I presume the families are of Irish ancestry, dates and locations unknown.
The images are leftovers from messing with Xwitter’s Grok AI generator (click to enlarge).
Thanksgiving ca. 1923
Category: Bizarre
Teichoscopic Hot Links
Girl Of My Dreams, Ike Quebec (1945) An accomplished dancer and pianist, Ike Quebec switched to tenor sax as his primary instrument in his early 20s, and quickly earned a reputation as a promising player. His recording career started in 1940, with Count Basie’s Barons of Rhythm.
The Sloopy Girl.
The real Sloopy.
Greg on X (sound up).
Frog flops [via Bunkerville].
First date / fast food survey.
The Hog Killin’ [via Feral Irishman].
Deathcalator [via Memo Of The Air].
“What would you say to the Pilgrims?”
How to move a gemsbok without getting killed.
[Top image: A GROK- generated image with the prompt “Create a photo of an American family in the 1920s sitting at the dinner table with a large potato.”
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 881 – Extra Hot Sauce, Dancing Home & The Rapture
Driving While Moth
Illuminating Gandhi
[Found in here.]
Emergency Gear
When nuclear fallout protection was all the rage.
Not sure what’s in the Emergency Life Pack, perhaps an 8 day supply of cigarettes and iodine pills. Note that the Cuban Missile Crisis went down in October of 1962, so the photo date may be in error.
[Photo by Max Scheler, colorized, found here.]
Let’s Ventriloquise!
‘Ventriloquism’ With 5 Famous Comics Talking Figures – This 1930s book contained four thin cardboard talking figures: Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Smitty, Moon Mullins and Lillums.
[Found here.]
Boustrophedonic Hot Links
Step By Step, The Four Hollidays (1963) One of several groups out of Detroit with similar names, this one had an extra L and featured Cleo “Sonny” Barksdale, Robert Barksdale, James Holland and Johnny Mitchell.
OCD.
Cat Hotel [via Mme. Jujujive].
Professional pool hustlers.
Jeremy Jones tells some stories.
Daisy has all the time in the world.
Printing concrete [via Bunkerville].
Unusual food phobias (including mortuusequusphobia).
Constance Frances Marie Ockelman [via Memo Of The Air].
An interview with UK Labour Minister Steven Pineless [via Bustednuckles].
The only instrumental single ever banned from radio in the US.
[Top image: Traditional Taiwanese fire fishing, story here.]
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The .Gif Friday Post No. 880 – Hi-Def Bacon, Happy Rain Doggo & Breaking Bat
They Heard Them Coming – Bloco da Latinha
“A local helps a reveler with his costume made from beer and soda cans during the ‘Bloco da Latinha’ street party Carnival parade in Madre de Deus, Brazil, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres).”
“Carnival revelers in northeastern Brazil ‘s Madre de Deus heard the aluminum can street party before spotting it: More than 30 paraders decked out in cumbersome outfits made from hundreds of beer and soda cans clanged their way around the island in Bahia state’s Bay Of All Saints.”
Tacky Raccoons 