Three Dog was so awesome. Was really disappointed in Travis. Got considerably better when he became Travis "Lonely" Miles, but still leagues behind Three Dog.
I know. I've seen some pics of my mom when she was a teen during WWII. no wonder Dad fell for her.
We don't realize just how hot these older women were until confronted by photographic evidence.
I wouldn't doubt it. Her funeral was standing room only. I was surprised how many people she had helped in her 68 years. She didn't have a lot, but she was happy to share what she could. Many people were thankful just to have known her.
Iām looking at the movie title and the āslynessā of her hand gesture. Nan mightāve been cheekily giving a nod to āA Lone Woman and Three Bold Menā. Maybe?
I haven't found a plot summary for the 1935 film, but the 1941 one is summarized as "Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with an attractive stowaway discovered aboard their ship." Between that and the "early 1940s" timeframe provided by OP, I'm assuming the '41 film is the one being advertised.
https://preview.redd.it/4amcc2dvtvla1.jpeg?width=883&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31221925fbb532f73282d8e57f6ed7654b7b46d6
I tried restoring your photo, hope you like it.
Other comments here discuss where the photo was taken. She was definitely in Greenville, South Carolina near the southeast corner of North Main Street and East North Street. Found an unfortunately small photo of that location at the Greenville County Historical Society website. The photo shows the Ritz Theatre with the 1944 film Wilson playing. You can also see the sign for Pete's Lunch No. 2.
https://preview.redd.it/83j3j56rdzla1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0ca42fec0aba9f22527b35772365862237b1f3d
About 20 minutes, I start with photoshop for any repairs and then use free colourizing sites and then touch up that. This picture wasnāt it bad shape at all, Iāve worked on some that take days.
My grandma loves photos she has books upon books and one is old photos like this. If I picked out a solid few could you do this for me? Not alot maybe like 5? my grandpa just passed away and I think that would really cheer her up to have some color photos from when they were younger. I know 5 is a bigger ask than 1 so I could compensate you if itās not too expensive. Thanks in advance!
That is quite fascinating. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get started in this area? There has to be some sort of theoretical foundation you have to learn before practical work, right?
edit: wording
Just go off background info. Marquis are almost always white with black letters, that gives you a reference to white and black. Sidewalks are concrete, so a grey reference. Skin tone is variable but you can start guessing and see what sticks. And so on.
Some things, like the hair and dress, you make informed decisions based on experience and the photo, but it could honestly have just as easily been a yellow, green, or pink dress, ya know?
Lots of work goes into restoration, but some of it is guess work.
Had to upvote this comment. Look at any photos, film, etc. of people before maybe the 1980s in the US and almost everyone is "slim" (which actually means they are of normal, healthy proportions). Look at film from man-in-the-street interviews after JFK assassination for example, and everyone is "slim," and also everyone sounds smart in that they don't mess up basic grammar and don't say "like" a half-dozen times in one sentence. America has not gotten better in so many ways.
OP: great grandma was a very pretty woman.
Yeah and then there was the whole āhey white people and everyone else should be separateā and āwomen exist to serve menā stuff going on
Bettter times eh
Every. Single. Time. Thank you, valiant gatekeeper, for reminding us all that no good aspect of the past can ever discussed, because there were also bad aspects.
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to hang out with your grandmother when she was young. Just having a bite to eat maybe drinks, sitting on a park bench sharing each other's heart.
You want to know what's also old school cool?
See the marquee reading "This Woman is Mine?" Well, ever wondered about the word "mine"? It's a bit of an oddity in English.
If something belonged to your brother, you'd say it's *his*, but for yourself you might say it's *mine.* But we don't say it's *hine*, or *hene*, or *thine*, though we at least recognize *thine* as old timey word.
"Mine" was once analogous to "an." We use "an" instead of "a" when the following word begins with a vowel (technically a vowel sound, not necessarily a vowel letter), and this is to keep the words from running together. You ask someone to hand you *an* apple, not *a* apple so that you don't end up asking for *aaaaaaapple*.
"Mine" exists in the same way, to keep "my" from slurring into the next word. And of course we don't need it for "his" and "hers" and "theirs," because those end with consonant sounds. Thou? It gets thine.
Thatās also how we get nicknames like Ned for Edward ā āmine Edā over time becomes āmy Ned,ā just like āa napronā became āan apron.ā
Wow, great analysis! She and my great grandfather married in July 1941, so this would have been taken a few months after based on the movie release. He is not in the photo, but I do wonder if he took it!
You can probably rest assured that he did take it. Who else taking that picture would she have been smiling so sweetly at?
I have a picture of my father in 1942, taken by my mother on the day they met in Indiana. The smile on his face in that photo is so very similar in nature to your great grandmotherās smile in this picture.
Your photo is a family treasure!!
There is a reason why the sign in the background says "This Woman Is Mine" although it is partially covered by the guy. This location with that message was chosen on purpose.
> Late August or early September of 1941.
> This is a charming picture taken during the last summer before the outbreak of WW2.
You guys were a little late to the party. The war had been on for years already
> This is a charming picture taken during the last summer before the outbreak of WW2.
I feel like there's a parallel to this for my generation; summer 2001 before 9/11.
> before the outbreak of WW2
I know reddit is very U.S. oriented but I feel the need to correct this. December 7, 1941 was when the US entered the war after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. But WWII started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.
Same thing in WWI -- the war started with the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914. But the U.S. only entered the war in it final year -- April 6, 1917.
Then there's the question of how you count Japan's attempt for almost a decade to conquer China, starting in July 1937. It wasn't "world war" at that point, but the fighting blended in seamlessly as war spread, & it had millions of people dying all along ... A fair number of Chinese, I think, say that World War II started in July 1937.
For a shorter analogy, do you say World War 2 started on 1 September 1939 (Germany invaded Poland) or 3 September (the UK and France declared war)?
Basically, there are a lot of unclear lines in history.
To help date the photo, the film showing in the theater behind her is This Woman Is Mine, released August 22, 1941. The "A lone woman and three bold men" is a tagline for that film, not another film or two.
If youāve ever wondered why so many photos on r/OldSchoolCool are of people walking toward the camera on a sidewalk in a downtown area, itās because it was common for street photographers to take pics of people and try to sell them the photos. People were often dressed nicely in these photos because they were out doing their shopping and it was culturally unacceptable to look sloppy in public, especially shopping, when youād run into people you knew.
i got a similar style picture of my grandparents. grandma's wearing a fur coat. she looks like a movie star. we've got a blown up version of it hanging in the main hallway. apparently it was common place for photographers to do this and then sell you the picture back in the day. theirs was taken in toronto i think
I think her expression comes from knowing she's looking good, she saw the guy look at her when he walked past, *and* she's now having her picture taken.
She turned some heads, for sure. Young chap on the right checking her out.
1940's version of *that* meme.
Actually, there's an even better version of THAT meme from around that time. Look up the "distracted girlfriend" Marine picture, it's hilarious!
Haha, She's very enthusiastically distracted.
first thing i thought of! ššš
"A Lone Woman and Three Bold Men" ā sign says it right behind her!
Sounds racy.
Sounds like a porno
She is literally a lone woman in the photo with three bold(ish?) men nearby.
PETES LUNCH
HEY EVERYBODY DID THE NEWS GET AROUND ABOUT A GUY NAMED "BUTCHER PETE"?
He's hackin, wackin, choppin that meat!
Ooooo, ooooo, oooo, Three Dog here!
Three Dog was so awesome. Was really disappointed in Travis. Got considerably better when he became Travis "Lonely" Miles, but still leagues behind Three Dog.
Came here to say this
Thatās his great grandfather
I saw the same thing. Heās totally rubbernecking. 
Funny in retrospect but that fella for at least a brief moment was a threat to OP's existence
I know. I've seen some pics of my mom when she was a teen during WWII. no wonder Dad fell for her. We don't realize just how hot these older women were until confronted by photographic evidence.
Oh we all realize. We've all met your mom.
I wouldn't doubt it. Her funeral was standing room only. I was surprised how many people she had helped in her 68 years. She didn't have a lot, but she was happy to share what she could. Many people were thankful just to have known her.
Iām looking at the movie title and the āslynessā of her hand gesture. Nan mightāve been cheekily giving a nod to āA Lone Woman and Three Bold Menā. Maybe?
The oogling men + the movie title on the marquee! Lol
Then you look at the ad... perfect.
The sign combo hits a bit different these days.
"A lone woman and three bold men." Maybe things haven't changed that much after all.
I feel like I've seen a remake of that recently....
Today, its one young blond sitting on a couch with 5 men of color standing behind her.
Is that a movie title or something? Tried to google it nothing hits
The title is "*This Woman Is Mine.*" What it says above on the marquee is an ad line. The movie does indeed feature three bold men and one woman.
There are two on imdb, 1935 and 1941
I haven't found a plot summary for the 1935 film, but the 1941 one is summarized as "Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with an attractive stowaway discovered aboard their ship." Between that and the "early 1940s" timeframe provided by OP, I'm assuming the '41 film is the one being advertised.
You wouldn't believe what my search turned up. It didn't get any better when I added grandmother!
*Insert woman on couch with men behind her* meme.
https://preview.redd.it/4amcc2dvtvla1.jpeg?width=883&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=31221925fbb532f73282d8e57f6ed7654b7b46d6 I tried restoring your photo, hope you like it.
This is incredible! Thank you so much, my family is going to love seeing this!
Other comments here discuss where the photo was taken. She was definitely in Greenville, South Carolina near the southeast corner of North Main Street and East North Street. Found an unfortunately small photo of that location at the Greenville County Historical Society website. The photo shows the Ritz Theatre with the 1944 film Wilson playing. You can also see the sign for Pete's Lunch No. 2. https://preview.redd.it/83j3j56rdzla1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0ca42fec0aba9f22527b35772365862237b1f3d
Wow, so cool - thanks for sharing this!
My brain doesn't like those street names
Glad you like it.
Damn, who are you people? The restoration elves I can only assume.
Itās a hobby.
Nah I love it haha You and your kind are amazing
>You and your kind are amazing My guy isn't accepting vague hobby response and is still weary of the restoration elves
Restore - ??? - profit
Hey what's phase 2?
???, that should be pretty obvious.
Wow bravo !
The restoration hobbits
Weāre simple folk here in the shire.
A hobby for elves I can only assume.
How long did it take you to restore this photo?
About 20 minutes, I start with photoshop for any repairs and then use free colourizing sites and then touch up that. This picture wasnāt it bad shape at all, Iāve worked on some that take days.
It's done in seconds with AI. Super easy
If you ever post something in black and white on this sub you'll receive dozens of pm offering a paid for restauration.
What do you mean '_you people_'?
Iām taking it as āall of these nice people who have the skills to do this and just do it freelyā.
The guy looking back. Serious meme potential
one of the three bold men..
She was a head-turner
I mean, we already have that meme, and it's very popular.
This is the original inspiration for the stock photo.
I was thinking grandfather potential.
That was a sweet thing to do. Reddit can be a kind at place times.
Fuck you
And also with you
And with your spirit
Lift up your hearts
We lift them up to the colorizing elves
Let us give thanks to the Elves our god
That's a horrible thing to do. Reddit can be a nasty place at times.
I love you
That was a sweet thing to do. Reddit can be a kind at place times.
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We still love you!
Welcome to Costco
Username checks out.
beautiful. i love that you gave her that gorgeous red hair.
My grandma loves photos she has books upon books and one is old photos like this. If I picked out a solid few could you do this for me? Not alot maybe like 5? my grandpa just passed away and I think that would really cheer her up to have some color photos from when they were younger. I know 5 is a bigger ask than 1 so I could compensate you if itās not too expensive. Thanks in advance!
Just put your picture on r/OldSchoolCool, if not me, Iām sure someone would try and fix it.
That is quite fascinating. If you don't mind me asking, how do you get started in this area? There has to be some sort of theoretical foundation you have to learn before practical work, right? edit: wording
Just go off background info. Marquis are almost always white with black letters, that gives you a reference to white and black. Sidewalks are concrete, so a grey reference. Skin tone is variable but you can start guessing and see what sticks. And so on. Some things, like the hair and dress, you make informed decisions based on experience and the photo, but it could honestly have just as easily been a yellow, green, or pink dress, ya know? Lots of work goes into restoration, but some of it is guess work.
thank you, kind stranger
Lots of crayons. Coloring in the lines etc.
So neat!
Holy shit
Thats picture looks very sweet! Such a great job
It looks like a movie poster from that period
Looks amazing!
Oh wow, that's spectacular How does one do that?
Palette.fm will also do a pretty good job.
She's a beauty! I love her dress
What a lovely picture! Love her style.
Also look how slim everyone is
Had to upvote this comment. Look at any photos, film, etc. of people before maybe the 1980s in the US and almost everyone is "slim" (which actually means they are of normal, healthy proportions). Look at film from man-in-the-street interviews after JFK assassination for example, and everyone is "slim," and also everyone sounds smart in that they don't mess up basic grammar and don't say "like" a half-dozen times in one sentence. America has not gotten better in so many ways. OP: great grandma was a very pretty woman.
Processed food and car dependence has greatly harmed health and wellbeing in America
Yeah and then there was the whole āhey white people and everyone else should be separateā and āwomen exist to serve menā stuff going on Bettter times eh
Every. Single. Time. Thank you, valiant gatekeeper, for reminding us all that no good aspect of the past can ever discussed, because there were also bad aspects.
Do you often find yourself bringing up segregation and sex discrimination when it isn't even remotely relevant to the conversation at hand?
Ahead of it's time... https://preview.redd.it/hdoa1f6z8wla1.jpeg?width=4500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aa77733115b15941614a1ff30de2f2b2a27c6d2b
https://preview.redd.it/nfc693lamwla1.jpeg?width=976&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7091978a621e8a98a75dc9186c044f3374f45573 There is another
https://preview.redd.it/9gablukgdxla1.png?width=177&format=png&auto=webp&s=bfeb339867e73dc5d06a2f36f08edf94f9453f81
https://preview.redd.it/w0l62f5v6zla1.png?width=1032&format=png&auto=webp&s=e0488a2e17a80e7101509baa872bb1bd1ff0ba06
Wouldn't it be cool to be able to hang out with your grandmother when she was young. Just having a bite to eat maybe drinks, sitting on a park bench sharing each other's heart.
Yeah... that's what I imagined too. The park
Ok Mr I'm my own grandpa
*Let's just steal the damn dish and get the hell out of here!*
Until she starts about.. you know.. the blackies.
Or it turns in to that Futurama episode/Back to the future film and she starts hitting on you
You want to know what's also old school cool? See the marquee reading "This Woman is Mine?" Well, ever wondered about the word "mine"? It's a bit of an oddity in English. If something belonged to your brother, you'd say it's *his*, but for yourself you might say it's *mine.* But we don't say it's *hine*, or *hene*, or *thine*, though we at least recognize *thine* as old timey word. "Mine" was once analogous to "an." We use "an" instead of "a" when the following word begins with a vowel (technically a vowel sound, not necessarily a vowel letter), and this is to keep the words from running together. You ask someone to hand you *an* apple, not *a* apple so that you don't end up asking for *aaaaaaapple*. "Mine" exists in the same way, to keep "my" from slurring into the next word. And of course we don't need it for "his" and "hers" and "theirs," because those end with consonant sounds. Thou? It gets thine.
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Yes, that's right. Or more familiarly, *mine eyes* have seen the glory, rather than "meyes" have seen.
Thatās also how we get nicknames like Ned for Edward ā āmine Edā over time becomes āmy Ned,ā just like āa napronā became āan apron.ā
Late August or early September of 1941. The film āThis Woman is Mineā was released August 22, 1941. Movies would typically run in theaters for 2-4 weeks depending on revenue. Your Great Grandmother has an admirer who can be seen over her left shoulder. This is a charming picture taken during the last summer before the outbreak of WW2. Admiral Yamamoto and his staff are planning the attack on Pearl Harbor. Most of these young men will soon be in the military. Over her right shoulder, in the distance, appears to be a man in a khaki uniform and who is wearing a garrison hat. Your Great Grandmother is nicely dressed with a double strand of pearls, a womanās wristwatch and a ring on her left hand. Perhaps an engagement ring? Sheās wearing expensive spectator high heels. She may have been on a date, perhaps with her fiancĆ©. Perhaps her fiancĆ© snapped this picture which might explain the charming smile on her face and the way sheās holding her left hand - almost as if sheās showing off the ring. Did they just get engaged?? Such a charming picture with so many details in it to wonder about. Thanks for posting this!
Wow, great analysis! She and my great grandfather married in July 1941, so this would have been taken a few months after based on the movie release. He is not in the photo, but I do wonder if he took it!
You can probably rest assured that he did take it. Who else taking that picture would she have been smiling so sweetly at? I have a picture of my father in 1942, taken by my mother on the day they met in Indiana. The smile on his face in that photo is so very similar in nature to your great grandmotherās smile in this picture. Your photo is a family treasure!!
There is a reason why the sign in the background says "This Woman Is Mine" although it is partially covered by the guy. This location with that message was chosen on purpose.
Holmes...is that you?
Shhhh, Watson. Quiet. The game is afoot!
> Admiral Yamamoto and his staff are planning the attack on Pearl Harbor. Now that's what I call history.
Really thought the billboard was advertising for a film called āThis Woman Mimeā
I can see why youād think so.
> Late August or early September of 1941. > This is a charming picture taken during the last summer before the outbreak of WW2. You guys were a little late to the party. The war had been on for years already
I think they are referring to the USā official involvement in the war, which began when Pearl Harbor was surprise attacked.
It kinda makes sense to let everybody else beat the shit out of each other for a while and then join in fresh. Worked in the first one, too.
> This is a charming picture taken during the last summer before the outbreak of WW2. I feel like there's a parallel to this for my generation; summer 2001 before 9/11.
> before the outbreak of WW2 I know reddit is very U.S. oriented but I feel the need to correct this. December 7, 1941 was when the US entered the war after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. But WWII started on September 1, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. Same thing in WWI -- the war started with the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria on June 28, 1914. But the U.S. only entered the war in it final year -- April 6, 1917.
Of course. The context of the picture is in the US, as were my comments.
Then there's the question of how you count Japan's attempt for almost a decade to conquer China, starting in July 1937. It wasn't "world war" at that point, but the fighting blended in seamlessly as war spread, & it had millions of people dying all along ... A fair number of Chinese, I think, say that World War II started in July 1937. For a shorter analogy, do you say World War 2 started on 1 September 1939 (Germany invaded Poland) or 3 September (the UK and France declared war)? Basically, there are a lot of unclear lines in history.
That man following on the left is actually one Hannibal Lector, who had just escaped prison at the end of the movie
To help date the photo, the film showing in the theater behind her is This Woman Is Mine, released August 22, 1941. The "A lone woman and three bold men" is a tagline for that film, not another film or two.
Cool info, thanks.
Gram grams was a cutie
GramGram has some nice gams, too
If youāve ever wondered why so many photos on r/OldSchoolCool are of people walking toward the camera on a sidewalk in a downtown area, itās because it was common for street photographers to take pics of people and try to sell them the photos. People were often dressed nicely in these photos because they were out doing their shopping and it was culturally unacceptable to look sloppy in public, especially shopping, when youād run into people you knew.
Incredible photo for so many reasons. Feels like it transports me to a different time. Thank you for sharing.
Beautiful women... beautiful style of dress!!
i got a similar style picture of my grandparents. grandma's wearing a fur coat. she looks like a movie star. we've got a blown up version of it hanging in the main hallway. apparently it was common place for photographers to do this and then sell you the picture back in the day. theirs was taken in toronto i think
Great dress
Guy looking back is like that meme
Is that your great grandpa sneaking a peek ?
Great grandmaās kind of a smoke show? Very cool pic
Your great-grandma had a devilishly cute smile...
Man o man, check out those ankles!
My girlfriend loves her shoes
Thatās a great pic! She was beautiful!
Sheās a tall drink of water
A lone woman and three bold men, boom! Title of your great grandma's sex tape.
Very cool. Any guess where?
Google turns up nothing for "a lone womand and three bold men".
It doesn't! However, it does give a year for "This Woman is Mine" as 1941!
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I wanna eat at Pete's lunch.
She has a look on her face that suggests she knows that guy is checking her out. :)
I think her expression comes from knowing she's looking good, she saw the guy look at her when he walked past, *and* she's now having her picture taken.
She looks like a certain mom that adopted a child that landed on Earth while in a spaceshipš
Grannys kinda hot
What a cool photo. Sheās really pretty
amazing photo! looks like a vintage poster youād hang in your first apartment after college.
That movie sucked according to IMDb 1941 version of this woman is mine. Three men fall in love with same woman.
The film This Woman is Mine had a release date of August 22, 1941. Just before the storm.
HAHA great movie title?
So beautiful
The original boyfriend looking back meme
A lone woman and three bold man can be seen here too
Look how thin everyone was
Dude in the background is like daaaaaamn, Dorothy
Movie title on the marquee is quite ominousā¦
I have a crush on your great grandma.
Sheās got a real cute smile š
She reminds me a bit of Alison Brie
trudy!
Beautiful... And she actually is the lone women with 3 men in the background...
Well she is adorable.
Dis woman is mine !
Thats a cool photo! I wonder if she took that photo as a play on words with the movie title on the sign
Beautiful picture and woman
Loraine Baines Newman!
Is OP Marisa Tomei?
That dude looking back reminds me of that meme lol
Soo...she's about my grandma's age and I feel old now.
Beautiful photo, the "lone woman, three bold me" cinema sign in the background adds fun context.
Are movies from the old days just gender and numbers? 1 woman 3 bold men 9 women 12 angry men
She reminds me of Hannah Murray.
She turned heads
https://preview.redd.it/inuj9ktyryla1.jpeg?width=558&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27dd7b53286c6bc10a4597568bff40dda89a647b
Obviously a city girl who knows the best way to carry your purse on the street.
Makes me want to jump into the picture and take a stroll. Nice job!
Thatās awesome! Looks like a Rockwell painting!
Grandma got some āmiring going on.
Sheās beautiful, I assume The Three Bold Men are in the immediate background.
The guy checking her out, became so noticeable in the color resto.
That movie title though
Goods chance that young man got sent to war and died not too longer after this photo. :(
Great grandma's sure looked younger back then
A lone women and three Bold men.