Is that a cigarette in his hands? He was 12 years old in 1955.
Well, the princess is downing a bottle of fortified wine, so it would seem that’s just par for the course.
When I was 14, my parents ordered a bottle of wine in a restaurant and asked, if I wanted a glass. Nobody thought twice about it.
In 1955, basically everyone smoked. Like 65% of Europe were smokers, and I do mean 65% of living humans of all ages.
I was smoking at 12 in France in 1999, I told tobacconists I was buying them for my mom. Pulled the same thing off in the states when I moved there 2 years later. And I was far from alone. These are far more recent (terrible, obviously) habits than you might think.
Started smoking at 12 too, also in the 90s. Quit in high-school.
My dad was smoking at 6.
Rural Canada, 75 years ago. Still alive.
Cancer is nothing you can count on. For the bad and for the good.
Hope your dad stays healthy.Yah, my uncle lived to 94, smoked for 89 of those years. Pretty sure if we’d had a nuclear war in the 60s, that fucker would have still made it into his 80s.
Looks like someone wanted them to pose as such to make a funny photo
This photo became the notorious cover image of Dinosaur Jr.'s Green Mind, as us older folks well remember.
Were these plastic cups already standard back then?
I think those might actually be frosted glass cups.
Here is the best copy I could find, and the flared edges do not look like plastic cups - also the shiny inside and matte outside looks more like glass frosted on the outside.
PP was not in commercial use until 1957 (not sure when it was first used for cups), PET disposable cups weren’t a thing until the 70s. Disposable cups in the 50s would have been wax paper.
13 going on 30
Those sure were the days
Is she… Married?
I think even Euronobility stopped the practice of marrying their kids off THAT young a few centuries before.
Why the ring on the finger then?
Good point! But you can also just wear rings on any finger whenever you fancy
In Germany usually the wedding ring is on the right hand not on the left.
Source? But their hands look like poor AI garbage…
My dude, I’ve had this pic on my PC since 2014.
Same. But someone colorized it somehow. The colors look weird and I had it in black and white.
Yeah that’s a great source but how did they made the hands so AI-looking back in 2011 🤨
Colorizing with photoshop perhaps?
Or maybe it’s the genetic family wreaths of nobility showing?
I was just being silly in don’t see anything strange about their hands to be honest. But it’s funny to me that “AI hands” is something we look for now 🙂
Whooshed me I guess. But yeah I look for teeth and lettering errors too.
No they dont?
Those look like normal hands to me
idk they just look like hands to me
Nah. No glitch.
Hands look perfectly fine?!
