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3521. PelleNilsson - 1/21/2006 7:38:24 PM We, too went through some old stuff and this class photo from 1951 or -52 surfaced.
Over the years I have posted many photos of myself at various ages. You should be able to pinpoint my position on the photo. Can you? Click on the pic for a larger version. 3522. wonkers2 - 1/21/2006 7:46:48 PM I'm aware of the definition of socialism and your observation is correct that her theme was more one of cooperation than overthrow. I hesitate to hold forth on Sweden in a discussion with you, but I seem to recall hearing Sweden's political/economic system referred to as democratic socialism or welfare capitalism. Whatever it's called, it didn't work out as a struggle to overthrow capitalism. I'm sure my grandmother didn't make up the speech out of thin air, but rather from what she heard in the Swedish-American community around the turn of the century. Your characterization of her theme as more one of cooperation than overthrow albeit with a class conscious overtone. Her father worked with his hands as a carpenter and cabinet maker. Her maternal grandfather as we previously discussed was a ship captain/farmer (not a ship owner) which I'm guessing was considered lower-middle class? 3523. robertjayb - 1/21/2006 8:09:24 PM The kid with the beanie seated to the left of the group. 3524. wonkers2 - 1/21/2006 8:31:16 PM And I doubt seriously that there were any Italians in Stromsburg at the turn of the last century or this century for that matter! 3525. judithathome - 1/21/2006 9:21:31 PM Pelle was into hats at a very young age, evidently! 3526. RickNelson - 1/21/2006 9:26:09 PM either that kid with the hat or the one looking with a side glance. 3527. alistairConnor - 1/21/2006 9:48:12 PM I'm thinking the little blond kid, dead centre. 3528. Marc-Albert - 1/21/2006 9:53:35 PM Has to be the boy in the back row, far left, looking at the photographer with amused skepticism. 3529. PelleNilsson - 1/21/2006 10:10:31 PM No hit so far. Tomorrow I may post a hint. 3530. alistairConnor - 1/21/2006 10:14:06 PM That's an invitation for a second guess... on reflection, you're the one to the left of the stern-looking teacher, beside the beanie boy. 3531. RickNelson - 1/21/2006 10:20:42 PM LOL, I've got it.
You've got your face dead center in front of your teacher.
Planned that didn't yah? 3532. PelleNilsson - 1/21/2006 11:28:17 PM You're on the right track, alistair. I haven't seen this photo for ages and at first glance I mistook myself for the kid you mention. 3533. anomie - 1/22/2006 1:39:42 AM Based on that clue, you've got to be top left. 3534. thoughtful - 1/22/2006 5:13:59 PM Must be the one with the stern looking grimance under the teacher's boobs... he looks like he just found someone posting a political remark in the good life thread! 3535. PelleNilsson - 1/22/2006 7:01:09 PM Here is the class photo again and below it another one from the same period.
I take this opportunity to requote my immortal ode to that photo:
Pelle drives a Ferguson;
a Ferguson, a Ferguson.
Pelle drives a Ferguson;
a Massey, Massey Ferguson. 3536. robertjayb - 1/22/2006 7:48:26 PM Fourth from the left in the middle row, directly in front of the tall person with lots of hair. 3537. wonkers2 - 1/22/2006 8:03:13 PM w2 agrees with rjb. But w2 prefers International Harvester or John Deere tractors. Nothing runs like a Deere!! 3538. jexster - 1/22/2006 8:57:49 PM Speakeasy Restaurants in Bay Area
Speakeasy restaurants with chic cuisine and rock-bottom prices are springing up around the Bay Area right in people's homes -- such as this one in Oakland's Rockridge district that is preparing lamb chops over fennel-cornbread stuffing and browned brussels sprouts. Getting in is all about who you know (and who they know.)
Underground Gourmet 3539. PelleNilsson - 1/22/2006 9:10:52 PM You are right, of course.
The small Ferguson tractor was exactly what was needed when the large-scale mechanisation of farming started here after WWII. The village smiths were busy refitting horse-pulled contraptions for tractor-pulling. The only big investment needed, apart from the tractor itself, was a plow, usually with two blades, which together with the higher speed and inexhaustible stamina of the tractor meant a massive productivity increase. 3540. Marc-Albert - 1/23/2006 4:09:07 PM
This must be from about 1950. The poor girl I'm martyring is now a drama actress of some repute here in Quebec.
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