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By God, you're right!He's just there for the calendar shot [emoji14]
By God, you're right!He's just there for the calendar shot [emoji14]
Everything that wasn't nailed down was scrapped in 1915-1918 during WWI. Civil War canons were disappearing from parks & battlefields overnight.October 1942. Chicago, Illinois. "Salvage. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills."
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Neat old truck.
That fellow on the far right holding what appears to be a liquor bottle doesn't look too happy.Plenty to be found among these hard working men:
From what I've heard, the entire famous photo was staged. They're real iron workers, but the photo was staged to promote the construction of Rockefeller Center (which is what they're using that girder to build). Maybe the photographer just told him to look sad?That fellow on the far right holding what appears to be a liquor bottle doesn't look too happy.
Seeing this, I was immediately reminded of the opening sequence from O Brother, Where Art Thou?: