Jailhouse Chic

[Tom Lehman]

Carl---One thing that amazes me is that whenever I go through a collection of
Steelworker photos from the 30's and 40's is how well dressed and how much pride
the Steelworkers had in themselves.  I mean these guys were lucky if they had
two nickles to rub together and where their next meal was coming from was
sometimes in doubt.  Yet you will see hundreds/thousands of rank and file
Steelworkers wearing suits, sportcoats, white shirts, ties, straw hats in the
summer, etc. etc. Remember these are rank and file crowd shots, I'm talking
about on all different types of ocassions.

THe same is true of old UMWA photos too.

Tom Lehman

Carl Remick wrote:


> >Black jazz musicians
> >didn't wear jeans when they were playing, at least not back at the time of
> >the Beats.
>
> Check out the famous photo at
> http://www.actlab.utexas.edu/~horshak/greatday/page1.html of leading '50s
> jazz musicians that was the subject of the documentary, "A Great Day in
> Harlem."  Looks like only 3 out of 57 of these guys aren't wearing a jacket
> and tie.
>
> By way of background, this website notes:  "Around ten one morning in the
> summer of 1958, 57 musicians representing three generations of jazz history
> showed up at 126th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues in Harlem to be
> photographed taken by Art Kane, a freelance photographer working for Esquire
> magazine. The photo was eventually published in the January, 1959 issue.
> This photo also became the basis of a documentary film produced by veteran
> radio producer, Jean Bach of New York. The film was nominated for an Academy
> Award ...."
>
> Carl
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