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- The good old days
- St. Jude & Mom were tight.
- Mass ≠Acceleration
- Pontiac?
- Mossy Motors
- +~78
- Mass × Acceleration
- Ralphie's Old Man
- Difficult Cases
- Who else thought of Doris Day and Les Brown?
- Comment trio
- Sure is pretty
- Where’s Lucy and Desi?
- High class clean sweep
- Ranch!
- Obvious comment
- The combiner ...
- SAME NOW
- Trailer park
- Cold by any other name
- Forecast - hot and dry
- "Ranch" ??
- Still the same.
- Possibly current U.S. 87
- Caught
- Montana
- 1940 Ford
- Deprived for sure
- Highway 2?
- Miles and Miles
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Jolly Time: 1936
November 1936. "Street scene. Popcorn stand in Ames, Iowa." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
1926 Cretors Model D Popcorn Wagon
One sold at Sotheby's in 2013 for $115,500
Dunnage
I like the blocks of wood bracing the wheels to make sure the popcorn wagon is level on the sloping street. But what about that electrical wiring bracket up on the roof? The wires likely lead to a power supply nearby.
The building in the background still exists in Ames, which appears to have a bustling downtown. In the attached Google street view 2017 photo there is a food truck parked in the same location as the popcorn wagon, and it sells BBQ meat under the name "Cornbred".
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