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- Complicated then, forgotten now
- Bryan-Stevenson
- Skinny is as skinny does
- How do you rest in peace
- Riding the footboards
- Alas, hidden from view
- Baldwin Diesels
- Exclusive pump
- Bananas, Oysters and Smokey Joe
- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Yeah, it was cold
- Love those coats
- Link & Pin Days Remnant
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- What's your hurry, where's your hat?
- Sheriff's Signature
- Relocated in the Eighties
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
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Young Guns: 1942
August 1942. "Detroit, Michigan. Boys in the Polish district." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
Pocket Pistolero
Built-in holsters for his six-gun.
Fighting Squadron
The cool tin helmet worn by the fellow on the right was made by Marx toys and came in several different colors (usually silver but also red, green & tan) and at least two different decals; a diving eagle and a roaring lion. This neighborhood soldier appears to have the lion model. The scroll across the bottom of both models states "Fighting Squadron." Great candid photo.
High pockets
It looks like the fellow on the right has a pair of cut down jeans that Mom probably fashioned from an old pair of Dad's dungarees. She sewed new pockets on, too.
Did mom add those pockets?
look like a wardrobe "save".
The young gun/broomstick on the left
Has bagged many a kielbasa in those Polish hills of Detroit.
Shoe 'nuff
The overalls I find somewhat surprising, as I associate them mostly with rural areas, like the one a few pics back (feel free to chastise me for not realizing that in 1942 Detroit was still surrounded by farmland). Whether footwear was as optional in the big city as in Bucoda, we'll not find out ... from this shot, anyway.
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