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- 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
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
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Down and Out in Omaha: 1938
November 1938. Omaha, Nebraska. "Lower Douglas Street, where the unemployed hang out." 35mm negative by John Vachon. View full size.
Plymouth
I believe it's a 1933 Plymouth, Model PD, from fairly late in the model year. Hints: Goddess mascot, long-teardrop headlights, front-fender sweep, arched bumper, horn mounted under the headlight, hubcap shape, hood louvers (and the hood covers most of the cowl), deep arc of lower windshield (which is hinged at the top).
Here's mine, fresh out of the barn, in 1987. After sitting since 1959, all it needed was a battery and TLC, and it started right up.
Love the clothes
Did people just get more dressed up back then even to just go to the store?
Pressed for time
They're not unemployed - just waiting for their suits to be pressed.
Jake & Elwood
The New ***stone Hotel, with its "Clean, Modern Rooms" featuring cracked glass windows and "E-Z Tatter Shades" reminds me of the hotel the Blues Brothers lived in until Carrie Fisher blew it up!
While You Wait
Personally I've never done it that way. Those pressing tables can get awfully hot. I would prefer to leave the suit and come back later.
Omaha
Wouldn't be known for its beach for six years or so. I wonder what little Warren Buffett was doing at this precise moment. Conor Oberst couldn't handle this kind of depression.
The Car blur
Might that be a 1935 Chevrolet passing by? I can't be sure.
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