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.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Shorpy Photos: Home Front-- Part 3 Busses and Street Cars

MAY 16, 2014  FARE MAIDEN: 1943--  June 1943.  Washington, D.C.  "Hattie B. Sheehan, a street car conductor for the Capital Transit Company.  By Esther Bubley, OWI.  Because men were away, women started doing former male jobs.

MAY 14, 2014, GOING PLACES: 1943--  September 1943.  "A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville to Memphis and the terminals.  Roberta Locker, going from Elora, Tennessee, to work.  By Esther Bubley, OWI.

--GreGen

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