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- Designed to impress
- Wasp waist
- Nice Bike
- Shhh
- Two things --
- SIX SECONDS OF HISTORY
- A slot rail in the middle?
- Quaint
- Re: My Favorite Year
- A perfect scene!
- John McGiver comes to mind
- The Bank Block is still half there (right side).
- Decapitated
- Busy town
- Animal Crackers
- My Favorite Year
- Their town
- I wanna know ...
- Left Bank
- No hurryin', but maybe Russian?
- Stack 'Em Up
- What's in a name
- Some things that caught my eye
- No Comment(s)
- Dark swoosh
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- Rock Island Line
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- Front Entrance
- The Pedant In Me
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Santa's Helpers: 1943
March 1943. "Santa Fe Railroad activities across New Mexico. Men coming out of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad shops in Albuquerque at the end of the day's shift." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
A proliferation ...
... of plaid flannel zip-up jackets. Santa probably brought them. Santa probably wears them, when no one but Mrs. Claus and the helpers are looking.
Oh, geez, it's a pun, isn't it?
Got it now: "Santa (Fe)'s Helpers"
Very punny.
Why 'Santa's Helpers'?
Usually I can find the reference to the titles of the photos. In this case, I give up. Why 'Santa's Helpers'? Presumably, they're making real trains, not toy trains, and there's not a sled or sleigh in sight.
A little quieter these days
Look hard enough, and you can still see the Santa Fe sign's ghost on the building.
1100 2nd Street SW
The building at right has the number 1100 attached to its iron railing. I believe this is same building, now the Wheels Museum, in street view below. At left, the building and overhead rail also match. If you do a 360, you'll see this is not a congested area. Still, bicycle riders are instructed to dismount their bikes here ... something the two gentlemen in 1943 did not have to do.
Who's on Second?
Or really more like what's on Second (@ Pacific) ? And the answer is (the) Wheels Museum
Which, as we can see, doesn't look a whole lot different from it did four score years ago ... though I suspect it seldom is as busy.
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