Post by sjmiller on Oct 7, 2016 18:20:41 GMT -5
For reasons that are non germane to this thread, I find myself with a lot of spare time and little to do. When this happens I, at times, come up with rather silly things to pass said time. Today, for some reason, the question of "what did Bing smoke before he started smoking Bings?" came to mind. Not sure why as I not really a fan. Don't think I have ever watched a movie of his and besides White Christmas couldn't name any of his songs. Nonetheless I under took the task of answering that question.
One would think that finding a picture of Bing smoking a pipe would be easy. It sort of is. Finding pictures that can be dated to a specific year and is not one that been used more than once is kind of difficult. It took me over an hour to find 16 These photos, from the 1930s thru the 1950s, were found on the following items:
7 pieces of sheet music
3 publicity photos
3 movie photos
2 press photos
1 advertisement (not pipe related)
The pipes were as follows:
6 Canadians
5 Billiards
3 Bulldogs
1 Pot
1 4 panel Billiard
I found many other pictures of Bing smoking a pipe that could not be placed in a specific year. Interestingly, I could not find a single photo of him smoking a bent pipe.
For those wondering why I only used photos that could be dated to a specific year, I was curious as to what decade the most pictures of him with a pipe appeared. Turned out to be the 1940s.
One would think that finding a picture of Bing smoking a pipe would be easy. It sort of is. Finding pictures that can be dated to a specific year and is not one that been used more than once is kind of difficult. It took me over an hour to find 16 These photos, from the 1930s thru the 1950s, were found on the following items:
7 pieces of sheet music
3 publicity photos
3 movie photos
2 press photos
1 advertisement (not pipe related)
The pipes were as follows:
6 Canadians
5 Billiards
3 Bulldogs
1 Pot
1 4 panel Billiard
I found many other pictures of Bing smoking a pipe that could not be placed in a specific year. Interestingly, I could not find a single photo of him smoking a bent pipe.
For those wondering why I only used photos that could be dated to a specific year, I was curious as to what decade the most pictures of him with a pipe appeared. Turned out to be the 1940s.
