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(Life.com) Interesting Recently discovered photographs suggest that, decades ago, Mardi Gras was a refined, subdued, elegant affair ... uhm ... can someone ask those obviously hammered dudes in bras and garters to move it along?   (life.time.com) divider line 81
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RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 10:36:16 AM
www.destination360.com

Venice still laughs at our carnival.
 
quickdraw [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 11:02:09 AM
They had way better hats back then
 
blorpenster
2012-02-21 01:51:26 PM
Who cares. Let our repressed past stay in the past. Hoooooray for boobies!
 
Johnnyflash [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 01:57:04 PM
Deslidden.

http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http%3A%2F%2Flife.time . com%2Fculture%2Fmardi-gras-unpublished-photos-from-new-orleans-1938%2F
 
deeproy
2012-02-21 01:58:18 PM
Wow, look at all the hats!
 
9beers
2012-02-21 01:58:25 PM
So it's as crowded as it is now but nobody was showing tits?
 
penthesilea [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 02:02:24 PM
Johnnyflash: Deslidden.

http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http%3A%2F%2Flife.time . com%2Fculture%2Fmardi-gras-unpublished-photos-from-new-orleans-1938%2F

Ooh! Thanks for the non-slideshow'd Link (pops) Life.com is always wonky on my computer.
 
Johnnyflash [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 02:03:02 PM
deeproy: Wow, look at all the hats!

Not too mention the suits men use to wear when they went out, people used to treat going out as a special occasion and dress for it.

I've been looking for a vintage fedora, you'd think I could find one at a thrift store by now, been looking for months.
 
Johnnyflash [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 02:07:05 PM
penthesilea: Johnnyflash: Deslidden.

http://deslide.clusterfake.net/?o=html_table&u=http%3A%2F%2Flife.time . com%2Fculture%2Fmardi-gras-unpublished-photos-from-new-orleans-1938%2F

Ooh! Thanks for the non-slideshow'd Link (pops) Life.com is always wonky on my computer.

No matter what I do, I can never get a link to pop, so thanks for the poppy link. And BTW, whoever approves links that have slides should be forced to provide the deslide pop link.
 
AcneVulgaris
2012-02-21 02:09:08 PM
Where are the fat people?
 
Kraftwerk Orange
2012-02-21 02:09:16 PM
1.bp.blogspot.com
 
metamax
2012-02-21 02:11:10 PM
Dammit AcneVulgaris... you beat me to it.
 
simplicimus [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 02:13:02 PM
I'm old school, put on mask, ride my horse and steal chickens.
/Then a big meal for the town.
 
MadMonk
2012-02-21 02:21:19 PM
It was so much fun back then when you could party in black face and not worry about being ridiculed. Will the hate on black face ever stop? I mean, gah! it's 2012, people, I can't believe the intolerance.

/ damn, I want a hat now.
 
AirForceVet [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 02:26:54 PM
I liked the photos showing the segregation between whites and blacks back then. Particularly the white guys in black face boarding the boat with a crowd of blacks watching them on the shore.

/History that bears not repeating.
 
quatchi
2012-02-21 02:27:49 PM
"People should wear more hats."
 
bikerbob59
2012-02-21 02:27:51 PM
RexTalionis: [www.destination360.com image 415x332]

Venice still laughs at our carnival.

How can you tell in that pic?
 
Fish in a Barrel
2012-02-21 02:30:57 PM
deeproy: Wow, look at all the hats!

I came here to post the exact some thing.
 
Todo_Pijudo
2012-02-21 02:31:53 PM
AirForceVet and MadMonk

Those are black people in black face dressing for the Krewe of Zulu.
 
Porktropolis
2012-02-21 02:33:33 PM
Johnnyflash: deeproy: Wow, look at all the hats!

Not too mention the suits men use to wear when they went out, people used to treat going out as a special occasion and dress for it.

I've been looking for a vintage fedora, you'd think I could find one at a thrift store by now, been looking for months.

people are not wear enough hats

i1058.photobucket.com
 
hailin [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 02:34:46 PM
This holiday just serves to prove what a dick my grandmother is. They own a timeshare in the French Quarter that is two bedrooms with a balcony. It happens to be around the time Mardi Gras is most years. The last three times I've wanted to go she tells me that she always lets my uncle and his family have it since it is the only vacation they can afford. The last three times no one from my uncles family wanted to use it so it sat empty. On this very last attempt I offered to give her $200 on top of her maintenance fee and she finally said she just doesn't trust I will take care of the place. Yes, me, who hasn't even had so much as a parking ticket is not trustworthy enough yet my uncle who has been in jail twice and my cousin who has been in jail four times and thrown out of multiple hotels for rowdiness are much more trustworthy.

I've just given up trying to get her to let me use the timeshare. This is also another item on my pretty long list of reasons I think my grandmother is a selfish coont and why I refuse to by a $900 plane ticket to celebrate her oh-so-important and special 90th birthday that all family members MUST attend. Fark that and she'll be lucky if I even send her a gift.
 
Shocktopus
2012-02-21 02:35:15 PM
Those would probably be interesting, but I'll never know because I'm not waiting a full minute between each slide.
 
Rufus Lee King
2012-02-21 02:36:55 PM
Todo_Pijudo: AirForceVet and MadMonk

Those are black people in black face dressing for the Krewe of Zulu.

Thanks. I wanted to point that out, but didn't dare.

sobsnyc.files.wordpress.com
 
loki see loki do
2012-02-21 02:44:08 PM
Batsakes Hat Shop
 
chemrebel
2012-02-21 02:45:15 PM
(slide 9)

Grandpa???
 
lwpengy
2012-02-21 02:47:18 PM
WHAR BOOBIES
WHAR BEADS
WHAR!!!!!
 
Sky Masterson
2012-02-21 02:49:47 PM
My friend's father (who recently passed away at 88) said that the reason everyone wore suits out in public during the 1930s and 40s was that most people generally only had work clothes and then one set of nice "going out" clothes, which for men was a suit.
 
johnny queso
2012-02-21 02:50:35 PM
Mardi gras in n.o. used to involve smashing the dirty, lazy immigrants on the head with bricks. Kinda like the RNC, but with Irish and Italians instead of Mexicans.

Mardi gras in l.a. < tebow < mardi gras in LA
:'(
 
tweek46420 [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 02:52:56 PM
timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com

pretty sure i've walked down that same place
 
groppet
2012-02-21 02:59:33 PM
No GGW back then?
 
Jake Havechek
2012-02-21 03:02:52 PM
Now it's all boobs and bloody diarrhea.
 
itsfullofstars
2012-02-21 03:12:00 PM
Jake Havechek: Now it's all boobs and bloody diarrhea.


and nerds

chewbacchus.org
 
vudukungfu
2012-02-21 03:16:54 PM
AcneVulgaris: Where are the fat people?

Believe it or not, back then, people worked hard, and exercized.
Also, that gal on the tracs with the 2 kids?
Hubba hubba
23 skikoo!
 
JonnyBGoode
2012-02-21 03:18:07 PM
Johnnyflash: deeproy: Wow, look at all the hats!

Not too mention the suits men use to wear when they went out, people used to treat going out as a special occasion and dress for it.

I've been looking for a vintage fedora, you'd think I could find one at a thrift store by now, been looking for months.

It's pretty annoying (and sad) when I go out on the town dressed like that, and young people today with absolutely no frame of reference (or sense of style) refer to me as "the pimp."
 
vudukungfu
2012-02-21 03:20:22 PM
Todo_Pijudo: AirForceVet and MadMonk

Those are black people in black face dressing for the Krewe of Zulu.

Any other day, a brother in black face would be dividing by zero, but mardi gras? commonplace.
I've seen women dressed up like femal drag queens, even.
Exit - stage left.
 
RobSeace [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 03:20:31 PM
timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com

They did The Robot back then??
 
Tyee
2012-02-21 03:21:23 PM
I wonder if those black guys in #14 know that wearing "black face" is racist?
 
jigger
2012-02-21 03:22:26 PM
They're taking it back.
 
chknjetski
2012-02-21 03:23:20 PM
hailin: This holiday just serves to prove what a dick my grandmother is. They own a timeshare in the French Quarter that is two bedrooms with a balcony. It happens to be around the time Mardi Gras is most years. The last three times I've wanted to go she tells me that she always lets my uncle and his family have it since it is the only vacation they can afford. The last three times no one from my uncles family wanted to use it so it sat empty. On this very last attempt I offered to give her $200 on top of her maintenance fee and she finally said she just doesn't trust I will take care of the place. Yes, me, who hasn't even had so much as a parking ticket is not trustworthy enough yet my uncle who has been in jail twice and my cousin who has been in jail four times and thrown out of multiple hotels for rowdiness are much more trustworthy.

I've just given up trying to get her to let me use the timeshare. This is also another item on my pretty long list of reasons I think my grandmother is a selfish coont and why I refuse to by a $900 plane ticket to celebrate her oh-so-important and special 90th birthday that all family members MUST attend. Fark that and she'll be lucky if I even send her a gift.

More power to ya.
 
JonnyBGoode
2012-02-21 03:28:25 PM
RobSeace: [timelifeblog.files.wordpress.com image 640x426]

They did The Robot back then??

Guy on the right looks like he's doing the Charleston. Not sure what the guy next to him is doing.

I did the Charleston at a club the other night when the DJ started spinning the Party Rock song, just to be silly. Kids thought they were seeing a new dance.
 
jigger
2012-02-21 03:31:15 PM
hailin: This holiday just serves to prove what a dick my grandmother is. They own a timeshare in the French Quarter that is two bedrooms with a balcony. It happens to be around the time Mardi Gras is most years. The last three times I've wanted to go she tells me that she always lets my uncle and his family have it since it is the only vacation they can afford. The last three times no one from my uncles family wanted to use it so it sat empty. On this very last attempt I offered to give her $200 on top of her maintenance fee and she finally said she just doesn't trust I will take care of the place. Yes, me, who hasn't even had so much as a parking ticket is not trustworthy enough yet my uncle who has been in jail twice and my cousin who has been in jail four times and thrown out of multiple hotels for rowdiness are much more trustworthy.



Sounds like she just wants someone there that knows how to party.
 
vudukungfu
2012-02-21 03:32:17 PM
JonnyBGoode: I did the Charleston at a club the other night when the DJ started spinning the Party Rock song, just to be silly. Kids thought they were seeing a new dance.

Can you do the Black Bottom?
the New Raccoon?
The Charleston Mio?
 
JonnyBGoode
2012-02-21 03:38:41 PM
vudukungfu: JonnyBGoode: I did the Charleston at a club the other night when the DJ started spinning the Party Rock song, just to be silly. Kids thought they were seeing a new dance.

Can you do the Black Bottom?
the New Raccoon?
The Charleston Mio?

Hey, I'm still working on the Lindy! :p
 
Ishkur [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 03:38:42 PM
RobSeace: They did The Robot back then??

dude, Michael Jackson got all his moves from Cab Calloway.
 
Dinjiin
2012-02-21 03:39:23 PM
Ugh, what is it with Time and all of their cross site scripting?

images16.fotki.com
 
capt.hollister
2012-02-21 03:42:22 PM
Sky Masterson: My friend's father (who recently passed away at 88) said that the reason everyone wore suits out in public during the 1930s and 40s was that most people generally only had work clothes and then one set of nice "going out" clothes, which for men was a suit.

aka their "marry/bury" suit.
 
TheBigJerk
2012-02-21 03:43:22 PM
hailin: This holiday just serves to prove what a dick my grandmother is. They own a timeshare in the French Quarter that is two bedrooms with a balcony. It happens to be around the time Mardi Gras is most years. The last three times I've wanted to go she tells me that she always lets my uncle and his family have it since it is the only vacation they can afford. The last three times no one from my uncles family wanted to use it so it sat empty. On this very last attempt I offered to give her $200 on top of her maintenance fee and she finally said she just doesn't trust I will take care of the place. Yes, me, who hasn't even had so much as a parking ticket is not trustworthy enough yet my uncle who has been in jail twice and my cousin who has been in jail four times and thrown out of multiple hotels for rowdiness are much more trustworthy.

I've just given up trying to get her to let me use the timeshare. This is also another item on my pretty long list of reasons I think my grandmother is a selfish coont and why I refuse to by a $900 plane ticket to celebrate her oh-so-important and special 90th birthday that all family members MUST attend. Fark that and she'll be lucky if I even send her a gift.

I you would just suck up to her more often because you needed shiat and thus make her feel important and powerful then she'd probably like you better. Instead you're being successful and not NEEDING her and not letting her have power over you to control your life. You selfish monster, how dare you succeed?

But that's just a guess.
 
capt.hollister
2012-02-21 03:45:34 PM
hailin: This holiday just serves to prove what a dick my grandmother is. They own a timeshare in the French Quarter that is two bedrooms with a balcony. It happens to be around the time Mardi Gras is most years. The last three times I've wanted to go she tells me that she always lets my uncle and his family have it since it is the only vacation they can afford. The last three times no one from my uncles family wanted to use it so it sat empty. On this very last attempt I offered to give her $200 on top of her maintenance fee and she finally said she just doesn't trust I will take care of the place. Yes, me, who hasn't even had so much as a parking ticket is not trustworthy enough yet my uncle who has been in jail twice and my cousin who has been in jail four times and thrown out of multiple hotels for rowdiness are much more trustworthy.

I've just given up trying to get her to let me use the timeshare. This is also another item on my pretty long list of reasons I think my grandmother is a selfish coont and why I refuse to by a $900 plane ticket to celebrate her oh-so-important and special 90th birthday that all family members MUST attend. Fark that and she'll be lucky if I even send her a gift.

You should hear what she says about you...
 
vudukungfu
2012-02-21 03:48:21 PM
JonnyBGoode:
Hey, I'm still working on the Lindy! :p

Wait til you see the Lindy Hustle.

/Last year, it was the Time Warp break in the middle of a Korobushka.
 
ShawnDoc [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 03:49:17 PM
Look how skinny everyone was back then. Had King Cake not been invented yet?
 
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