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- They call me Mister Horton
- Still Run
- Someone fed Jack some bad info.
- A Beautiful Machine
- It's official.
- Olive Brand Sportswear
- I still have a grudge against Texaco
- No GPS?
- CFG Bank Arena
- Van Lines
- Closed Station?
- John Vachon
- Folding Chairs
- TEXAGO
- Fragi-lay
- Classy
- Passenger seat
- No tipping
- The two front doors
- The theme song
- You are correct Dave.
- I was just there
- New to me
- Football-shaped thing
- Working all the live long day
- How do you stop slackers?
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Green Acres: 1937
September 1937. "Cabin of Steve Flanders, cut-over farmer near Northome, Koochiching County, Minnesota." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
That old patched up rowboat
must have brought fish home for dinner from Bartlett Lake.
Opal Only Lived to Age 25
Opal Irene Flanders
1924–1950
BIRTH 15 JUL 1924 • Rollag, Minnesota, USA
DEATH 12 APR 1950 • Bemidji, Minnesota, USA
Where's Steve?
He must be plowing the back 40 on the ol' Hoyt-Clagwell
Worked 70 hours Last Week
According to the 1940 US Census, Steve was 59 at the time of this photograph. He had worked 52 weeks in the past year and 70 hours in the week before the census enumeration. His wife Lottie was 53, Richard was 27, Leonard was 15, Opal was 12 and Ilene 10. I'm guessing that we see Opal and Ilene.
Steve owned his farm and valued his home at $150. Not an easy life to say the least.
How they kept warm
At this point in time, many homeowners actually used newspaper to insulate their homes--a guy I used to work with was fascinated as he pulled old insulation/newspapers out of his 1930s era home in suburban Minneapolis. You will also hear stories of not heating the 2nd story of a home (frost on the blankets, yes), and even today, owners of older homes will put bales of straw around the base of their homes to avoid pipes freezing in the basement. I am guessing these guys did about the same.
Radio Antenna?
That single glass insulator attached to the roof peak is more likely a one wire telephone, ground being used for the return part of the circuit.
It does not appear that they have electric service. Telephone was likely dry cell battery powered.
The birch trees in the background are about a decade old, the 200 foot white pine virgin forest having clearcut.
What is the older girl's uniform -- CCC?
Northolm Northome weather today? A balmy high of 27 F.
Tough Pioneer Stock
Thin wood tar paper shack for a home in a place that nearly every winter gets down to 35-40 below zero!
What's the R value of tarpaper?
Looks like it could be mighty cold in that cabin in February.
Ned's Grandpa?
Hens love roosters, geese love ganders: Everyone else loves Ned Flanders!
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