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- '40s Style Streaming
- Sleeping Beauty!
- Cornering the market
- "Are you free, Mr Humphries?"
- Cool Hand
- 1941 Buick Roadmaster Convertible Coupe
- No name plate necessary
- Pop up air vent
- PTO
- The car is a ?
- Tractor Tipping
- Convertible Hair
- Her chin
- For those of you
- Piggyback
- Three Wheels of Death
- Ova exposed
- The merchandise in the display cases
- PTO safety!
- Andrea Doria
- Men's Dept
- Some things never change
- Her name is Ethel
- PENNY'S STILL IN BUISNESS
- Bad Day for Insurance Companies
- Shorpy Sign
- Ghost image
- Signs
- Raymond Loewy
- Pfft-Pfft-Pfft
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Peoples Drug No. 2: 1921
Washington, D.C., circa 1921. "People's Drug Store, 7th and E Sts." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
The Lions and Sashes Survived!
Careful examination of the building (from another angle) shows the continued vitality of those lion faces and stone "sashes":
Insurance man
The man in the third floor window of the Washington Insurance Agency appears as if he is looking right down at the person taking this photo. I like the looks of the old building so much better.
Moneyball
Devoting a full window to cigars shows where the profits are.
Shorpy Detective Agency
Pre air conditioning, awnings were a key method of temperature control. They're also a good way of identifying south-facing sides of buildings for Shorpy Detective Agency operatives.
Dick Tracy villains
Two Face and the One Legged Blur!
Security Chain
This might be the first time I can remember seeing a bicycle chained to something in these early Shorpy photographs! Must be a bad neighborhood?
Like the Cheese Shop sketch
The display windows of People's Drug Store No. 2 are certainly uncontaminated by drugs.
All grown up now
Ubiquitous Awnings
Awning sales and service must have been big business back then.
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