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My great-grandpa's mug shot

2008.12.17

This is my great-grandpa Oliver. He spent 9 months in jail for making and selling moonshine back in 1937. I think that this is one of the most awesome of our family's stories. Is it weird that I'm apparently so proud of this fact that I'm posting his mug shot on my photoblog? Probably. But I think it's the whole moonshine aspect of it that I find so neat. I have this mental picture when I think of moonshine of guys in the Appalachians with long beards drinking out of those big jugs. This is probably (100%) influenced by a Bugs Bunny cartoon.

And don't you love his hat? I especially love how they took one picture with the hat and one without. Is that the precursor to the profile picture?
7 Comments
LeonardoDaNiepce Just shows you how the new rich can wreck havoc on working middle class and lower class families; forcing men and women into doing certain things for a living that they should never have had to do! It's the same with my ancestors in Europe! We were not allowed to own land, to farm, to do general service works for non-Jews! We were forced into certain types of odd jobs and unethical practices just in order to survive...and then to have what little we could ever save or earn stolen from us at gunpoint and be murdered like ......ugh! Don't get me started! Marx was right about the source of the problems of all the poor and vulnerable middle classes: abusive behavior on the part of most rich people! He was wrong about the solution! As a Responsibly Liberal Progressive Social Democrat, Universalist Spiritual Humanist, I would never agree to joining the Marxists! Nor will I agree with the Psycho-Rich either! (Not all rich people are psycho or unethical or inhuman. But even the nice ones have limitations and can do little to help US, The People!). Hope Madoff gets what should be coming to him! And the same goes for the fake Repubs and the greedy anti-Constitution Neo-Con-artists!
LeonardoDaNiepce · 2008-12-18: 08:46
LeonardoDaNiepce Good thing we have someone similar to FDR coming into office! May G-D bless US all! And may WE learn to appreciate one another!
LeonardoDaNiepce · 2008-12-18: 08:47
Rasadesign Nice shots and good info..........
;)
Rasadesign · 2008-12-18: 08:49
mzobvious2 haaaaaa, that guy is too much!!
But, seriously I think it's awesome too! I love the idea of the hat pic versus the side shot!
mzobvious2 · 2008-12-18: 12:05
mollylyn THIS IS AWESOME LEAH!!!! THanks for sharing!
mollylyn · 2008-12-18: 23:38
Sonic7 To think that he spent 9 months in jail for that. It beggars belief these days.
Sonic7 · 2008-12-19: 07:09
Kim Moberg What a great picture of Grandpa Oliver!! Where did you come up with this?
Kim Moberg · 2008-12-24: 15:32
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