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- 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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Summer Swimmers: 1942
July 1942. "Florence, Alabama. Swimming at a Boy Scout camp." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
Dangers lurk
The lifeguard platform is conspicuously vacant! But the biggest concern, at that time, was polio You got it from swimming in lakes, rivers, and unchlorinated pools, according to belief at that time. My brother got polio, at age 8, in 1941. (He recovered, thank heavens). My mother always swore he caught it by swimming in a notoriously polluted river in my town.
[Entirely possible -- poliovirus is transmitted through contact with you-know-what. Dave]
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