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Post by RebeccaLee on Mar 29, 2015 19:25:52 GMT -5
My hometown was Lacombe Alberta. Farming area and main train area for shipping prairie wheat. My grandparents first lived there a mile from town in 1916 and supplied town with milk. They left in 1918 but returned during the depression.Here is a picture of the town in the 1930s. Lots of John boys cars...
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Post by carol on Mar 29, 2015 22:12:19 GMT -5
North Calvert Street in downtown Baltimore in 1936. The street I live on now didn't exist then. My neighborhood wasn't built until 1952.
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Post by Tonyray on Mar 29, 2015 23:27:53 GMT -5
Reno NV. 1930
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Post by daniela on Mar 29, 2015 23:37:08 GMT -5
Guelph, Ontario
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Post by Kathy Lee on Mar 30, 2015 5:45:25 GMT -5
I love this thread! Let me see if I can find a picture!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 5:57:24 GMT -5
Montreal
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Post by AuntieEm on Mar 30, 2015 6:16:11 GMT -5
Thanks for this thread. I can spend so much time poring over old photographs, looking at the people, cars, buildings, advertisements etc.
This photo is in New Orleans' French Quarter, looking out towards the Pontalba Apartments that are across from Jackson Square. Picture taken in 1937.
EM
P.S. A note about the Pontalba Apartments. The apartments, a row on each side of Jackson Square, were built around 1850. By the early part of the 20th century they had become rundown. I read of people keeping goats on the balconies! This picture was taken shortly after the apartments were renovated.
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Post by Brenda on Mar 30, 2015 11:54:53 GMT -5
Huntington, West Virginia, in the 1930s. (Obviously colorized and enhanced photo). I think it was a postcard. Downtown Huntington under water during the Great Ohio Rvier Flood of 1937: From Wikipedia: The Ohio River flood of 1937 took place in late January and February 1937. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, one million people were left homeless, with 385 dead and property losses reaching $500 million ($8 billion in 2012 dollars). Federal and state resources were strained to aid recovery, as the disaster occurred during the depths of the Great Depression and a few years after the Dust Bowl. The '37 Flood
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Post by carol on Mar 30, 2015 15:15:03 GMT -5
Looking at all these photos its amazing how all these cities look so much alike.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 16:26:40 GMT -5
An interesting observation is that most of us here have birthdates closer to 1930 than today's date. I would even say most of us have birthdates closer to 1920 than today's date. Unbelievable. I have enjoyed seeing all these pictures too.
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Post by carol on Mar 30, 2015 18:44:15 GMT -5
This photo is from the 40's. Scrubbing the white marble steps was normal Saturday activity back then. My mom told me she had that job when she was growing up. She isn't in this photo. Today most people don't bother to scrub the steps anymore.
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Post by AuntieEm on Mar 30, 2015 18:53:49 GMT -5
Yes, Carol, my Mom told me about her mother joining others in the ritual of washing the "stoops" every week, since that was where people sat to get a little air in the days before air conditioning, and also to talk to the neighbors, and to watch the neighborhood kids.
EM
P.S. I'd have trouble with those stairs - no railing to grab hold of. Yikes!
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Post by Kathy Lee on Mar 31, 2015 18:13:06 GMT -5
This movie theater was seven blocks from my house. My brother was an usher there and I would wait for him to finish his job and then we would walk home together...in the dark...alone....and no one bothered us!!!
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Post by Kathy Lee on Mar 31, 2015 18:22:34 GMT -5
The World's First Drive-In Movie Camden NJ - 1933 Richard M. Hollingshead Jr. The first drive-in movie in the country. The house we lived in was built by this Hollingshead man. We bought it from his two old maid daughters!
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Post by Kathy Lee on Mar 31, 2015 18:25:30 GMT -5
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