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August 1940. Carbon County, Pennsylvania. "Street in Upper Mauch Chunk, a small historic coal mining town in the Lehigh Valley." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Upper (also known as East) Mauch Chunk and Mauch Chunk merged in 1954 to become Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania.
Unsupervised kids was the norm when I grew up too, in the 1950s.
There's nothing to do in the house, so out you go.
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