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- Passenger seat
- The two front doors
- You are correct Dave.
- I was just there
- New to me
- Football-shaped thing
- Working all the live long day
- How do you stop slackers?
- It's [not] a Diamond T
- A Red Brown Truck
- Not Too Long a Long Walk
- What Tribe? Huh?
- Cheap labor
- No Mel Brooks fans?!?
- The real "Gandy"
- @louJudson
- Somethings not right
- Straining or laughing?
- Heavy!
- I don't like the look of that supervisor
- What tribe? Which rail location?
- How many do they need?
- Pursed lips
- Another lost street trade?
- Where Is The Carpet bag?
- Another great composition
- The Un-Coaler
- The Last Bickford's
- Re: And literally just around the corner
- Straight from Central Casting
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Harry Poppins: 1943
March 1943. "Baltimore, Maryland. Man repairing an umbrella." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Another lost street trade?
The sun's out and he doesn't look like an umbrella user. I was born in 1946 and remember the umbrella repair guy, the sharpening guy and the rags and paper guy. Umbrellas were repaired at the local commercial hub. Sharpening was done door-to-door with a wheeled pedal-powered grindstone. The rag man would cruise the alleys and had a very loud "Hey! Rags! Paper!" spiel. Downtown had peanut, hot pretzel and newspaper vendors and attendants at the public restroom.
Where Is The Carpet bag?
Beside the wall hydrants maybe? You would think that the bag would have an umbrella repair kit.
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