Christmas Party

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/15/09 at 11:49pm

A friend sent me this link. It's so interesting to look at.
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[Jane2]

Posted: 12/15/09 at 11:52pm

Which one is you?

(kidding!)

The quality of that photo is unbelievable.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 12:01am

I'm the young guy standing on the desk all the way to the right with his clothes rumpled.

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 12:06am

It really is a very interesting photograph. I've been studying it but now I have to go to sleep. That poor little Christmas tree!

thanks for posting it~

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 12:29am

You can tell who is a good employee and who is a troublemaker. You can tell who the good time girls are. You can tell the family men from the Lotharios. You can tell who did a home perm and who spends their paycheck at the beauty parlor.

Updated On: 12/16/09 at 12:29 AM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 1:28am

danmag is at the front far left.

[strummergirl]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 1:28am

The woman in the bottom left corner caught my eye. She is looking away, distant, mysterious, even beautiful despite her plainness to the flappers featured.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 2:47am

The is something very haunting about that photo.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 9:44am

The group of men on the right is very gay.

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 9:49am

The party took place during Prohibition. That explains a lot.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 9:50am

That pair second and third from the right are doing it in the cloak room, pj.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 9:57am

The one on the bottom left is about to announce that she's the grand duchess Anastasia.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:03am

Check out the lady sitting by the desk looking away and the glare the woman to our right is giving her.

The dude with the eyebrows in the middle! The dude in drag below him!

The guy making bug eyes while he's getting goosed by his other lover while his hand is on his other lover's shoulder.

This picture is the bee's knees!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:05am

The woman on the bottom right has the most lascivious look on her face! And, um, an oil can.

[JerseyGirl2]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:12am

Apparently there was only one hairstyle in the 20s!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 10:15am

Apparently there was only one hairstyle in the 20s!

I know! I'll never again think it's lazy hair design when something takes place in the twenties and every woman has the same hairdo!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 11:05am

Shaved Bear!

[StageManager2]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 11:49am

Reginald: Oil can what?

JG2 & Phyl: You have to remember that women had just started bobbing their hair only a few years before (after keeping their hair long for generations) so they probably weren't used to shorter styles.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 12:27pm

The guy sitting on the desk is dreamy. But what is up with the guy standing high up behind him with the striped tie? That is SUCH an evil murderous look. There also seems to be a cute guy peeking through the limbs of the Christmas tree. He must be the new guy to get stuck in that position. Sort of like the girl with one visible eye behind the drag queen.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 4:59pm

So many interesting character types in this picture.

I love that the Christmas tree is plugged into the light socket.

The boss (the man with the stogie) has a bulge in his coat pocket. Wonder if it's a gun? The man to his left looks like he was once a boxer. I wonder if he's the foreman. Both men are holding their glasses. And in the whole picture, only one person is wearing glasses, one of the men in the upper left corner.

The man in front of the tree is holding up his horse. Many people have gifts in their hands, but only he is holding his up. He must have really liked his Secret Santa.

The Junior standing on the desk in the upper right has rumpled clothes. I bet his wife is a layabout and much too lazy to give his clothes a good ironing. His vest is undone at the bottom (button missing?) so that you can see the button on his trousers.

The woman in front by the oil can is what my grandmother used to call "flash." She spends her paycheck on her clothes (she has a fur collar on her coat) and you can tell her hair is done professionally because it doesn't have that "home perm" look like several of the other women. The woman to her left looks like she got her style from Grimm's Fairytales (or she was a reject from the Grand Ole Opry).

You know that the flapper peeking around the desk speaks in a high squeeky voice.

I wonder if the woman wearing the police hat is the office cut-up or if she was a bit tipsy on bathtub gin? The woman to her left is another that gets her hair done professionally rather than wear a home perm look. The woman to her left, Mia Farrow wearing a tie, shows the influence of Little Orphan Annie, white collar, red dress, short sleeves (in winter?). Is that her troll doll on the office scale? The woman standing just above those two is wearing the same necklace as the woman seated above Grim's Fairytale. I wonder if they were each other's Secret Santa? Poor Julia Stiles standing against the door, her home perm didn't turn out so well.

I wonder if the man smiling is standing on something or is he that tall?

As for the woman sitting against the desk. So many stories could be assigned to her. Did she lose a husband in WW1? Is she a recent immigrant? There seems to be some type of fur around her collar and her shoes look quality. Does she just distance herself from the younger, immature women in the office? Perhaps she's Jewish and tired of being forced into Christmas celebrations.

But so many questions left unanswered. Like why the words "Go Go" are pasted on the wall.

And of course, why are some people looking in all directions and some looking straight at the camera? Granted they didn't have instant photography in those days, but obviously some people were able to focus and hold still long enough to look into the camera.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 5:02pm

The one that looks like a dude in drag looks like Tobey Maguire.

And the lady in the front row with the candy cane looks eerily like my grandmother.

[EVIE]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 5:12pm

That picture is something else!!

"Check out the lady sitting by the desk looking away and the glare the woman to our right is giving her."

That's one of the first things I noticed to...wonder what the story with those two are!

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 5:13pm

See the farthest woman on the right? her mother made that dress.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 5:16pm

Jane, you are so right. As soon as I found her I started laughing.


I wonder if any of these people are still alive.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/16/09 at 5:23pm

"I wonder if any of these people are still alive."

If the 1925 date is correct, I doubt it. That was 84 years ago. So if one of those young girls was just 16 in the picture, she'd be 100 today. Not impossible, but not likely.