The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[BobHufford]

Gathering for the last State sanctioned hanging in Arkansas, 1913.

 

[RossRYoung]

You just can’t beat a good hanging.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Gathering for the last State sanctioned hanging in Arkansas, 1913.

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The last hanging where I grew up took place in 1896 for the Meeks family murders. And they put up a stockade & sold tickets.

They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town

Desolation Row -- Bob Dylan

 

[carouselvic]

 

[hatophile]

Gathering for the last State sanctioned hanging in Arkansas, 1913.

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Look at all those people just hanging around.

 

[Zombie_61]

You just can’t beat a good hanging.

Yes, but can you hang a good beating?

 

[RBH]

Loafers Wall, Batesville Arkansas Courthouse, 1936

 

[carouselvic]

Horse Thief Row

 

[Bamaboots]

1930’s: Melon seller north side of the courthouse square Scottsboro, Jackson Co., AL.

 

[Zombie_61]

Loafers Wall, Batesville Arkansas Courthouse, 1936...

Hey, at least they had a wall to sit on. Day laborers these days have to stand in the parking lot at Home Depot.

Horse Thief Row

Funny, I remember when that song was called "Alice's Restaurant":

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Unidentified sailor from the crew of the USS Benton Civil War ironclad gunboat. My maternal great-great-grandfather served on the USS Benton with a crew of 176 men, & I know of no pic of him either.

The ships name on the sailors cap which was common.

Patrolling both the Mississippi River & the Yazoo River the Benton was in the battles at Island No. 10, Memphis, Grand Gulf, & Vicksburg during the 1863 Union siege. The USS Benton was decommissioned in July 1865.

 

[buler]

No clue what's going on. But nice hat.

 

[Frunobulax]

"The Green Hornet Graduates High School," a popular serial of the time.

 

[BobHufford]

I've about given up on the long-promised flying cars ...

 

[Hurricane Jack]

^^^That thing should have been called the flying wheelchair.

 

[Rmccamey]

I've about given up on the long-promised flying cars ...
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This is probably more in my price range.

 

[buler]

Buler's hat sale in progress...

 

[buler]

Bank Robbers, Lexington Police Department. 1933

 

[carouselvic]

Lunchroom in Aberdeen, South Dakota, November 1940.
Photo by John Vachon via the Library of Congress.

 

[BobHufford]

Looks like fun ...