Framed or unframed, desk size to sofa size, printed by us in Arizona and Alabama since 2007. Explore now.
Shorpy is funded by you. Patreon contributors get an ad-free experience.
Learn more.
- 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
Photos submitted by Shorpy members!
Print Emporium
Oke Doke: 1939
January 1939. "Nightclub along highway. Williamson County, Illinois." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Typeface?
Is there a graphics designer among us who can identify the "Oke Doke" typeface? It was a standard for this era, especially on Coke signs.
Cook's Beer sign
Looks like someone has been using the back of the sign for BB gun target practice. Not that I would know that from personal experience or anything.
"Night Club..."
Seems a little grand: try "road house."
In the Real World
That would be a "Juke Joint" or a "Honky Tonk". A rose by any other name.
Re: Workin' things out
I spent a fair amount of my youth in some of those taverns in Southern Illinois. I can almost guarantee just as many disagreements were settled inside the establishment as in the parking lot, with more than a little bloodshed. For some background on what this area was just a few years before this picture was taken read the book "Bloody Williamson" and search for the Shelton and Birger gangs.
Workin' things out
I imagine more than a few disagreements have been "settled" in that dirt lot.
Talkin' trash
I'm always surprised by how much garbage is visible in photos from the olden days.
Shorpy.com is a vintage photography site featuring thousands of high-definition images. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago. Contact us | Privacy policy | Accessibility Statement | Site © 2024 Shorpy Inc.
On Shorpy:
Today’s Top 5