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This is my grandparents house right before they bought it. This is the 170 range of Walnut St. In New Bedford MA. Was not expecting to find a picture of it on the internet. Thank you for publishing this.

You're welcome, Steph. Thank you for sharing the street name and vicinity. Please feel free to add any other details you remember about the neighborhood.

This reminds me of Walker Evans with the industrial stacks directly behind the homes. Cool photo.

This was used by us for Ask An Expert: extension.oregonstate.edu/question-of-the-week/i-am-bulls...

Whoever wrote this caption was used to Southern tobacco harvesting where the entire plant was cut, leaves and all , and hung to dry. Connecticut Shade was harvested leaf by leaf ("Primings" - usually 3 leaves at a time as they matured; 5-6 "primings" a season) and the leaves dried. The photo shows end of the harvest; the shade cloth sidewall has been taken down & the plants knocked down to rot into the soil as a green fertilizer. The shade top cloth will come off next and be recycled as sidewall the next season. You can see that the pole rows haven't been cut down yet - the plants are still pushing the top cloth up - they had to be cut by hand w/ machetes.

There is a 1961 film, Parrish, that I saw on AMC last month. I knew about the Connecticut tobacco but did not know the shade process. The movie is more of a soap opera but is great about describing the process and area.

not a spec of trash anywhere

why do you feel there should be trash?

When was the last time you were in a city in front of shop where the was no trash, stains or debris of some kind?

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When in the world do you live?