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- 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
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Hey, Urn! It's Me, Earnest!
My uncle apparently took this Kodachrome as part of a photography class or maybe his own independent study. I'm guessing early 50's. View full size.
Background art
Looks like some Monterey cypress trees...Makes me homesick!
VP
He's got a sort of early Vincent Price vibe going on there.
Handsome Devil
Who is the handsome devil with the urn?
Clothes...
..or a wannabe of all of the below. It's really great having nuances explained that I couldn't pick up on having missed this decade completely. Thanks!
Clothes make the man
His garb definitely pegs him as an artistic-type dude of the period; anything from a sculptor to a painter to a lapidary to a fine-art photographer.
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