1943

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Indiana Harbor Belt RR, switchman demonstrating signal with a "fusee" - used at twilight and dawn - when visibility is poor. This signal means "back up." Calumet City, Ill. (LOC)

  • Logan Zillmer said:
    Apparently Jack Delano was doing light orbs way before everyone else.

This is our lovely day

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    National Library of Ireland on The Commons I don't think 'This is my lovely day' had been written yet in 1943. Wiki says 1947 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_the_Bride
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    beachcomber australia Ah here, you're ruining Morning Mary's rosemantic vibe!
  • John Spooner said:
    If (and it's a big if) the Nicholas O'Neill who commissioned the photo is the gent pictured, then the lady might well be Catherine, and they went on to have 1 son ans >1 dauhters.
    Irish Independent - Thursday 07 February 1974 (Irish Independent Thursday 7 February 1974)
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Here is the happy couple

    www.irishgenealogy.ie/files/civil/marriage_returns/marria...

    Catherine Sutton and Nicholas O’Neill, farmer and farmer’s daughter, both from Enniscorthy

    June 9, 1943

    “He’s mine now”
  • beachcomber australia said:
    🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
    Sorry Morning Mary !
    💕

How Americans make friends

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  • Suck Diesel said:
    Back page ad on Life magazine, Jan ‘44

    www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333912511369

    I think that WW2 really popularised Coke when they promised a Coke for every GI serving abroad by setting up mobile bottling plants

    By the way, I didn’t know we were occupied by any Americans during the Emergency.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    However, not everyone liked it at first taste

    pixels.com/featured/1-spitting-man-mark-kauffman.html?pro...
  • Niall McAuley said:
    suckindeesel could be up North?

    Soldiers of the US Army’s 34th Infantry Division, the “Red Bull” Division, landed in Belfast, Northern Ireland on January 26, 1942.
  • mikeyashworth said:
    One of a series of "services" adverts issued by Coca Cola and by Norman Mills Price (1877 - 1951), an American artist and illustrator.
  • O Mac said:
    mikeyashworth Canadian