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, April 8, 2016

Shorpy Home Front Photos: Fire-Eaters, Give Me Light, Garbage

JULY 30, 2014,  FIRE-EATERS: 1942--  December 1942, Chicago, Illinois.  "Working on a giant locomotive, one of the '400s; in the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad shops.  Jack Delano, OWI.

A really, really big locomotive to haul those supplies and troops across the country.

JULY 28, 2014, DALLAS NOIR: 1942--  January 1942.  "Elm Street Theater Row in Dallas."  the war's on, but lights are still on all over the place.

Comment:  Summer 1942 and blackout rules.  Evidently not here.

JULY 27, 2014, GARBAGE OUT:  1943--  May 1943, New York.  "Emptying garbage out into truck from Harlem apartment house."  Gordon Parks, OWI.

Even with a war on, the garbage still had to be picked up.

--GreGen

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