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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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Life Used to Be So Hard: 1939
August 1939. "Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for 25 years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own 48 acres of good land, this good house, price $6,770. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says, 'Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here'." Photo by Dorothea Lange. View full size.
Dog
I think the little girl sitting on the ground is cuddling a dog.
[Two cats. -tterrace]
Mom behind the door
Mrs. Schrock peeks shyly out from behind the screen door. It looks like she's still in her apron. The children are in freshly washed and ironed clothing and their hair is neatly combed. After all the trouble of getting the kids washed and dressed, she probably didn't have time to neaten herself up (although she looks fine to me).
The term running water applies here. Hand pump
If you want water. You have to 'Run' out for the stuff.
Cat House
There appears to be a prejudice against man's best friend. Hopefully the dog is around back. You can't have a farm without at least one dog. It's a fact. Google it.
I'd pay that
The BLS Inflation Calculator tells me that $6770 in 1939 is the same as $118,646.93 today.
Verl Elizabeth Shrock Moe
She was born November 11, 1925, in Wapato, Washington, one of ten children born to the late Jacob and Rhoda Shrock (from Find A Grave).
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