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Fast Food: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 6:00pm.
September 1938. "Making a purchase at traveling grocery store. Forrest City, Arkansas." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the FSA.
Lum & Abner
Submitted by Mike Cash on Sat, 05/24/2008 - 5:20am.
The famous, long-running, and well-beloved "Lum & Abner" radio program (also set in Arkansas) featured a storyline in 1938 (same as this photo) in which the old-timers lost their "Jot-Em Down" general store and re-opened for business with an oversized monstrosity mounted aboard a touring car chassis.
From the photo it is obvious that such stores actually did exist in Arkansas at the same time. I can't help but wonder if this store, or one like it, may have provided inspiration for the storyline.
N.A.C.A.
Submitted by Jeff Lichtman on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 10:22pm.
From the full-sized version of the picture I was able to make out the text:
NO TRESPASSING
These Premises Protected
By
N.A.C.A.
National Anti-Crime Association, Topeka Kansas
These Premises Protected
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N.A.C.A.
National Anti-Crime Association, Topeka Kansas
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