# The Pickle Sisters

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pickle-sisters/780565>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 23, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pickle-sisters/780565 "2017-02-23T16:22:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pickle-sisters/780565/1 "2017-02-23T16:22:56Z")

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I saw [this photo (1920s)](https://seattle98.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/116.jpg) of The Pickle Sisters today. I can’t seem to find any information on them.

Any info?

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pickle-sisters/780565/2 "2017-02-23T16:56:37Z")

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Mmm, they look delicious!

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**Author:** ![quimper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/7c8e57/32.png) [@quimper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quimper)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pickle-sisters/780565/3 "2017-02-23T17:08:06Z")

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This would be a great submission to [r/colorizebot](https://www.reddit.com/r/colorizebot/) (AI seems broken now but one can hope)

Apparently [Pickle Sisters](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pickle%20Sisters) are the female equiv of Eskimo Brothers 😃

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pickle-sisters/780565/4 "2017-02-23T17:14:17Z")

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> [@quimper](#):
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> This would be a great submission to [r/colorizebot](https://www.reddit.com/r/colorizebot/) (AI seems broken now but one can hope)

Already been colorized. Just do a google image search for pickle sisters. (No clues as to their origin, though.)

Still not as impressive as the [potato salad sisters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1J3NLNWAPU), though.

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**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pickle-sisters/780565/5 "2017-02-23T18:06:10Z")

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Here’s a [1909 article](https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/28950593/) from the Washington Post that appears to reference them. If the picture is truly from the 1920s, it doesn’t seem likely they are the same people - the girls in the picture are too young.

The OCR text is a terrible rendering of the actual text, but as read by OCR, it seems to be a correspondence from someone commenting on various vaudeville acts and the quality in DC, with the following line:

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> Then he admits that he liked those trained soup bones that called themselves the Pickle sisters and he says that those hoys that sang were fine and that the sketch was right good.