Monday, June 13, 2011
Fresh Candy
Sometime between 1904 and 1918 there was an opportunity to buy fresh candy, and the experience was recorded on film. This photo was included with a bunch of other photos from Oregon, but if it's in Oregon I couldn't tell you where. The first two people on the left appear to be tasting the candy. Never mind the location, I wonder what kind of candy it was.
It's not about candy.
ReplyDeleteIt's about Fresh, Candid Photos booth.
Or a Candidosis fresh outbreak, a warning to all.
Or Fresh Candidates for President, not just the same old, same old...
The candy sign is at the left booth while the line is at the right one- do you think they were the same entity? If not, I'm guessing the one on the right was serving beer instead! Wouldn't most candy at that time be 'fresh'? I didn't think you could just go to Walgreens and pick up a box of Russell Stover's made a few months ago, assumed you went to the candy store...
ReplyDeleteplease send some fresh candy to my email address, i want to fantasise I'm in their world
ReplyDeleteI'll take the candy and the costumes! :)
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the old candy taste would seem alien to us now. As a little kid my grandfather got us some spruce gum that he loved as a kid. Something about chewing sap or pitch when you were expecting Bazooka or Blackjack taught me the term "gum" means different things to different people.
ReplyDeleteI'll guess that they were peddling rock candy, with taffy possibly offered as well.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone else think that woman in the foreground looks like a man in drag?
ReplyDeleteIt's true that she doesn't look at home in a dress.
ReplyDeleteNeat image. It must have been some kind of carnival or something. So interesting!
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