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- The most dangerous fire escape I've ever seen
- Out of Place
- Sir Bedevere
- Witch way to the fire?
- Proud to be an old Coot
- That old scale
- Bowled Over
- Cat years?
- 'Why' Wyoming?
- His Master's Voice
- What! No dish under the skewer?
- Only in Hollywood?
- What's Up Doc?
- Destination?
- I'm pretty sure this was a voluntary program
- When I see chicken wire rabbit cages I think of three things
- The War Ears
- Eating the bunnies? Really?
- A love affair with a machine
- Hasenpfeffer
- Back support
- Hot type!
- Can you smell ... the news?
- Looking across the street and Flong
- Memories of my elderly hoarder neighbor
- Linotype in the Twilight Zone
- By Memory?
- Quiet place
- Line Of Type
- And no hearing protection
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Grocries: 1939
November 1939. "Agate, Sioux County, Nebraska." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
A bit of prosperity
Neither building has paint, but one has shingles on the roof instead of tarpaper.
I have to wonder if the old time love of advertising posters has something to do with the fact that it protected the siding when most people couldn't afford to keep a coat of paint on the building.
[The Grocry roof is corrugated metal on one side and shingles on the other. - Dave]
Middle of nowhere
Looking at Google Earth, doesn't look like it has grown any.
Sure looks desolate in these photos.
"Grocries" and gas.
And "Groceries" has lost an "E"
These budget cutbacks are getting out of hand.
Can I buy another E, Pat?
That wooden platform looks like a scale for a wagon. I wonder what there was to way (also spelled like it sounds) in 1939 Agate, Sioux County, Nebraska?
Corn Huskers
The drive-on scale has probably weighed plenty of agricultural commodities.
Western Spaghetti
This Shorpy image makes me wonder if this Nebraska grocery store stocked spaghetti.
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