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Yesterday's Newsboys: 1943

May 1943. "Galveston, Texas. Newspaper delivery boys." Medium format nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

May 1943. "Galveston, Texas. Newspaper delivery boys." Medium format nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

 

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I shoulda recognized this!

Some years ago I did a counted cross-stitch of the Truehart-Adriance (which is, IRL, a gorgeous piece of Italianate polychrome brickwork). Because I was a complete nut, I worked it on 28 count linen over one, single strand, and kept three needles with different colours of floss going at the same time because I had to switch so often. (Needleworkers will understand how insane I was from that description; the rest of you, think of it as "sailing ship in a bottle" levels of tiny craftsmanship.) It took three years of off-and-on work to finish.

Once I was done, I framed it paired with a photograph of the front of the actual building, so viewers could appreciate both the complexity of the work and how accurate the chart was to the original.

@Ray D. O-Czech, That's just how high-waisted trousers were then. I had a dickens of a time getting used to wearing 1890-style workmen's trousers, which came up equally far, as part of a period costume.

I wonder what became of this little guy

maybe melted down for the war effort?

Trueheart-Adriance Building

Put Your Nickel In

Those parking meters look very modern for 1943. Very different than the ones I remember in the '50s.

High & Tight

Legend has it that he's still wearing his pants belted just below his ribs to this day.

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