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Men and a woman reading headlines posted in street-corner window of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office on Christmas Eve, Brockton, Mass. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Forkboy2 said:
    Title should be called "Digg - 1940's Style"
  • deraven said:
    Based on the news displayed in the window, this photo was taken on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1940. One of the earthquake news summaries says, "8:45 this morning. More pronounced than the one last Friday morning"; there were 2 earthquakes of note in New England in December 1940, one on the 20th and one on the 24th. 12/20/1940 was a Friday, and with the bit of Santa news also posted, it's definitely the 24th for this photo.
  • rrsafety said:
    DeRaven, great job!!
  • Allen Freeman said:
    William Joseph Hill, one of the best known pop songwriters of that time lost his battle with alcohol abuse and died of heart failure. On Sept 24th, 1940, he performed at the Golden Gate Exposition in San Francisco. Also performing at that show; Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, and Johnny Mercer. Three months later, on Christmas Eve, he died of heart failure in a Boston hotel room. He was only 42.
  • jdavis417 said:
    Title: Hey, who took the TV's? "I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night..."

Street scene, [Mystic, Connecticut] (LOC)

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  • jconn0403 said:
    It appears that the house at the end of the street is the building in the next photo.
  • Poised Rule said:
    before all the elms died
  • oinonio said:
    And evidently right after the streetcars were massacred.
  • Daniel said:
    Hermosisima foto , muy buena toma ! Te felicito , saludos...
  • Prasad sagare said:
    g8.

Men reading headlines posted in street-corner of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office, Brockton, Mass. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

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  • Shawn Wolfe said:
    What's the matter with those people? Didn't they have any internets???
  • AntyDiluvian said:
    The big sheet in the middle column mentions Winston Churchill bidding the Italian people to "oust Mussolini," their fascist dictator. He made that speech on December 23, 1940. During the 1950s and 60s my mother worked here at the Enterprise, writing articles for the social pages. I went inside the building a few times to see her, but in 1959 went in on my own to read an essay I wrote on WBET, the newspaper's radio station.
  • stumblng.tumblr said:
    Please see stumblng.tumblr.com/post/23944336, where I've written a mini-essay on a related photo.
  • Nebula Galaxia said:
    I am so obsesed with the LOC's photo stream
  • yucchhiiowwee said:
    I remember as a kid, I used to see this and people gatherd th read some of the headlines that would appear in the paper! The Brockton Enterprise had been sold out to the the ledger. The Enterprise does not belong to the people of Brockton anymore!