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- What?!?
- $100 Reward
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Glen Echo Girls: 1935
August 4, 1935. Montgomery County, Maryland. "Bathing girls at Glen Echo amusement park." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.
Sign of the times
The girl on the right appears to have gotten her smallpox vaccination. I don't think that was a universal thing in 1935, and of course young people today probably have no idea what it was all about.
Interesting little spot up the river from DC
I had not heard of this park just outside of DC. Even more interesting is that it had bathing facilities that included water slides and artificial beaches.
I found this website with another image taken on the same August 4, 1935.
I can see two of the girls sat for both images -- definite beauties so they would have caught the photographer's attention.
[We have many more Glen Echo photos right here. They are all from the collections of the Library of Congress. - Dave]
So Thin
These pretty young girls are all quite thin -- one with her ribs showing. In that decade of Depression, one suspects many were quite thin. A scan of the background figures certainly confirms that. Our 21st century folks are pretty well padded in comparison.
Fun is where you find it ...
Where do you find it? Glen Echo Amusement Park
The Coaster Dip is cool, so's the Crystal Pool.
For Summertime fun, it's Glen Echo after dark,
Glen Echo Amusement Park.
I remember this jingle on WPGC (Good Guys Radio) in the early '60s.
Before the days of …
silicone. Just registering my approval.
This old architect
was so hoping for another old building in today’s Shorpy! Guess I’ll just have to make do …
A snapshot in time
What pretty girls with kind eyes. A look at the row behind them more than suggests the young men are thinking the same thing. Do you every just look at photos like these and hope that things turned out well for them all? I do.
Don't forget your keys
Three of them are wearing a anklet with a key (from home or a locker)
Too bad we don't know their names - wonder how their lives turned out
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