re: Pictures from days gone by....

1993, Just a simple tomato merchant

Great Grandfather and Grandmother at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

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Great Grandfather and Grandmother at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.

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That's cool as hell! I love seeing the photos that are actually dug up out of old family albums. It won't be long before photos of ourselves growing up in the 70s and 80s are considered ancient records.

The beauty micrometer, also known as the beauty calibrator, was a device designed in the early 1930s to help in the identification of the areas of a person’s face which need to have their appearance reduced or enhanced by make-up. The inventors include famed beautician Max Factor, Sr.

Placed on and around the head and face, the beauty micrometer uses flexible metal strips which align with a person’s facial features. The screws holding the strips in place allow for 325 adjustments, enabling the operator to make fine measurements with a precision of one thousandth of an inch. The inventors stated that there are two key measurements that they looked for: the heights of the nose and forehead should be the same, and the eyes should be separated by the width of one eye. When an imperfection is identified, corrective make-up can be applied to enhance or subdue the feature. The company Max Factor claims that the device helped Max Factor, Sr. to better understand the female face.

40 odd years later from the previous 1904 St. Louis Worlds Fair pic, Great Grandfather and Grandmother welcome my Great Uncle home to Monroe where, as he told me as a kid, he went to kill Germans because he was bored.

He was a character. Would hammer a nail in the garage wall and tell me that was where I would be sleeping so he could hang me from it for the night.