Teaching About Zoo Animals

I hope she wasn't smoking in front of her students.  When I was in grade school, many of my teachers reeked of tobacco.

Is This the Niagara River?

I don't really know.  I have family in Canada, and when I was a child I often found myself being shipped off to Toronto, and the route we took went through Niagara Falls, both the Canadian and U.S. side of the river.  We would usually spend some time along the Niagara River, and there were plenty of concrete slab overlooks, at river's edge, with nothing but a flimsy, steel pipe guard rail keeping little kids from falling into the river.  Anyway, there's just something familiar about this photo.  If I'm right this picture is from the upper river above the falls.

On the Stage With That Weird Thing In the Background

I can make out the guys Afro when I blow it up, so no, that big thing in the background isn't a hat.  I have no idea what it is.  Dated "MAY  72." 

On the Stage With A Whip

This one's dated "MAY 69."  I've been assuming all these photos are from  amateur theatrical productions, but that guy on the left looks a lot like Adam West from Batman.  I just don't think he'd be in some low rent stage play unless he was really strapped for cash. 

On the Stage In Blackface

Not too long a go I bought an envelope of random photographs.  There were three, square formatted photos of stage plays.  If they were all dated in the same year I'd say they were related, but they run from the fifties to the seventies.  This one, "JUN 58."  With all that's going on now a days it's a bit jarring to find a picture of a woman in blackface spanking a white guy, and I have to wonder who wrote this show.  Even in the late fifties, while it wouldn't be scandalous, it would be considered in bad taste. 

Railroad Girls

I love this photo.  I don't know what these women are doing, but they seem top be hanging out next to the railroad.  Note the outhouses in the background.