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Polar Explorer or Mast Brother?

Frederick A. Cook, explorer, doctor, Bushwick resident. Photo: Ohio State University Library

Rick and Michael Mast, sailors, chocolate makers, Williamsburg residents. Photo: Mast Brothers

 

When Allison Meier, our resident historian, sent in her article about Frederick Cook, the Brooklyn explorer who may have been the first to reach the North Pole, she sent along a variety of historical photos of Cook, along with modern shots of his red brick mansion in Bushwick.

“I like this photo, because it’s like he could live in Bushwick now,” she wrote about the image on the left. I instantly went looking for the Mast Brothers publicity shot on the right. And well, what more is there to say?

Posted on 12/04/12 | Annaliese Griffin
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  • http://www.facebook.com/toby.poodle Toby Poodle

    Explorer, Scientist, and Doctor vs a couple chocolate bar making hipsters. Don’t you have better issues to write about? Maybe compare George Marshall with some 25 year old bum still living with his parents because they are both “ironic”…

  • Anonymous

    But he wasn’t a hipster back then. He dressed that way and didn’t shave because they didn’t have a choice. Nowadays, it’s done for sheet attention and “irony” — ridiculous that you’d confuse an intellectual with a trying-too-hard HIPSTER!

  • http://twitter.com/CWalters1978 Capt Awesome

    How Fucking stupid are??!! Let’s not compare these people. Fredrick Cook dressed as people of that time dressed, he was a modern man in the 1800′s, the mast douchebags, who are violating basic FDA guidelines with their unkempt hair and beards, aren’t modern, they’re busy mimicking styles from 100+ years ago, and they loo lik douchebags. And Bushwick’s personality is hispanic, not assholes still living off of mommy/daddy money, whom are back in ohio/michigan/indiana/wherethefuckever, please go kill yourself, but do it in someone else’s state, not mine.

  • http://twitter.com/SwampYankee SwampYankee

    Ah yes, “Brooklyn-Based” that is the code word for I was not in Brooklyn but I so desperately want to say I am from Brooklyn transplant”. I suppose Cook may have had a beard BECAUSE HE WAS A POLAR EXPLORER AND IT WAS PRACTICAL!. As opposed to someone who has an ironic beard that is not practical Nothing says quality food service like a big face full of red pubic hair. Stop trying to adopt an identity that makes you from Brooklyn, you are not. You will never be “from” Brooklyn, you just live in Brooklyn you gentrifying transplant

  • HowIronic

    hmmm, these comments have a certain diehipster stench to them

    • http://www.facebook.com/joseluis.demille JoseLuis DeMille

      HowIronic is this? I’m from Wisconsin and I agree with every comment posted here. Hipster = trustfundbaby. I didn’t like you in Wisco, and I like you less in NY. Go back home. I’ll stay here with the real New Yorkers!

      • Vic Svaporub

        All the smart New Yorkers moved out years ago…

  • SLEDGEHAMMER

    This is some of the laziest “writing” ever. Why on Earth would you ever compare the Masturbation Bros. to someone who REALLY accomplished something? Just because of their beards?? That’s it?? Also, the Mast Bros. are NOT sailors. They just posed for a photo on a sailboat once. There is a big difference between someone who actually knows how to sail a boat, and a couple of lice-ridden beardos that stand around and pose on one. But you are too lazy to figure that out.

  • Sam

    Are you shitting me? Cook’d take one look at the pretentious assholes living there and go back to the North Pole

    • http://brooklynbased.net BrooklynBased

      Approvr

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  • Vic Svaporub

    What a pair of hipster doofuses…. ya, that’s a great look, bet you two get laid every night… hahahahahaha!!