Shriners Visit Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1957
Six Shriners pose dressed alike before one of the Seven Wonders of the World. Their smart and sensible travel suits are perfectly color coordinated with the grandest canyon of them all.
And who knew those red felt fibers that fezzes are made of would absorb the glow of the morning sun with such warmth. It looks like the men are wearing emergency lights on their heads. But that’s OK because if one of them falls in and gets lost, that’s SO not a problem. A fez can be spotted from outer space. But until the rescue happens if the guy wants to go fishing in the river he can by easily knotting his handy tassel into fishing net. And that fancy diamond pin at the top of the tassel will double as a pocketknife. Not to mention the fact that he could send signals to planes with the crystal stones set on the front of the fez. And I bet a fez would hold water too. I never realized a fez was a survival tool. Did you?
But wait there’s more! More fezzes. Mr. Second-from-the-Left is wearing the rare fez print Hawaiian style shirt under his jacket. Apparently the man hanging onto to him really likes it. Body language speaks volumes.
I thought the Brady Bunch visiting the Grand Canyon was great but the Shiner bunch visiting the Grand Canyon is even better. I wonder if they rode the mule train down to the bottom.
Here’s to the grandest canyon of the all, the six Shriners, the fez as a survival tool and YOU!
Ah, all fez’d up and no where to go!
I love it. However, I can’t seem to find the Seventh Shriner!? … OH! I see, it’s just seven in the email, not online! Tricky! Rock on! JKB
Love the slides. Great web design as well.
I remember going to the Shriner’s Circus in Upper Michigan when I was a kid.
Charles!
Looks like one already must have gone over the side- eek, there are only SIX left!! Get out the rescue squad!
Love your slides weekly and joined you on your Downtown Disneyland Tour while back.
Ya gotta love those two on the end – clingy and cling-ee. The tall one looks as if he’s finally given up and submitted to being clung upon. Everybody is attempting to look towards the camera except the ClingOn, who’s looking only at his catch.
There are only six Shriners in my e-mail. You said “if one of them falls in and gets lost…” It looks as if it happened! You should not get carried away with your descriptions like this. Or perhaps you should be carried away, someone was !
“Apparently the man hanging onto to him really likes it”?!!!
He looks like a perp that just been collared by Jack Bauer.
I used to love spinning those fez tassles ala glorified pasties. I wonder if that was the original intention of the design? You know. A kind of hula-hoop dance trainer you wear on your head.
LOL, I think the little guy is propping up Mr Hawaiian Shirt since that cane looks too small to do the job by itself. Also, notice the 2 guys on the left have business jackets-they must wear these snappy blue suits underneath their regular clothes, sorta like Shriner Supermen, only they just reveal them when they’re having fun instead of protecting citizens. Great slde!
Funny picture, it reminds me of the Flinstones episodes which would depict Fred & Barney at…was it the moose lodge? Anyhow, that’s what it brought to my mind upon seeing these shriners! Another thing, however, I used to see alot of comments submitted by Miss Sharon, and I always looked forward to her posts. They were simply fab, in the 50s-speak she’d use and in which she was so proficient! Haven’t seen you lately, Miss Sharon! Come back!
And thanks for the shriners, Charles.
I think those fez tassles kind of look like pin-on ponytails. It reminds me of “I Dream of Jeannie.”
Pretty sure the guy on the left is just hanging on because Earl there threatened to jump if he wasn’t made Grand Puba by the end of the trip. Well this was the end of the trip. And he wasn’t Grand Puba. Oh they gave him some consolation position of being the “Grand High Priest of Hawaiian Fashion”…but Earl always knew it was just a figure head position.