This is how Floridaman got started. It's oppressively hot in Daytona Beach even on the water. Those idiots went insane, ripped off their clothes, and ran down the streets throwing alligators at innocent bystanders. Those bystanders became infected with the heat oppression. Welcome to the birth of Floridaman. Then they found meth, bath salts, and they put cameras on portable phones. Yep, welcome to Florida!
There's something that feels wrong with these sepia-toned vanilla sky pictures like this and World Fair photos. It's like they're all staged or photoshopped the old way.
No, the McHenry Museum in Modesto CA had a display of bicycles from the turn of the century (the last century) and that's what they looked like. Try doing an internet search on early 1900 bicycles.
Huh, I can't see anything like that in the picture. I know when I was doing research on Modesto when I lived in the area, I was shocked when I read a book by an earlier area historian and he said that at the turn of the century the most popular mode of transportation wasn't horses, but bicycles. Then I started checking out old pictures from that time and he was right - there were a shitload of bikes on the streets.
You have to remember the Cameras of that period did not have fast Shutter Speeds, so the subject(s) had to stay still for seconds or more. So of course they were often 'staged'.
Although I admit this one was not, hard to get hat many people standing still at the same time.
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That hussy in the white dress is showing her ankle!
ReplyDeleteBet she only has on 6 pairs of underwear too................
DeleteI bet it was great when horses were shitting on the beach.
ReplyDeleteThis is how Floridaman got started. It's oppressively hot in Daytona Beach even on the water. Those idiots went insane, ripped off their clothes, and ran down the streets throwing alligators at innocent bystanders. Those bystanders became infected with the heat oppression. Welcome to the birth of Floridaman. Then they found meth, bath salts, and they put cameras on portable phones. Yep, welcome to Florida!
ReplyDeleteThere's something that feels wrong with these sepia-toned vanilla sky pictures like this and World Fair photos. It's like they're all staged or photoshopped the old way.
ReplyDeleteIt's likely from a movie set. The bicycles are definitely wrong for the era.
DeleteNo, the McHenry Museum in Modesto CA had a display of bicycles from the turn of the century (the last century) and that's what they looked like. Try doing an internet search on early 1900 bicycles.
DeleteI stand corrected. Didn't think they had front cable brakes.
DeleteHuh, I can't see anything like that in the picture.
DeleteI know when I was doing research on Modesto when I lived in the area, I was shocked when I read a book by an earlier area historian and he said that at the turn of the century the most popular mode of transportation wasn't horses, but bicycles. Then I started checking out old pictures from that time and he was right - there were a shitload of bikes on the streets.
You have to remember the Cameras of that period did not have fast Shutter Speeds, so the subject(s) had to stay still for seconds or more. So of course they were often 'staged'.
DeleteAlthough I admit this one was not, hard to get hat many people standing still at the same time.
And after seeing the recently uncovered documentation Musk has determined all these folks are still collecting social security
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was that the Amish were having a day at the beach.
ReplyDeleteForget the crap...I see one horseless carriage!
ReplyDeleteAt least one of those pictured is drawing Social Security.
ReplyDeleteSo's his great, great, great, great grandfather.
DeleteNo Surfers!
ReplyDeleteOr joggers
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And not a single tat or nose ring to be seen.
DeleteI wonder that the lap time for the Daytona 500 was back then?
ReplyDeleteOne horsepower vehicles, so they called it the Daytona 50 back then.
DeleteFlorida man is under the boardwalk trying to look up petticoats.
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