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Networking: 1905
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 10:25pm.
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Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1905. "Fisherman getting ready for a trip." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
We're gonna' need a bigger boat!
Submitted by SlamDance_Karma on Sat, 05/07/2011 - 7:17am.
**cue Jaws music**
Classic.
Submitted by Swansea on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 8:46am.
What's so great about Shorpy is that so many timeless images strike a chord in different people in different ways. To me, this one is simply iconic in its representation of a classic, old East Coast fisherman doing it "the hard way." Must have been some great stories locked up under that slicker.
Old Man and the Sea
Submitted by Tessalina on Wed, 05/04/2011 - 2:18am.
How perfectly this picture embodies the fishing lifestyle of New England and in particular "Glossta" (with my best Massachusetts accent). I could imagine this photo being used on a label for "Fisherman's Fish Oil" or colorized and hung in many fish n' chips restaurants. Having grown up mostly in New England this is a typical scene. The small sailboats dotting the ocean, the wooden summer houses right by the beach, and the weather-beaten, solitary old fisherman mending his equipment is still something you can see around coastal towns today. Perhaps the equipment and clothing styles have changed but this picture brings me right back home.
Mr. Fish Sticks
Submitted by Ron on Tue, 05/03/2011 - 10:43pm.
He looks like the guy on the package.
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