Men's fashions for fall and winter 1926-1927 / English Woolen Co.
Catalog featuring clothing from the English Woolen Company located at 1556 Woodward Avenue and 141 Michigan Avenue in Detroit, Michigan.
Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
your headcanons have a knack for giving me brainrot over cod characters i previously hadn't thought too much about i s2g... so i gotta ask, do you have any for Swagger?
🫡 my pleasure friend. Glad my rambles are interesting 😭
Here are a few Swagger headcanons (I am NOT getting over the name)
Tends to exaggerate the truth. He will overelaborate and embellish stories.
Likes working solo but hates being a leader. He works well when he's integrated in a team but do NOT cross him he holds grudges forever.
BIG horror movies enthusiast.
Also Swagger believes in a lot of supernatural stuff but don't mention it to him (he will get angry because he's embarrassed about it). He's very knowledgeable about the occult and its history in multiple countries!
His double nationality and upbringing never quite sat right with him. He has trouble finding a sense of belonging and it comes in part from his youth in France.
Bit of an antisocial guy. Not completely (he doesn't actively avoid making friends and isn't a prick to everyone, thank you very much) but he has... tendencies (impulsive, tends to ignore a lot of social conventions)
To his greatest dismay, has a lick of a French accent in Polish.
“Man oh man I was FREE! Free to have a beer, have a smoke, happy, what you can call, all the time. They was free days”
This is Russian Jack or Barrett Crumen.
The only thing is, Russian Jack wasn’t Russian and his name wasn’t Barrett Crumen.
He was Latvian, born in the village of Alexandra in 1878 and his name was possibly Barnis Krumen.
He arrived in New Zealand on the night of June 23rd 1912 when, as a crewman on the British steamer Star of Canada, he was shipwrecked off the Gisborne coast during a wild Southern gale.
To save money, he decided to walk to Wellington city, a journey of some 600 kilometres.
He didn’t stop walking until ill health forced him off the road in 1965. 53 years of walking.
Russian Jack was a swagman or swagger.
The term swagger originated in Australia (“Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong, under the shade of a Coolibah tree…”) and describes an itinerant farm worker who carries all their worldly possessions on their back, in a ‘swag’. Russian Jack was reputed to carry the largest swag of all the swaggers. He did not beg, he worked and in his youth he was known for his strength.
There is a whole history of swaggers in New Zealand dating back to the hard times of the 1880’s.
But Russian Jack was the last swagger and, as it happened, walked the roads around where I live.
There was opposition to this statue. “It commemorates swaggers.” they said. Others thought he didn’t deserve the honour.
Hahahaha
“Such a cool statue honouring freedom.” I said to myself as I walked by …
One Kindred Spirit
Reclaimed Blue Polaroids - One Kindred Spirit
Colour Image - Margaret MacPherson (District Nurse) On the road near Waituna West, Manawatu 1960