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Carbon County: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/19/2018 - 10:19am.
August 1940. Carbon County, Pennsylvania. "Street in Upper Mauch Chunk, a small historic coal mining town in the Lehigh Valley." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The Mauch Chunks Are No Longer
Submitted by Cosmopolite on Wed, 11/21/2018 - 3:21pm.
Upper (also known as East) Mauch Chunk and Mauch Chunk merged in 1954 to become Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
Go Play in the Street
Submitted by rhhardin on Mon, 11/19/2018 - 10:49am.
Unsupervised kids was the norm when I grew up too, in the 1950s.
There's nothing to do in the house, so out you go.
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