WOW....That was a trip back in time...not that I haven't already been there.
Thanks, Bob.wessongroup - 8-29-2010 at 06:17 PM
Boy does it look different ... was very small, but can remember parts... it was a different world .... reallyBajaNuts - 8-29-2010 at 06:17 PM
WOW is RIGHT!
just a couple of real life things I noticed-
the family eating dinner in the dugout, the man has a bandage on his left hand. Looks like an index finger injury.
the school children singing- look at their feet. Some have shoes, many barefoot and dirty feet.....
Thanks for posting that link. I have a couple people to share it with.Skipjack Joe - 8-29-2010 at 06:21 PM
These are stunningly beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing these with us.
I was going to quip that Oklahoma still looks pretty much the same, but seems inappropriate with this great body of work.BornFisher - 8-29-2010 at 08:22 PM
Amazing and beautiful, thanks!!elgatoloco - 8-29-2010 at 08:30 PM
Cool. Thanks!Cypress - 8-30-2010 at 07:04 AM
Bob H , Thanks!El Camote - 8-30-2010 at 12:22 PM
I'll bet a case of Ballenas those were originally shot on Kodachrome film. The color really stays true. Stunning.DENNIS - 8-30-2010 at 01:01 PM
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I'll bet a case of Ballenas those were originally shot on Kodachrome film. The color really stays true. Stunning.
Could be. It came on the market around '35, I think. Beautiful stuff....especially the #25 although it was really slow.
It's gone now.
What's left? Fuji Velvia? That's pretty good too.
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"Stunning."
Perhaps a bit too stunning. They may have been cleaned up in PS. Still good though.BajaSerg - 8-30-2010 at 01:17 PM
WOW! great photos...........thanksBajahowodd - 8-30-2010 at 01:36 PM
Thanks for posting, Bob. Wonderful stuff. And, in case anyone will be anywhere near, the Pie Town, NM annual pie festival is coming up September 11.
We 'boondocked' near Pie Town a few years ago on our great 'New Mexico Camp Trip'. Funny how it got it's name.Eli - 8-30-2010 at 02:58 PM
Amazingly beautiful and real.Iflyfish - 8-31-2010 at 04:51 PM
I think most have forgotten how the conditions were in this country prior to WWII. These images bring home the very hard working and living conditions
for people in those days at the end of the Great Depression before the war mobilized the work force.
After WWII, with Germany and Japans production capabilities demolished, the USofA entered one its most prosperous eras with soldiers caming home to
form families and the wheels of production turning to supplying all of the washing machines, refrigerators etc. that these soldiers needed for their
new suburban homes when they left the farm for the cities.
It is in this context that most of us grew up and formed our view of America, a booming dynamo of productivity with out any serious enemies or
competition to it's manufacturing and production capabilities.
Times have changed and the manufacturing base has shifted to the East with it's low wages and material costs. We may be in for another extended time
of very high unemployment, as is evidenced in the early photos when farms were being foreclosed and there simply was no work to be had. We are now in
a situation where we may again very much need the skills we see in these remarkable photos. Those Victory Gardens may well be needed again here in the
not to distant future.
There is a progression that one can see from the end of the Great Depression through the early era of WWII when war manufacturing employed the masses
of unemployed in this country. There have been cycles like this before in American History and we forget. These images are a living testiment to this
process in motion.
We are on the eve of Labor Day and it might be interesting for Nomads to reflect on the history of the Labor Movement in America and how the holiday
of Labor Day got established. Few know or understand history. I encourage you to read this brief piece of history on the origins of Labor Day.
The first Labor Day in the United States was celebrated on September 5, 1882 in New York City.[1] In the aftermath of the deaths of a number of
workers at the hands of the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals during the 1894 Pullman Strike, President Grover Cleveland put reconciliation with Labor
as a top political priority. Fearing further conflict, legislation making Labor Day a national holiday was rushed through Congress unanimously and
signed into law a mere six days after the end of the strike.[2] Cleveland was also concerned that aligning an American labor holiday with existing
international May Day celebrations would stir up negative emotions linked to the Haymarket Affair.[3] By the 20th century, all 50 U.S. states have
made Labor Day a state holiday.
We were in Talum, on the Yucatan, when the Indonesian Tsunami struck, and I realized the I knew nothing of this event for a full week after it
happened and life continued for most folks like it has since the time of the Aztecs, rice/beans and fresh fruits and vegitables were the essence of
the diet, supplimented with fresh sea food or the occasional chicken. There was no doubt in any of their minds where the corn, beans, fruits and
vegitables came from, most intimately knew their chickens and pigs. Relatives caught the fish. The early images in this series remind me just how
close we were to this way of living for most of the 200 years of the existance of the USofA.
Thanks again for this wonderful and thought provoking post.
IflyfishBob H - 8-31-2010 at 06:39 PM
Iflyfish... I really enjoyed reading your response, right on!
Bob Hrocmoc - 9-4-2010 at 06:50 AM
I like the Wrestling Bear Photo.
Growing up in Kansas long ago, have seen a lot of these grand sights. Miss some of them!
rocmoc n AZ/Bajawessongroup - 9-4-2010 at 07:40 AM
My Dad was from Oklahoma .... his Dad was from Crockett Co. TN... his father and the family move into Indian Territory in 1869 after the Civil War..
.. they did not surrender... (no they did not have slaves.. they just got by as poor folks)
The stories my Dad told were of great hardship durning his early life, very difficult.. one really had to as he used to say "scratch for a living"..
They had nothing and the Depression and the "Dust Bowl" took away what ever they did have and caused them to try and move to California.... they made
it as far as Phoenix AZ.. where the old truck my Dad was driving with his mother and three sister at the age of 15 broke down... they set up living in
a tent in Tolleson which was nothing in 1933 10 miles west of Phoniex .... and that was were they stayed... and started trying to live...
My Dad's father passed the next year, leaving my Dad at 16 to "make do" taking care of his mom and three sisters in the really hard times that existed
for many ...
He made it... but, seeing those pictures bring back thoughts of stories which I was told my father and my mothers father.. who was also from Phoenix
and went through the depression looking for work... "scratching" for a living...
Those days you had to "cut it".. or you did not eat or ..... live...
We have come a long, long ways... but, the hardships that those folks met on a daily basis is something we all should reflect on.. I know I do... was
brought up with thinking that it all can go away.. and don't think it can't...
I agree totally with Iflyfish... and that is were "labor" came from ... folks like those REALLY did labor... no joke.. tough times... but, they "cut
it"
We have some pretty strong people in this county, when push comes to shove... just wish they would remember HOW MUCH we have... even with economy the
way it is.. just look at the pictures... and as Bajanuts pointed out.. some did not have shoes... but, were in school.. they were setting down to
dinner in a "dug out" and eating a meal that did not come from a market...
Think we could get by on far less than is "required" by a lot today... some that live down in BCS come to mind..
When my Dad used to bring us down in the 50's to Baja, think that was what he liked about it... no electricity, had to bring your own water, ice was a
luxury and keeping a pot of beans or clam chowder on the stove at all times for eating ... must have brought back a lot of memories of when he was
growing up...
I know I would hate to lose my computer, about the only thing I think I would really miss, big time, along with a refrigerator... and the washing
machine... think I and/or we could get by with far less than what we live with on a daily basis..
Of course it would not be as easy.. but, that won't kill ya...
And I would do it in a heart beat, if it would help our County and others ... as opposed to just spending more money... to maintain.. the current
"what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" mentality ... as for me its a waste... MOFO (My Own Feeble Opinion)...Marc - 9-6-2010 at 08:40 AM
Wow! Thanks! Jeesh I was born before many of those images. I remember during WW2 my mom pulling blackout curtains shut at night and soldiers and
sailors everywhere. I lost an uncle in the war. I remember the day we got the news in 1944. He was killed on his 29th birthday.
[Edited on 9-6-2010 by Marc]bacquito - 9-6-2010 at 05:49 PM
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Iflyfish... I really enjoyed reading your response, right on!
Bob H
I agree, in fact I looked up the Haymarket Affair. Interesting stuff.irenemm - 9-6-2010 at 08:17 PM
wow
i remember my dad telling all of us how he had to beg for food from the churches and bakery. his dad died when he was just 12 and leaving 9 kids. he
only went to the 5th grade. his first new shoes were given to him by the American Tax payers. Thru the United States Navy in 1943 along with his first
new clothes ever. He said a nice warm wool suit and jacket. He would steal powered eggs because he had never tasted much of the food they would feed
him in the Navy. We could never go barefoot in our lifes we each had 3 pairs of shoe a year. one for church one for school and one for playing. He was
the most hard working man I have know in my life and the most honest. I believe that hardship makes a better person.
My mother came from a family with 13 children 6 of them was a family my grandparents adopeted when there parents up and left them in the dead of
winter in Rhode Island. They had no money and no jobs or food they just left them. My moms family had plenty. My grandfather was very well to do. So
they took them in and put them all through school.
I feel to this day that i was blessed with the most careing and loving parents. one could have.Debra - 9-6-2010 at 08:24 PM
Great photos, they must have taken some time to post here, thanks!
great photos...........thanks