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anyone know where I can buy a poster of this? (Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Never Touch Ours)
Sorry, sass, don’t know where you’d find that. But someone should make one, because this has been one of the most visited posts on the blog :)
I’ll keep my eyes open – if I come across a print version of this, I’ll let you know.
As you can see, this is not from 1919, it is a fake… well, not exactly a fake, it has been reproduced for some programme, and as you can see the female character in the middle directly under the sign is that amazing actress from both Brookside and The Royale Family – Sue Johnson….. so, who are the other women and men (dressed as women)? Anyone got any ideas??
I suspect you’re right, Truthest. The centre model does seem somehow sharper than the others. And I sincerely hope (and agree) that a couple of these beauties are guys in drag.
But mostly, I’m still tickled that a cute little piece-of-fluff that I tripped over on the internets and added to the blog for a laugh is generating such scrutiny :)
Thanks for the joining the conversation. Whoever did create it certainly had a sense of humour. And a good eye for scary-looking women. My personal favourite is the pointer. She (or he) looks suspiciously like my late Uncle George.
hey… ‘she’ looks like my uncle George too…!? Maybe we’re related :)
It’s a cool picture Jesse, one I found particularly interesting when I saw it because, all the faces in the picture seem very familiar (obviously I mention Sue Johnston (sorry not Johnson) and I was interested to find out whether or not this is a staged photograph for either a play/tv programme.
No one seems to know, if you consider that this is a genuine poster from 1919, surely we’d have all seen it before now? I cannot seem to find anything about it on the web – not that I am going to dedicate my life to the search…. !
:)
You’re not the only one searching Truthest:
http://www.groupsrv.com/movie/about91102.html
Sounds like the final comment, indicatign it’s a still from a Three Stooges movie sounds the most plausible…
This picture is a still taken from a Movie made in the 1890′s by Thomas Edison in his New Jersey studio called the Black Maria – the world’s first movie production studio. The first films shot at the Black Maria, a tar-paper-covered, dark studio room with a retractable roof, included segments of magic shows, plays, vaudeville performances (with dancers and strongmen), acts from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, various boxing matches and cockfights, and scantily-clad women. So here we have a very early example of the media manipulating an image for their own ends!
Welcome, Riqqa.
It may very well be from one of Edisons. And quite a coincidence this is. Some years ago, I co-starred in a film called Edison: Wizard of Light in which I played a fictitious movie director that represented the film side of Edison. One of the major setups involved a period recreation of Edison’s Black Maria, where a number of silent movies would be shot, simultaneously. There’s a clip available here at Brightcove and at about 3:51 you’ll see that setup – and me directing the movies :)
Isn’t that Grff Rhys Jones to the left of Sue Johnson ?
old but hilarious man.
I was told by my father that the lady left towards front light colored dress.. is my great great grandma “Carrie Nations.” I wonder if anyone knows if thats her?
I have done a lot of comparisons on the pictures of the women(?) in this photo. I do not believe the woman possibly identified as Carrie Nations is that person. Carrie Nations worked very hard in the temperance movement. She was, by all accounts, a very big woman, 6 feet tall and weighing in at 175 pounds. She also only lived to age 64. The woman in the picture does bare a striking resemblance to her, but I think that is intentional.
The lady in the back center does also look a lot like Susan Johnston and funny enough, the one the poster stated that looks like Grff Rhys Jones, does look a lot like him. Coincidence? Maybe. I am still working on trying to id some of the other “women” in the pic, as they are very familiar.
I believe, but may very well be wrong, this is a promo shot from one of the comedic westerns that were very popular in the ’60s, like “The Shakiest Gun in the West” with Don Knotts, or “Support Your Local Sheriff” with James Garner. One of the character actresses in the movie, Kathleen Freeman, looks remarkably like the kneeling lady on the far right in the dark clothing. The ladies look way to familiar. I think they are all character actresses. I may be wrong, but I think the NPS missed this one.
Thanks for the insights, Mike. This post continues to generate fascinating commentary. Great conversation.
Cheers
:)
Jesse
and also, the basis of the “joke” is still sexist guy humor utilizing the idea of what is judged by these oh-so-handsome gents as unattractive women.
just sayin’
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Thank god I drink.
*Orders another round*
My sister tells me that the woman sitting on the left in the light dress is the image of me when I was younger and I have to agree it could be a photo of me. ~As I beleive in reincarnation I am intrigued. How can I find out who these women were.
This photo is not a ‘fake’. Two of the women in the picture are my relatives…my maternal grandmother and aunt. They both were members of the Women’s Christian Temperence Union in Fayette County, Pennsylvania when the photo was taken, sometime between 1919 and 1933. We are still researching the exact dates.
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[...] ‘Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours’ was a political slogan used by the US American Anti-Saloon League, the leading prohibitionist organization in the early twentieth century. The ASL was a brilliant lobbyist organization, achieving nation-wide prohibition for fourteen years, but they were clearly pretty shoddy when it came to advertising. We wonder how successful these ladies were in their deterrent strike? [...]