So, this is a Limber....

[Gettmore]

 

[Pollaco]

Photo must have been taken on a "Come-As-You-Are-Day". The uniforms are not uniform.

 

[MRB1863]

Is that where they got...Limber up, Limber Down...how low can you go...? The guy going under has a great more bending to do. (I don't think he is going to make it)

 

[ErnieMac]

Someone forgot to hobble the horses. You guys, get those harnesses on and pull.

 

[PrivateBrooke]

The uniforms are a no from me....

 

[JOHN42768]

I'm glad we have the correct name. I always thought it was a Hurdy Gurdy and housed the monkey

 

[Cavalier]

@MRB1863 Could be wrong but wasn't that Limbo up, Limbo down.....how low can you go?

I seem to remember that song and dance from around 1958 or so.

Job

 

[John Winn]

@MRB1863 Could be wrong but wasn't that Limbo up, Limbo down.....how low can you go?

I seem to remember that song and dance from around 1958 or so.

Job

Well, to limber up commonly means to warm up for some form of physical exercise. Now, "how low can you go" does refer to the Limbo which is a sort of dance where one attempts to pass under a pole - without using one's hands for support - that is continually lowered closer to the ground.

 

[TallTallMan]

That's a woman at right. Plus those pants on that dude walking.

Makes me think of those Christopher Forbes movies...

 

[Biscoitos]

Chubby Checker recorded the most popular version of (The) Limbo Rock in 1963.
As pointed out above not to be confused with an artillery limber.
Although a person must be limber to do the limbo. Maybe that's the source of the confusion.

 

[TallTallMan]

Chubby Checker recorded the most popular version of (The) Limbo Rock in 1963.
As pointed out above not to be confused with an artillery limber.
Although a person must be limber to do the limbo. Maybe that's the source of the confusion.

 

[Biscoitos]

Thanks so much for posting this!

 

[R. Porter]

Is that a real uniform with leather patches, leather rank badges and steam-punk looking boots with side- buckles?

 

[Gettmore]

Is that a real uniform with leather patches, leather rank badges and steam-punk looking boots with side- buckles?

Home-spun

 

[bayonet]

Ok who dressed my well fed Grandmother up as a Reb on the right of the photo? Wait she passed over 30 years ago but I'm happy to see she came back to sew patches over the holes of Grizzly Adams pants!

 

[Pollaco]

What a crew, was the South really that hard up for men?

 

[Biscoitos]

What a crew, was the South really that hard up for men?

And women !

 

[bayonet]

What a crew, was the South really that hard up for men?

Well at least the South didn't recruit Prisoners from Russian jails!

 

[Biscoitos]

Well at least the South didn't recruit Prisoners from Russian jails!

Good thing the North didn't have kamikaze drones.

 

[bayonet]

Good thing the North didn't have kamikaze drones.

Oh but they did. All those Poor Souls that listened to that idiot Burnside to charge up that well defended hill outside Fredericksburg