A Wonderfully Strange VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS

Wishing my fellow Sepian's a wonderful holiday season, and that includes those who visit but don't participate.

And now the final intact Victorian Christmas.

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SNIFFLES for Christmas

Unfortunately I've been hit with a nasty cold right when I needed my energy most. No tree. No cookies. Most presents not bought and shipped. And I'll be frank, I worry this is the last Christmas with my father. Can't complain. Mine is just an inconvenience. But dang!

So no real participation in Sepia Saturday this weekend, but I wanted to make sure I posted part three of the Victorian Christmas image.

I give you a young Paul Simon and Paul McCartney. No idea what's going on. Who'd have thought these Time Traveling Celebrities would be caught as children?

FATHER'S Day

Dad always thought he looked a bit like Kevin Spacey, even though Spacey hadn't been born yet. That was one of the things we celebrated about dad...and also something the neighbors thought odd.


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Time Traveling RICHARD GERE?

Starting off the new year with a possible time-traveling-celebrity, actor Richard Gere back in the 1940s picking and packing fruit for Del Monte. He's gone to a great deal of effort to hide his visit to the past. He certainly wasn't researching his part in American Gigolo or Pretty Woman. Any idea what role he might have been working on?

On the back of the photo it says, "Summer 1947  Daddy, R. L. and Clings" which sounds like a ruse to me. Yeah, the first letter of the young fellow is "R" which is obviously for Richard. Okay, so I don't know what the "L" stands for, but I'm sure one of you will figure it out. I'm guessing the Clings are nestled gently in the crates. Peaches I say! They're hauling peaches! (Excuse my exuberance, but the thought of summer peaches makes me go a little crazy.)


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They can travel through time, but they can't hide!

Don't forget to do a search of this site for other time-traveling-celebrities. I add them as I find them.
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The DRIVER IN BAHRAIN in 1957

Who knew Matthew McConaughey also worked as a driver in Bahrain? The guy is everywhere!

But seriously folks…this was the driver for Donald G. Schnabel in Bahrain in 1957. Handsome fellow.


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Just another time traveling celebrity.

SNAIL MAIL can be the best surprise

On January 11th of this year I posted this photo as an example of another Time-Traveling-Celebrity. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks this dapper gentleman looks like actor Alan Cumming. The photo was available on ebay and when it sold to someone I hoped it had gone to a good home, someone who appreciated the fact that Alan Cumming had been caught in the past while researching a role or possibly just taking an unusual vacation. I think you might figure out where this is going.

To say the least I was dumbstruck when I opened my mail several weeks ago and found Alan looking up at me. Katherine from Photobooth Journal had bought him for me. I'm still stunned by it. It was such an incredibly kind thing to do and I've told her so several times. So again, thank you Katherine, you're a very special lady.

So Alan has been added to my Time-Traveling collection. It's so much fun to find someone sneaking around in the past thinking they'll get away with it. Being a celebrity has so many perks we lowly unknown will never experience. I'm at least happy that some of them have been caught.

And visit Katherine and enjoy her 41 year Photobooth Project. She has a wonderful collection from her own life and tons of fun images of all those lovely people from the past.

NOT George Jessel Playing Cards, but...

I should be keeping this image for next Christmas season, but I just love it so much I have to show it now. This is an image given to me by my best friend for Christmas.


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A time-traveling-celebrity for sure if you remember George Jessel. If you don't remember George, well...I'm sorry. George was old school vaudeville who became famous for being a toastmaster at all sorts of events.



And for those who think of radios as something the size of their iPhone or smaller, take a look at the behemoth in the background. That's a radio that would be full of beautifully glowing tubes. When you turned it on it came alive after warming up.

Time-Traveling-Celebrity ALAN CUMMING

This is a different sort of post for me in that I'm posting an image for sale on ebay. I've no extra cash to buy it, but this one fits my category "Time-Traveling-Celebrities" so perfectly. It pains me to think someone else will eventually own it, but it will now forever be linked with the rest of the celebrities who thought they could get away with sneaking around in the past without being caught.

I give you Alan Cumming, Time-Traveling-Celebrity.

You can find the item here on ebay. The seller has it listed as "Guy in Tie and Hat." Yeah, sure. We know what's going on and I think Mr. Cumming is happy to have been caught.

Sorry Alan, someone other than I will have to take you home.

If you're not acquainted with this peculiar category simply click on "time-traveling-celebrity" in the labels below.

ANNIE HALL down on the farm

Now I'm not claiming that this is another time-traveling-celebrity, but this might be the first shot of someone from long ago workin' the Annie Hall look. A relative of Diane Keaton? An inspiration?





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BABY MOHAWK with Vanessa Redgrave

I know the first thing most people will see when looking at this shot is the baby with the mohawk. In my case the first thing I saw was Vanessa Redgrave.

This was in a box with hundreds of photos at an antique store I rarely visit. I was getting bored looking through the box because most of the shots were just straight on posed shots, hundreds of them. Boring, boring, boring. And then I saw this and saw Vanessa's smile. I knew I had proof of a time traveling celebrity actually in preparation for a film. Had to be. Significant evidence. Vanessa Redgrave preparing for her role in YANKS.

Okay, so it isn't really Redgrave, but this woman is just as beautiful as Redgrave.

Now as to the baby with the mohawk....

Time-traveling WILL FERRELL

With all the bad news each day, inside and outside the walls of my world, I'm looking for moments of pure silliness. I give you such a moment. There's no monetary value to this shot. It's not a work of art. What it is is another example of my time-traveling-celebrity theory. Once again a celebrity has been able to cross back in time and got caught doing it. We mere mortals have never been given the keys to this form of travel so until we are I think we need to call out examples when stars are caught. I give you Will Ferrell in drag, time-traveling-celebrity.

I will now go back to my regularly scheduled daily program of work and angst.