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- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- 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
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Boomtown Beds: 1942
February 1942. Newton County, Missouri. "Boom area on U.S. Highway #71 around Camp Crowder. Housing for construction workers." Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.
Bargain Hats!
Those kids may have scored those war-surplus hats or caps for a buck from comic-book ads! This ad is from the February 1948 issue of Whiz Comics.
Beds $2
This is the office, not a bunkhouse. And the righthand corner is resting on the ground.
Those hats
It's amazing how many kid wore those hats back then. There's a mid-'40s bit of film of the elementary school where my kids went and ten kids on the playground were wearing leather aviator hats like that one.
Camp Crowder
Mort Walker and Jean Shepherd were stationed there, as was Rob Petrie (aka Dick Van Dyke).
Beetle Bailey
Camp Crowder was Mort Walker's inspiration for the fictional Camp Swampy depicted in the Beetle Bailey comic strip. Walker was stationed at Crowder while in the Army years earlier.
Something askew
Dang, they weren't even close when they measured the logs for the building's foundation. Of course it is possible that Mr Vachon tilted his camera 15 degrees AND had the kid lean 15 degrees while maintaining a perfectly natural pose, but that seems a little unlikely. I bet those 2 dollar beds are challenging to stay comfortable in, and that more than one tenant fell while trying to get up in the morning!
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