Hole in the Clouds

Tag: 1941

Whisk Brooms and Malted Milk

Apr 29, 2013

Two women wait for the streetcar in front of a Chicago store window in the summer of 1941.

Chicago streetscape hats portraits 1941 trolley streetcar (Image credit: John Vachon via Shorpy)

For a hundred years, up until 1971, Chicago's Union Stockyards and surrounding meat-packing plants made the city the meat capital of the universe. The industry gave the neighborhood a definite aroma, but of course, it was still the scent of money.

The city had to make the Chicago River run backwards in order to keep the animal waste out of municipal drinking water.

The stockyards burned to the ground in 1939, but they'd been newly rebuilt by the time of this photo in 1941.

Chicago birdseye view industry livestock 1941 meatpacking Union Stockyards (Image credit: John Vachon)

For the War Effort #2

Feb 9, 2018

"Enlisting in the Marines," reads the caption from December 1941." Recruiting office. San Francisco, California.".Photo: John Collier / Courtesy / FSA-OWI Collection / Library Of Congress

San Francisco World War II 1941 military enlisting double-breasted suits Marines fedoras (Image credit: John Collier for OWI)

Hole in the Clouds

Tag: 1941

Whisk Brooms and Malted Milk

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For the War Effort #2