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[Children with adult in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 5 older comments, and then…
  • Donovan Beeson said:
    It looks like a Norman Rockwell painting.
  • Paul McEvoy said:
    Anybody know where that building is located?
  • jdavis417 said:
    Title: The Sidewalk 500.
    I chose to delete about 5 of my comments above. They were funny but not really constructive. The included *boy @ window* "Whittle of some on the left granny, she's loose in the corners."
  • Paul McEvoy said:
    fanatic press-really? Does that building still stand?
  • Typos in the Key of E said:
    I think there are two adults in that pic. The man in front, and the woman sitting on the steps.

Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper off[ice] (Brockton Enterprise) ... Brockton, Mass. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • 9 older comments, and then…
  • #4 (Meaghan) said:
    This building is still there, and that newspaper is still around too.
  • stumblng.tumblr said:
    Please see stumblng.tumblr.com/post/23944336, where I've written a mini-essay on this photo.
  • Mike Wilson said:
    The month and year of my birth in Chillicothe, Mo. My folks literally lived in a tarpaper shack. They moved to Norwalk, Ca. three months later. Thank you, folks! I don't like the cold at all, at all! My dad later worked in the war industry and in the merchan marine. My mom was one of thosee "Rosie the riviters" in Long Beach.
  • Gail Dedrick said:
    Gee, I wish the stupid, smart-ass notes would be deleted off these photos.
  • quizzical butter said:
    I agree about the stupid notes , teenager type of attention seeking and annoying .

[Douglas Shoe Factory, Spark St., Brockton, Mass.] (LOC)

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  • youzoid said:
    beautiful image - inspiring.
  • susan_fenton1 said:
    My father worked in the shoe industry in Brockton with his father and brothers. They had a factory on Spark St. He recognized this photo as the WL Douglas Shoe Factory, also on Spark St in Brockton. He's pretty sure all the buildings are part of the same factory. Douglas was a mayor of Brockton and governor of Massachusetts in the late 1800's - early 1900's.
  • rrsafety said:
    Yahoo maps is best for this one: Go to "201 Spark St Brockton MA 02302" and view the satellite image. You'll see the two houses on the left of the photo. Looks like the brown buildings have been torn down, but the grey buildings in the back are now painted white and still stand. View them at MSN Live Maps and click on the "birdseye" option.
  • AntyDiluvian said:
    Looks like this was taken from the corner of Howard and North Montello Streets in Brockton. There were -- and still are -- railroad tracks out there by those piles and mounds. I used to walk here every day in the summer -- sometimes along the street, sometimes along the tracks -- on my way to and from the Montello Pool, just north of here.
  • bren_tommy said:
    my dad worked there back in his day