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kybearfuzz ([personal profile] kybearfuzz) wrote2011-05-25 07:29 am

As Found on Flickr

From a glass plate negative of people enjoying a horse race in 1934 in Australia.

Racegoers at Warwick Farm racecourse

You know by that wild striped pattern outfit, the obvious cup of alcohol, and those high heels, she must have been the tart of the group. :)

[identity profile] dendren.livejournal.com 2011-05-25 03:17 pm (UTC)(link)
color didn't exist back then, the whole world was black and white, I'm sure of it.

;)

[identity profile] bruinwi.livejournal.com 2011-05-25 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Color wasn't invented until about 1949...and wasn't widely distributed until 1955.

In da U.P., we didn't get color until 1968, and then, only because we got cable.