Submitted by AccomplishedCry2020 t3_z71t0s in OldSchoolCool
Thomas Cave with his wife (or girlfriend, I'm unsure) Vivian Couture in 1939. Thomas would go on to become a Sergeant in World War 2. He survived the war, became a truck driver among other things, and passed away in 1980.
He's a lumberjack, and he's ok...
He sleeps all night and #HE WORKS ALL DAY
He puts on women's clothing, and hangs around in bars...
(Confused looks)
He wished he was a girlie, just like his dear ma-ma
Nodding head slowly
Nodding stops… eyes dart side to side
No, sorry, he’s a lumber worker, and he prefers they/them pronouns, like Loretta.
I came here for this. 😂🤣😂
Was seriously going to table flip if this wasn’t at the top.
has a star-like appearance.
Indeed
The first post that we all needed 😆 🤣
I don't understand your title OP. Where is Part One?
Anyway this photo has been posted a buttload of times along with this other photo taken at the same time and we know that the woman is indeed his wife. They were married in 1934 and the photo was taken by Dorothea Lange in 1939.
He was still married to Vivian and with her in the 1940 census.
He goes to prison between 1940 and 41. Vivian files for divorce. He comes to her house when he's out in 1942, according to a newspaper article he says to discuss domestic matters, and she ends up shooting him in the abdomen.
There is also another photo of him linked in this comment that has not been posted.
Edit: Found the Part One referenced in the title. A colorization of the other version of the photo was posted earlier today but subsequently deleted by the moderators. I am not sure of the reason it was deleted but I do know that the OP there is a repost bot that copies popular posts and old comments to appear human.
That's really interesting, thank you! This picture is different from the one I've always seen posted (different angle and Vivian is smoking here) and I thought people would like to see a slightly different take on the same couple.
>This picture is different from the one I've always seen posted (different angle and Vivian is smoking here)
I thought this one had been posted before too but I just searched and if it has I couldn't find it. It has been uploaded to imgur but looks like you are correct and it hasn't been posted to reddit before. Probably because the cropping and her smoking make this one less visually appealing. Or it could be that the other version is just more widely spread around the internet since it was first posted to shorpy.com in 2007 (it along with the other 2 photos were available at the Library of Congress before that but their online photo archive is not that well known).
Sorry for accusing you of reposting a commonly reposted image.
Another bit of information related to Thomas (his full name was Tillman Thomas Ursel Cave) can be found in the comments at shorpy.com:
>Then, a tragic story from the May 4, 1952 issue: "Kelso Grid Star Dies in Collision". It reads:
>>KELSO, Wash. May 3 (AP) - Richard "Rip" Raappana, 24, well-known southwest Washington athlete, was killed early Saturday. His automobile swerved into a Consolidated Freightways truck and trailer a mile north of here on the Pacific Highway, the state patrol reported.
>>Louise N. Robinson, 21, Longview, a passenger in his car, was injured critically.
>>The state patrol said the truck driver was Thomas U. Cave, 39, of Portland.
>>Raappana was an all-round athlete at Kelso high. He played college football for Eastern Washington college at Cheney and last fall was with the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
Sounds like she found a bona fide man while he was away
Why'd he go to prison and why'd she shoot him?
I have never seen a social security number tattoo before.
Just in case he got crushed to jelly by a falling or rolling tree and all that was left was his arm.
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Either that or I’m wrong.
Apparently it was more common in the 1930's since it was a new thing and the government insisted people have it memorized.
I’m fairly sure that the popularity of tattooing numbers on people’s arms fell off after 1945.
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I'm a Dapper Dan man!
Monty Python ringing in my ears now...and this man is more than just okay.
I’m a lumberjack and that’s okay. I sleep all night and I work all day.
He may be a lumberjack, but I'm pretty sure he just laid some pipe.
It’s rare that I say this about a very attractive woman, but she’s out-kicking her coverage here. That was one handsome dude.
He also is a lumberjack living in a tent.
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Miss thing is punching way above her weight class 😂😂😂
Any port in a storm.
😭whew! Someone upthread said she shot him in the gut and he survived. Maybe he was more trouble than he was worth 🤔
This picture represents every single cool great grandpa's to ever walk this earth
Absolutely! Making new goals now
My great great grandfather was a farmer/mason/and grocery store owner. He also had his ssn on his wrist, and ankle I believe. He was a great man and better father. His wife, my great great grandmother of course, was a seamstress, teacher and life long Morning Star member, she was the first woman in her small town to make wedding and bridesmaids dresses for a black family, for free at that. Things were different back then obviously but no one can tell you what kind of person to be, being generous and genuine is free. Be the change you want to see in this world. Anyway lol the ssn tattoos were incase you were mangled beyond requisition
Mmn, your lumber is keeping me so warm tonight, Mr. Cave..
My wood helped pitched this tent too
Two posts before he was unemployed, glad he found a job so quickly
The dame is trouble I tell's ya...
Looks like a movie star.
This foto is cropped and way worse than the original
Could you link to original? I've only seen this version of this particular pic.
I've seen this dude sipping an IPA in Brooklyn!
I showed this picture to my friend and now she’s pregnant
I needed this sequel.
He worked that lumber.
Rockin' that pencil mustache! Love it.
Boston Blackie style
Looks like a lana del rey photoshoot
Is it me or is that pipe just not big enough for this dude?
He smokes a pipe and he wears no shirt and he likes the smell of dicks.
People keep saying I cropped this picture, but I think they believe this is the picture of this couple that is usually posted - it's not, notice the different angle and that Vivian is smoking in this picture. She is not in the other. I didn't crop the picture itself, just the filing info. This is how I found it in the library of congress collection.
That there is a dapper Dan man.
Looks like a Dapper Dan man.
I liked part one better, looked more "genuine".
Wait.....am I gay?
And I cant get a decent haircut in 2022...
He's a Dapper Dan man.
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This man lived a more rich and rewarding life than I will ever hope to achieve. I hope he got to live a long life of peace.
Is that his social?
It is!
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This man had Slack
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Looks like Chris Cornell in his previous life. RIPx2
He knocked lumber down and she put it up
Damn wonder if he liked Black girls? 🤭
Pretty sure that guy created an underwater city…
by the way, that's his social security number he has tattooe'd on his arm.
Dude was one of the first Americans to get a social security number.
Why was this guy photographed so much?
Squilliam Fancyson
I don't want fop god damn it. I'm a dapper dan man.
127 women just got pregnant from looking at this picture.
He strikes me as a Dapper Dan man. None of that Fop bs
I'm a fan of Dapper Dan
He's a Dapper Dan man
I don’t want Fop, I’m a goddamn Dapper Dan man!
I don’t want FOP, goddamnit, I’m a Dapper Dan man!
he's so good looking
I like Vivian.
Oh my
That is his social security number tattooed on his arm. Curious.
They had all the sex!
Frankly my Dear
Man that hair is dapper
Cropped the shit out of it, huh OP?
This is how I found it, can you link to uncropped version?
this was posted this morning uncropped :P
I saw a different picture of this couple posted today which is why I called it part two, but I'm sorry that I didn't see this specific picture posted.
Garbage cropped version of the real photo going around
TheRealGnarlyThotep t1_iy4x6w0 wrote
He cuts down trees, he eats his lunch, he likes to pick wildflowers