As in so many of old photos, people are neatly dressed with freshly ironed clothes. You can see the creases on the girl's blouse; it was ironed, folded and put in a drawer to come out for occasions such as this. The young man has on dress pants and also a freshly pressed shirt. The older couple behind them are the same. Anything to do with fairgrounds from the 1940s always seem ominous to me; they all look like a scene from Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train.

you can shake the hand of the perpetual sleeping man directly behind them.