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Such Is Life: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 4:20pm.
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October 1938. "Mother and children with popcorn, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana." Valuable practice for the Popcorn Festival. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Mark
Submitted by Mark Dyer on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 1:54pm.
The kids look like they just stepped out of a Peanuts comic strip.
Who Hasn't Had This Happen?
Submitted by Root 66 on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 12:06pm.
The only difference is that my sisters would have been laughing at me for spilling my popcorn!
Oh Those clothes!
Submitted by Flatbush on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 8:56am.
I wore a similar one-piece sunsuit with the too-short shorts in the early 1950's. I hated those things. And I had the same haircut, shined shoes and older sister who wore dresses like the girl has on. Sis couldn't walk half a block in a breeze without everybody seeing her drawers and this poor girl won't get that far either.
Totally cute!
Submitted by bhk on Thu, 03/15/2012 - 12:35am.
Just cute; there is nothing else to say!
One Size Fits All
Submitted by scoobylou on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 9:24pm.
I just don't understand the fashion of showing off every inch of your child's legs.
Now let yourself drift back...
Submitted by Dutch on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 7:51pm.
Somewhere there is a psychologist with a grumpy old man on his couch, trying to search through his childhood memories to determine what event has made him so miserable all these years.
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