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Women are trained to do precise and vital engine installation detail in Douglas Aircraft Company plants, Long Beach, Calif.

by Paul • January 19, 2008 • 03:45 PM • Comments: 1

The Library of Congress now has a Flickr page, and they’ve been uploading all sorts of cool images from their archives. A lot of these pictures date back to before your parents were born, or at least to when they were kids. Sometimes I think that those WW II era propaganda posters portrayed a false idealization of the American type, but some of these photos make me think that life really did look like that. All men smoked a pipe and wore a hat. No women ever left the house imperfectly coiffed. Must have been exhausting.


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Speedy Gonzales on January 20, 2008 8:34 PM

Now, all men chew snuff and wear ball caps, and all women spend more on cosmetics, fashion, and elective surgery than on food for a typical family of 4.


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