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<< NO FURTHER QUESTIONS ~ MAIN ~ SON OF RODNEY: THE FINAL DAY >>

PRIMITIVE PHOTOSHOPPER PURSUED

This is brilliant: cyber-detective James Lileks exposes a 50-year-old case of history scrubbing.

UPDATE. In other picture news, here’s a Bulletin photo gallery:

That’s the Girl Gulag at the 1970 Commonwealth Games (note barbed wire to discourage escape/break-in attempts once gates were closed at night). The two athletes shown are actually married.

1. And do we even need to ask which large metropolitan daily is responsible for retouching a persona non grata out of a photo?

   Posted by R C Dean on 2006 03 09 at 07:52 AM • permalink



2. sharp duds in the games pic

   Posted by KK on 2006 03 09 at 08:26 AM • permalink



3. “Hey there! Georgie girl
   Why do all the boys just pass you by?
   Could it be you just don’t try, or is it the clothes you wear?
   You’re always window shopping but never stopping to buy.”

   The Seekers - circa 1962.

   Posted by splice on 2006 03 09 at 10:14 AM • permalink



4. So lead me to the dance floor and put me in a cage… 

   - Purkinje ‘Bang On’

   You gotta love Go-Go…

   Posted by splice on 2006 03 09 at 10:17 AM • permalink



5. So, were they really that stupid back then?  The cage door is open.

   Posted by Diggs on 2006 03 09 at 11:05 AM • permalink



6. Lileks is good, but he missed the three commissars airbrushed out of the foreground. One…by…one.

   Posted by Dave S. on 2006 03 09 at 12:04 PM • permalink



7. that link was not exactly self-explanatory. I filled in the blanks with wikipedia. Please correct me if I’m wrong. The gist is that Chaplin was banned from re-entering the US because Hoover didn’t like him because of his leftist views. The NYT, it seems now, participated in trying to erase him from the public consciousness, by removing his name from a photo.
   Is this right?

   Posted by daddy dave on 2006 03 09 at 12:45 PM • permalink



8. The guy on the right is trying to talk the gal out of commiting suicide due to the inhuman and degrading fence situation.

   Posted by Henry boy on 2006 03 09 at 05:25 PM • permalink



9. Is the barbed wire fence used for a quickie as they are husband and wife?

   Posted by 1.618 on 2006 03 09 at 06:19 PM • permalink



10. Let’s face it, if you bumped into a guy wearing a skivvy, slip-on shoes and a jacket made out of old kilts, wouldn’t you want a barbed wire fence between you?

    Posted by blandwagon on 2006 03 09 at 09:13 PM • permalink



11. Gender segregation in 1970.

    Their past - and our future?

    Posted by Inurbanus on 2006 03 09 at 09:46 PM • permalink



12. Now the papers brag about how many condoms are shipped into the village…as if everyone starts humping like bunny rabbits the minute their event is over.

    /You mean they do?
    //:-(

    Posted by Jay Santos on 2006 03 09 at 11:17 PM • permalink



13. I see that even back in 1970, Australians had a problem with apostrophes.

    Posted by MamaWombat on 2006 03 09 at 11:40 PM • permalink



14. I see that even back in 1970, Australians had a problem with apostrophes.

    The Scots actually.  The 1970 Commonwealth Games were held in Edinburgh.

    Posted by craigo on 2006 03 10 at 01:19 AM • permalink



15. After taking a gander at that photo I will never, never let anyone tell me that eightie’s fashions were appalling.

    Posted by entropy on 2006 03 10 at 06:24 AM • permalink



16. Oh, I don’t know.  The woman appears to be wearing black hose and a nice wool skirt.  Actually, I wouldn’t mind seeing most of the women entrants in the Summer Olympics compete in black hose and nice pleated skirts.  And 3 inch black heels. 

    Yes.  That would be a much better test of a woman’s athletic prowess.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 10 at 08:43 PM • permalink



17. true, wrnowright, but the lass inthe pic is wearing flats with extrordinarily hideous pale coloured bows which really sets of the black nylons so well…..

    Posted by entropy on 2006 03 11 at 06:04 AM • permalink



18. And they don’t work!  Three inch stilleto heels are the way to go.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 03 11 at 10:58 AM • permalink



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