Dear DetroitScott, who submitted this photo: I am Joe Manning, of the Lewis Hine Project and other similar projects. I post frequently on Shorpy. I want to find out who the lady was in the diner, and I need to know anything else you can tell me about the photo. I am hoping that I can identify her and then find one of her descendants. Please contact me. This is what I know so far.
http://morningsonmaplestreet.com/2015/01/05/lady-in-the-diner-detroit-mi...

Hard to tell the precise location of this photo, but that sure appears to be the Detroit News building outside that window.

And The Girls, as Usual, Just Didn't Have a Thing to Wear!

The paper she's reading appears to be from Thursday, April 16, 1942. Up to that point, the war had been pretty much all bad news, but two days hence the Doolittle Raid would boost Americans' spirits. The Battle of Midway in early June would bring more hope.

Way back when I was young my mother would describe this fashionable young woman as "stately." My father would agree but his description would no doubt be "classy broad."

I'd give a buck for a slice of that coconut cream pie.

It tells so much.

from Casablanca.