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- What a headache!
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
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No Peanuts: 1942
November 1942. Lititz, Pennsylvania. "Small town in wartime. Peanut stand next to the Lutz butcher shop finds it hard to get peanuts since the war started. Peanut oil is needed in industry." Acetate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Sliver of storefront?
That's gotta be the world's narrowest storefront for the peanut guy. No wider than a door opening. Unless it shared space with the meat guy next door?
"Nutty" Spelling
The numbers on the old piece of wood beneath the peanut window lead me to believe the bags of nuts, when available, would have set you back a nickel, a dime, or two dimes for the large appetite and wallet crowd. Perhaps if they had raised their prices just a fraction they could have afforded another "R"!
Thanks to Dave for the zoom into the book spines
Reminds me of the movie Blade Runner where Harrison Ford is saying stuff like "Enhance 224 to 176"
[You're very welcome. The zoom is actually from a different photo. - Dave]
Lovely Prewar Bicycle
The bike pictured is a new prewar Schwinn. Not sure of the exact year or name on the headbadge. Schwinn made bicycles for different companies back then.
Lutz’s Meat Market
... was founded by B.F. Lutz in 1895 in the rear of 15 East Main Street. The bank drive-thru lanes were the site of a farmer’s market operated by Lutz. In 1927 Lutz’s sons, Ben and John, joined in the business and it was relocated to 53 East Main Street. - lititzlibrary.org
Crax, not CrackerJack
Crax crackers, "The Original Educator"
https://clickamericana.com/topics/food-drink/crax-the-most-imitated-crac...
The Original Educator Crax Cracker ...
With the Baked-in-Flavor!
Watch out ...
My bike (c. 1948) has a horn like his. It doesn't require batteries, it blasts out a loud klaxon like sound when the plunger is pushed.
"Hygiene" textbook
The New Healthy Living Series: The Habits of Healthy Living, by Winslow and Hahn, 1932.
This is a well-used copy, although it does not sound like the sort of reading that would excite a young teenager.
Crax and a crank
What be crax, I have to ax. Nineteen cents, at any rate. And that's a doozy of an awning crank there.
Nations Beyond The Seas
The bigger book on the bike seat is "Nations Beyond the Seas"; can't quite read the spine of the smaller book.
A postwar edition of Nations Beyond The Seas can be borrowed at Archive.org
My New Bike
Bet that boy is mighty proud of his sleek new bike.
A metric wall ??
I don't think I've ever seen brickwork before with headers (only) every tenth row (every five or six is the most common).
I Spy ... Ms. Marjory Collins
In reflection to the left right of the "No Peanuts" sign.
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