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Moon Shot: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 1:03am.
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Forty years ago today, Americans witnessed a man on the moon. Some 60 years before that, a photographer in Pennsylvania witnessed the opposite. "National Guard bath house, Gettysburg, 1910." National Photo Company. View full size.
Those must be elite troops
Submitted by Rute Boye on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 8:30pm.
They really look like members of a "crack" infantry battalion!
Pass me the smelling salts
Submitted by Susan811 on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 4:25pm.
and get me to the fainting couch. Lovely!
Step right up
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 4:06pm.
I'm interested in the point of view from which this was taken. Either the photographer perched on what appears to be very flimsy outside walls, or he (?) positioned a ladder just so, or the shower station was built right under somebody's window. Any way you "look" at it, the episode seems peculiar--until you remember that it's the military.
[Maybe it was taken from the water tank. - Dave]
What Cheek!
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 2:22pm.
Slipping in yet another gem for the viewing pleasure of Shorpyites of the female persuasion. Thank you, Dave. You've certainly got a lot of cheek today! And how!
Programming
Submitted by sjmills on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 3:26pm.
The guy in the tub looks more like he'd have offspring starring on "Hee-Haw" or an opry. Much too goofy to be a Gomer.
Tranquillity Base
Submitted by Rute Boye on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 1:07pm.
I think that's a "moon landing" site in the background -- the company latrine!
Awesome!!
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 10:12am.
Best Shorpy photo title. Evah! But I gotta wonder. What's Gomer doing in the washtub with all his clothes on?
Cold War
Submitted by knothead on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 10:10am.
While soldiering in Thailand in the early sixties, my comrades and I showered in similar facilities. I still shiver when I think of those cold showers.
OK Ladies
Submitted by gblawson on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 8:16am.
For all the female Shorpy viewers, no more complaining that you are left out. Now you're spoiled!
Is that Gomer Pyle
Submitted by Poulette on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 2:01am.
in the washtub?
(and Michelangelo's David in the foreground? hubba hubba!)
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