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Going Places: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 6:05pm.
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Summer 1938. At the bus station in Marion, Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
Public Weight Scales
Submitted by Dewey on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 6:31pm.
Those weight scales used to be common in downtown shopping districts. You put in your penny and out came a small cardboard with a picture of a movie star on one side and your "correct weight" and fortune printed on the other side. I still have some of them.
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