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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Star Lunch: 1922
1922. "Policeman directing traffic at Ninth and G Streets N.W., Washington, D.C." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
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Below is the same view from June of 2016.
You've got to have a hook
Sure the White House Lunch has a blue plate special, but the Star Lunch features a whole table of delicious steam!
Car ID
Hudson products are noted for radiator louvers and rear opening doors. This one is the 4 cylinder Essex, Hudson's smaller companion make.
After Lunch
At least the Victor Building is still there:
Phillips Delicious Soups
What gives "that down-in-Dixie flavor" was/is Phillips Delicious Soups, a Maryland company that marketed itself as a purveyor of Southern cuisine. They apparently are still in business.
[A good guess, but the ad is for Piedmont cigarettes, with a color scheme that was largely invisible to the emulsion used on this glass plate. - Dave]
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