Monday, September 20, 2010

bobs & bolties

1925


(via Shorpy)

8 comments:

bluesun said...

Hmmm... some of them look happy, and some of them look like they want to beat me up.

John B said...

@bluesun. Don't be silly, they don't even KNOW you. :D

Am I the only one hearing a Nickelodeon version of "Girls With Guns"?

Bubblehead Les. said...

"Girls Rifle Team of Drexel Institue of 1925". 85 years later, and they have been replaced by the "The Girls iPhone Text Squad". I Soooo hate living in the Last Days of a Declining Civilization, don't you?

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

Guns in DC? Unpossible!

John A said...

Glad to know another fan of "The 100-Year-Old Blog."

And there are at least two other pictures there, posted some time ago, of 1930s D.C. public high-school Girl's Rifle Team[s] practicing.

BobG said...

Interesting collection of rifles there; I like the one third from the left; it looks like it is being held together with old-time electrical tape.
(Duct tape wasn't invented until the early forties)

PPPP said...

Numbers 2, 5 & 7 appear to have the bolts closed, pointed up toward their heads. Bad form, some of our more pitnicky readers might opine.

Number 4 has no firearm, and what's with the price tags on the coats for ladies #2 & #3?

New Jovian Thunderbolt said...

"Archie" will be born 1 year after that picture and within a mile or two of that location.