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- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- 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
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Naked-Bulb Lunch: 1935
April 1935. "Women volunteers preparing school lunch. Reedsville, West Virginia." Photo by Elmer S. Johnson for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
And they did al that...
...in high heels. Ouch!
No Mystery Meat
No mystery meat in those days! Only real food.
Dour Sour expressions there
Heels and butcher knives. Stephen King novel ingredients.
Lucky students!
To be the recipients of what are no doubt hot, delicious home-cooked meals! I've heard of other small communities where the mothers prepared the school lunches in the 40's and 50's. Sadly, probably not allowed today because of health regulations.
The lady on the left is still wearing her mid-1920's bob and is dressed in a more formal style than the others, perhaps the wife of a doctor or attorney? That's her chapeau resting on the bench, matches the rest of her ensemble perfectly.
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