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Tire Jockey: 1943

June 1943. "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Natalie O'Donald, service station attendant at an Atlantic Refining Company garage." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

June 1943. "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Natalie O'Donald, service station attendant at an Atlantic Refining Company garage." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

 

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Popping a bead and pulling out the inner tube is not an easy job and based on her greasy forearms, this doesn't look posed. I am impressed.

Before you feel bad-

15 cents a gallon back in 1943 = $2.11 today. About the same difference.

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