Kansas-Nebraska
Category: 1930s
You Get There Fresher
You Can’t Go Wrong
another cool map find from the mid 1930s
Weird Way To Hail A Cab
High-Water Style 1938
Would you look at that? It’s my 1000th post!
Belisha Beacons And Zebra Crossings
A policeman in Cardiff, capital of Wales, leads children across the street in the 1930s. By 1934, road deaths exceeded 7000 per year, so the transport minister, Leslie Hore-Belisha, introduced the striped pole topped with an orange globe.
I can’t say as I’ve ever heard of or seen a Belisha beacon (aka a pelican beacon), which began marking pedestrian crossings of roads, later painted in black and white stripes, and known as zebra crossings. Yes, like the one on Abbey Road!
Vintage Scenes From Kansas, Part II
Welcome back to vintage Kansas! Here, a cute pinafored threesome pose in front of non-GMO corn.
And below, you see a couple who were clearly fruitful and multiplied.
Not even a delicious fruit-filled cellar could make up for the treeless flatland of this barren landscape.
But I still applaud Mrs. Schoenfeldt for her efforts.
Vintage Scenes From Kansas, Part I
Today I thought I’d share a few great pics from one of my documentary photograph books, “Bust To Boom.” Love the girl cradling her lamb and the post-meal shot below.
I find the one below interesting because of the swell framed pin-up drinking soda (Did he seriously frame that?) and the phrase “checking his waybills.”
Dresses Made Of Magic Eye Material
Happy Mother’s Day to all you mothers! Here are some floral Magic Eyes for you.
Let me know if you are able to see what’s inside!
Virginia’s Finest Blue Cheese (Fingers Crossed)
*source: Southerners by Charles Kuralt
Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen
I apologize if it is still wintry in your neck of the woods. Here it’s been in the 80s. Birds are chirping incessantly, lawns are demanding weekly mowings, the air has the bitter stench of weed-killer in it, the neighborhood pool opens manana, and swarms of bees root around in our holly bush, two paces from our front door. I HATE bees. And wasps. Our Martha Stewart six chair patio set is ready for guests. All we need is a recliner, like these ladies seem to be enjoying.
Considering it was 1932, smack dab in the middle of The Depression, they seem to be fairing pretty well. Methinks Ms. Ira F. Warner from Westhampton, Long Island looks rather cheeky.
We Wear Short Shorts
That’s a tight formation, boys.
Other than the silkiness of the shorts, the track and field outfits for these Dallas high school fellas in 1967 didn’t vary much from those in 1936 at the University of Kansas.
Less fabric = more ease of movement. And what a fine-looking trophy.
Still, a little more length in the shorts might be preferable. I don’t think he’s going to clear this one, y’all.
I Don't Get It 