page_title: Time travel claims and urban legends
section_title: Present-day hipster at 1941 bridge opening
hierarchical_section_title: Time travel claims and urban legends / Alleged time travelers / Present-day hipster at 1941 bridge opening
caption_attribution_description: A crowd gathers for the re-opening of the South Fork Bridge, Gold Bridge B.C. in 1941. One man appears oddly out of place
context_page_description: There have been various accounts of persons who allegedly travelled through time reported by the press or circulated on the Internet. These reports have generally turned out either to be hoaxes or to be based on incorrect assumptions, incomplete information, or interpretation of fiction as fact, many being now recognized as urban legends.
context_section_description: A photograph from 1941 of genuine authenticity of the re-opening of the South Fork Bridge in Gold Bridge, British Columbia, was alleged to show a time traveler. It was claimed that his clothing and sunglasses were of the present day and not of the styles worn in the 40s.
  Further research suggested that the present day appearance of the man may not have been so new. The style of sunglasses first appeared in the 1920s. On first glance the man is taken by many to be wearing a printed T-shirt, but on closer inspection it seems to be a sweater with a sewn-on emblem, the kind of clothing often worn by sports teams of the period. The shirt is very similar to the one that was used by the Montreal Maroons, an ice hockey team from that era. The remainder of his clothing would appear to have been available at the time, though his clothes are far more casual than those worn by the other individuals in the photograph.
  Debate centres on whether the image genuinely shows a time traveller, has been Photoshopped or is simply being mistaken as anachronistic. The "Time Traveling Hipster" became a case study in viral Internet phenomena in museums which was presented at the Museums and the Web 2011 conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
caption: "The Time Travelling Hipster"
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