{"id":263,"date":"2008-01-11T07:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T07:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=263"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:51","slug":"on-leave-at-duffys-gay-nineties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/on-leave-at-duffys-gay-nineties.html","title":{"rendered":"On Leave at Duffy&#8217;s Gay Nineties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/3\/37\/Soldiers-in-duffys-gay-nineties-bar-coney-island-rppc.jpg\/800px-Soldiers-in-duffys-gay-nineties-bar-coney-island-rppc.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 600px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/3\/37\/Soldiers-in-duffys-gay-nineties-bar-coney-island-rppc.jpg\/800px-Soldiers-in-duffys-gay-nineties-bar-coney-island-rppc.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The back of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:Soldiers-in-duffys-gay-nineties-bar-coney-island-rppc.jpg\">this postcard<\/a> says it was taken in Coney Island, so I doubt there was a real Duffy&#8217;s Gay Nineties &#8212; just a painted backdrop for fun-seekers to get a photo to mail back home.  These two guys, on leave from the Army in 1946, seem to be enjoying themselves.  The guy on the left has a single chevron, identifying him as private.  The guy on the right, while blurry, still has a clear enough view of his unit patch:  <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/U.S._First_Army\">1st Army<\/a>.   The guy on the right has some tell-tales in that hand, too (besides the bottle):  on his ring-finger is a wedding ring, and between his fingers, a cigarette.   The war was over, his best gal was waiting for him back home, and he got to live it up at Coney Island once in a while &#8211; he had no complaints.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-5433447682584379948?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The back of this postcard says it was taken in Coney Island, so I doubt there was a real Duffy&#8217;s Gay Nineties &#8212; just a painted backdrop for fun-seekers to get a photo to mail back home. These two guys, on leave from the Army in 1946, seem to be enjoying themselves. The guy on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[11,532,526,530,47,529,528,527,531,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1297,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}