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Saturday, January 17. 2015


 Funny thing about this pic is that I first imagined that he was talking on a cell phone


Posted by Bird Dog at 05:04 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)

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Cell phone! Ha,ha. That's good. Interesting moment in time. Iconic photographic comment on the Great Crash. It's a Chrysler, which was still a fairly new and fast-emerging make at the time. That hood ornament would become a decorative signature on the Chrysler Building. Note, too, that it has a golf club compartment (little square door at rear), for gentlemen of leisure. Well dressed fellow looking it over. I like the the bowler. Yeah, BD, I love that cell phone thought.
#1 Ralph Kinney Bennett on 2015-01-17 06:30 (Reply)
The photo exemplifies the benefit of having cash during a deflationary period, but you'd think twice about buying that car today for $100 when it might be $75 next week and $50 the next. And for a second I too thought the guy was on a cell phone.
#2 Talnik on 2015-01-17 08:40 (Reply)
I was a growing boy then, or shortly thereafter (can't pin down exactly when the photo was taken). Whenever I see someone talking on a cell phone, it looks to me like they're scratching their heads. Still can't get used to the &%#$@!! things.
#3 BillH on 2015-01-17 09:48 (Reply)

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