Author Topic: Can you guess the . . .crowd? (Read 17735 times)

Front-Ranger · « **on:** June 13, 2020, 04:10:07 pm »

A new game! And I put it in the right place, for once!

Are you like me, getting all nostalgic when you see pictures of crowds? People enjoying rubbing shoulders with each other, laughing and singing, not stand-offy or suspicious. Well, here we can post pictures of crowds and see if others can guess the location and/or event. I'll start. This was an event a few years ago, and if you look closely, you can guess what was happening!

serious crayons · « **Reply #1 on:** June 13, 2020, 07:34:37 pm »

Is it Larry McMurtry in his bookstore in Archer City, Texas, in August of 2012 at an event called The Last Book Sale (the name a reference to The Last Picture Show, which was filmed on that site) where he sold about 28,000 books from his personal collection?

Just a wild guess.

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2020, 09:41:45 am »

Yes, you are correct! See how easy that was? Now it's your turn!

serious crayons · « **Reply #3 on:** June 14, 2020, 11:03:17 am »

OK, how about this, as a reminder that rubbing shoulders in crowds has its downsides.

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #4 on:** June 14, 2020, 01:30:36 pm »

Well, it appears to be something that happened in San Jose, so I'll guess the riot by antiwar protestors outside a Nixon campaign rally in 1970. Nixon himself fanned the flames, according to H. R. Haldeman's autobiography: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/28/nixon-protest-law-and-order-221920

serious crayons · « **Reply #5 on:** June 14, 2020, 02:36:48 pm »

Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 14, 2020, 01:30:36 pm

Well, it appears to be something that happened in San Jose, so I'll guess the riot by antiwar protestors outside a Nixon campaign rally in 1970. Nixon himself fanned the flames, according to H. R. Haldeman's autobiography: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/28/nixon-protest-law-and-order-221920

The location is about 40 miles from San Jose. It wasn't an antiwar protest/riot, and not connected to Nixon. The year was 1969.

southendmd · « **Reply #6 on:** June 14, 2020, 04:38:58 pm »

Is that the so-called Woodstock West concert? Was it the Stones? Jefferson Airplane? Someone was killed. Hell's Angels were "security".

serious crayons · « **Reply #7 on:** June 14, 2020, 05:06:54 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 14, 2020, 04:38:58 pm

Is that the so-called Woodstock West concert? Was it the Stones? Jefferson Airplane? Someone was killed. Hell's Angels were "security".

Excellent work, Paul!

The Stones' concert at Altamont Speedway represents the dark violent side of the '60s, just as Woodstock was the peaceful happy side. The Stones were winding up a U.S. tour and wanted to end with a free concert, a la Woodstock. On the advice of the Grateful Dead, they hired the Hell's Angels as security. The Angels hit and knocked out a member of the Jefferson Airplane at one point and when the Grateful Dead heard that, they bailed without going onstage. Santana, Crosby Stills Nash & Young and the Flying Burrito Brothers also played, but supposedly there was a bad vibe throughout; the musicians had to keep pleading with the crowd to settle down.

When the Stones went onstage, they kept having to stop playing. "Brothers and sisters, why are we fighting?" Mick asks the crowd. Finally, while they're playing the Hells Angels stabbed a young man named Meredith Hunter. The whole thing was captured on film by the Maysleys Brothers, documentarians who just happened to be doing a film about the whole tour. The film, Gimme Shelter, is excellent -- my second favorite concert film, I think.

There it is! If I threw in a few quotes from Keith you'd have the research paper I wrote for a college English class.

Your turn ...

southendmd · « **Reply #8 on:** June 15, 2020, 07:57:02 am »

Anyone recognize this crowd?

serious crayons · « **Reply #9 on:** June 15, 2020, 09:06:43 am »

Another milestone event from 1969 -- Stonewall.

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #10 on:** June 15, 2020, 09:25:25 am »

I second that!

Jeff Wrangler · « **Reply #11 on:** June 15, 2020, 10:13:48 am »

Quote from: serious crayons on June 15, 2020, 09:06:43 am

Another milestone event from 1969 -- Stonewall.

I'd guess the same. That brickwork in the background looks familiar. Besides, it's Pride month. And, I'm not joking, I'd swear I saw that blond in the crowd in a documentary I saw on PBS last week.

southendmd · « **Reply #12 on:** June 15, 2020, 10:47:09 am »

Quote from: serious crayons on June 15, 2020, 09:06:43 am

Another milestone event from 1969 -- Stonewall.

It sure is!

Sason · « **Reply #13 on:** June 15, 2020, 03:13:47 pm »

Anyone know what this crowd is about?

southendmd · « **Reply #14 on:** June 15, 2020, 05:29:12 pm »

Is it outside the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show? Lovely German Shepherd in the photo.

Just kidding.

Is the scene in Europe? Sweden, perhaps?

serious crayons · « **Reply #15 on:** June 15, 2020, 06:57:40 pm »

Is it an event involving royalty?

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #16 on:** June 15, 2020, 07:56:46 pm »

Is it Winston Churchill's funeral?

Penthesilea · « **Reply #17 on:** June 16, 2020, 02:55:49 am »

Quote from: Sason on June 15, 2020, 03:13:47 pm

Anyone know what this crowd is about?

Olof Palme?

Sason · « **Reply #18 on:** June 16, 2020, 02:34:59 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 15, 2020, 05:29:12 pm

Is it outside the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show? Lovely German Shepherd in the photo.

Just kidding.

Is the scene in Europe? Sweden, perhaps?

No dog show. The dog is working (hint).

Yes in Sweden.

Sason · « **Reply #19 on:** June 16, 2020, 02:35:20 pm »

Quote from: serious crayons on June 15, 2020, 06:57:40 pm

Is it an event involving royalty?

No royalty involved.

Sason · « **Reply #20 on:** June 16, 2020, 02:35:36 pm »

Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 15, 2020, 07:56:46 pm

Is it Winston Churchill's funeral?

No.

Sason · « **Reply #21 on:** June 16, 2020, 02:36:59 pm »

Quote from: Penthesilea on June 16, 2020, 02:55:49 am

Olof Palme?

This event occured many years before Olof Palme was murdered.

southendmd · « **Reply #22 on:** June 16, 2020, 02:46:13 pm »

Is this when you crazy Swedes changed overnight from driving on the left to driving on the right?

Sason · « **Reply #23 on:** June 16, 2020, 02:48:00 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 16, 2020, 02:46:13 pm

Is this when you crazy Swedes changed overnight from driving on the left to driving on the right?

Nope.

And no prize for you if you guess it, us Swedes don't like insults!

southendmd · « **Reply #24 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:13:27 pm »

Is it the night ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest?

What else ever happened in Sweden?

Sason · « **Reply #25 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:27:03 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 16, 2020, 03:13:27 pm

Is it the night ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest?

What else ever happened in Sweden?

No it isn't. I don't think there was a need for any dogs that night.

Hint: the event that caused this crowd has generated a diagnosis.

southendmd · « **Reply #26 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:28:34 pm »

Quote from: Sason on June 16, 2020, 03:27:03 pm

No it isn't. I don't think there was a need for any dogs that night.

Hint: the event that caused this crowd has generated a diagnosis.

Acute herring intoxication? That would be sill-y.

Sason · « **Reply #27 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:30:12 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 16, 2020, 03:28:34 pm

Acute herring intoxication? That would be sill-y.

You of all people should be able to guess from that hint.

southendmd · « **Reply #28 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:37:00 pm »

Quote from: Sason on June 16, 2020, 03:30:12 pm

You of all people should be able to guess from that hint.

Oh, a shrinky thing? That Stokholm Syndrome thingie? It's not an official diagnosis, actually.

southendmd · « **Reply #29 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:38:07 pm »

So, the crowd must have been some kind of a hostage thing. Were they stealing the national herring stockpile?

Sason · « **Reply #30 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:38:12 pm »

Yes, but what actually happened?

southendmd · « **Reply #31 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:43:31 pm »

Quote from: Sason on June 16, 2020, 03:38:12 pm

Yes, but what actually happened?

The bad guys tried to seize a thousand cans of surtromming and they were surrounded, so they took the canners hostage. The canners became pals with the bad guys cuz they didn't like surtromming and were happy to get rid of it. They thought the bad guys were performing a service to the country.

Sason · « **Reply #32 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:46:59 pm »

blahblahblahblah

is that the best you could come up with?

southendmd · « **Reply #33 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:47:35 pm »

Quote from: Sason on June 16, 2020, 03:46:59 pm

blahblahblahblah

is that the best you could come up with?

I must be reallllllly close.

Sason · « **Reply #34 on:** June 16, 2020, 03:54:51 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 16, 2020, 03:47:35 pm

I must be reallllllly close.

Yes, you're really close to being expelled from this game!

Front-Ranger · « **Reply #35 on:** June 17, 2020, 11:10:41 am »

I think I like Paul's version of the story better than the real thing! The origins of the controversial Stockholm Syndrome are interesting to read about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

I read that there is an opposite called the Lima Syndrome, where abusers develop sympathies for the abused. Also, that the kidnapped people in the Swedish case distrusted the police and government, and for good reason!

But these are not the kind of crowds I'm nostalgic for. I'm thinking more along the lines of this, when people gathered in droves to look at an armless woman:

Jeff Wrangler · « **Reply #36 on:** June 17, 2020, 11:34:14 am »

Quote from: southendmd on June 16, 2020, 03:43:31 pm

The bad guys tried to seize a thousand cans of surtromming and they were surrounded, so they took the canners hostage. The canners became pals with the bad guys cuz they didn't like surtromming and were happy to get rid of it. They thought the bad guys were performing a service to the country.

Maybe they were trying to save the nation's supply of lutfisk?

serious crayons · « **Reply #37 on:** June 17, 2020, 07:07:03 pm »

Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 17, 2020, 11:10:41 am

But these are not the kind of crowds I'm nostalgic for. I'm thinking more along the lines of this, when people gathered in droves to look at an armless woman:

Scared me for a second before I scrolled down to the picture. Because after all, there was a time where people would gather in droves to look at an armless woman. Or even better an armless, legless woman. But I don't imagine you're nostalgic for "freak shows."

I love Stockholm Syndrome, especially because it reminds me of this cute anecdote involving my older son. Sorry everybody, but I'll quickly share it. He was like 5 and we were watching an episode of The Flinstones where, I can't remember the exact details but a dinosaur bursts into their home and throws Fred out, but the rest of the family grows to like the dinosaur.

My son, watching, goes, "Stockholm syndrome."

(I know that plot sounds kind of like the scenario in the opening credits, so I may be confusing them. But whatever it was, Stockholm Syndrome was an accurate description.

southendmd · « **Reply #38 on:** June 17, 2020, 07:35:28 pm »

At 5?

? A precocious child!

serious crayons · « **Reply #39 on:** June 18, 2020, 01:33:29 am »

Quote from: southendmd on June 17, 2020, 07:35:28 pm

At 5?? A precocious child!

Yeah. He’s never suffered from a lack of precociousness.

Jeff Wrangler · « **Reply #40 on:** June 18, 2020, 09:11:52 am »

Quote from: serious crayons on June 17, 2020, 07:07:03 pm

The Flinstones

(I know that plot sounds kind of like the scenario in the opening credits, so I may be confusing them. But whatever it was, Stockholm Syndrome was an accurate description.

That's why my father hates cats--because when and where he was growing up, cats were put out at night. They would poop in your garden and then uproot you plants as they tried to cover up the evidence.

CellarDweller · « **Reply #41 on:** June 18, 2020, 03:57:34 pm »

Coming to this thread was worth it, just for Paul's replies to Sonja!

Sason · « **Reply #42 on:** June 20, 2020, 04:25:00 pm »

Quote from: CellarDweller on June 18, 2020, 03:57:34 pm

Coming to this thread was worth it, just for Paul's replies to Sonja!

Don't encourage him!!!

southendmd · « **Reply #43 on:** June 20, 2020, 06:53:45 pm »

Quote from: CellarDweller on June 18, 2020, 03:57:34 pm

Coming to this thread was worth it, just for Paul's replies to Sonja!

Thank you, Chuck. There’s more where that came from.

southendmd · « **Reply #44 on:** June 20, 2020, 06:54:11 pm »

Quote from: Sason on June 20, 2020, 04:25:00 pm

Don't encourage him!!!

Bwahahahahaha

serious crayons · « **Reply #45 on:** June 21, 2020, 09:09:59 am »

I've lost track of where we are in the game.

Was the correct answer to Sonja's crowd challenge in there somewhere?

Are we guessing Lee's crowd around Venus de Milo?

Sason · « **Reply #46 on:** June 21, 2020, 05:25:44 pm »

Quote from: serious crayons on June 21, 2020, 09:09:59 am

I've lost track of where we are in the game.

Was the correct answer to Sonja's crowd challenge in there somewhere?

Are we guessing Lee's crowd around Venus de Milo?

Yes, the correct answer to my challenge was the crowd outside the bank in Stockholm where a robber took bankstaff as hostages for several days in 1973. When they were released they expressed loyalty to the robber and coined the name Stockholm syndrome for that condition.

serious crayons · « **Reply #47 on:** June 21, 2020, 06:03:24 pm »

Thanks, Sonja! I always like hearing the source of phrases like that.

Quote from: Sason on June 21, 2020, 05:25:44 pm

Yes, the correct answer to my challenge was the crowd outside the bank in Stockholm where a robber took bankstaff as hostages for several days in 1973. When they were released they expressed loyalty to the robber and coined the name Stockholm syndrome for that condition.

serious crayons · « **Reply #48 on:** June 21, 2020, 06:04:35 pm »

Quote from: Front-Ranger on June 17, 2020, 11:10:41 am

But these are not the kind of crowds I'm nostalgic for. I'm thinking more along the lines of this, when people gathered in droves to look at an armless woman:

Is it a tour group at the Louvre?

serious crayons · « **Reply #49 on:** June 22, 2020, 03:00:21 pm »

Quote from: serious crayons on June 21, 2020, 06:04:35 pm

Is it a tour group at the Louvre?

Perhaps Lee might say it's a particular moment at the Louvre, but I'm getting antsy for the next challenge. When Lee returns, if we haven't yet solved her mystery, we'll go back to that.

But in the meantime, what terrifying historic event are these folks witnessing?

Jeff Wrangler · « **Reply #50 on:** June 22, 2020, 03:40:28 pm »

Quote from: serious crayons on June 22, 2020, 03:00:21 pm

But in the meantime, what terrifying historic event are these folks witnessing?

Has it something to do with the Beatles?

Their arrival in the U.S. was certainly a historic event, and the fan reaction would have terrified me.

Sason · « **Reply #51 on:** June 22, 2020, 04:52:57 pm »

Quote from: serious crayons on June 22, 2020, 03:00:21 pm

Perhaps Lee might say it's a particular moment at the Louvre, but I'm getting antsy for the next challenge. When Lee returns, if we haven't yet solved her mystery, we'll go back to that.

But in the meantime, what terrifying historic event are these folks witnessing?

Performance of some pop star?

serious crayons · « **Reply #52 on:** June 22, 2020, 05:16:22 pm »

I can't sneak anything past you guys! I scoured the internet for pictures of Beatles fans in which everybody looked like they might actually be scared or horrified.

But yes, it is a pop group, and that pop group is the Beatles.

CellarDweller · « **Reply #53 on:** June 22, 2020, 09:49:38 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 20, 2020, 06:53:45 pm

Thank you, Chuck. There’s more where that came from.

*pops popcorn and get's ready to read!*

CellarDweller · « **Reply #54 on:** June 22, 2020, 09:50:49 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 20, 2020, 06:54:11 pm

Bwahahahahaha

southendmd · « **Reply #55 on:** June 23, 2020, 08:02:11 am »

Quote from: Sason on June 22, 2020, 04:52:57 pm

Performance of some pop star?

Other than ABBA?

Sason · « **Reply #56 on:** June 23, 2020, 03:00:54 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 23, 2020, 08:02:11 am

Other than ABBA?

ABBA didn't make teenage girls cry and scream like that.

But maybe you did? Were they the best that ever happened to teenage you?

southendmd · « **Reply #57 on:** June 23, 2020, 05:15:12 pm »

Quote from: Sason on June 23, 2020, 03:00:54 pm

ABBA didn't make teenage girls cry and scream like that.

But maybe you did? Were they the best that ever happened to teenage you?

Teenage me had plenty of other things to scream about.....

southendmd · « **Reply #58 on:** June 24, 2020, 11:33:38 am »

What's this crowd screaming about?

CellarDweller · « **Reply #59 on:** June 24, 2020, 01:43:59 pm »

Quote from: southendmd on June 24, 2020, 11:33:38 am

What's this crowd screaming about?

Trump is on stage and has removed his clothes?

Ok, while the two girls are screaming, I can see a pair of hands next to her that look like their clapping. Another young girl in the background appears to be clapping as well.

Since we already had Beatlemania, is this an Elvis performance?

southendmd · « **Reply #60 on:** June 24, 2020, 02:04:31 pm »

Quote from: CellarDweller on June 24, 2020, 01:43:59 pm

Trump is on stage and has removed his clothes?

Where is the vomiting cowboy emoji?

Quote

Ok, while the two girls are screaming, I can see a pair of hands next to her that look like their clapping. Another young girl in the background appears to be clapping as well.

Since we already had Beatlemania, is this an Elvis performance?

Yes, it's Elvis!!!