Six Young Men on a Snowy Mountain Slope, 1950s

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Six Young Men on a Snowy Mountain Slope, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1950–1959

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Six young men in their twenties have planted themselves on a steep snowfield, dressed in the standard-issue casual wear of 1950s American masculinity — sport coats, windbreakers, jeans, one man still wearing a tie — as though they drove up from somewhere respectable and simply walked into the winter without changing. One holds what appears to be a thermos, the decade's answer to both dehydration and social proof that you had planned ahead. They are standing rather than sledding or skiing, which suggests this was not a sports trip but a day trip of the kind the 1950s specialised in: loading several men into a car, driving toward mountains, getting out, and standing in the snow long enough to establish that you had been there. The evergreens behind them and the angle of the open slope suggest a western American mountain range, the sort of accessible snowpack that was considered a reasonable Sunday destination from any city with pretensions. None of them appear to have brought any equipment designed for snow, which in that era was not considered an oversight so much as a personality.

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