Vintage shots from days gone by!

What an instant belly-laugh! Wonder when
and where this was? (One of those "Tiki" restaurants
that started to gain popularity in the '50s/'60s, etc.?)

 

"Sorry, chief! I tried to save her, but some sap put a block
of dry ice on the damn runway! What's with that???"
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With no work back home, the road became home during the Great
Depression of the '30 for an army of men, and many women, too.
More than one in four Americans working in 1929 were unemployed
by 1932. Dorthea Lange shot this "bindle-stick" (aka hobo) in 1938
for the Resettlement Administration, soon renamed Farm Security
Administration (FSA). A bindle-stick was a person who carried all
their worldly possessions over their shoulder.

Lange, Walker Evans, Russell Lee and numerous other photo-
graphers roved the land recording the era's human impacts.
This photo is in the collection of FAS and OWI (Office of War
Information) in the U.S. Library of Congress. Quality prints
are actually available from the Library of Congress Shop, online.

Usually hoboes were not tramps or bums, though sometimes
they had to bum for a meal. In fact, hoboes usually sought
steady work and, barring that, would happily do day work or
odd jobs for food. Tramps, strictly speaking, were just drifters
who usually bummed food without offering labor in return.
Surely, hoboes were called tramps, bums -- and much worse!
Many towns posted notices at the city limits warning of dire
consequences for trespassing hoboes. But deep down, hoboes
harbored some pride -- and at least a shred of hope for making
a better life than the desolate one left back home.

 

"Well, shoot, Lem! Why didn't WE think of that?" Near L.A.,
1937, Dorthea Lange for FSA. As many as 4 million Americans
went on the road, many of them literally abandoning their houses
and farms. Photo THANKS to the Modern American Poetry site,
"A Photo Essay on the Great Depression."

 

Hoboes waiting for a freight February 1, 1939 near Calipatria,
CA. Lange photo originally published in Time, THANKS to Time/
Life Pictures.

 

Photographer, date and location unknown.
Photo THANKS to StumbleUpon.com.

 

Photographer, date and location unknown.
Photo THANKS to The New American Republic.

 

"Hobo jungles" cropped up everywhere on the "poor side
of the tracks" in cites and town across the country. Here,
Russell lee captured a Christmas image of the "unemployed"
huddled by their shanty and tree near 12th Street, NYC,
Christmas time 1937.

 

She's browsing a vintage "FREDERICKS OF HOLLYWOOD" catalog!
MY wife told me!

 

Chow time in the jungle: A hobo kills a turtle
to make soup. Photo taken September 1939
by John Vachon.

 

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Above are two "hobo nickels," THANKS to the Hobo
Nickel Society site. With one nickel, a talented
migrant could fashion a pop-art piece he might be
able to barter for a meal and a warm bed. Not sure
about the one below. It may be a later tip-o-the-hat
to the depression-era originals. Same site.

 

The face of despair. An obviously dejected farmer leans against
a bankrupt restaurant on Howard Street "Skid Row," February 1937.
This Lange image is THANKS to The Monthly Review magazine. It is
part of the Farm Security Administration -- Office of War Information
Photograph Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
Division.

 

The making of Lange's most iconic depression-era picture. Dad had gone out to scout for more work, as the pea crop near Nipomo, CA, had virtually failed, March 1936. There were some 2,500 folks in this tent city.
Having left home, someplace in the heartland, for picking
work out west, this family was destitute when Lange caught
sight of them. In fact, the mother had just bargained to sell
their tent for food.

 

Lange took five or six photos before speaking with the woman, 32.
In 1960, Lange seemed to regret not asking her name, so the iconic
image below (known as "Migrant Mother") became the human face
of the Great Depression, literally unidentified for over 60 years.
Recently, one of the grown up children here, related that mom had
found work thereafter as a housekeeper and washerwoman. The
daughter also mentioned how ashamed she felt to be photographed
in such dire straits.

 

Uh? this thread needs a bump?

 

McVictim, maybe he's a "Vintage Shots" ADDICT??? LOL

(Gotta have it. GOTTA have it!!!)