Come and see My pictures Tell us about your hobbies!

[Cameron]

I think some of the picture was actually cut off.  Here's the original link

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/aperrier/school_children.jpg

I dont think the person I was referring to came through at all.  Weird, here is this picture with all these intriguing people, and no way of knowing anything more.

[Arad-3]

Such odd looking kids! Sad thing is most all these people have had their lives by now. probably most or all of them are dead. 

Lets think Spring again!  Cheer us up!

[Cameron]

Yep, spring is better.
How about in the mountains.



and another

[Cameron]

Hi Geri,

Is it still snowing up there?

Here are some more spring mountains.

(Don't know what this thing with the mountains is)

[David In Indy]

OMG!  Thats an old school picture!  Whats with that guy?  He looks like a little man.

Those kids do look a bit spooky! People always do look kind of creepy in those old black and white, turn of the century pictures.

[Cameron]

Yeah, they do, but there was a place near me that had a lot of old school pictures right in the window, and in some of them the faces look like they should be around today, which is also wierd.

But this picture, I do agree there is something especially creepy and spooky about them.
I don't know what, but something about them.

[David In Indy]

Yeah, they do, but there was a place near me that had a lot of old school pictures right in the window, and in some of them the faces look like they should be around today, which is also wierd.

But this picture, I do agree there is something especially creepy and spooky about them.
I don't know what, but something about them.

I think it's the blank, unsmiling stare. At least I think that's what freaks me out. I remember my Grandmother telling me about these pictures. Grandma was born in 1906, and she told me they had to sit perfectly still for approximately 30 seconds as the picture was taken. They had a thing called a "birdie" the photographer would hold up. They were told to "look at the birdie" while the camera's shutter was opened, exposing the film. We sure have come a long way from "looking at the birdie" to digital cameras. 

[Arad-3]

awwh!  more like it!

[Arad-3]

High School Kids Then

Also do you notice there is one black child in this class?  It looks like this is 1920.  This picture was defineatly not taken down South thats for sure!  Does it say Stewartville, Ohio?

[Cameron]

I just went back to the picture, it comes from the Carnegie Mellon U. web site.  I think it does say Stewartville, Ohio.  That does make sense, I guess its right next to Pittsburgh, the address on the web site.

I wondered about the black kid too.  Even for the north I can't imagine many schools were intergrated then.

Can you imagine, if any of these people are still alive they would be about 103.

What an interesting picture, I guess that's why it was posted. But they do all look rather sad.

OMG, I am have CNN right now and the anchor just said, "And now we are going to Mexico, Mexico N.Y. I mean"

And there is the reporter now  in the snow in Mexico, NY.  (I never knew there was one.)
But the way the anchor said it, he surely must be a Brokie.