I found some wonderful little glimpses of the past...
Cap gun used by young female participant
in a gun drawing contest sponsored by the YMCA.
Location: Dearborn, MI, US
Date taken: September 1952
in a gun drawing contest sponsored by the YMCA.
Location: Dearborn, MI, US
Date taken: September 1952
History and eye candy, all in one place. Enjoy.
Oh noes! She has a gun!
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You know, when I was a wee lad, I had cap guns, too. Some of them shot actual plastic bullets (spring loaded, so no danger other than yo your eyeballs). Good luck finding anything like that today.
I like the ones where an officer is teaching gun safety to some school kids:
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Little Annie is the Oakley kind...
ReplyDeletecute.. thanks for sharing.
Dave
These days, her parents would probably be arrested, and CPS would ensure she never saw them again.
ReplyDeleteStrange how "far" we have come...
Well we can certainly claim to be "progressive" the past 50+ years.....
ReplyDeleteProblem is it's not so much progression as it is regression.
I have a great fondness for pictures of girls from the supposedly patriarchal 40s and 50s training with and using guns. These are great; thank you.
ReplyDeleteI've blogged about these on my site. [Link since apparently trackbacks from non-blogger/google sites don't work.]
Here's pictures of a Los Angeles[!] girls' high school rifle team training in a range set up amongst the school lockers.
I'm thinkin' today, her outfit alone would get you busted for kiddie pr0n, nevermind the gu-un.
ReplyDeleteNow, I would love to know what kind of a terrible person she became - but not shocked if I found out that she was a wonderful woman that has just celebrated her birthday with family and friends. Lots of love in her world, lots of love -- and a few guns around when she enjoyed them.
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