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Friday, August 13. 2010

Wonderful stuff

Vanderleun is right: these 1940s color pics are fascinating slices of American life. I have seen some of them at Dr X, in the past. Part of the message for me is how soft and luxurious our lives have become over the past 60-70 years. Women had muscles then, but not from working out at the health club. 


Here's one of the pics:


Posted by Bird Dog in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 10:31 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Wow - does that headline picture bring back some memories of my days on the family dairy farm in Wisconsin. It wasn't as sparse as that certainly, but similar.

And Karo - my maternal Grandmother would make biscuits and use Karo as a sweetner - had cans just like that one. And jars of relish, chow chow, cabbage...dang I can smell it.
#1 Tom Francis on 2010-08-13 11:03 (Reply)
Karo went over everything on the plate in many rural areas of the deep south back then, revolting as this might seem to us now. It was a source of cheap calories, and it made a mess of greens, served day after day, taste a little better.
#1.1 MissyW on 2010-08-13 12:03 (Reply)
A fine set of photos from all over the country, from New England to the South to the West, and points between.
#2 Gringo on 2010-08-13 12:13 (Reply)
I've seen these Denver Post pBlog photos before.

The key element of the family meal in that photo has already been alluded to: almost every bit of food on that table was probably produced by the family themselves.
#3 JJM on 2010-08-13 12:51 (Reply)

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