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Just pass the jug ! ... 😉😁😋
Saturday, May 25, 1940. "Interior of general store at Stem, Granville County, North Carolina, with high school boys dressed up because it's Election Day." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Been in a lot of old stores that looked like that. None left now .
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That was back before they invented short sleeve shirts. 😁
Joe
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I was gonna comment its crazy those kids were smoking but with their age and the fact WW2 was going to kick off in about 6 months, that was the least of their problems.
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Everybody went to the movies back then and all their hero's in the movies smoked. It was the cool thing to do. Just about all the grown ups smoked and boys were in a hurry to be men in those days. About a year and a half later after that photo they didn't need to try to grow up they were put on the fast track from boyhood to manhood with WWII. I'd be willing to bet over half of those boys never made it back to visit that old store.
And if it wasn't for those boys we wouldn't be sitting here goofing off on our computers at least not in English.
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Cigarettes were cheap in NC back in those days.You were helping your fellow tobacco growers.
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In my home town the gathering place was Irene's Cafe where a Nickel would get a bottomless cup of coffee. The restaurant had a split level the older farmers would gather in the lower level and tell their stories and the younger crowd would tell their stories on the upper level
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