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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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Traffic-Stoppers: 1943
February 1943. "Women in essential services. Mrs. E.K. Sabel and Mrs. J.R. Harris, members of the Women's Safety Traffic Reserve in Oakland, California, are among the many mothers who are keeping the city's accident rate low by guarding crossings during school hours." Photo by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Buried Memory
I must have had a rain outfit with a hood like that when I was a small boy, because looking at those I can immediately feel the rain dribbling in at the sides.
Habits
At first glance I thought they were nuns.
Low accident rate?
I guess these gals went back home after the war. Based on the astonishing number of Oakland car crash pictures from the late 40s and 50's we have seen here on Shorpy, there sure wasn't anyone ensuring safety by then!
Whatever they were doing
to keep Oakland's accident rate low apparently didn't work very well, as evidenced by the NUMEROUS Oakland traffic accident meme photos posted hereon.
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Love the gathered waist. Slims as it sheds.
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