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- Just the thing
- I can just see it
- Small town America
- Have a nice trip --
- Art Deco
- Dapper Hepcat!
- A cool guy
- Decoless
- Dedication
- Hot Dogs or Oysters?
- The car
- Minstrel show anywhere nearby?
- Goldberg's of Belzoni
- A tin signhouse
- Great picture
- Much has changed
- Buyer's car, perhaps?
- I Thought
- No. 7 v. No. 13
- Don't forget where we parked the car, Hon
- 80 years later —
- Double Cola Clocks
- Mooners Over Manhattan
- Um, er
- Sold American
- Luckies 2 to 1
- Coke-lectable
- Pads of Tobacco
- Times long gone in Durham
- Free siding.
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Vintage photos of:
Company Town: 1937
February 1937. "Company steel town. Jefferson County, Alabama." The stomping grounds of our namesake Shorpy Higginbotham, killed in a mining accident in 1928. Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Neighborly
Some of the outhouses are so close you could talk to your neighbor.
No master bath.
Every home equipped with a serviceable outhouse.
Foy
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