Wednesday, November 7, 2012

World War II In Chicago

From the ChicagoTribune Photo Archives, March 16, 2011, Daywatch.


RUNNING ON EMPTY:  picture of a couple making out in a car during gas rationing with a sign in the window saying "I'm really out of gas!"  Should have read "Out of gas, and out of breath, too."

CIGARETTES:  a well-dressed woman smoking a pipe.  Cigarettes on the home front hard to come by as Congress had mandated that every soldier, sailor and Marine receive them as part of their rations.

Well, I never!  --GreGen

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