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A pushcart fruit vendor at the Fulton fish market. New York, 1943.
By Gordon Parks
Brooklyn, 1949.
By Ralph Morse
Gilmore Serve Yourself gas station. Los Angeles, 1948.
By Allan Grant
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Teenage fashions from the 40s.
(Nina Leen—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image)
Dorothy Dandridge (third from left front row) with beauty contest winners in Los Angeles, CA - 1946
New York City, 1942
Brooklyn, 1949.
By Ralph Morse
- Take a powder – to leave
- Eager beaver – enthusiastic helper
- Doll dizzy – girl crazy
- Ducky shincracker - a good dancer
- Above my pay grade – don’t ask me
- Cook with gas – to do something right
- Killer-diller – good stuff
- Stompers – shoes
- Flip your wig – to lose control of yourself
- Pennies from heaven – easy money
- What’s buzzin’, cousin? – how’s it going?
- Carry a Torch – to have a crush on someone
- Cat’s Meow – something splendid or stylish
- Hard Boiled – a tough, strong guy
- Hooch – bootleg liquor
- Hoofer – dancer
- Hotsy-Totsy – pleasing
- Kisser – mouth
- Moll – a gangster’s girl
- Ritzy – elegant
- Scram – ask someone to leave immediately
- Soitently- sure!
- Spiffy – an elegant appearance
- Spread Out!- Get out of the way!
- Stuck On – having a crush on
- Swanky – ritzy
- Swell- wonderful
- Wise guy- a smart ass
- Whoopee – to have a good time
1940’s couple, my scan
Re-blogging my scan because of reposters
Gawd so cute
Spring comes to Brooklyn. New York, 1949.
By Ralph Morse
A loved one is swept off her feet by a returning GI in the aptly named town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1945
(Source: updownsmilefrown)
Women at a beach-front soda fountain, c. 1940s.
Monday morning after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on the corner of Montgomery and Market street. San Francisco, 1941.
By John Collier
Teenage boys hang out on stoop of local storefront. Connecticut, 1949.
By Gordon Parks
(Source: images.google.com)
Ice Cream lovers, 1940s
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