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Shiny Douglas DC-3 parked in front of the Grand Central airport terminal as night falls. Glendale, California. 1946...
Street festival in New York's Little Italy, 1912
After 18 months in the dark, theater marquees on Broadway light up again while underneath the crowds come out of the dimout gloom in New York, Nov. 2, 1943.
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Not sure...
I may have flown with my grandmother in the early 60s from Duluth Minnesota to Allegheny County airport in one of those.
I was young maybe 6 so memory is faded.
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Funny, people see a photo and think of very different things...
I recognize the hill to the left. I worked out of an office in Glendale ca for a couple years. I recognize the hills around the San Fernando valley, did work at most of the hosps. Even if i had to work in la i had to cross the valley to get home. That hill is very familiar...
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The Dog-House Nite Club in New Orleans August 1940
The world's largest Bible, made by carpenter Louis Waynai of Los Angeles, USA, with 8084 pages. Circa 1930.
Traveling knife sharpener with a customer. San Francisco, c1910
4 Albury Street, Deptford, 1911. Nursery in ground floor rear room.
Ma Barker - Colourful and undisputed mother of all American gangsters, she organized the very infamous Barker Gang.
She was killed along with her son Fred in a fierce, hours-long gunfight by FBI agents who surrounded her home in 1935
(Bidens mom?
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She was killed along with her son Fred in a fierce, hours-long gunfight by FBI agents who surrounded her home in 1935
(Bidens mom?
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Yes. But we were still that way in the 1950’s and 1960’s, at least in my small world. When I was but a wee nipper, if the family went anywhere or I was dropped off to have someone ‘watch me’, I was on my best behavior. Yeah, I might try to joke or poke a brother or friend, but as soon as you got ‘that look’ from a parent or ANY adult, you straightened right up. The consequences of not doing so were rapid and a bit uncomfortable.
If it were grandparents, you would likely not even see the wooden spoon before you felt it. Lol!!Screw up at school and you got it twice. Once from the nun for doing whatever you shouldn’t have been doing. Then at home when my father found out you made a nun mad enough to swat ya!! There was no winning so you just shut up and were good.
When I was a kid if you did something wrong you got a smack from the nearest woman, maybe more than one.
Mom, Grandma, Aunt, it didn't matter.
That's why most boys stayed out of the house when there was a "hen" meeting as we used to call it.
Mom, Grandma, Aunt, it didn't matter.
That's why most boys stayed out of the house when there was a "hen" meeting as we used to call it.
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The wife say's that I have no "back side", I just realized that it was swatted away during my miss behaved youth.... I don't think I made it though a week of grade school without getting at least 1 bat at the crack... I may have miss said that, may not....
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We still call them "hen parties" here. There's no offense taken. They're alot of fun. And kids do need to behave.
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Oh man, we don't gossip like that...we just eat chocolate and cheese curls
They are brutal
They are brutal
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Two young drivers with a horse in a West Virginia coal mine photographed by Lewis Hine in October 1908
Two children of a family of nine children living in "Rambler's Park" in Yakima Valley, Washington, photographed by Dorothea Lange in August 1939. At this point, the family had been living on the road for three years.
70-year-old grandfather cooks his Red Cross bacon over the fire for himself and his grandson. Sublett, Kentucky, circa 1930. Photograph by Lewis W. Hine for the American Red Cross. This picture is in a collection called "Disaster Relief -- Drought of 1930-1931
A lot of white privilege showing in the previous few pictures.
I recall that picture from Ol’ Remus Woodpile report. It was black and white and he made comments of how the young boy appeared to be protecting his little sister while some stranger was taking the picture.
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I remember these from my youth and have seen many in the last several years while re-shelving as many as 50,000 discard library books a year to about 100 or so ..Little Free Library.. boxes.. My next hobby will be bird feather collecting.. Not near as much heavy work.. Ugg
Looks like where my family moved to. They came to the Yakima valley in the late 40s.
They moved into a farm labor camp and lived in an old corn crib till a one room dirt floor place became available. I lived there as a baby.
Saturday, May 25, 1940. Interior of general store at Stem, Granville County, North Carolina, with high school boys dressed up because it's Election Day
Annual New Year’s Eve festivities, Times Square, New York City, 1938
(two trouser suits, for those 4 legged guys)
(two trouser suits, for those 4 legged guys)
The busy traffic on London Bridge, ca. 1890
