Child smoking a cigarette during the Cardinals-Browns World Series of 1944
November 14, 2024
Child smoking a cigarette during the Cardinals-Browns World Series of 1944
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Blue heard some really creative shit that day for sure.
Believe it or not, he’s actually 40 years old.
Great shape.
Smoke more cigs, everyone.
When my grandparents say they started smoking at 10, I believe them lol cigs were so casual back then
If I saw these kids on my block, I would walk the other way. They look hard AF.
I’d like to see a 12-year-old just casually light up a cigrit in the stands at an MLB game in 2025 and see what the reaction is lol
This is partly why high school seniors looked like middle-age adults back in the day, and now seniors look like the kids they are.
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No beer? Wtf…
He had a long night at the factory, leave him be.
MANDATORY How could you not be romantic about baseball?
I thought that only kids wore sailor hats like that in cartoons
That kid just got back from the Pacific Theater.
It was a different time
This is the American Dream
That is the angriest that I have ever seen the Cracker Jack mascot.
Is that a young Jim Leyland?
This was an all St Louis series. Must have been pandemonium in STL.
I think I had *stopped* smoking by the time I was this kid’s age. It was different back then.
Some US high schools still had smoking areas in the 90s.
To be fair, he probably just got off a ten hour shift at the munitions factory and just wants to unwind.
Is that Beaver sitting next to him?
Grew up in GA. When I was 15 the age to buy cigs was 16, and right before I was going to turn 16 they changed it to 18. That was annoying.
Is that Jim Leyland?
What a legend.
Fuck yeah
Calm down people…he only smokes when he drinks
Eh, the kid probably just finished a shift at the mine. Let him have a smoke or two
I have this picture framed in my office. Such a badass pic from the old days in St. Louis
It was not uncommon for kids to smoke in the 70s and 80s, either.
There were cigarette vending machines, so they weren’t hard to get.
In his defense, he looks very drunk.
Probably on break from the defense plant.
This why they looked 40 at 24.
In 1944, 9 out of 10 doctors agreed, cigarettes were good for your lungs. 😂
I don’t think that was abnormal at the time. My dad started smoking when he was a young teenager in the early 1950s.
Its wild seeing some of these threads here. Some are talking about relatives dying from cancer at 60 almost like they deserved it, or they are talking about relatives that lived to be 90+ despite smoking with contempt (like its not fair when a non-smoker dies before a smoker, or something). I get it not liking smoking (am I one of those people), but people are acting like smoking defined these people, when thats hardly the case. Hate the cigarettes, not the cigarette smoker.
He’s just holding his dad’s cigarette and saving his seat while he pisses and gets another beer
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Blue heard some really creative shit that day for sure.
Believe it or not, he’s actually 40 years old.
Great shape.
Smoke more cigs, everyone.
When my grandparents say they started smoking at 10, I believe them lol cigs were so casual back then
If I saw these kids on my block, I would walk the other way. They look hard AF.
I’d like to see a 12-year-old just casually light up a cigrit in the stands at an MLB game in 2025 and see what the reaction is lol
This is partly why high school seniors looked like middle-age adults back in the day, and now seniors look like the kids they are.
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No beer? Wtf…
He had a long night at the factory, leave him be.
MANDATORY How could you not be romantic about baseball?
I thought that only kids wore sailor hats like that in cartoons
That kid just got back from the Pacific Theater.
It was a different time
This is the American Dream
That is the angriest that I have ever seen the Cracker Jack mascot.
Is that a young Jim Leyland?
This was an all St Louis series. Must have been pandemonium in STL.
I think I had *stopped* smoking by the time I was this kid’s age. It was different back then.
Some US high schools still had smoking areas in the 90s.
To be fair, he probably just got off a ten hour shift at the munitions factory and just wants to unwind.
Is that Beaver sitting next to him?
Grew up in GA. When I was 15 the age to buy cigs was 16, and right before I was going to turn 16 they changed it to 18. That was annoying.
Is that Jim Leyland?
What a legend.
Fuck yeah
Calm down people…he only smokes when he drinks
Eh, the kid probably just finished a shift at the mine. Let him have a smoke or two
I have this picture framed in my office. Such a badass pic from the old days in St. Louis
It was not uncommon for kids to smoke in the 70s and 80s, either.
There were cigarette vending machines, so they weren’t hard to get.
In his defense, he looks very drunk.
Probably on break from the defense plant.
This why they looked 40 at 24.
In 1944, 9 out of 10 doctors agreed, cigarettes were good for your lungs. 😂
I don’t think that was abnormal at the time. My dad started smoking when he was a young teenager in the early 1950s.
Its wild seeing some of these threads here. Some are talking about relatives dying from cancer at 60 almost like they deserved it, or they are talking about relatives that lived to be 90+ despite smoking with contempt (like its not fair when a non-smoker dies before a smoker, or something). I get it not liking smoking (am I one of those people), but people are acting like smoking defined these people, when thats hardly the case. Hate the cigarettes, not the cigarette smoker.
He’s just holding his dad’s cigarette and saving his seat while he pisses and gets another beer