Old Photo mashup - The Games 1912-1962

[Alan H]

I'm loving this photo set for the Athletics end of it but I'm sure you traditional clothing lads and lasses will enjoy it, too. There are lots of pictures of regimental kit and civilian kilt clothing during the period.

http://mashable.com/2016/02/08/highl.../#Dg0iuxMf5kq2

[Rick Y]

Thanks, Alan. Those were extremely interesting. Some of the cabers looked impossibly long. (and that final shot of the two men wrestling seems to answer the question of what is worn beneath the kilt! It looks like some of the women in the background are quite attentive!)

[neloon]

No concerns about health and safety in those days!
Alan

[MacKenzie]

Thanks. Great photos.

Almost no spectators in a kilt.

[Panache]

WOW!

Those are some amazing photos of Athletics and dancing (kinda shows their isn't that much difference between the two)

The only thing that I am curious about is the one photo of the shot putt where the shot putt is on a cable. I've never heard or seen of such a thing. Is this an antiquated version of the event or a Scottish variant?

Cheers Friend

Jamie

PS: Share this link with Deborah!

[MacGumerait]

Wonderful pics Alan ! No sport kilts or athletic shoes available to those gents when competing back in the day .

Cheers , Mike

[The Q]

WOW!

Those are some amazing photos of Athletics and dancing (kinda shows their isn't that much difference between the two)

The only thing that I am curious about is the one photo of the shot putt where the shot putt is on a cable. I've never heard or seen of such a thing. Is this an antiquated version of the event or a Scottish variant?

Cheers Friend

Jamie

PS: Share this link with Deborah!

That is the Hammer throw, a variant of the hammer throw with a solid shaft, the Hammer with cable is an Olympic event and has been since 1900.
The USA won the gold at the Olympics from 1900 to 1924, but not since.

[Michael Weatherhead]

I'm loving this photo set for the Athletics end of it but I'm sure you traditional clothing lads and lasses will enjoy it, too. There are lots of pictures of regimental kit and civilian kilt clothing during the period.

http://mashable.com/2016/02/08/highl.../#Dg0iuxMf5kq2

Today's competitors develop their muscles largely by working out, while those in earlier times did so by working. While today's athletes are bigger, more massive than in previous times, I think it's fair to say that lb for lb, the athlets in the old photos (while they appear skinnier than today's) were stronger, due largely to their occupation. While on that other site, I clicked on, with great interest, to the old logging photos. I have several turn- of-the-last-century logging photos, showing my great great uncle (of Scottish descent), on a logging crew, in the Sequoia forest. Not any chubby fellas, among his work crew.

[Michael Weatherhead]

As a young man, I worked for a copper mine. I worked in a plant, where the copper cathodes (thick sheets, some of you may have seen bundles of these of flatbed semi-trailers). The whole processed required a lot of hard physical labor, on our part, as the work crew. We might have come to work there, a little portly, but after while, all the perspiration, and physically demanding work, made us a lean, machine copper making machine. At the annual company picnic, there were several competition games, including a tug-of-war. Our little crew went up against some crews, with some fairly big guys, as anchor, and on their teams. But guess what, we smoked them all. We went undefeated, each year, for the three years, that I worked there. I believe what help us (and we were all sizes, none of us very big, some small ones in the group), was that each one of us, did hard physical labor, 5 days a week. We used and developed our muscles. I know that I for one developed a pretty nice six pack, then. I believe this applied to our forefathers, also, My dad wasn't a big man, but he sure was strong. He worked hard, when he was young.