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Old 06-20-2013, 05:03 PM   #22
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Default Re: Check out Henry's "First" Model A Ford in a Very Interesting Photo

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Originally Posted by Tom Wesenberg View Post
You rarely see someone smiling in the old photos.
Maybe they didn't think the "good old days" were so good.
You know, I have always wondered that. Do you think it was a social custom dating from the origin of photography when exposure times were long so you had to sit there like a stone image?

I've noticed that even in Dad's college yearbook from the 1930s, the students usually did not smile.
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