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- 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
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Hosed: 1943
July 1943. "Glen Echo, Maryland. An attendant washing the sand from people who are going to the swimming pool from the beach at Glen Echo amusement park." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Robots
Automation has robbed America of some of its best jobs. Last time I went to the public pool, there was a showerhead over the locker room exit, instead of the personal touch of a man with a hose.
Re: Lifeguard
He seems a little young to be a lifeguard. And the word on the bottom of the Red Cross swimming badge ends in -or, so it could be Instructor or even (more likely) Senior or Junior.
Life Guard on Duty
The boy on the right has the Red Cross lifesaving Certificate
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