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- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- 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)
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Alabama Fried: 1941
August 1941. "Chickens raised by FSA borrowers is good right down to the bone. Sunday dinner for flying cadets at Craig Field, Selma, Alabama." Medium format negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
See the World and Get a Decent Meal
The military might have provided the best meals some of those guys had ever eaten. While obesity is today's top reason for military recruits to be deemed unfit for service, during WWII the primary reason for disqualification was malnutrition.
Laughter's smile
I love how our subject's face is so animated. Judging by his smile and that of his neighbor, he is laughing when the photo is taken. I was just reading in Daniel Goleman's 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence, about how our impulse to laughter is controlled by the amygdala. When we're overcome by humor it is similar - though in a way totally opposite - to the amygdala's fight or flight response. We can't help ourselves. The laughing smile on the soldier's face is so genuine. Professional actors will tell you that a genuine sounding/looking laugh is one of the hardest things to pull off.
This Too
Just like cornbread here I got my first taste of fried chicken in my Mother-in-law's kitchen and, you guessed it, done in the correct manner, in a Skillet.
Hey, guys, the wethead is dead!
Long live the dry look!
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