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Follies Cooking: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 1:38pm.
New York, December 1924. "Greenwich Village Follies Cooking Class." George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
Grandmother
Submitted by shefindsu on Fri, 10/05/2007 - 1:36am.
The girl on the left corner of the table looks like my grandmother. She was 31 in 1924.
Good picture
Submitted by randabeast on Thu, 10/04/2007 - 7:15pm.
They are much better than most all of the beauty pics of the same era.
That's a fun picture. I'd
Submitted by Doug on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 7:44pm.
That's a fun picture. I'd like to meet some of those ladies. I like how each one is carrying out a different task.
Pigging out
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Tue, 06/19/2007 - 3:23pm.
If you eat moderately and do some excersizing you won't be so damm fat. We are a lazy bunch of people, at least some of us are.
how did America get so fat?
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 9:54pm.
The answer is right in this photo. Look at that gallon sized can of Crisco.
Pretty Girls!
Submitted by Anonymous Tipster on Wed, 05/16/2007 - 9:39pm.
Even prettier than some of the same-circa beauty contestants.
And skinny ... how did America get so fat?
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