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Cracker Barrel: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 3:37am.
January 1936. "Store with false front. Vicinity of Selma, Alabama." 8x10 nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Lucky Strike Green Has Gone To War
Submitted by Mr Mel on Fri, 06/03/2011 - 11:02am.
The signs on the walls were predominately for tobacco products. Lucky Strike cigarettes, then in a green package which became white at the beginning of WW2 because the copper used in making the ink was needed for the war effort. The pipe tobacco brands "George Washington" and the famous canned "Prince Albert" were both products of the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company. The brand "Stud" was a tobacco product, used if you rolled your own or, I guess, chewed.
Prince Albert in a can
Submitted by fanhead on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 8:32pm.
You better let him out before he smothers. Right tterrace?
Prince Albert
Submitted by tterrace on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 1:26pm.
Well, there's one question nobody will have to ask.
Got Nails?
Submitted by paperbender1960 on Thu, 06/02/2011 - 11:21am.
I don't think they used enough nails to attach the batons.
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