Gentlemen

@kairospix: Yes, the sign is what drew me to take the photo. It refers to a location outside the frame (take the stairs on the left down and around to the right) as well as to the subject.

@Amir: Like I said to melodee, looking back, I find the age of these men interesting. Maybe it's the place and not the time, but when I see groups like this today, the people are always very young.

@Stefan: Thank you. You take, or perhaps I should say, make, great photos.

@melodee: What I find interesting about this looking back is the age of these men. If I were to see a bunch of guys on the street like this today, in say Austin, they'd all be very young.

@Frances: Thank you and thanks for stopping by.

@Daroru: Almost. Late 70's actually, 1978 if memory serves. You don't suppose that's Keith Richards getting a light do you?

@Carson: Thanks. Scanning these old images, though, is putting the final nail in the film coffin for me. Not that I was about to start shooting film again anyway, but my 10MP digital camera produces a far better image, with much greater detail, than anything I'm getting from these scans with my 4000 DPI scanner.

@leslie: Thank you.

@Margie: What's really weird is to look at photos of myself, especially when I was a kid, and then to think about the fact that until the advent of photography, only very rich people who could pay for painted portraits had any way of knowing what their ancestors looked like.