From the Shorpy Photos site.
This site is always a great source of the American home front with obviously a huge collection of Office of War Information (OWI) photographs.
Sept. 2, 2015, LEARNING THE ROPES:1941. Oct. 1942. "High School Victory Corps. Flushing High School, Queens, New York. Boy climbing a rope without using his legs. Very difficult. Photo by William Perlitch, OWI.
High school boys would soon be in the service so needed to be in good shape.
Sept. 1, 2015, TIRE SERVICE: 1941. "Hollywood, California. "Tire service station." Photo of Mosher Tire, next to the Dix Hotel. Photo by Russell Lee, OWI.
Comment: Owner of Mosher Tire Service was Lewis Dean Mosher, born in Illinois on Sept. 26, 1885.
Of course, tires were in short supply due to the war.
You can view the photos by typing in Shorpy and the capital letter words.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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