Photo: The Time Traveler?
gizmodo - When you look at most of the two dozen or so people in this photograph, which belongs to a Canadian museum, there's no doubt that they're from 1940, the year in which it was taken. But what about that guy?
Those funky sunglasses? That stamped t-shirt and hippie shawl? The doofy, disinterested expression? He sure as hell doesn't look like any Roosevelt-era bro I have ever seen. Maybe that's just it—he looks like a "bro," which we all know didn't come into existence until the 1970s, at the earliest.
Forgetomori has an extensive analysis of the photo and the mystery man, and, with some help from members of ATS, points out that no single item of his wardrobe is technically out of period.
But his entire essence, especially in contrast to the sea of fedoras and 1940s enthusiasm around him, screams that he's from another era entirely. Sorry, time travel bro, you've been spotted.
NOTE: Maybe it's an 'observer' :) I've been reading the theories on this photo and, honestly, I have no opinion...Lon
Photo: The Time Traveler?
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posted by Lon Strickler at 10:58 AM
3 Comments:
That's intriguing, but farm workers and laborers would wear such things. The fact that he put himself into a crowd of people in period outfits, if he was wearing something that totally didn't fit in, he wouldn't be so easily accepted by the others. If he was trying to be an observer, he wouldn't dress out of era. I think it's just a "redneck" amongst the locals.
*facepalm*
It's clearly a modern photo, someone joking on a movie/tv set.
speaking as one who's welded quite a bit, it's obvious that that guy's a welder. he's wearing welding glasses, as well as a few layers of junk-clothing. welders back in 1940 (and now, if they can't afford good gear) typically wore layers of clothing they didn't care about, as sparks fly all over the place and burn holes in your clothes during arc welding. his face is also showing exposure to the UV that arc welding gives off.
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