That's a great photo! It's pretty well staged and the nice old gents did a wonderful job posing for it. In this day and age, I would credit a good art director for working with these gents and this photographer. After seeing and surveying the faces, my eye was drawn to the board game. At first, I asked myself: "Backgammon? Is that possible?" And then I answered myself: "No...I'm pretty sure they're playing checkers." I just think it's nice that, in this bygone era, aging gentlemen dressed in suits and ties even when they were going out to play checkers with their buddies. Well shined shoes, too. A gentleman NEVER goes out in scuffy shoes........