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- Rear View
- Way in the back --
- Button It Up
- And with an eye on the time ...
- Working in an enclosed ashtray
- Rear View Mirror?
- Tobacco cam
- Basic fact I learned only later in life
- Put a Lid on it!
- Pinstripes in the Tower
- Sound enhancement
- 3438 in '38
- Second Career
- Their days are numbered
- Only the Sensor
- Train control mechanism
- Rarest of the Rare?? & Classy 3400 Class
- Control Mechanism
- Those standpipes
- Wrenches
- International D-40 I believe
- Job prospects
- You had me at Train
- Land of the free
- Broad-Exchange Bldg
- Parking innovation
- The old block
- "Peck turned a sweet propeller"
- National Bank Building
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Second City Riviera: 1942
July 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Lake Michigan beach." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
As one who wore that uniform
Another vote for the Navy White enlisted uniform with the flap "Flapping in the Breeze" and the black neckerchief showing.
I believe that is correct.
The black at the neck would be his neckerchief and I think back then the rating or "rank" insignia was on the right sleeve, not the left, which is not visible in the photo.
Re: What's Up?
Regarding RG62's question about the guy in white, I believe he is a sailor in a US Navy white service undress uniform with the collar/tar flap on the back of his jumper blown up on his head.
More room for the beach towel
The population of Chicago in 1940 was 3,396,808, the second largest city in the US.
Today, its around 2,608,425. Down about 23% in 80 years.
On The Home Front
With the United States' entry into WWII just seven months prior, it's hard not to notice most of these beachgoers are women and children.
Mr. Hazmat suit.
He looks like a sailor. Summer whites. The back flap is blowing up in the wind. You can see the back of his neckerchief behind his neck.
Sailor in the Wind
Looks like the guy in all white is a sailor in his crackerjacks and the wind has blown his tar flap over his head.
What's Up
with the guy in white? Is that an early version of a hazmat suit?
[Beachside beekeeper. - Dave]
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Below is a very similar perspective from June of 2017 (it's the matched perspective from one of the several other shots Rothstein took of the beach that day).
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