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Dog Daze: 1941

August 1941. "Edgewater Park trailer camp near the Ford bomber plant. Ypsilanti, Michigan." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

August 1941. "Edgewater Park trailer camp near the Ford bomber plant. Ypsilanti, Michigan." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.

 

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The rich side of camp

When I was a kid in the early '50s and we lived in a three-bedroom, asbestos-shingled house, the kind my mom called a "cracker box." A few miles away were brick homes, also three-bedroom but with carports and picture windows. These today are very modest homes, but back then we thought of the people who lived there as "rich folks." I wonder if this kid felt the same way comparing canvas tents with the comparable luxury of trailers in this camp.

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