Monday, October 24, 2011

What is going on here? - Capture of Chickadee Leffingwell


This rare photograph of “Chickadee” Lefingwell lll (pronounced leFINGwell) shows him about to be captured by Agent Harlan Kruhz (no relation) in an elm tree just outside the Dirtpile city limits in either Ohio or Ontario. According to legend, “Chickadee” was known to elude his pursuers easily by flying into tree tops and hiding among the leaves.

His downfall, pictured here, was when “Chickadee”, steeped in the false confidence of hundreds of previous escapes, taunted agents from a lower perch. Agent Kruhz, on loan from the Holloway Junior High Jump team had been specially selected and trained for the capture of the elusive G. P. Lefingwell III. While other agents dressed nattily as sunflower seeds distracted the nefarious felon, Kruhz leapt into the tree behind “Chickadee” and put the arm on him thus ending the troublesome but illustrious career. It was now safe again to wear pink at polka parties and Chocolate Chip Cookie challenge events.





That historic day, February 15th 1915 (probably a Saturday or a Tuesday, no one knows for sure) is described prominently and in great detail, in primary school history books. The lengthy notation is credited for a renewed disinterest in the subject of history among students of that era.

After his rapid conviction, Lefingwell was incarcerated at the Indiana Yodeling Institute for Young Individuals. (The ‘I YI YI’…) He was pardoned in 1974 by Gerald Ford along with some other forgotten hardened criminals. “Chickadee” spent his last days working in a kite factory and dreaming of the old days.

Decades later, modern DNA evidence would prove that not only was Lefingwell III innocent of all charges, he was actually not a “Chickadee” at all but just another loon.


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Saturday, October 15, 2011

Turn it OVER! There's Something on the BACK! October 2011





Very often, notations on the reverse of these found photographs are obscure or too brief or illegible. Most often there is nothing at all.

But now and then there is a message from the past that sparkles.

Back in March of 2009 LOST GALLERY had a full page of photographs and their very interesting reverse sides. There have been many new additions to the collection since then.

Here is a new group of those photographs with mysterious, funny and sometimes puzzling reverse sides; tiny bits of history, reaching out to us over the decades and sometimes centuries.




School group
School group

"LOUISE"
THIRD FROM
RIGHT
BACK ROW

HASKELL
OR
QUANAH




University Lincoln
University Lincoln


This is a picture my society
girls had taken May 1st
after our May Day
Dinner. I am the third
from the end on the
top row and left
side. Do I owe you a
letter?
Dora




Six at the tennis court
Six at the tennis court


Betty Martin
Carolyn Figrss(?)
Margaret ALleman
Ed pick
Sidney Cuthbert
Mario Chapman
Spring Vacation
1929
At Mission M. E. Church
Tennis Courts




Couple
Couple (reverse)


Ben & Anna
Thompson

Photographer:
Renslers
Cincinati, O.
Court & Vine
925 Vine
527 Central Ave.
425 Central Ave.
Cleveland
740 Euclid Ave.




Street Scene at Number 27
Street Scene

It says (I think) "Paukow 1961" This is probably as misleading as it is helpful. The photo doesn't look like 1961.




Boy on a pony
Boy on a pony reverse

This ones he doese
not want to get off
he cried so much
that he want more so
we have to gave him
a rid on the horse
baby Mark.



Boy on a pony and reverse

Budget
15/54
tri stand 1.73
3 rolls of film .55
dinner .25
carefare .35
miscillaneos .15
-------------
303




The Operation

The Operation

12 June 47
Charlie looks professoial.




Five men pose
reverse of Chin covers marks

12 June 47
Near co-op.
Chen covers Marks.

two men up from swim
Reverse of two men up from swim

29 June 47
Del Mar Hotel
Up from swim




Virginia Lee and Dudy
Dudy and Virginia Lee reverse

Dudy and
Va. Lee
(M)ay 1939




You want me to WHAT?
Three of a kind reverse note

Marjorie May Sturcle (or Stinche)
Earl Meyer
William W. Volmer




Dorothy and the chickens
Dorothy and the chickens reverse

Dorothy Mansfield
with her chickens
1945
taken at home in
her chicken yard.
Wichita Falls
Tex




Three girls in the grass

Vee Stanfield
Dorothy Mansfield in
middle
Nadine Evert
July 1944
made at home

Three girls in the grass reverse



woman and car
woman and car reverse

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Clara Lee
Age 17
Clara




Hole in Wall Gang

H. S. Faculty
When Bob and I were in
school at Randlett
Harry Moore Supt. -far left
He married the teacher in
front of him
(They visited us twice in
Sapulpa.)
X - Miss Hudson favorite
teacher

hole in wall reverse

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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Back Page - A Dog in a Chair

While originally, I could find only three in this category, I decided to make a page for them anyway. It also gives me a chance to link it to Sarah Bryan's
"EVERYDAY AGO"
page on the same subject:
DOGS SITTING IN CHAIRS

Puppy in a lawn chair
Doggie in a Deck Chair
Rover at the table
Dog on a chair


Well, it's sort of a chair.

Dog on a chair


Dog on a chair
Two children


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Here are a few.
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