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- Notch shot
- Straight ahead (right, left, left, right)
- Ship lifespans
- New service
- You Say Station, I Say Potato ...
- Iron Age
- Thank you, Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Grand Central Terminal
- If they made a movie of it
- Obsolete by then.
- Half the tonnage at the NYPANO dock
- Ravages escaped, bank notes signed and dated
- Chatham expansion
- Steepled in History
- Made by York
- No Summer Vacation
- Wait a minute ...
- $$$
- Joad on the Road
- Street Lights Survive
- Now & then
- More or Less? It's a lot less
- A new image.
- Same ol' story ...
- $13,589,422,507.55 in 2024 dollar$
- Skinned knuckles
- Not enough
- Completed, and then enlarged
- Awnings
- 500 West Madison Street
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Jim & Joe & Flo: 1943
March 1943. "Jim Bishop and Joe Crow, drivers for the Associated Transport Company, eating dinner at a truckers' stop on U.S. Highway 29 near the Alabama-Georgia state line." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Mysterious finery
What are those things decorating their neckties?
[Tie chains. - Dave]
Hat and Tie?
Those were indeed different times; try to find a trucker today in anything
but a t-shirt and ballcap (which worked for me for 20 years over the road!)
Pre-Plastic Creamer
I am of a certain age as well as Notcom and remember that small glass of cream that came with your coffee or tea. I have a fancy one made by Syracuse China of Canada and it has the date '68 on it.
How'r grits? Kissable ... hon
For those of a certain age -- i.e. mine -- Dave's title evokes a Pavlovian response
A native of Jasper, Alabama ... somewhat more than spittin' distance from this scene (even for the well salivated).
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