Saturday, November 24, 2012

A Man Can Dream . . .


A friend sent me this image, and though I've seen it before, I got tickled again and had to laugh and post it.

I wonder what the story is behind this photo. Was it purely a gag? Or was it a drinking contest? Or was it simply two men enjoying two very large snifters of beer?

And where is this place? New York? Chicago? Milwaukee? Any readers know?

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6 Comments:

At 5:32 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

writing on the window is french
aurelien

 
At 5:47 AM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

Thanks. I should have enlarged the image and looked more carefully. I saw the word "Sandwich" and didn't check the other words.

Do you think it's Paris?

Jeffery Hodges

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At 9:06 AM, Blogger Kevin Kim said...

Don't know whether it's Paris, but it's "Ouvert Jour et Nuit."

In keeping with the French theme, today's captcha code says "aAmerci." Of course, that could also be an "America" in which the frightened lower-case "a" has run around to cower behind the upper-case "A."

 
At 9:43 AM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

I wonder if the image has been photoshopped -- the man drinking seems to have no difficulty holding the enormous snifter with one hand!

Jeffery Hodges

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At 11:47 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

The photo was taken between 1960-1969 by a photographer named Keystone.

It is NOT photoshopped.

The shop serving these large beers did exist, and many people drank them.

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/gc/3321710-circa-1960-three-men-drinking-from-a-large-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=57OmwzezvQMHTADfk8TIfuwDvHv%2bWs3lF%2fLHPrRhfPTqQ7sFkKqCYEbjBP%2f3TpmU

 
At 12:43 PM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

Thanks, Anonymous. Let me link to that site for the Keystone photo.

Jeffery Hodges

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