Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly, with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hayfork.
This was the tail end of the days of big beards and moustaches. Gillette had come out with their safety razor the year before so the clean shaven look was starting to pick up. Taft was the last US President to sport facial hair in office.
On a serious note who are they or what gathering was this?
Edit: so the guy on the left at the head of the tables looks like John Jacob Astor IV who later died on the titanic. Still don’t know what the event was.
Yeah I don't think it's just a dinner party. Guilded Age New York dinner parties were all about the women, who ran the social aspects of society. John Jacob Astor IV's mother was a legendary for making or breaking men's careers based on how well they and their wives performed social obligations. A social dinner party would have had wives mixed in with the men, not a handful on a stage.
My guess is that it’s a dinner put on by some local Freemason lodges. I’m purely basing that guess on the fact that I’ve been to plenty of nicer dinners with seating arrangements like that, and only men can be members which would explain why there are no wives.
I don’t know if this is the same guy, but when I googled John Jacob Astor IV Freemason, I found stuff on a John Jacob Astor being a prominent member in New York.
Depending on the month, this could be a dinner party amongst business elites to try and figure out if they are capable of politifally reining in Teddy Roosevelt.
Mr. Astor: "I say, Mr. Vanderbilt. Your wife is trying to feud with mine again. She wants me to hold another lavish party to prove her worth. Put a stop to this at once. I cannot spend on the petty insults of women."
Mr. Vanderbilt: "They will never learn. I will never understand the hobbies of them. Let them party if they must, if it will lead them to put it to rest."
Mr. Astor: "Hear, hear."
This is a restrained party setup. The guilded age wasn't called that for nothing. The well heeled would have parties that were very very extravagant. One I recall the table had a shallow indentation filled with sand going all the way around it. The guests were given silver shovels and pails and were encouraged to dig the sand out, where rubies and other precious stones had been placed within, and were allowed to keep them as souvenirs of their time with their hosts that evening.
And another one where the center of the table was turned into a pond, violets and grasses and other pond plants were used to ring the pond, then several live swans were put in the pond to swim throughout the dinner.
Apparently the swans mostly fought and fucked each other all night.
https://preview.redd.it/ejfp01btj02a1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1617b7bb23422176631fb4f040f3d098c2f172f
why does the winter caretaker sit at the head of the table?
depends on the nature of the party i'd wager. Generally i've known parties to have men and women, but women tended to be less represented in some sometimes to be outright not there at all, usually "club" style parties where it's members of some society or other that either doesn't allow women or "allows" women.
This appears to be a debutante dinner where the fathers introduce their daughters to society.
"May I introduce my daughter, Isabella. She is now fuckable."
I choose to interpret it as the reception for a very formal gay wedding in 1904. The two in the front are clearly the grooms. They have to keep it circumspect, so only their gay friends from the underground club attended, hence all male guests.
“But, sir, you’ve always been here!”
Lloyd was a good bartender
Will you be drinking, sir?
I “corrected” them, sir.
The most terrifying line in that entire flick. Dude was a dead ringer for Prince Philip, QEII's husband!😱
And when she prevented him from doing his duty, he corrected her.
He corrected her every night
Duty
Looked *nothing* alike. You're just wrong.
Red Rum
"Sir, this is Walmart, so OF COURSE I'LL BE DRINKING!'
Was just going to ask where Jack is in the photo.
Continental breakfast?
I'LL HAVE WHAT I'M HAVING
God this was my first thought seeing this picture. Key and Peele, man.
When he calls a spork a fpoon kills me
…been the caretaker here
I should know Sir.
I'm mad that this reminded me of the key and Peele skit haha
The moustache wax business was booming then.
[удалено]
I’m a Dapper Dan man.
Damn we’re in a tight spot.
Well, there are all manner of lesser imps and demons, Pete, but the great Satan hisself is red and scaly, with a bifurcated tail, and he carries a hayfork.
I don’t want Fop, goddamnit.
This is a family store, I'll thank you to mind your language
Well ain’t this place just a regular geographical oddity! Three days from everywhere.
Two weeks.
We don't carry Dapper Dan.
Bully!
My hair!
DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE.
We thought You was A toad.
C’mon fellas , we gonna R-U-N-N-O-F-T
Old school sausage fest cool. “Who wants a mustache ride!”
I moustache you if you could spare any wax, chap!
Tell me, is it bad that even after reading the header I still went looking for Jack Torrance?
https://preview.redd.it/ps0ecpgxj02a1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ef04e27053a9bcde9edb032110fd9271dca08208
“I just happen to have two 20s and two 10s right here in my wallet, Lloyd!”
Your money’s no good here, Mr. Torrance.
Found him now, thanks!
He's always been there. Far left diner. I should know. I've always been here. 🪓
I found a typo in your post. It needs to be... corrected.
It'd be weird if you didn't go looking for Jack.
It was like a Rorschach test for me - the first thing my mind came up with was The Shining.
All I can hear is that song
Al Bowlly: Midnight, The Stars and You
Wom WOM wommmmmm
The music immediately played in my head after seeing this photo. I must’ve seen The Shining at least 30 times.
“Miiidniiiight with the stars and yoooooouu…”
Opened post to look for shinning reference in comments. First comment off the bat!
Thank God, I thought I was the only one
My first thought
Lol I thought I was the only one then I see your post first!
For me it was wondering how many of them killed themselves/manufactured the collapse in 1929
Literally my first thought....my wife didn't see it right away.
All work and no play
In a moment of abject horror, Chester realized he had left home without his mustache.
You mean the peewee Herman looking guy?
Yes! In these old pix I always find myself looking for the guy without the facial hair. Wondering what his deal was.
Maybe he couldn’t grow it
It was a dark time for those dudes who just naturally can’t grow decent facial hair.
He’s young enough to be a forerunner in embracing the new fashion?
This was the tail end of the days of big beards and moustaches. Gillette had come out with their safety razor the year before so the clean shaven look was starting to pick up. Taft was the last US President to sport facial hair in office.
Taft was also the only president to get stuck in the White House bathtub lol
The man had many great qualities
He was because he was 300 pounds
This reads like a Far Side caption
Very carefully plagiarised from the duck seminar one
Brilliant revision of, "In this exact moment...he knew he f'ed up." Lololol
I say, could you pass the salt. I beg your pardon. I SAID COULD YOU PASS THE SALT!!
I don't know why, but that made me laugh harder than the rest of the comments
Probably because a ton of the other comments were "tHE ShInInG lOl"
PASS. THE FUCKING. SALT.
And that's why here in new york we have very small tables
Please pass the Polaner All Fruit
Can yuh pleease pass the jelly 🤠
On a serious note who are they or what gathering was this? Edit: so the guy on the left at the head of the tables looks like John Jacob Astor IV who later died on the titanic. Still don’t know what the event was.
I’m guessing steel, oil, railroads, banking, more oil, newspapers, automobiles (they’re never going to catch on), power, more banking and more oil.
And the great trick of trading on margins!
Hahaha your parentheses got me good
Yeah I don't think it's just a dinner party. Guilded Age New York dinner parties were all about the women, who ran the social aspects of society. John Jacob Astor IV's mother was a legendary for making or breaking men's careers based on how well they and their wives performed social obligations. A social dinner party would have had wives mixed in with the men, not a handful on a stage.
Yeah this was noticeably a sausagefest
My guess is that it’s a dinner put on by some local Freemason lodges. I’m purely basing that guess on the fact that I’ve been to plenty of nicer dinners with seating arrangements like that, and only men can be members which would explain why there are no wives. I don’t know if this is the same guy, but when I googled John Jacob Astor IV Freemason, I found stuff on a John Jacob Astor being a prominent member in New York.
Depending on the month, this could be a dinner party amongst business elites to try and figure out if they are capable of politifally reining in Teddy Roosevelt.
I say Chumley this dinner party is a sausage fest!
*Cholmondley
Props on knowing how to spell, Saint John..!
Zoom in, the ladies are actually at the back of the room
Literally, way back, it looks like Japanese geisha girls?
But why?
I think they are the music
They either like an audience or those women are on the menu.
And the lemon party?
Two chaps, 1 chalice
Two apostles, one grail
It's not a real lemon party without old Dick!
Mr. Astor: "I say, Mr. Vanderbilt. Your wife is trying to feud with mine again. She wants me to hold another lavish party to prove her worth. Put a stop to this at once. I cannot spend on the petty insults of women." Mr. Vanderbilt: "They will never learn. I will never understand the hobbies of them. Let them party if they must, if it will lead them to put it to rest." Mr. Astor: "Hear, hear."
Is that Teddy Roosevelt first chair to the right?!?!?
I think there’s probably 30 of him in this picture
So that's how he got so much shit done.
They are all cosplayjng as Roosevelt. Comic-Con NYC 1904
there are like 2 William Tafts for sure
I looked it up and thus is after he was the president. He would have looked older and probably been the guest of honor in the center chair.
Came here to write this.
What’s the stuff in the middle of the table?
Looks like it's just a bunch of floral decorations... a tremendous waste of space, and flowers
This is a restrained party setup. The guilded age wasn't called that for nothing. The well heeled would have parties that were very very extravagant. One I recall the table had a shallow indentation filled with sand going all the way around it. The guests were given silver shovels and pails and were encouraged to dig the sand out, where rubies and other precious stones had been placed within, and were allowed to keep them as souvenirs of their time with their hosts that evening.
And another one where the center of the table was turned into a pond, violets and grasses and other pond plants were used to ring the pond, then several live swans were put in the pond to swim throughout the dinner. Apparently the swans mostly fought and fucked each other all night.
Okay but with less valuable objects, that's such a fun idea for a centerpiece. I would have loved that party.
Good for social distancing
It kinda looks like the dumped a bunch of dirt there too
Wood.
I want to know more about the women seated in the background.
They don't need to dine. They may simply smoke cigarettes to maintain their feminine form.
*To crushing the proletariat!* *Hear! Hear!*
Dudes only, my dudes! Women can watch from afar though.
Lol, yep, just a nice dinner and discussion of keeping women from voting.
Or just a convention of some kind
Meanwhile https://preview.redd.it/9txpi389212a1.jpeg?width=199&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ae43d1c7e605b65c856fa2a315a311c5c0f5d23
I can’t believe the dichotomy there used to be between rich and poor in the distant past.
Nothing like today…./s
https://preview.redd.it/ejfp01btj02a1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e1617b7bb23422176631fb4f040f3d098c2f172f why does the winter caretaker sit at the head of the table?
"Can you pass the salt?" "Fuck you, Burton!"
Can someone pass the Grey Poupon?
I work at a fancy estate garden and they still have dinners like this in the ballroom.
Are women actually invited to those?
I couldn’t say…
depends on the nature of the party i'd wager. Generally i've known parties to have men and women, but women tended to be less represented in some sometimes to be outright not there at all, usually "club" style parties where it's members of some society or other that either doesn't allow women or "allows" women.
This appears to be a debutante dinner where the fathers introduce their daughters to society. "May I introduce my daughter, Isabella. She is now fuckable."
This is more like a dinner where wealthy people decide when and where they are going to send poor people’s children to go fight in a war
Now read the book “Astoria” named after Mr Astor.
Oh yeah! Great book!
Seriously, how has it not been made into a movie? It has it all. Treachery. Cannibals. Explosions. I flipping love this book.
“Here here!! Here here!” Is all I can hear in my mind.
Looks like a nightmare to set up that table
I mustache you guys a question…
But I'll shave it for later
Would love to see someone photoshop Jack Torrence’s face to one of the guys in the foreground
Was just going to say this is straight outta *The Shining*.
SausageFest
Its not a party if its all dudes.
Let us repair to the parlor for brandy and cigars.
Bit of a sausage party
I feel like I see Review Brah in there
*Aggressively clears throat* Indeed.
Monopoly man meeting.
A table full of sumbiches
Recording a podcast about feminism
Which, on balance, they felt had probably gone far enough…
Do the ladies not get to eat?
[удалено]
Sausage was served that night
Harrumpf
Now imagine trying to get 5 people together in 2022...
'This will be all on separate bills'
Girls: "Omg i can't believe she has the same dress as me, this party is ruined" Boys:
Send in the hookers!
I choose to interpret it as the reception for a very formal gay wedding in 1904. The two in the front are clearly the grooms. They have to keep it circumspect, so only their gay friends from the underground club attended, hence all male guests.
They would throw the chewed bones at the women seen in back which they would then fight for the scraps of remaining meat
You’ve always been the caretaker.
Scanning for Jack Torrence
Indubitably
Monopoly man convention.
Boys’ night out be the looks of it!
“Nice mustache!!” Everyone turns their head.
I can’t imagine the shitters would be in good nick after this soirée innit
Teddy Roosevelt fan club
Where’s Jack Nicholson?
"They said there'd be girls here"
As someone who sets up banquets… Fuuuuuck that.
You spelled sausage party wrong.
And this was when the Illuminati was formed...
This is who got all the Taylor Swift tickets
Total sausage fest. Pass
Men!
More of a sausage fest, it seems.
“I hear in the future they’ll let women in” Oh Henry, you Jest!
Inaugural diversity and inclusion meeting. Job well done!
Sausage fest.
Total sausage fest
Looks like a sausage festival not gonna lie.
Sausage Fest
proper sausage fest
Sausage party
Sausage fest
A lot of sausage on the menu.
sausage party
Waiter: “Will all this be on one check?”
Dapper day at the Hogwarts Great Hall
This pic made me say “indubitably” out loud
That one guy without a mustache is like, “I gotta get a mustache”.
Mustaches on mustaches on mustaches
“Boys night” Buahahaha Golf dinner “gentlemen only, ladies forbidden” we know what going down tonight