old black face photos

[Chris Prieto]

I found this earlier this morning and thought maybe some of you guys n gals would find it of interest. While there are no banjos, the photos are pretty interesting and of decent quality.

"Dating from the 1880s to the 1960s, the photo series depicts a variety of white men and women in blackface, some posing as publicity for traveling minstrel shows, others amateurs who have blacked-up for reasons unknown."

There are also pictures of a man in a bear suit, and a creepy shadow figure if your into that sort of thing :p

https://www.vice.com/read/jean-marie-polar-bear

[Al Smitley]

Dan, I remember my mom telling me (somewhat embarrassed) that her high school had minstrel shows.  I dug out one of her yearbooks (1933) and found this photo.

[Al Smitley]

I doubt this will work.  I'm attempting one more time to include a photo from my mother's yearbook but I'm being told that it's too large.  I'm really tired of technical problems of all kinds, lately, so if it doesn't work, I give up!

[Tim Twiss]

Unless you sing, all the songs sound alike after 2 or 3 of them.

[Al Smitley]

Dan'l, Thanks for the good luck wishes but we haven't played in the World Tournament for the past few years.  Quite a few clubs of our ilk find it too competitive, in play and attitude, to be enjoyable.  Good luck to the Ganymeades.  I'm not familiar with them.  I'll have to look them up on the internet!

[Al Smitley]

My mom has been gone for a little over 10 years.  My dad went to the same high school class (of 1935) but will be 99 in a couple weeks.  I'm afraid the Tubaphone player (unidentified in the photo) is long gone and the Tubaphone, itself, as been sucked into a black hole.....or "black closet", so to speak!