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Friday, December 21. 2012

1921

Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Warren G. Harding, and Harvey Firestone, 1921. I wonder where that camp was. I bet one thing they chatted about was American prosperity.


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Interesting that they are all sitting around with wingtips and bow ties at what is obviously a "camp".
#1 Tom Francis on 2012-12-21 06:04 (Reply)
I know they went sometimes to the upper Hudson, around Albany. Here's an article describing a camping tript in West Virginia. http://apps.detnews.com/apps/history/index.php?id=105
#2 Terry Kirkpatrick (Link) on 2012-12-21 06:04 (Reply)
Bird Dog: I wonder where that camp was.

Licking Creek, MD

http://www.dnr.state.md.us/feature_stories/FamousTravelersPart2.asp

http://www.retronaut.com/2012/04/edison-ford-firestone-and-president-harding-go-camping-july-1921/
#3 Zachriel on 2012-12-21 08:42 (Reply)
There ought to be a little cartoon light bulb over Edison's head, strobing on and off as he puffs that cigar and connects whatever info he's pulling from that newspaper -
#4 buddy larsen on 2012-12-21 12:59 (Reply)
Re: the formal clothes at "camp"...really up until the late fifties men mostly didn't leave the house without a tie and hat.

I can remember attending a Detroit Lions football game in 1958 at Biggs Stadium...the Lie-downs (their should-be name) were playing the Colts; sitting in my seat I could just glimpse the playing field and the players, but only when the men in front of me sat down...which wasn't often. Can't remember seeing a single lady there.

Everybody was in coats, hats, and ties...at an NFL game! That's just the way men dressed...until really, the early sixties.

Personally...I'd like to go back if I could...in many ways it was a better world.
#5 VoteOutIncumbents on 2012-12-21 16:08 (Reply)
You're right. Men now dress the same as little boys. At games they're wearing shorts, t-shirts and baseball caps.
#5.1 LP on 2012-12-22 20:06 (Reply)
JFK killed the hat --he just didn't wear them, and the nation followed.
#5.2 buddy larsen on 2012-12-23 22:02 (Reply)
...followed suit, shoulda said.
#5.2.1 buddy larsen on 2012-12-23 22:19 (Reply)
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&q=the+ascent+of+man+youtube&rlz=1I7GGLL_en

The Ascent of Man the 1973 documentary from the book --author Jacob Bronowski also narrated the TV series.

What was endearingly hilarious was to see the liitle old man, hauled off to his book's far-remote locations (big budget groundbreaking documentary series -take a look at the link if you want to lose 13 hours), such a the scrag and scree of the lips of active volcanoes) in his person, would be wearing his street clothes, with a outdoors jacket maybe. Sometimes you see the shoes --streets of London wing-tips --on jungle trails in the Owen Stanley Mountains of New Guinea. LOL --too much -!
#6 buddy larsen on 2012-12-23 22:35 (Reply)

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