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July 1942. "Hayti, Missouri. Cotton Carnival. Picnic." Brought to you by Wonder Bread. Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Would like to travel back and taste that Wonder Bread.
Probably quite different to the tasteless, plastic-textured mass produced bread today?
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Having some fun with AI tools these days, this pic seems like a perfect candidate to have a go on:
a peach, a woven, and a tin basket.
Looks like a great spread.
The first taste I had of that delectable dish of fried chicken, was when my mother-in-law made it (in a well-seasoned cast iron deep pan) for our first family trip together after my wife and I had been married a few months.
In the UK, I had been used to the Colonel's secret recipe. I can tell you he had nothing on my mother-in-law's fried chicken.
Home grown tomatoes, the best fried chicken and my beautiful wife and family on our first Picinic together. We actually sat on the grass on a blanket just like this.
Oh the memories just like these well-dressed folks.
The handy food conveyances include a traditional three-color wood splint hamper with two steamed wood handles and a painted wood top cover, at center; an enameled sheet metal version with faux splints at lower left; and an all-purpose undecorated wood splint "market basket" at far right, with one wood handle and no cover. Looks like next-generation ice chests haven't entered picnic service as yet.
In those days you dressed up to do all sorts of ordinary things if people were going to see you. And I guess all the tables were devoted to the war effort.
First they overdress for the occasion and then nobody thinks to bring a lousy table?
I gotta tell you, I've had with these folks.
If they had all those folding chairs, wouldn't there have been a few folding tables -- even a card table -- they could have tucked into the bed of the truck?
[Truck? - Dave]
Eh, I just figured there had to be a truck at a picnic in Missouri.
... would look great in colour. Anyone brave enough to try it?
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