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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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Knock, Knock: 1939
January 1939. "Businesses in Mound Bayou, Mississippi." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Benevolent Aid and Burial Society
An ad from the 1937 souvenir program for the 50th anniversary of Mound Bayou's founding. No explanation for the name change.
[This is a different burial association in another town -- Glendora is two counties west of Mound Bayou. - Dave]
Make Me a Salad
Chickens should avoid any building with an axe display in the window.
Always entertaining
I love the creative abbreviations you find in this era on signs and in newspaper headlines. They had it down to a science.
Now we know
So that's why the chicken crossed the road: to get a Coke at Smith & Smith's.
I have to ask
Upholding the tradition about the big old hotels on Shorpy;
When did this place burn down?
Dare I say it?
Business seems a bit dead for the business next door.
One Step Convenience
If one takes a final step off the unprotected balcony at right, one doesn't have far to go for their final journey.
Always an adventure
I looked at this photo and wondered if Mound Bayou still existed (it does). I also discovered it has a history:
http://julieguardado.com/blog/2016/10/10/america-part-2-mound-bayou-miss...
It is always an adventure with the folks at Shorpy. Thanks.
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