Gulf Hotel, Lighthouse, and Gas Station on Fifth Street in Miami Beach, 1939, by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.

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hell of a nice photo, some people have a serious talent for getting the shot with terrific composition. Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information

Pennsylvania Railroad’s T1 steam locomotive pulls out of Union Station, Chicago in February 1943

The T1s were 4-4-4-4 duplex-drive

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great lighting on this photo, naturally, it was made by Russell Lee, one of the best. 1942

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hard to believe that the mansions were so quickly abandoned, and reused by anyone that could figure out something to do with them, but, I never would have guessed that one would become a junkyard

I am not familiar with the the history of the industry of cotton and tobaaco, but I guess it was predicated on slave labor, and no one had a clue how to farm in the south to grow vegetable crops, like everyone everywhere else on the planet, to keep plantations in business with farming instead of bankrupt without slave labor. Or corn, wheat, alfalfa, etc

Then again, this photo is in 1936, after the great depression, and about 50 years after the civil war, this Antebellum mansion/plantation could have failed and been abandoned for other reasons

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the same place in 2011:

It was built in 1837 on a 350-acre plantation, with the columns and Italianate tower added just before the Civil War. Dr. Drish died there in 1867, his wife Sarah in 1884. 

It was the Jemison School from 1906 to 1925. After its time as an auto parts warehouse and Walker Evans's visit, it was purchased by Southside Baptist Church, which built a brick sanctuary on one side.

 Threatened with demolition, it was leased to the Heritage Commission of Tuscaloosa County in 1994, and after designation as a "place in peril," acquired by the Tuscaloosa Preservation Society in 2007. It was finally renovated starting in 2012 and opened in 2016 as a venue for weddings and other special events.

Pennsylvania Turnpike, 1942

How they foudn anyone to act that cheery, as a toolbooth operator, is a mystery. Maybe he was simply happy as hell to not be in hand to hand combat with Nazi's in the Battle of the Bulge

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A Fruehauf trailer, I posted about them https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/06/august-fruehauf-and-otto-neumann.html

fascinating design of the cranes on the piers, for unloading bananas and transferring them to boxcars.... anyone that has been in a Navy shipyard is used to bare skeleton cranes, so to me, these are some deluxe cranes

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Tender and switch engine at an Illinois Central railyard, Nov 1942 - Jack Delano

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Locomotives in the Illinois Central railyard. Jack Delano for the Office of War Information, Nov 1942 (looks great as computer wallpaper)

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Sports Illustrated 1957, Nantucket, the 'Pink Heap' beach buggy

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wow, hell of a big service bay. 1932 Goodyear service station, San Francisco.

 https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/images-of-vintage-gas-stations-pre-65.1033288/page-6

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The garage area had two pits where gas fumes would settle, creating a fire hazard. Pits were banned and grease monkeys began to use hoists in the new service garages.  The "large round thing cast in concrete" was probably an exhaust fan with an explosionproof motor.

vintage traffic signal and Hudson in San Francisco, 1927

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the same type of signal light was in use until at least 1942 

https://ronhenggeler.com/Newsletters/2016/3.9/Newsletter.html

Nebraska farm boy with flat tire, which happened while he was bringing a load of scrap iron to town.

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May 1940, McCormick Deering Farmall tractor, Monona County Iowa, by John Vachon for the FSA

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those beautiful elm trees before the Dutch Elm Disease came along, FSA photo in Milwaukee,1941

the homes were beautiful too... I recommend that you click on this to appreciate it full screen size

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The disease spread from New England westward and southward, almost completely destroying the famous elms in the "Elm City" of New Haven, Connecticut, reaching the Detroit area in 1950, the Chicago area by 1960, and Minneapolis by 1970. 

Of the estimated 77 million elms in North America in 1930, over 75% had been lost by 1989

Locomotives in roundhouse. Durango, Colorado by Russell Lee for the FSA, 1940

 what a great photo for composition, contrast, and content

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No. 268 was used in the filming of the movie "Denver & Rio Grande" in 1952. Built in 1882, it is currently at the Gunnison Pioneer Museum. 

Greyhound 1936.

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1938 railroad and coal yard, Omaha, Nebraska.

 interesting levels of railroad track, and mix of old fashioned steam locomotives in the center, and a streamlined new train engine on the far right

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December 1941. War effort waste paper collecting in New York City, at 459 W 18th Street, by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration

https://www.shorpy.com/node/25825?size=_original#caption  every guy had to wear a hat it seems

West Shore R.R. depot, West Point, N.Y. 1895, a location used in the motion picture “The Long Gray Line” filmed by John Ford as graduates, in campaign hats and boots, departed during World War I.

 this cool piece of historic architecture (in the Queen Anne style I posted about last year http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/01/1959-photos-opf-fond-du-lac-train.html)

 was replaced with a building that wouldn't burn down in 1926

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In 1926, about the time that the Hotel Thayer was replacing the original West Point Hotel near the Plain, the current station was completed. So the station used in “The Long Gray Line” was not the actual station used during World War I, but the newer (and current) station. It was also about this time that West Point (and all the boats passing on the Hudson River) lost a landmark. To widen the road to the station, it was necessary to remove some of the cliff near the station. Along with the rock outcroppings were lost the huge letters, “Bunker Hill, June 17th, 1775” that had been carved there in 1857

history of this station is at https://www.westpointaog.org/page.aspx?pid=3879

a forgotten and never mentioned aspect of the WW2 rations, kids were using wagons to haul groceries. They lined up outside grocery stores awaiting customers because tire scarcity and gasoline rationing made their service a necessity

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