Hipster Time Traveller Original Photo Found

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Published 2010-12-02
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Evgeni Balamutenko and his team from NTV Russian television find the original photo of the "Hipster Time Traveller" at the 1941 reopening of South Fork Bridge, among one of the albums at the Bralorne Pioneer Museum.

With many thanks to Evgeny for the clip!

All Comments (21)
  • @utuber2
    WTF, they nearly ripped the fucking photo. Gentle guys!
  • @dispelledrainbow
    I am not an expert, but if I was going to travel in the past I would certainly wear some clothes of their time, for being unnoticed
  • @kosmoses
    Top stuff. I love the theories about this guy's identity available - a to-be pilot from England, a clerk at the local bank, a photographer with the editor of the local newspaper next to him... And they all make some sense, how cool is that!
  • @jllovit
    Why the hell did the 'tour/museum guide' allow the Russians to rip that photo off the album? If the photo was as antiquated as it's claimed to be, they shouldn't have exposed it again to the elements like moisture, hand grease, sweat or have it bent even...etc. At least to hand them gloves or even tweezers to carefully handle the photo. Very questionable behavior. There's utterly no hesitation from her to give permission.
  • @OcarinaZombie
    Prints out picture and puts in album, "IT'S ORIGINAL WE FOUND IT!" :O
  • @tamanassman
    The Bridge River Valley was a very modern place in the 1930s, and people from all over the world came there because of the wealth of the mines.  That this guy is wearing a shirt that appears to be from the Montreal Maroons hockey franchise suggests that he's from Montreal, which then as now was a very trendy place.  Stylin' glasses and dress-casual clothes like that were not unknown in the 1930s, especially for someone from Montreal and who was young and probably monied.  I've seen other shades on pics from the area that are equally "modern"......the issue here is that glasses like that, though popular with modern trendoids and hipsters, are actually "retro" now and were already around.  I've sen lots of pictures of people in the area from that time dressed similarly.  What the time traveller notion this is about speaks to is the cliche images of the 1930s picked up from Hollywood images of the dirty '30s and from gangster movies.  I have pics of my own parents from those times that look "modern".   This guy is nothing but a "hipster" of his own time. worth a read is a book by Lewis Green "The Great Years; Gold Mining in the Bridge River Valley" published by Tricouni Books in 2000.  
  • @JURYJOHMZOMBIE
    Gosh Darnit i knew i shouldn't have left my time machine on when my grandson was around
  • @ChrisCaaa
    Loads of people looked like that around that time. Probably a Beat poet like in On The Road, or jazz musician like Chet Baker
  • @EricChamplin
    Photoshopped, printed out, and put it in a book.
  • @Tommyknocker.
    This guy actually could be a time traveler, who just got rid of his modern clothes
  • @EllRiver
    all photos from that time look like that.
  • @Mr11ESSE111
    now you must find that guy in  this century with same look
  • @TimeSquareTitts
    The hipsters head is way bigger in comparison to say the woman directly in front of him.. A man second from left front has an identical sized head. This video is a set up where they "find" an original which as it turns out in the video isn't an original but a photoplace reproduction..
  • @SPExJR
    After all my research trying to identify this man, i think ive cracked who he is.. E Howard Hunt. What do you all think ?