Anonymous wine scenes (6)

"aux Eaux Douces" August 1960

Here we go again for the treasures I found on the flea markets, brocantes and vide-greniers (sidewalk attic sales). Foraging in the old pictures showing people enjoying wine or drinks decades ago is a healthy remindero f what's important in this world, moments immortalized by analog still photography on beautiful if anonymous prints. Reading through these pictures is certainly as efficient as a history course to get a direct intuitive knowledge of the way people behaved and felt in the 20th century. You now know how it works, when I find a hand-written date and/or location on the back of the picture I add it as a caption (in italic when word-for-word reproducing the text), otherwise I'll put an estimated year for the scene. Some of these pictures show German soldiers around WW1 and WW2, it's not clear how they landed on these fleamarkets, they were possibly seized on some prisonners or dead soldiers around 1945 I guess. Peace or war, there was always some bottle conveniently at reach for enjoying a drink together, that'll be the lesson, sit down in your armchair and enjoy this travel in time with on your side also a good glass of wine...

Picnic 1942

Military (possibly New Year's Eve) estimated year 1957

Pique-nique en montagne près des Mayons [Provence] - mai 1959 - watch the 4CV Renault in the back

Apéritif & cigarettes - estimated year 1944

Légionaires & sailors in French Indochina - estimated year 1928

Restaurant - Paris 1900 (postcard)

Army officers of unknown nationality, possibly Polish - estimated year 1920

Young woman - picnic - estimated year 1940

Café terrace - est. 1890

Lunch outside - est. 1935

German soldiers - 1916 im Fnldn. [unknown location]

Family reunion - Evreux, 3 juin 1936

Ouakam [air base, in Senegal] 1er janvier 1954

Comme elle est belle cette première bougie... En souvenir de vos trois chéris.Monaco 7.7.65

Boyscouts' lunch - est. year 1977

Extended family outside farm in 1945

Luftwaffe officers (presumably in a restaurant) - est. year 1943

Picnic in a park - est. year 1930

Farm workers/family toasting - est. year 1935

Geburtstag Feier - German soldiers, estimated year 1914, possibly as far as 1900

Vigneron Girondain [bordeaux] 1945, postcard by Willy Ronis

Military having lunch - est. year 1963

In the shade outside the house - est. year 1885

Vacances 1953. Pique-nique à l'ile Sainte Marguerite

Beer drinkers, possibly in Germany - est. year 1938

Champagne - 9 aout 1972

29 aout 1930, Le BourgetNo drinking here but this was so cute, and the guy put his motorbike (a Motobecane) well in the frame...

Comments

[Bob R]

Fantastic pictures!

[Anthony]

Wonderful views into perennial life.

[Ash]

These photos are just fantastic! Love seeing collections like this!