All Hallow’s Eve

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Kokomo, Indiana 1950 via dappered.com
EDDIE ADAMS-AP PHOTO Jersey 1966
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Chow Time

America: Mallard Press

As men left to fight in WWII, American factory jobs were taken over by women. The ladies above built B-24 Liberator bombers at the world’s largest assembly line in Ft. Worth, Texas.

Of course, they didn’t add the artwork to this Liberator. 

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Squash King

11/48 National Geographic

Seven-year-old Oliver Davis of Carrollton, Texas was still three years too young to enroll in the FFA or the 4-H, but that didn’t stop him from winning 1st, 2nd, AND 3rd prize for best squash at the 1948 Dallas County Fair.

Farmgirls Gotta Farm

An American Moment by Harris

This Nebraska teen may know how to drive a tractor, but she certainly doesn’t know how to don sunglasses or a ballcap to keep that dreadful sun out of her eyes. Let’s hope she applied some Bain De Soleil for the St. Tropez tan

When Overpriced Shoes Only Remind You Of Delicious Tex-Mex

Glamour Nov 2015

The advertisers may try to bring your eye to their “geometric touches,” but those zigzag white sandal straps put me in mind of the sour cream flourishes on a Chuy’s Tex-Mex platter. 

All this can be yours for just over $10. The shoes? Just over a grand. Which would you prefer?