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February 1940. "High school students playing pool. Clinton, Indiana." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
This is about the time my father-in-law who served in WWII graduated from high school in West Virginia. I wonder how many of the young men in the photo served in WWII and returned home to Clinton?
smokin' tailor mades and braggin' all about how they're gonna cover up a tell-tale breath with Sen-Sen.
"Hey Dad, Eddie Haskell and the guys are hustling down at the pool hall and they want me to be a bookmaker. Do we got any good books I could take down there?"
The sign says high school students don't play pool!
Right here in Clinton.
With a capital T,
That rhymes with P,
And that stands for Pool.
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