Don’t know, but check the dude in the sombrero toward the right in the background.
You know what the very first thing I notice is??
None of them are overweight.
Eh, some of them seem to be.
Definitely. Look at the girl sitting in the sand and looking at the camera- she’s from the first picture for sure.
There’s a fat lady in the second picture.
Sailing tailors, 1896. How the hell did they get that cat to sit still for however long it took for that picture to be taken? And how long before the guy holding it decided to eat it?
What I noticed (the manners of the cat and dog aside), was how well-made these sailor’s uniforms were-the seams were all straight and tight, and their shoes were of high quality. Of course, the US Navy was always a spit and polish outfit.
But these guys were surely top class.
I didn’t look at any other pictures. Also the poster that said “some look like they are” well…maybe, a bit, but certainly not what “overweight” looks like today. I just thought if you were to take the same type of group at the beach today it would be a glaring difference, sort of like the lack of sunglasses-IMHO.
I suspect they won’t think anything about them, because they’ll have long since faded into wherever data in obsolete formats go to die. I think about this quite a bit, actually, because I spend a lot of time looking at old snapshots and vacation photos and so on. Right now, we take tons of pictures. More so than any other time in history - everybody and their brother has a camera. But very, very few of them exist in hard copy. Same with blogs - we write about our lives endlessly, but only in digital format.
No one is going to find your youtube videos in a trunk in the attic. No one is going to buy your dusty blog 100 years from now in a junk shop and take it home to read. No one is going to dig out a stack of your digital photos from under a floorboard and wonder at the funny shoes and sunglasses.
Huh? Where do you see her in the first pic?
OMG that made me ill. The look in that guys eyes is exactly the look my ex used to get. Not a single other thing makes them look alike, but he’s a dead ringer nonetheless.
I wonder how the shutter speeds would compare to my cell phone’s camera, for example. I can get fairly decent photos of people smiling and what not if they’re standing still, but if there’s a bit of movement it looks a lot like the result in these photos – a hand or face just blurred a bit if someone happened to move.
I thought she was the one getting her face held in the first one.
check this one out. I didn’t expect to see a 1905 lady sporting shades:
Different dress. The edging on it, the sleeves, and collar are all different. To me her face looks different, too, but that’s hard to tell without the professional smiler doing his part.
No worky
That happened to me yesterday, too.
Copy’n’paste the url and it works.
Not that long. The ripples in the water aren’t blurred.
Here’s a group I haven’t seen in any of these old photos — a group of black folks enjoying the beach.
And you know what totally skeeves me out is that cat and dog are probably dead now 
Seriously, there must have been a lot more drownings back then because once those bathing suits got wet they must have weighed a ton.