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Seafood Special: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 12:44pm.
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June 1936. Memphis, Tennessee. The somewhat cryptic (not to mention racist) caption for this one is recorded as "Coon dawgling." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
clever title
Submitted by booger hollow on Wed, 10/03/2012 - 10:05am.
It's how you fish minnows and roaches with a cane pole. "Dawgling" refers to the way you drop and hang your line. When you fish like that on rivers, you never know exactly what you're gonna pull up, but it's all good eatin. The "coon" refers to it being a grab bag scavenge.
Dawdling?
Submitted by Manalto on Mon, 10/01/2012 - 4:12pm.
Could the caption be accusing the young lad of dawdling? I've always heard it used referring to lagging behind distractedly, but one dictionary says, "to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter."
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