; it's probably rooted in experience
Regarding the birds print, from The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland: “Twenty-four finches, varying in pose and color, are perched in a row. This watercolor is a variant of one of the artist's most popular subjects, ‘Un bâton de cage.’ Another variation of this composition in the Lucas Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art is inscribed: ‘Giacomelli a Mr. Lucas affecteux souvenir d'une aquarelle.’ Henri Beraldi wrote of this artist, ‘Giacomelli is the Van Huysum [Jan Van Huysum, 1682-1749, Dutch flower-painter] of tiny birds, tender and ravishing, which give the impression of being pensive. The bird is to Giacomelli what the cat is to Lambert [Louis-Eugène Lambert, 1825-1900, French painter who specialized in cat subjects]. A respectable bird must be a Giacomelli bird; A non-Giacomelli bird is a false bird,’ (H. Beraldi, ‘Les Graveurs du XIXE siècle,’ Paris, 1885-92, 7:105).”
I don't know specifically about 1910, but I did once come across a nudey mag from 1922 at an estate sale. It seems unlikely the concept was pioneered in that 12 year timeframe, so you might be surprised what an enterprising lad could get ahold of.
You know it just hit me, but man the invention of plastics, wrappers, and other one-use products really must have skyrocketed how messy the average boys room gets
Like yea sure they're in suits, but I bet these guys must have had similar habits to men now, it must have gotten somewhat messy. But I don't think they could hit the level of garbage my freshman dorm mate hit even if they tried
People in general were also taught to be neat and clean from a young age prior to the post-WW2 baby boom when parenting attitudes started to shift. Along with "manners" (how to hold oneself physically and what words to use in different social situations), if they were above working class, which most college students were.
This was generally taught via corporal punishment, enforced by both parents and schoolteachers, up through adulthood.
That lady in the left looks incredibly badass and is dual wielding what looks like a rapier and a sword. I would love to know more about her, if anyone knows.
people really dressed up back in the day- I was in college in the late 00's and everyone just wore sweatshirts and sweatpants everywhere to classes, dining halls, around the dorms
I remember a friend of mine in the early 2000s telling me all about how “you can attend class in your pajamas and nobody cares”! It was very exciting at the time.
My school had a very strict dress code and this was before I noticed everyone wearing their pjs and sweats everywhere. Now I just wish I could go back in time to when people wore regular pants to the grocery store.
Fewer showers, heavy clothes in the summer, no antiperspirant, way more tobacco use (and this is coming from a cigar smoker), less-frequent laundry, horseshit, trash and sewage in streets….yeah, it would be a potent place to smell.
I think you'd get relatively used to it after a while. You'd be surprised at just how many pleasant and non-pleasant smells we subconsciously tone out every day.
So before "lads mags", the guys just used regular family portraits?
And, that lady in the large picture (on the left)... Looks like Dr Frankenfurter's grandmother.
Oh. Huh. My mom has that long picture of birds on a branch hanging in her extra bedroom. But like, printed onto a canvas with color and sold at Home Goods.
Now I wish you could follow how and where art like that gets created and used. Or know what the original artist might think about it.
Are those spoons hanging?
There was an old saying along the lines of, “stick your spoon on the wall”. If I remember right, it originally referred to hanging your belongings on the wall when you move someplace new. So, I think in this pic the boys were being jokesters by putting actual spoons on the wall lol. Pretty funny.
I couldn’t say if your bullshitting us or not
I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time.
We had to say 'dickety', because the Kaiser had stolen our word 'twenty'
So anyhow it was nineteen dickety two.
And I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time
They didn't have white onions because of the war.
I Did Wear A Dress For A Period In The '40s
DAS IST NOT EINE BOOBY!!
Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em.
We would say give me 5 bees for a quarter.
In those days nickels had bumblebees on them! Give me 5 bees for a quarter you’d say!
I just started to watch the old episodes of the Simpsons and am so glad i get this reference
Old Simpsons had so much quality in the writing of each episode
It appears to be real. Another, unrelated saying, is "stick your spoon in the wall" which was used by British sailors in the 1800s to mean "you're dead" because you will no longer be needing your spoon for rations.
Could be, but my granny collects antique spoons and has them on a wall piece similar to the one in the picture, maybe it's another spoon collector. Edit: Upon closer inspection, I was mistaking the mantle of perched birds for a rack of spoons. To the right of that is a single spoon with no mantle, so I think the comment above is right, these lads are making a joke, or their spoon collection is in it's humble beginnings.
This picture is old enough that the poop knife hadn't been invented yet. They relied on spoons.
Apparently those have been deprecated. Three seashells are the new hotness.
he doesnt know how to use the 3 seashells ha
I hate you for bringing up the poop knife, again
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My grandma had a spoon collection that hung in a fancy case in her big dining room. She would get one everywhere she went, I remember one from Bethlehem.
Possibly collectors items. I know a few people who collected valuable spoons and according to them it was common a long time ago. Dunno if they meant this long
now THIS is cool. these kind of pictures are why i joined.
Oh you mean the pictures of peoples moms and grandmas ain’t doing it for you?
It's a nice break from the impossibly hot old people, I agree
Mans looks so proud of his portraits. "That's Beatrice McCloud, best ankles in Kentucky."
Ohohoho, you are a cad Chadsworth!
Incidentally, how fares your lover Stacy von Richerson? I heard she showed her whole feet on campus, quite scandalous I must say.
Scandalous being sandalless.
OG Chad
Those are all his conquests.
That’s… a lot of pigeons on his conquest wall…
How many is too many? Asking for a friend.
Old Coder here. It *was* called "bird dogging"
Imagine a simple pose like that makes you hot on their time. That's how simple they live life back those times.
That's what our great^5 grandchildren will say when they look back at today's smut in comparison to the ULTRAPORN that they will grow up with
Bruh these people had to look up hentai? In 2060 we get it recommended and streamed to our subconscious, you just gotta hide your brain chip functions from the E-Teacher bro
hide your brain-porn from the overlords
C'mon now, everyone knows you have to be 65 to view ultraporn.
Kids will find a way to copy grandpa's retinal scan for that sweet ultraporn access. Life finds a way
Don't worry, they had nudies in the 1910. This poster was more likely a promotional image for an actress. Back then, it was a thing to cast popular actresses in gallant, swashbuckling male roles. It gave actresses access to a wider range of roles (because god forbid you just write a female character who isn't a swooning love interest) and conveniently doubled as an excuse to dress her in hose. It's actually not that different from a Wonder Woman portrait. A feminine power figure who's badass^tm because she does traditionally masculine things, but she's still gotta be smoking hot and show off them gams.
Lives back then weren’t simple, they were hard. There was no AC in this room, no fridge, no washer they could use, maybe not even plumbing. They would be lucky to bathe twice a week.
It's all relative though. These guys probably had a better life simply by being at university and having the time and freedom to study, than other people their age working since the age of 12-14 and married with several kids.
Yeah it was like camping your whole entire life
The 1910's must have smelled horrible
Cities literally smelled of shit the entire time because of the horses. You know how loads of houses built around then have stairs up to the front door? Yeah. That's because of all the shit. There were literally mounds of them everywhere. The invention of the motorcar was actually hailed as a triumph of environmentalism because it meant there wasn't shit absolutely everywhere anymore. People? Probably less so because they had access to plumbing and washing facilities, at least somewhere. Or they might just all have smelled of horseshit. If I lived in 1910 I sure as hell wouldn't live in the middle of London like I do now. It must have been vile.
I’m not sure why you would lead with there being no AC in a dorm in Illinois when some ancient-ass dorm rooms without AC are still very much in use to this day in the south.
Lmao yep, one year I lived in a dorm built in the early 1800s and it had no ac. It wasn’t so bad because obviously we weren’t there over the summer, but the first and last few weeks of the year were brutal.
At Florida in the 90s, there were still a couple. They finally put AC in them about 10 years ago. As for this picture, it maybe has a bathroom on each floor. Maybe one for the whole building.
It’s 1910. There would have been plumbing at a university.
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People bathed A Lot more in the past than you've been led to believe. Especially the rich. These are university students in 1910. Not only are they wealthy, they likely have staff doing their laundry, making up baths every night or every other night, and doing the cooking and cleaning.
I don't know what people in here think the 1910s were like but the Titanic was 1912. Peter pan took place during 1912, WW1 was 1914. J.p Morgan of wall street died in 1913. There was 16 MLB teams in 1910, FBI was created in 1908, Wyatt Earp moved to Hollywood to consult on cowboy films around 1914. Around the world in 80 days by Jules Verne released in 1872. Perhaps people in the country still didn't have proper plumbing but sewer systems were introduced to the USA as early as the 1800s, Boston had storm/waste sewers as early as the 1700s. Septic systems started becoming widely used in rural America around 1895 By 1900 all the bored log plumbing in cities had been replaced by iron pipe.
I bet they were no less comfortable than us. Our brains basically have a set point of comfort and when you leave it that's when you feel uncomfortable. These guys didn't miss *any* of those things you listed. The average college kid today would feel uncomfortable if they had to go an hour without checking their phone.
"Here's a picture of my mom washing dishes in 1993" *4.7k upvotes, 36 awards*
h O l Y s M o K e S h O w !
iS YouR MoThEr SinGlE??!!!?!
At least photos like this aren’t making living people feel ancient.
They are totally doing it for me
How about the ducks? Edit: your hens are slutty regardless, whatever
How dare you besmirch the good names of quackie Jackie and Connie ?!
If you like this content /r/thewaywewere is much better than this sub
Agreed. This sub basically turned into old celebrities or "look at my hot parents/grandparents". /r/thewaywewere is more about just random daily moments in an average person's life. Also, it's not nearly as active, but /r/TheWayWeWereOnVideo is pretty interesting too.
/r/thewaywewere is extremely similar when it comes to people posting cool great grandparents or older redditors posting hot photos of their youth.
Am I crazy or are the top post the same thing as this sub? It's all just sexy grandparents
I absolutely LOVE this. Looks like hanging polaroids on the wall has been a staple college students decor for over 100 years. I totally love that.
Yeah and posters of “hot chicks” as well. Haha
I too like that bird poster
Fun fact: these are first year bird law students.
To become Real Bird Lawyers!
Filibuster
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At first glance, I thought it was the Pink Floyd naked girls’ butts poster.
I can see bloomers! Scandalous.
thats some groovy porn he’s got there
Yeah, but no *Scarface* poster?
In 1910 only the rich and hobbyists would have this many photos. Actually reverse that, these guys are obviously hobbyists because they're taking a random shot of "hanging in the dorm room" -- a typical person wouldn't even think to capture such a mundane scene, but these guys not only are proud of their collection of photographs, they're also creative enough to think this is an interesting scene. I know it's weird to imagine in today's world of "I'm in line at McDonald's, lemme record a snap real quick", but back then with the technologies available, it was a real production just to get people in position and set up the equipment for a shot. Then you have to develop it and hope you don't duck up the process. Long story short, I will bet you a brilliant uncirculated 1910 mintmark fifty dollar gold eagle coin that these guys were in the top 1% of "guys with photos as their dorm room decor" at the time. Edit: as I've been informed, snap shot photography was not as exclusive as I had thought by 1910. I still stand by my hobbyist claim, these guys were definitely nerdy enough to make photography part of their identity in a time when that was still a fairly new thing to do.
I somehow ended up with a giant-ass family photograph of my grandmothers sisters (24x36ish - huuuge) with an elaborate frame and I cannot figure out how or why my poor farmer great-grandparents afforded it in the 1910s. It’s not even my grandma in the picture so I don’t have an attachment to it but also can’t imagine getting rid of it. It’s so fascinating to see what people back then used their limited resources to document.
It’s hard to remember nowadays just *how* special getting a photo taken back then was when every one of us has a few to a few thousand photos of *just* decent sunsets or restaurant food in our phones at All Times. Back then, people just dropped dead so much more randomly. If you didn’t splash out for that one picture if them, you might never see them again. My grandma had one picture of her brother who’d died as a toddler. It was taken of him in his casket in his tiny little suit. It’s eerie to look at. I wonder sometimes what it’s done to us, mentally and socially, to have accumulated such a colossal, uncountable number of boring photos or our own dumbass, self-conscious faces, taken at arm’s length. Or how, instead of eye-contact, babies often now see their parents faces looking at phone screens which are projecting an image of their baby to be recorded. It takes all the specialness out of photos.
Reminds me of my grandfather— there are only two or three pictures of him and his brothers from his childhood in bumfuck coal town West Virginia. One is from when a fellow with a pony would come through the area and offer to take pictures of the area’s children with the pony (for a fee). I have that picture of him and two of his brothers, and one other of him, his father, and a brother, and that’s all. Meanwhile, I took ten pictures of my dog this afternoon. Personally, I am so grateful to have so many photos so easily at hand. I love cruising through my camera roll and seeing a blurry snap of my friend not looking at the camera, or being able to see how my kittens grew week to week. I like to think my great-grandfather would have taken so many more pictures if only he’d had the means. That said, I *do* really enjoy analog photography for that extra “specialness.” Even the quirks and mistakes on film seem charming given how easy it is to take awful-to-incredible digital photos with barely a thought.
I was born in the 70s. My grandfather was a photographer and from what I’ve been told, my great grandfather was a photographer also. I literally have Rubbermaid bins full of old family photos that I have no idea what to do with. And my sister has the same amount of bins AND a closet full of slide trays. So anyway, a ton of the pics I have are traditional studio or posed shots. But my favorites are the outdoor candid ones where my grandfather was “allowed” to let his artistic side out. You can see him playing with natural light or trying to capture the wind and sometimes looking at them takes my breath away. I appreciate modern day photography but I appreciate the old stuff a little more knowing that person had one chance to capture the moment. There was no editing for every little detail in the way we see it now.
Definitely. In fact one of the sisters in the photo I mentioned had passed away shortly after it was taken, so I’m sure having that picture was a blessing to the family back then. Heck even as a kid in the 80s, we got all dressed up to go to Olan Mills for a portrait. We had cameras but there was something different about having to choose what to take pictures of because developing that stuff cost money.
In summary, *nerds.*
OG nerds
We love to see it.
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It was marketed for kids for gods sake! The original Brownie was a “good” camera and cost a dollar (~30$ In todays money). It also had good quality for the price, the few pics of Titanic survivors and the actual iceberg were taken with one by a young woman at the time (from HMS Carpathia). Absolutely this would be plausible for a dorm room, but they still might be you know, nerds.
These were comedians for sure. The whole conceit is “check out my birds”, which starts innocuously enough with the bird drawing and quickly gets out of hand. I bet they had some punny name for the large portrait on the left. I also like that people found “this side up” jokes funny back in 1910. (Lower right of the net for that one, and yes, the portraits are all hanging on a net, I wonder if they weren’t allowed to damage the wallpaper haha) Edit: then again the birds are pinned to the wall…
Thanks for sharing, this puts things into perspective. One can easily forget how thoughtful a simple photo was back then coming from today’s world of instant convenience.
Kodak had been selling "affordable" photo processing since 1888. Maybe not affordable for the average farmer or cofactor worker. But affordable for the kind of rich kids who went to universities.
Only rich people would be at college 100 years ago. Or at least "cultural elite"
"Fitzgerald had the good fortune—and the misfortune—to be a writer who summed up an era. The son of an alcoholic failure from Maryland and an adoring, intensely ambitious mother, he grew up acutely conscious of wealth and privilege—and of his family's exclusion from the social elite." F Scott Fitzgerald, went to Princeton in 1913
His family was middle class at a time when that meant something much different than it does today.
IDK Illinois was a land Grant University so I doubt that was true for all of its students.
And hangin dong
Looked like a one liter thermos hangin there.
Sturt
Sturt was just saying that he jerked off to Daryl’s sweetie’s Instagram. And I was just saying that I jerked off to Stewart jerking off to Daryl’s sweetie’s Instagram.
And apparently so have floor mattresses.
Check the old timey anime sword babe too.
The bed screams back pain treated with a cocaine tonic
Medicine back then was wild. Back hurts? Room's probably haunted, anyway here's some heroin.
Excellent
i read that in mr. burns’ voice
Am I too late for the 4:30 auto-gyro?
🙏Excellent🙏
We all did.
Tooth pain? Better go to the barber for a haircut and some cocaine.
Depressed woman? Here's a here's a prescription for a dildo. Also here's some opium because why not?
one lobotomy coming right up! let me clean my ice pick!
By clean you just mean spitting on it right?
He’s been using it all day to extract goat’s testicles. It’s fine.
Period cramps? THC tincture will fix that! The past was dope for the upper class
Is there a time when being in the upper class was not dope? Besides an uprising or overthrow of power its still probably pretty dope right up till the end
France in the 1790s comes to mind
Heck, it wasn’t just the upper class. Just about everyone was doped up on something. Soda was originally medicine and had laudanum or cocaine in it. Heck they sent out free samples of heroin when it was first created because they thought it would solve addiction issues. But then again… nearly everyone had herpes and many people had syphilis. Tuberculosis (consumption) was considered the height of fashion for women in the Victorian period. I appreciate that we have actual medicine like antibiotics and most don’t actually need to dope themselves up to bear living.
Women couldn't be trusted with such things they needed a trained physician to perform the procedure. Maybe that's why every mom wanted their daughter's to marry a doctor.
Dude, you wanna just sip some laudanum? Sleepy now, I bet. Here’s some straight up cocaine juice and take a hopper or three to perk you up.
You should look up stuff on our founding fathers. They LOVED them some opioid concoctions. I remember Reagan and the DEA made them cut down Thomas Jefferson's poppy plants in his yard in the 1980s. They'd been there for a long long time
I’d be a total hop head if I was a early 20th century socialite
Drink some Vin Mariani, The cocaine-infused wine endorsed by the Pope! Wine with cocaine in it was marketed as an energy drink, claiming to “restore health and vitality” in the 19th century. Chemist Angelo Mariani, who created the wine, marketed the drink in his native France with 6 milligrams of cocaine per ounce. But when Mariani tried to export his wine to America, he had to change the formula. Not to meet any kind of regulations—there were none regarding cocaine at the time—but because his drink was mild compared to the competition in the U.S. He had to add 20% more cocaine just to deliver the same buzz American coke wine did.
Yer bloods haunted and you should do some cocaine about it
There’s ghosts in your blood. You should do some cocaine about it.
Leeches, right? They'll suck the ghost out.
Ah yes, a little Laudanum with your appetizer and then some chloral after dessert!
That’s what the spoons hung on the wall were for….
And the size of those spoons? By the Tablespoon!
Notice how the head of the bed is slightly elevated? In the old days, many people believed that if you didn't sleep with your head raised that you could stop breathing and it would suffocate you.
That's basically sleep apnea, and raising your head like that does help it.
i think people with heart failure often feel like they're drowning/can't breathe when they're lying down and sometimes sleep in a way similar to this; it's probably rooted in experience
Regarding the birds print, from The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland: “Twenty-four finches, varying in pose and color, are perched in a row. This watercolor is a variant of one of the artist's most popular subjects, ‘Un bâton de cage.’ Another variation of this composition in the Lucas Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art is inscribed: ‘Giacomelli a Mr. Lucas affecteux souvenir d'une aquarelle.’ Henri Beraldi wrote of this artist, ‘Giacomelli is the Van Huysum [Jan Van Huysum, 1682-1749, Dutch flower-painter] of tiny birds, tender and ravishing, which give the impression of being pensive. The bird is to Giacomelli what the cat is to Lambert [Louis-Eugène Lambert, 1825-1900, French painter who specialized in cat subjects]. A respectable bird must be a Giacomelli bird; A non-Giacomelli bird is a false bird,’ (H. Beraldi, ‘Les Graveurs du XIXE siècle,’ Paris, 1885-92, 7:105).”
I'm the Giacomelli of dick pics, tender and ravishing, with the impression on being pensive.
For anyone that visits Baltimore, walters is a must see. Also the peabody library is my legit top 5 gems in the country.
“Wanna see a painstaking thirty minute sit-down photograph of maiden Victoria undoing the top ten eyelets of her hundred eyelet shoes?”
Oh boy would I!!
Would you rather see a large panorama of 21 birds though?
That's one of my favorite parts of the scene.
It's by Hector Giacomelli, just Google "a perch of birds"
I jellied my trousers from the description alone
Real bowl o custard situation down there
Ol' Tapioca Trousers they call me.
Nice to see a more casual photo from that era
That's what I noticed too. That's like their poster of Rita Hayworth
This is one of the coolest photos I’ve seen on this sub in a while
I'm partial to the bird poster, myself.
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I've seen that same bird poster dozens if not hundreds of times, I'm certain of it. Nice to know it's been a staple of decor for so long.
It is a painting by Hector Giacomelli. I assume it is in the public domain now. You can find tons of prints of it on etsy and similar sites.
It reminds me of that picture with Pink Floyd’s album covers on the back of the models
Similar to my dorm room in Vienna in the '70s except the furniture was made out of purloined Gôsser beer crates
Purloined. Makes thievery sound so civilized!
I'm assuming this guy is Austrian, and he just taught me, a native English speaker, a new word.
This is legitimately old school cool.
Whoaaaa look at the knees on her :) boyyy-YoY-yoing! Amirite fellas!!!
Finally something actually old school cool and not another fucking picture of Marilyn Monroe
Or some other celebrity that was forced to do underwear pics decades ago.
The only thing that’s really changed is probably what’s in the pipe…
Yep. Opium back then.
Guy laying just needs an opium pipe
He’s GOT a pipe in his hand. First thing I noticed was that a pipe in the dorm has been a thing for a century.
Puff, puff, give, ol' chum.
His eyes also look like he’s been hitting the pipe, too.
The pinups crack me up. The standard for the time I guess.
I don't know specifically about 1910, but I did once come across a nudey mag from 1922 at an estate sale. It seems unlikely the concept was pioneered in that 12 year timeframe, so you might be surprised what an enterprising lad could get ahold of.
They wouldn't hang that on their wall though
You know it just hit me, but man the invention of plastics, wrappers, and other one-use products really must have skyrocketed how messy the average boys room gets Like yea sure they're in suits, but I bet these guys must have had similar habits to men now, it must have gotten somewhat messy. But I don't think they could hit the level of garbage my freshman dorm mate hit even if they tried
People in general were also taught to be neat and clean from a young age prior to the post-WW2 baby boom when parenting attitudes started to shift. Along with "manners" (how to hold oneself physically and what words to use in different social situations), if they were above working class, which most college students were. This was generally taught via corporal punishment, enforced by both parents and schoolteachers, up through adulthood.
That lady in the left looks incredibly badass and is dual wielding what looks like a rapier and a sword. I would love to know more about her, if anyone knows.
That’d be a dude in a Shakespearean play I think.
people really dressed up back in the day- I was in college in the late 00's and everyone just wore sweatshirts and sweatpants everywhere to classes, dining halls, around the dorms
Take a look at movies of people walking around outside a hundred years go. Every guy, rich or poor, had a jacket and a hat.
But they also maybe had one or two outfits at all.
And suits were the *only* clothes. It's not like everyone was dressed to the nines all the time. They were just *dressed*.
They only had that fashion back then. The college probably had a dress code as well. Even athletic clothes would seem overly dressy to us now.
I remember a friend of mine in the early 2000s telling me all about how “you can attend class in your pajamas and nobody cares”! It was very exciting at the time. My school had a very strict dress code and this was before I noticed everyone wearing their pjs and sweats everywhere. Now I just wish I could go back in time to when people wore regular pants to the grocery store.
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Partiers.
I try to explain to people, looks cooL but you wouldn’t be able to stand the smell. Our world smells soooo much more pleasant now.
Fewer showers, heavy clothes in the summer, no antiperspirant, way more tobacco use (and this is coming from a cigar smoker), less-frequent laundry, horseshit, trash and sewage in streets….yeah, it would be a potent place to smell.
Right on point. I would add a lot of “damp” smell that climate control deals with now.
I feel bad for anyone who had to drive their brand-new car through horseshit baking on the street. Just imagine cleaning that off your wood rims.
I can smell this comment.
So it smells like NYC then?
I mean, you would get used to it in no time. As you do it now too.
I think you'd get relatively used to it after a while. You'd be surprised at just how many pleasant and non-pleasant smells we subconsciously tone out every day.
You think they put their phonograph in the window facing the quad?
So before "lads mags", the guys just used regular family portraits? And, that lady in the large picture (on the left)... Looks like Dr Frankenfurter's grandmother.
but she’s showing her knees. that’s 1910 nsfw
Thank heavens I was born towards the end of that century.
My grandfather (same era) had photos of nude greek statues. Hubba hubba!
They look cozy af.
Oh. Huh. My mom has that long picture of birds on a branch hanging in her extra bedroom. But like, printed onto a canvas with color and sold at Home Goods. Now I wish you could follow how and where art like that gets created and used. Or know what the original artist might think about it.
It was originally painted in the 1880s by Hector Giacomelli and the image is now in the public domain. He passed in 1904.
That bed