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May.15,2014
Are you here?
It’s about time I used my computer the way it was meant to be used: to find old friends.
I found this photo in a box of old black-and-whites. It was in a folder marked “Blinstrub’s,” which I remember as a Boston nightclub where everything was happening. If you could afford a night at Blinstrub’s and a pack of cigarettes, you were among the chosen. How you came into such wealth was never questioned.
I searched Google and got its history, but it didn’t help in identifying the men in this photo.
If I don’t find out soon 1) why there are only men in the photo, 2) what they were celebrating, 3) what schemes they came up with — I’m going to make it all up and publish it.
Are you in here? Is your grandfather the third from the front on the left side of the table?
Give me a call!
Tags : blinstrubs, Boston
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Blinstrub’s had a staff photographer. He’d take pictures of everyone and then sell them. I don’t know who these guys are, sorry. What other Blinstrub’s photos do you have? There is a pretty active demand for pics like this on Ebay, FYI.
Dana
I’m pretty sure that was the weekly Revere Temperance Society meeting…
Whoa, I think that might BE a woman, Mysti!
wow, what a great photo! They seem to all know the photographer and each other quite well–they look like they might be academics of some kind, and that front-right-side guy’s tie looks very 40s to me.
Is there a woman tucked between two men at the very back on the left?
Hope you find this piece of your mysterious past!
Excellent theory, Nancy. I thought they were all the same age, but looking more closely, I see that it could be father/son. Suits and ties make men look the same!
High school Sports banquet? Father and son attendees, plus a coach and the school principal?