What do we think is on this old roll of film?

And people. 

I spy a Virginia is for lovers T-shirt. Family trip to Virginia? Or just someone’s favorite shirt? And is that a pirate hat? Colonial hat? 

Is that dude wearing X-ray specs? 

The Cutlass on the left dates these images as after 1971 or ’72. Kinda looks like she’s wear a nametag. Some kind of group trip?

And the last image. Looks like the same woman from the previous photo. 

Wild stuff.

In reply to Colin Wood :

Totally. Is this Colonial Williamsburg? 

Also, we need this:

David S. Wallens said:

The Cutlass on the left dates these images as after 1971 or ’72. Kinda looks like she’s wear a nametag. Some kind of group trip?

That shirt. Those glasses. I bet the family still talks about how spicy Aunt Phyllis was.

Marjorie Suddard said:

That shirt. Those glasses. I bet the family still talks about how spicy Aunt Phyllis was.

Every family has a spicy Aunt Phyllis. Some just won't admit it.

At my Dad's wake, my Aunt Maggie propositioned my buddy Homeboy Mark. She opened with something like "if I was 20 years younger..." and Homeboy shut her down with "you'd still be 30 years too old!"

In reply to AngryCorvair (Forum Supporter) :

It's not whether your buddy thought she was too old, it's whether Aunt Maggie thought she was too old. And apparently had she been 20 years younger, Homeboy would've had a situation on his hands.

edit: Full disclosure, I have no idea if that's how it works, but as someone who would never had had the guts to rock that Aunt Phyllis ensemble, I want to believe it is.

In reply to Marjorie Suddard :

I have typed and deleted so many replies. I'll boil them down to just these two:

1. I suspect Aunt Maggie believed she had a shot.

2. You'll be wearing that outfit on the 2035 Smoky Mountain Tour.

The time pondering was well spent. Your lips to God's ears.

Though again, full disclosure? I don't go on the tours. I do not have a face made for hospitality--seems it's better not to show what you're thinking, especially if someone is not being as swell as they could/should be.

Back on topic, those kids are definitely at Colonial Williamsburg. Both hats are still sold in the gift shop, though at prices no 1970s family was ever gonna pay.

In reply to Marjorie Suddard :

Tim wants to see you in that outfit. With the glasses. I predict he goes all David Lee Roth. No no no no, don't take 'em off, leave 'em on.

David S. Wallens said:

Is that dude wearing X-ray specs? 

Looks like it and the lady on his right is holding one of those rubber chickens.

In reply to Apis Mellifera :

Hey, yeah, that does look like a rubber chicken. What else would she hold like that? Off to google “Colonial Williamsburg rubber chicken...”

In reply to David S. Wallens :

It could be a real chicken.

confuZion3 said:

In reply to David S. Wallens :

It could be a real chicken.

That’d be brutal. 

Also, rubber chicken, X-ray specs, Virginia is for Lovers T-shirt? Yeah, someone recently hit the gift shop. 

Marjorie Suddard said:

David S. Wallens said:

The Cutlass on the left dates these images as after 1971 or ’72. Kinda looks like she’s wear a nametag. Some kind of group trip?

That shirt. Those glasses. I bet the family still talks about how spicy Aunt Phyllis was.

Am I the only one who sees David Foley from The Kids in the Hall in the above picture? 

Quick colorization:

Some sort of double exposure?:

I did a deep dive on Shipwreck Kelly's yesterday trying to find one in Virginia.  Matchbooks on eBay indicate various locations - Vegas, Chicago, Honolulu, and LA.  I couldn't find one in VA, but I think a gift shop there explains the pirate hats and other novelties, assuming it was a restaurant like Cracker Barrel.

This is turning out to be much more fun than if it was just Thanksgiving dinner with no other clues. You don't get X Ray specs at Thanksgiving dinner, although rubber chicken is not completely beyond the realm of possibility.

So, based on the cars, we are guessing mid-70's?  Remember, unlike the movies, most people don't drive around shiny new cars, so most of the cars in the pictures will be at least a few years old (of course, people did not keep cars quite as long back then).

Some of the older people in the pics look to be at least 60 (people tended to look older back then).  Which would mean they were likely born in the 1910's, living through WWI, the great depression, WWII, Korea and Vietnam, but most affected by WWII (pretty much at prime draft age).

I'm troubled by the inconsistency of wearing a tricorne hat with X-Ray specs. One evokes the past, the other points to the future.  Pick an era and stick with it. 

Also, who wears a tie on vacation?

Woody (Forum Supportum) said:

Also, who wears a tie on vacation?

My grandfather did. Suit, tie, the whole shebang. I have no idea why he did this.

Those much older women in the back look like they could be in their 80s in these pictures. That might place their births near the end of the 1800s. What interesting lives they must have led--to get to see humanity go from riding around on the backs of other animals to riding around on the MOON on an electric buggy!