Like a modern-day Library of Alexandria, the US Library of Congress is a repository of media nonpareil, including some offbeat and seemingly inexplicable items, such as a fashion pictorial shot...shot on a golf course. The unidentified models convey the fact that it was hot that day, scantily clad (for their time) in bathing suits, playing golf from huge blocks of ice.
Yep, just like real life.
No matter, it is amusing look at two pastimes from one of the most prosperous times for America, the "Roaring Twenties."
The country was unaware in 1926 that in three short years the Great Depression would begin and that the country would lay in economic malaise for nearly a decade afterward. In 1926, it was all good. Bobby Jones was in his prime and dominating amateur golf, while the raconteur and gadfly about town Walter Hagen wined and dined his way through the nascent PGA Tour, ostensibly smelling the roses along the way. Later in the year, Hagen would face Jones in a 72-hole match play tournament they cooked up together to have a little fun, settle the score, and oh by the way, showcase the Florida golf course real estate that they represented. Hagen would school Jones 12-and-11 in a defeat Jones called the most through beating he ever experienced.
And fashion models cooled off on the course too, probably raising the temperatures of red-blooded men who saw the photos. Two more photos after the jump.
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