Bathing suits, 1929

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

[DeaconKC]

I bet that was @Forty Rod SASS 3935's favorite job! 😁

[sassnetguy50]

Do they make a tape measure for string now?

[Rye Miles #13621]

1 hour ago, sassnetguy50 said:

Do they make a tape measure for string now?

Yea dental floss! 

[Texas Lizard]

2 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Yea dental floss! 

And it covered about that much....Just what needed to be covered....And if moving a little, kinda miss the needed area....

 

Texas Lizard

[watab kid]

well , seems law enforcement then was better respected than it is now - im amazed at the restraint of our ICE officers , i respect and support them in every effort , they are here but wont see them in my area i have three - possibly four LEOs living in the area i live in , the illegal's are not here 

[El Chapo]

4 hours ago, watab kid said:

well , seems law enforcement then was better respected than it is now - im amazed at the restraint of our ICE officers , i respect and support them in every effort , they are here but wont see them in my area i have three - possibly four LEOs living in the area i live in , the illegal's are not here 

 

Neither ICE nor its predecessor organization, INS, existed in 1929.

[Dantankerous]

The original beach Karen?

 

Modesty police, perhaps? Plenty of people need a dose of modesty anymore. 😄

[Alpo]

I wonder why they doctored the picture like that?

 

That is usually what you see when someone takes video with a cell phone camera and then posts it on YouTube.

 

The actual picture in the middle of the screen and then some out of focus fuzzy crap on both sides of the actual picture.

 

But friends and neighbors, they did not have cell phones in 1929. Photographs taken in 1929 would normally fill the entire screen.

 

Weirdness.

[Pat Riot]

Thank God that stupidity still doesn’t exist…Oh, wait!

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

2 hours ago, Alpo said:

I wonder why they doctored the picture like that?

 

That is usually what you see when someone takes video with a cell phone camera and then posts it on YouTube.

 

The actual picture in the middle of the screen and then some out of focus fuzzy crap on both sides of the actual picture.

 

But friends and neighbors, they did not have cell phones in 1929. Photographs taken in 1929 would normally fill the entire screen.

 

Weirdness.

cell phone picture of s picture?

[WD Farren]

Notice that old photo was done in CA.

The nanny state, even 100 years ago,

[Eyesa Horg]

23 minutes ago, WD Farren said:

Notice that old photo was done in CA.

The nanny state, even 100 years ago,

Thanks  I was biting my tongue on that one so as not to bash! Take it from the source!!

[Cypress Sun]

Obviously Barney Fife with an new fangled tape measure.

[WD Farren]

Bash away.

CA, CO and UT have implemented smog laws for gas water heaters.
After thorough diagnosis, ours died with a controller card failure.

I bought a used one from eBay, but it came with a dead controller, which I understand is common.
The vendor is sending me another card, which will probably be dead as well.

We are boiling water for sitz baths now.  Two weeks without hot water.

 

New controllers are $400 which is way excessive for a 13 year old water heater.
I cannot buy a replacement 50 gallon, 40,000 btu heater unless I drive to Nevada to buy one.

 

So yes, bash away.

CA deserves to be bashed.

 

[Eyesa Horg]

It's amazing the BS reasons they have for things. My 50 gal water is pretty damn efficient from my perspective and beyond hot water it is my radiant heat. It does eat an igniter about every year and a half, so I keep two in stock! I'd bet that heater creates less smog in a year than an LA bus does driving one block. 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

23 hours ago, DeaconKC said:

I bet that was @Forty Rod SASS 3935's favorite job! 😁

I outfitted myself with a half inch measuring tape.   I got some really good friends out of that...and got slapped around sometimes, too.

[sassnetguy50]

8 hours ago, Alpo said:

I wonder why they doctored the picture like that?

 

That is usually what you see when someone takes video with a cell phone camera and then posts it on YouTube.

 

The actual picture in the middle of the screen and then some out of focus fuzzy crap on both sides of the actual picture.

 

But friends and neighbors, they did not have cell phones in 1929. Photographs taken in 1929 would normally fill the entire screen.

 

Weirdness.

It is probably a screenshot from a youtube video.

[watab kid]

17 hours ago, El Chapo said:

 

Neither ICE nor its predecessor organization, INS, existed in 1929.

there was only the early FBI then i think , that of elliot ness 

[Alpo]

I don't know what immigration has to do with that picture, but the Border Patrol was formed in 1924.

 

Now you can call it ICE or you can call it immigration or you can call it INS or you can call it imigre. It's all the same people.

[Three Foot Johnson]

It might seem oppressive by today's standards, but at least it kept them in line. 

[sassnetguy50]

Good one.

[Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485]

On 1/16/2026 at 12:40 AM, watab kid said:

there was only the early FBI then i think , that of elliot ness 

Federal Bikini Inspector ? I wonder if those tape measures had properly floating hooks? 

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

1 hour ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:

Federal Bikini Inspector ? I wonder if those tape measures had properly floating hooks? 

Bikini not yet invented 

[Subdeacon Joe]

On 1/15/2026 at 9:09 AM, WD Farren said:

Notice that old photo was done in CA.

The nanny state, even 100 years ago,

 

Vulcan on a unicorn! Give it a rest!

 

https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/article242912016.html

"Because they walked Beach Boulevard in one-piece bathing suits but without the rest of their bodies properly covered, Fred Randall and Leo Bickman were fined $64.10 each, plus court costs. Biloxi police warned them not to do it again.

 

Huh? For true?

 

Yes, but this happened 100 years ago. May 24, 1920, was a lovely, sunny Saturday on the Mississippi Coast."  The fine was $5, but in today's money that's the 64 bucks

 

 

"...It shall be unlawful for any person to appear on any Biloxi street or to loiter in any public place off of the beach attired in a bathing costume, unless said person wears a suitable robe covering the body from shoulders to below the knees.

 

“...Be it further ordained that any person violating any provision of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be fined not less than $5 nor no more than $100, or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding 15 days or both...”

 

And Texas is such an oppressive nanny state!

San Antonio Police Department Captain W.C.Dickman measuring a girls bathing suit to ensure it conformed with city ordinance.

[WD Farren]

No I won’t give it a rest.

you can be hippie skippie and pretend all is well while the state destroys us.

 

How will you like it when your property taxes go up to $60,000 like mine did when I lost prop 13 on my property?

 

They give you sixty days to pay the tax or they seize your property for a tax lien.  Been there, done that.  If you can’t cover the tax bill, bye bye property. 

Edited January 18 by WD Farren

[watab kid]

8 hours ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said:

Federal Bikini Inspector ? I wonder if those tape measures had properly floating hooks? 

NOT sure on that but might want to be assigned to that detail ....till my wife finds out ...................

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

These days it’d be something like “bikinis must employ at least nine square inches of fabric”

[Subdeacon Joe]

I think over half the States still have some form of "Blue Laws." You know, can only buy alcohol from State Run Stores. Can't buy alcohol on Sunday. Can't hunt on Sunday.

Lots of "Nanny States" it seems.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

New Hampshire has a liquor monopoly. Neighboring states come here to stock up. Places in NY, Connecticut, etc, send trucks and vans here. I dont know what happens if they get caught selling out of state booze. I imagine they get fined but the risk is low.

 

cheapest booze in the nation, certainly cheaper than neighbors.  Google NH  state liquor and wine to see.   Ordinary stores sell beer and wine.

[Alpo]

My first job. Bag boy, 1973. Man asked me one Sunday morning if it was legal to buy beer on Sunday. I told him yes. Amazed at the question.

 

In the early 2000s I'm visiting a girl up in Georgia. There's a knock at the door, and her next door neighbor wants to know if she has any beer he could buy. She sold him a six-pack and he goes away, and she grinned and said she was now a bootlegger. What??

 

It's illegal to sell beer on Sunday in Georgia. Her neighbor had company and they ran out of beer and he couldn't go to the store and buy any because it was Sunday.

 

Well, I don't know if it's illegal to buy beer on Sunday in all of Georgia but at least it's illegal to buy beer on Sunday in that section of Georgia. Might be a county law.